September 2017
The “September 2017” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on September 7, 2017.
Publisher's Message
Dear Friends and Readers,
– By Phong H. Bui
Critics Page
On Slow Art: Introduction
– By Arden ReedThe Eyes of Statues
– By Hunter DukesThe Quick Hello vs. The Long Goodbye
– By Barbara RoseDarwin's Slow Time
– By Jonathan SachsBefore the Click
– By Eugenia ParryOn Time
– By Randy GibsonSpeed Living
– By Mark AndrejevicAndy Warhol, Sleep (1963)
– By Blake GopnikLa Chambre Clair
– By Paul Saint-AmourSlowness
– By Chris DerconSublime Boredom and the Drowsy Reader
– By Charles BaxterTwo Slowness-es of Democracy
– By Jeremy McKeySlowly Repairing Our Relationship with Art Itself
– By Alex FindlayPicasso, Braque, and Early Film in Cubism
– By Bernice RoseSlowpoke
– By Gregg M. HorowitzReflections on Slowness and Art
– By Enrique Martinez CelayaThe Slow Onset of Catastrophe in the Russian Summer
– By Kevin M. F. PlattOn the Weaponization of Sight
– By Tom LinCinema, Fast and Slow
– By Mark GobleLuminist Paintings at the National Gallery
– By Edward Hirsch
Art
JOE ZUCKER with Janet Goleas
On Memory : Bernadette Mayer with Phillip Griffith
AGAINST SPACE
– By James HydeJULIAN SCHNABEL with Phong Bui
LISA OPPENHEIM with Charles Schultz
EVA ROTHSCHILD with Tom McGlynn
OKWUI ENWEZOR with David Carrier & Joachim Pissarro
CHRIS KRAUS with Jarrett Earnest
KATHY ACKER with Linda Mary Montano (c. 1983)
Broken Toilet: BHQFU is Dead
– By Seth Cameron
ArtSeen
LUCIE STAHL: End of Tales
– By Simone KrugBLUE BLACK: Curated by Glenn Ligon
– By Jason RosenfeldMYSTICAL SYMBOLISM: THE SALON DE LA ROSE+CROIX IN PARIS, 1892--1897
– By Ann McCoyMARY HEILMANN: RYB: Mary Heilmann paintings 1975—1978
– By David RhodesRADICAL BODIES: Anna Halprin, Simone Forti, and Yvonne Rainer in California and New York, 1955--1972
– By Kaitlyn A. KramerALVIN BALTROP: Selected by Douglas Crimp
– By Osman Can YerebakanTransitions: Dong Yuan, Lam Tung-Pang, and Lao Tongli
– By Alex WoodendRICHARD GERSTL
– By Will FenstermakerDON VAN VLIET: WORKS ON PAPER
– By Jonathan GoodmanRAPHAEL RUBINSTEIN AND HEATHER BAUSE: THE MIRACULOUS
– By Michael McFaddenRAILING OPINION
– By Hans HaackeAbstract Expressionism Behind the Iron Curtain
– By Joyce BeckensteinBELKIS AYÓN:NKAME
– By William WhitneyCAMERON MARTIN:
ABSTRACTS AND RETICULATIONS– By Robert R. ShaneART/AFRIQUE, LE NOUVEL ATELIER (ART/AFRICA, THE NEW WORKSHOP)
– By Eliza NicholsMAUREEN GALLACE: CLEAR DAY
– By David RhodesTAKE BACK THE FIGHT: RESISTING SEXUAL VIOLENCE FROM THE GROUND UP
– By Laura HatryAnalog Currency
– By Simone KrugQUEER BRITISH ART 1861-1967
– By William Corwin
Books
Sherman Alexie's You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me: A Memoir
– By Yvonne C. GarrettKurt Baumeister’s Pax Americana
– By Gabino IglesiasJessie Chaffee's An Oasis, An Abyss: Florence in Ecstasy
– By Darley StewartYuri Herrera's Kingdom Cons
– By Weston CutterDaniel Kehlmann's Realism, Horror, Multiverse, and Unreliable Narration: You Should Have Left
