Dec/Jan 17–18
The “Dec/Jan 17–18” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on December 13, 2017.
Critics Page
Art, Science, and the Question of Convergence
– By Taney RonigerFiguring Forms
– By Margaret WertheimDiagramming a New Theory of Picture
– By Matthew RitchieWhy Sci-Art Needs Not to Make Sense
– By James ElkinsTwo Branches, One Tree
– By Werner SunArt is Irrelevant
– By Daniel HillComplexity and Accessibility: Why Science Needs Art
– By Elaine R. ReynoldsMonstrosity, Spectacle, Wonder
– By Dan WeiskopfSome Thoughts on Art and Science
– By Linda FrancisSci-Art Doubts and Disruptions
– By Stephen NowlinTortured Artists and Mad Scientists: Separated at Birth
– By WavelengthDescribing Flow: An Interaction Between Science and Art
– By Luis F. SchettinoALEXIS ROCKMAN with Tom McGlynn
Notes on Science and Film
– By Sonia Shechet EpsteinIntimate Knowledge
– By Ed KernsStaging Physical Analogues of Entangled Black Holes
– By Evelina Domnitch and Dmitry GelfandRemote Sensing
– By Suzanne AnkerHaptico-Visual Observation and Drawing:
A Novel Method for Studying Anatomy– By Leonard ShapiroWhat if?
– By Lorrie FredetteRadWaste: A Shadow Without a Body
– By Eve Andrée LaraméeThe Original Social Network
– By Catherine Chalmers
Art
General Idea in Perspective
– By Mark BlochCECILY BROWN
with Jason RosenfeldIRVING PETLIN
with Elyse BenensonRAHA RAISSNIA
with Charles SchultzL.A. KAUFFMAN with Thyrza Nichols Goodeve
DONNA HARAWAY
with Thyrza Nichols GoodeveLUCY LIPPARD
with Jarrett EarnestTHE HELD ESSAYS ON VISUAL ART
Dorine, Barbara, Kathy– By Karen ArcheyRONA PONDICK & ROBERT FEINTUCH with Phong Bui
KATHY HIGH
with Sadie Rebecca StarnesANN MAGNUSON
with Katherine DieckmannCARROLL DUNHAM & DAVID SALLE with Cornelius Tittel
ArtSeen
CAROLEE SCHNEEMANN:
Kinetic Painting– By Hovey BrockWalter De Maria and The Lightning Field at Forty:
Art as Symbiosis– By Jason RosenfeldThe Enigma of Arrival:
On Gonzalo Fonseca’s Timeless Vista– By Phong H. BuiTrigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon
– By Rindon JohnsonRICHARD SERRA:
Sculpture and Drawings– By Benjamin CliffordELIZABETH MURRAY:
Painting in the ’80s– By William CorwinHIROSHI SUGIMOTO:
Gates of Paradise– By Jessica HolmesJOSEPHINE HALVORSON:
As I Went Walking– By Hearne PardeeJONATHAN MONAGHAN:
The Disco Beast– By Alex A. JonesTHOMAS BANGSTED
JEANNE SILVERTHORNE– By Joyce BeckensteinBENJAMIN KRESS:
New Paintings– By Ann McCoyThe Internal Machine
– By Tom McGlynnArdent Nature: Arshile Gorky Landscapes, 1943-47
– By David RhodesANTOINE CATALA:
Everything is Okay– By Vijay MasharaniNuvolo and Post-War Materiality 1950-1965
– By Benjamin CliffordMIKE KELLEY:
Kandors 1999-2011– By Hannah Sage KaySETH PRICE:
Circa 1981– By Patrick LangleyDUNCAN HANNAH:
Adrift in the 21st Century– By Nicole MillerMARTÍN RAMÍREZ:
A Journey– By Jonathan GoodmanDUKE RILEY:
Now Those Days Are Gone– By Kate HardingRadical Women: Latin American Art, 1960–1985
– By Michael ValinskyLondon Painters
– By Tom McGlynnLIN YAN:
Gateway– By Jonathan GoodmanJUDITH BERNSTEIN:
Cabinet of Horrors– By Rabia AshfaqueBelow the Underground: Renegade Art and Action in 1990s Mexico
– By Liz HirschThe Oscar Wilde Temple
– By Carlos KongELLEN HARVEY:
Nostalgia– By Nicole MillerHOWARDENA PINDELL:
Recent Paintings– By Jan AvgikosAGNIESZKA KURANT:
Collective Intelligence– By Hunter BraithwaiteGolden Eyes:
Alex Katz at Ninety– By William CorbettDeep in the Static:
Raghubir Singh’s Photographs– By Louis BlockMARK DION:
Misadventures of a 21st-Century Naturalist– By Vivian LiMichelangelo: Divine Draftsman and Designer
– By Brandt JunceauRICHARD SERRA: Sculpture and Drawings
– By David CarrierMeasuring the Weight with Richard Serra
– By Mary Ann CawsDalí/Duchamp
– By Elizabeth FullertonClub 57: Film, Performance, and Art in the East Village, 1978-1983
– By Nicole MillerMINOUK LIM:
Mamour– By Osman Can YerebakanHASSEL SMITH:
The Ferus Years– By David RhodesJOSÉ LEONILSON:
Empty Man– By Andreas PetrossiantsNINA CHANEL ABNEY:
Safe House/Seized the Imagination– By William WhitneyKATE GROOBEY:
I'm Made of Milk– By Alfred Mac Adam
Books
The Rail's Best Books of 2017
–Ordinary Beast:
