November 2017
The “November 2017” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on November 2, 2017.
Critics Page
Bay Watch: A Snapshot of the Visual Arts in the Bay Area
– By Constance LewallenBay Watch: Public Art
– By Lynne BaerFor A Reason
– By Kevin KillianA Generosity of Spirit: Bay Area Art Today
– By Janet BishopSpaces Together: Alternative Sites for Bay Area Arts
– By Sophia WangAs I See It, Yes
– By Gay OutlawCeramics and Preservation in the Bay
– By Woody De OthelloLA is Not the Capital of California
– By Renny PritikinBILL BERKSON with Thomas Devaney
Way Bay
– By Lawrence RinderDigital Punk
– By Kota EzawaWhat is Its Future?
– By Jordan SteinJim Melchert
– By Jim MelchertThe Point
– By John BankstonEverywhere and Nowhere
– By Glen HelfandSlow Art
– By Ed GilbertCarry the Bones
– By Dena BeardWhy Grow? In praise of quiet influence
– By Anne WalshDear Connie,
– By Claudia La Rocco
Publisher's Message
Dear Friends and Readers,
– By Phong H. Bui
Art
JIMMY ROBERT
with Will FenstermakerZANELE MUHOLI:
Visual Activism & Performa 17– By William WhitneyDAVID ROW
with Barbara MacAdamJANET BIGGS
with Nancy PrincenthalWALTON FORD
with Jason RosenfeldGEORGE CONDO
with Joachim PissarroSUSAN LARSEN
with Phong BuiPETER SCOTT
with Andreas Petrossiants– By Andreas PetrossiantsFRED MOTEN
with Jarrett EarnestEditor’s Note
– By Thyrza Nichols GoodeveMary Ann Caws
Judith Rodenbeck
Jason Rosenfeld
Coco Fusco
Maurice Berger
Martha Rosler
Aruna D'Souza
ArtSeen
Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World
– By Banyi HuangThe Risorgimento of Arte Povera
– By Steven PestanaLines of Thought: Drawing from Michelangelo to now
– By Thyrza Nichols GoodeveAnger Management
– By Nicole MillerRestoring the Minoans: Elizabeth Price and Sir Arthur Evans
– By Ann McCoyCHRIS OFILI: Paradise Lost
– By Jan AvgikosWALTER SWENNEN: Bewtie
– By Pac PobricSAM FALLS
– By David RhodesHomage to Dimitris Condos
– By Vanessa ThillJOYCE KOZLOFF: Girlhood
– By Hovey BrockMEL KENDRICK: Woodblock Drawings
– By Jonathan GoodmanDAVID BROOKS:
Rock, Mosquito and Hummingbird: A Prehistory of Governor's Island– By Patrick JaojocoISRAEL LUND / AMY GRANAT
– By William CorwinJOAN BROWN
– By David CarrierSunshower: Contemporary Art from Southeast Asia 1980s to Now
– By Vivian LiArtist of the Visible
– By Mary Di LuciaDefining “We” 2017: The Study Center for Group Work
– By Heather SchatzTRACEY ROSE:
The Good Ship Jesus vs. The Black Star Line Hitching a Ride with Die Alibama
[Working Title]– By Charles SchultzPAT STEIR: Kairos
– By Benjamin CliffordANDY CAHILL: Home
– By Louis BlockKyoung eun Kang:
1402 Seok-Dong– By Jonathan GoodmanSomewhere Some Pictures Sometimes
– By Jan AvgikosALICE AYCOCK: The Turbulence Series
– By Siwin LoBARB SMITH: Cup
– By Adam BealISHMAEL RANDALL WEEKS: Annotations, Striations and Souvenirs
– By William CorwinANNETTE LEMIEUX: Mise en Scène
– By Emily WatlingtonMIRALDA MADEINUSA
– By Kathy BrewThe Experimental Music of Maryanne Amacher and Philip Corner
– By Charles EppleyRON BARON: Beyond, Beyond
– By Alexandra HammondBEN WILSON: From Social Realism to Abstraction
– By Tom McGlynnTRAVIS FITZGERALD: Until Adwaita
– By Vijay MasharaniTSIBI GEVA: Jolt
– By Osman Can YerebakanResistance Across Time: Interference Archive
– By Andreas PetrossiantsDeadeye Dick: Richard Bellamy and His Circle
– By David RhodesImmigrancy
– By Arden Cone
Books
An Increased Clarity of Address: KEVIN KILLIAN with Tony Leuzzi
Osama Alomar's The Teeth of the Comb & Other Stories
– By Ben TrippThe Movement Toward Art
– By J.C. HallmanChris Kraus’s After Kathy Acker
– By Yvonne C. GarrettThe Debacle
– By Allen Guy WilcoxLaura Jane Grace and Dan Ozzi’s Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock’s Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout
– By Yvonne C. GarrettPeter Markus’s Inside My Pencil: Teaching Poetry in Detroit Public Schools
– By Joseph ScapellatoThe Care for Precision
– By Weston CutterMatthew Vollmer’s “Situated Self”
– By Robert SiegleEmpire of Intimacy: Ishiguro’s Nobel
– By Ernesto Pujol
Music
Rome to New York: Orpheus and Eurydice
– By Alessandro CassinAnnea Lockwood, Aki Onda, and Akio Suzuki: Presented by Blank Forms
– By Andreas PetrossiantsSeeing The Light
– By Kurt GottschalkTo Have Not And to Have: O17, Philadelphia, September 14 - 25
– By George GrellaA Trip to the Alter with Priests
– By Richard KlinOuttakes
– By Steve DalachinskyNovember Listings
Dance
Fall for Dance—Tweaking the Menu
– By Susan YungA Moving Meditation on Context
– By Jen GeorgeAPOLLONIA HOLZER with Elizabeth Regan
– By Elizabeth Regan
Theater
Reclaiming Cultural Extractions: Safe Harbors Indigenous Collective’s Don't Feed the Indians--A Divine Comedy Pageant!
– By Adam R. BurnettThe Light and the Dark of Susan Soon He Stanton
– By Matthew Paul OlmosFinding Bess: 17c and the Restoration Theater of Annie-B Parson
– By Amber ReedIVO VAN HOVE with Ivan Talijancic
Fiction
Wallenstein Extracts
–Died Young
– By Francis LevyinSerial: part thirteen
Delusions of Being Observed– By Lewis WarshNew Routes in Fiction: Tessa Hadley with Alec Niedenthal
Awkwardly Calling Your Representatives
– By Joshua Daniel
Poetry
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– By David Millsfive
– By Stacy Blintthree
– By Vanessa Jimenez Gabbfour
– By Julian Talamantez Brolaski(As, Within Three Parts, Each Thus Pronominal)
– By Judah Rubinseven
– By Don YortyAXIS RESOURCE
– By Clayton Eshleman
Art Books
LYNN STERN with Alex Chowaniec
Stanley Whitney: Sketchbook
– By Megan N. LibertyThe Hungry Years, by Jack Pierson
Peter Hujar: Speed of Life, by Peter Hujar– By Timothy Francis Barry
Field Notes
Climate Change:
What is to be Done?– By José A. TapiaWelcome to Brexitland
– By Jimmy MeyerLetter from Eastham Unit
– By Noah "Comrade Kado" CoffinWorth the Pilgrimage: Eugenio Granell
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