February 2018
The “February 2018” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on February 7, 2018.
Publisher's Message
Dear Friends and Readers
– By Phong H. Bui
Critics Page
contingency, probability and the void
– By Joan Waltemathin reverse
– By AV Ryanthat p may occur or not
– By Christine de LignièresMess in Time
– By David HumphreyLimited only through whatever is impossible
– By Marjorie WelishHold Fast
– By Molly Zuckerman-Hartungcontingency: a montage
– By Sissi TaxLIKE WERE
– By Simone KearneyThe Metaphysical Fairyland of Michelle Concepción
– By Thyrza Nichols Goodeve
ArtSeen
Naeem Mohaiemen: There is No Last Man
– By Andreas PetrossiantsTHOMAS NOZKOWSKI:
16 x 20– By William CorbettKATHARINA FRITSCH
– By Pac PobricJosef Albers in Mexico
– By Benjamin CliffordJIMMIE DURHAM: At the Center of the World & LAURA OWENS
– By Hovey BrockInside and Outside:
Cady Noland and the Violence of the Everyday– By Andreas PetrossiantsNegotiating Gender, Labor, and Authorship:
Thinking Machines: Art and Design in the Computer Age, 1959–1989– By Banyi HuangMARTHA TUTTLE:
I long and seek after– By Alfred Mac AdamSERGIO PREGO:
Rose-colored Drift/To the Students– By Anthony HawleyMARK DI SUVERO
– By David RhodesALFREDO JAAR :
The Garden of Good and Evil– By Elizabeth FullertonVINCENT DESIDERIO:
Theseus– By Jason RosenfeldEVE ACKROYD & KARA ROONEY: Group Motivation
– By Kaitlyn A. KramerCHANNA HORWITZ
– By Ann McCoyGORDON MATTA-CLARK:
Anarchitect– By Kaegan SparksUnholding and other exhibitions of Native American art
– By Alan GilbertDream of Solentiname
– By Madeline Murphy TurnerGEORG BASELITZ:
1977-1992– By David CarrierKÄTHE KOLLWITZ & SUE COE: All Good Art is Political
– By Jessica HolmesMIKA ROTTENBERG
– By Emily WatlingtonThe Everywhere Studio
– By Steven PestanaCAROL SZYMANSKI:
Pareidolia– By Lynn MaliszewskiRICHARD HAWKINS:
Hotel Suicide– By Osman Can YerebakanCATHERINE MURPHY: Recent Work
– By Jason RosenfeldHANS HARTUNG: A Constant Storm
– By David RhodesNANETTE CARTER:
An Act of Balance– By Jonathan GoodmanJAMES CASTLE:
People, Places & Things– By Jonathan GoodmanTo Signify Dreams on the Surface of the Body
– By Michela MoscufoImperfect Tools for Navigation
– By Vijay MasharaniJOHN NEWMAN
– By Tom McGlynnSpieltrieb: Polly Apfelbaum, Beverly Fishman, Ryan Mrozowski, Kathleen Ryan
– By David RhodesBLINN & LAMBERT:
New Grey Planet– By Alex A. JonesVANESSA GERMAN
– By David CarrierAn Idea of a Boundary
– By Emily WatlingtonMICHAEL WELSH:
When Wishes Are Horses, Beggars Will Ride– By Allison Grimaldi-DonahueALVARO BARRINGTON & DAVID WEISS: A Different World
– By Gabriella NugentSUSAN WIDES:
this:seasons– By Hearne PardeeFragmenticos: Memories of Colombia.
– By Adam Beal
Books
Per Aage Brandt's If I Were a Suicide Bomber
– By Tony LeuzziAlan Drew's Shadow Man
– By Deena ElGenaidiDaša Drndić’s Belladonna
– By John DominiA Voice From the Pit: Brandon Hobson's Where the Dead Sit Talking
– By J.C. HallmanNeon in Daylight:
HERMIONE HOBY with David Burr GerrardLászló Krasznahorkai’s
The World Goes On– By Veronica Scott EspositoThisbe Nissen's Our Lady of the Prairie
– By Yvonne C. GarrettZachary Lazar's Vengeance
– By John DominiPaul Goldberg's The Château
– By David Burr Gerrard
Music
All In Until it Stops: JOE CASEY with Dan Joseph
– By Dan JosephAlan Bishop, Time Traveler
– By Christopher NelsonOn Pointe: Alessandro Cortini, Richard Horowitz, Lapalux
– By Mik PointeOuttakes
– By Steve DalachinskyFebruary Listings
Dance
SUNSETTING COIL (AND PS122)
– By Ivan Talijancic"Are You Here for the Performance Piece?"
– By Jen GeorgePay to play: the costs of carving new space for dance
– By Benedict Nguyen
Film
Western Unions: On Valeska Grisebach’s Western
– By Sarah MankoffVivisection of the Screen: Véréna Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor’s somniloquies and Caniba
– By Zoe Meng JiangYEAR ZERO: 2017 Pingyao Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon International Film Festival
– By Celluloid Liberation FrontBreathing New Light: Reexamining Grove Press's Cinematic Legacy
– By Mitch AnzuoniThe Hero with a Thousand Faces: Rick Prelinger’s Lost Landscapes of New York
– By Shelby Shaw
Fiction
Blindness
– By Cyril WongChapters 5 & 6 from
The Solitary Twin– By Harry MathewsinSerial: part fifteen
Delusions of Being Observed– By Lewis WarshHighlights from the Life of Raymond Roussel #1: a thousand flaming pen-nibs
– By Tom MotleyNew Routes in Fiction:
Julie Lekstrom Himes with Alec Niedenthal
Poetry
Uncle Ho’s Poetry
– By Richard Tuttlefrom DIGIGRAMS
– By Barbara Henningfrom S + COP – E = Computational Topographical Fur
– By Brenda Iijimafrom Vestigial
– By Aja Couchois Duncanfour
– By Michael Farrellnine
– By Kimberly Lyonsfive
– By Robert Hershonfour
– By Celina SuBrenda Iijima with Aja Couchois Duncan
Verbatim
Alexander Calder:
To do the Circus– By Jessica Holmes
Art Books
Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme's And Yet My Mask Is Powerful
– By Phillip GriffithRediscovering an American Community of Color: The Photographs of William Bullard, 1897-1917
– By Andrew HolterLee Lozano Private Books 1-3
– By Madeline WeisburgHito Steyerl's Duty Free Art
– By Chloe Wyma
Field Notes
Fantasies of Secession: A Critique of Left Economic Nationalism
– By Jamie MerchantInside the "Muslim Factory": NEDJIB SIDI MOUSSA with Felix Baum
– By Felix BaumLetter From Huntsville: "Look Out For One Another"
– By Curtis PriceThe "Soares Doctrine," or Who Gave Birth to Democracy in Portugal?
– By Raquel VarelaClimate change:
What is to be done?
Part 3 – Conclusion– By José A. Tapia