NICOLE SEALEY with Alex Dueben–Vengeance: ZACHARY LAZAR with David Winner
–Ultraluminous:
KATHERINE FAW with Sean Madigan Hoen–My Cousin A.J.:
A.J. JACOBS with Meg Kissel–Really Any Desert Creature: CLAIRE VAYE WATKINS with Allison Field Bell
–Naomi Alderman’s The Power
– By Yvonne C. GarrettAnelise Chen’s So Many Olympic Exertions
– By James DuesterbergGil Fagiani's Logos
– By Kevin CareyCristina Rivera Garza’s The Iliac Crest
– By Yvonne C. GarrettEyes Without a Face: Christine Hume and Jeff Clark’s Question Like A Face
– By Chris CampanioniClaire Messud’s The Burning Girl
–The Lonely Scrivener:
GAY TALESE with John DominiTime-Trails and Travelled Roads: GALE RENEE WALDEN with Rod Kessler
Beyond Violence: Paul Yoon’s The Mountain
– By Darley StewartFranco ‘Bifo’ Berardi’s Futurability: The Age of Impotence and the Horizon of Possibility
– By Giovanni VimercatiADAM BRAVER
with David WinnerTa-Nehisi Coates’s
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy– By Matt GrantAnthony DeCurtis's
Lou Reed: A Life– By Ben TrippFathers and Daughters: Jennifer Egan’s Manhattan Beach
– By Tom DeignanD. Foy’s Absolutely Golden
– By Sean GillOn the Impossibility of Teaching Writing: Rainald Goetz
– By Andrea ScrimaPatrick McGrath's
The Wardrobe Mistress– By Yvonne C. GarrettStructures in Service to Wonder: Ivy Pochoda's Wonder Valley
– By Michael NatalieKarl Ove Knausgaard: Autumn and Winter
– By David VarnoCELESTE LIM, TERESE SVOBODA, GAYATRI CHAKRAVORTY SPIVAK with Gabriel Don
– By Gabriel Don
Music
Tomokawa Kazuki
at Greene Naftali– By Sadie Rebecca StarnesScenes From The Class Struggle
– By George GrellaIt Just Gets Out of Hand: JOHN COHEN In Conversation with Stephen Ellis, Ivy Sheppard, and David Sheppard
Songs About Fucking and Killing: Diamanda Galás at Murmrr Theatre, October 31
– By George GrellaCutting Ties with Cut Worms
– By Marshall YarbroughDan Bejar’s Latest Iteration
– By John AmenOuttakes
– By Steve DalachinskyDecember & January Listings
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Dance
Dance and Music Speak the Heart: Two Generations
– By Susan YungDissolving into Chaos
– By Nicole Loeffler-GladstoneArt and science of the unraveling mind: A My Name Is… STEFANIE NELSON and DAVID SHENK with Ivan Talijancic
Savage Logic
– By Erica GettoShaping Up
– By Erica Getto
Film
Specious Realities at DOC NYC
– By Williams ColeBARBARA HAMMER with Alexandra Juhasz
Lost in the Field of Screens: The Films of Olivia Ciummo
– By Michael SicinskiMICHAEL ROBINSON with Z. W. Lewis
The Collaborators: Yuzo Kawashima x Ayako Wakao at Japan Society
– By Jaime Grijalba
Theater
DIVING IN: On the Pop-Up Theater Company The Pool and the Generous Act of Producing
– By Deborah SteinFrom the Inside Out: Rock Monster Jody Christopherson
– By Mariah MacCarthyJIM FINDLAY with Ivan Talijancic
– By Ivan Talijancic
Fiction
Art Brut
– By Carlos Fonseca SuárezChristmas at the Boarding School
–inSerial: part fourteen
Delusions of Being Observed– By Lewis Warshfrom Palace of Rubble
– By Kyra SimoneNew Routes in Fiction:
David Coventry with Alec Niedenthalfrom Satania
– By Kerascoet and Fabien VehlmannAbsurd Things That Happened You Might Have Forgotten!
– By Joshua DanielCarmel, California—1992
– By Tom Daly
Art Books
Boris Arvatov's Art & Production
– By Celluloid Liberation FrontIntimate Geometries: The Art and Life of Louise Bourgeois
– By Amei WallachRadical Women: Latin American Art, 1960-1985
– By Gillian Sneed
In Memoriam
Editor's Note
– By Thyrza Nichols GoodeveRICK SAVINON
Angel Abreu
Jorge Abreu
Robert Branch, Ed.M
– By Robert Branch, Ed.M.Julie Ault
Doug Ashford
Andres Serrano
Jim Hodges
Robert Bordo
Pastor Vanessa Brown
Dara Birnbaum
Marc J. Straus
Eleanor Heartney
Sergio Bessa
Stefan Kalmár
David Rhodes
Conrad Atkinson
Thyrza Nichols Goodeve
Larry Littany Litt
David Ross
Field Notes
Climate Change:
What is to be Done?Part 2: Climate and the Economy
– By José A. TapiaThe Future of the Past
– By Bini AdamczakThe Critique of Value at Belshazzar’s Feast:
A Review of Anselm Jappe’s The Writing on the Wall– By Andy BattleThe Vietnam War
– By Peter St. ClairNATALIE BAKER with Sammy Feldblum