– By Diego GerardNancy Lord's pH: A Novel
– By Yvonne C. GarrettLONGING, THEY SAY: On Sally Rooney's novel Conversations With Friends
– By Erin BartnettJoseph Scapellato's Big Lonesome
– By William LessardJuan Villoro's The Reef
– By David VarnoSuicide Blonde Turns 25: DARCEY STEINKE with Ruwa Alhayek
Some of Them Are Wild: JENNY ZHANG with Tucker Newsome
Sarah Perry's After the Eclipse
– By Laura Jean MooreMargo Berdeshevsky's Before the Drought
– By Kelly CherryPatricia Carlin's The Art of the Underneath: Second Nature
– By Tony LeuzziEmily Culliton's The Misfortune of Marion Palm: A Novel
– By Marina PetrovaKristina Marie Darling's Je Suis L'Autre: Essays and Interrogations
– By Chris CampanioniMarie NDiaye's My Heart Hemmed In
– By Jacob SingerDarcy Steinke's Suicide Blonde
– By Yvonne C. GarrettInara Verzemnieks's Among the Living and the Dead: A Tale of Exile and Homecoming on the War Roads of Europe
– By Kerri ArsenaultLaura E. Ruberto and Joseph Sciorra's New Italian Migrations to the United States
– By Fiore SireciAlex Gilvarry's Eastman Was Here
– By Tom DeignanJAY MURPHY with Joseph Nechvatal
Music
Whadda You Got?
– By George GrellaWhat I Learn from Pauline Oliveros
– By Craig ShepardA Talk about Music: Joey Agresta's Let's Not Talk About Music & Viewfound's Memorate
– By Daniel WilsonOuttakes
– By Steve Dalachinskyfor September 2017
– By By The Editors
Film
Unortho-docs at Locarno 70
– By Matt TurnerMAPLE RAZSA with Duncan Ranslem
If You See Something Say Something: On Jason Giampietro
– By Dan SullivanStop Motion: On Evan Calder Williams's Shard Cinema
– By Phil ColdironWhat Erupts and What Matters: On Yvonne Rainer's Films
– By Vered Engelhard
Theater
In Dialogue: Steal the Stars with Mac Rogers & Nat Cassidy
– By Clay McLeod ChapmanEntering the Lightbulb with Robert Heide: 25 Plays
– By Ben Shields
Fiction
from Seizure Book
– By Emmalea RussoinSerial: part eleven
Delusions of Being Observed– By Lewis Warshfrom 88 Dreams
–an extract from Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl
– By Andrea LawlorLost and Found Animals Part 11: N-Escolia Wilawispia Transitoria [NEWT] (Periscopia Microcosmica Gershgorniana)
– By Sid Gershgorenexcerpt from THE STAMPOGRAPHER
– By Vincent Sardonextracts from ETERNAL FRIENDSHIP
– By ANOUCK DURANDTOM MOTLEY: Tragic Strip
– By Tom Motley
Poetry
from Madame Bildungsroman's Optimistic Worldview
– By Nora Chasslerfive
– By Daniel Owenfrom The Ashbery Riff-Offs
– By Eileen Tabiosfrom Farallones
– By Tim VanDyke
Art Books
Lauren Greenfield's Generation Wealth
– By Hannah StamlerSarah Tulloch's ObjectImage
– By Megan N. Liberty“I can imagine you (reading these words) into being”: The documenta 14 Reader
– By Thyrza Nichols Goodeve
Field Notes
A Guided Tour of Europe's Largest Refugee Camp
– By Leanne Tory-MurphyCowboy Stories
– By Nora BrooksSolidarity Behind Bars: NYC’s Correction Officers’ Benevolent Association
– By Jarrod ShanahanInside the Disenchanted World of Left Keynesianism: A Review of Yanis Varoufakis's Adults in the Room
– By Pavlos Roufos