March 2018
The “March 2018” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on March 4, 2018.
Publisher's Message
Dear Friends and Readers,
– By Phong H. Bui
Critics Page
It's a Great Day When One and One Don't Add Up To Two
– By Jonathan FinebergCHRISTO
with Jonathan FinebergThey Say it is Heaven
– By Cynthia OliverVisionary Creative Interchange—An Unusual Collaboration
– By David YagerThe Present and The Box
– By Enrique Martinez CelayaInspiration and Obsession
– By Josef HelfensteinOn Creativity
– By Agnes GundBees, Ants, Spiders, and a Side of Bacon
– By May R. BerenbaumCollective Creativity: A Few Thoughts on Filmmaking
– By Rob CohenThe Roots of Creativity
– By Semir ZekiInstitutional Creativity and the Enlightened Critic
– By James B. Milliken
ArtSeen
Firmament & Flora Are The New Black
– By Nico WheadonThomas Cole’s Journey:
Atlantic Crossings– By Jason RosenfeldTANIA BRUGUERA:
Untitled (Havana, 2000)– By Magdalyn AsimakisMAGDALENA ABAKANOWICZ:
Embodied Forms– By Jonelle MannionNATHANIEL MELLORS: Progressive Rocks
– By William CorwinTarsila do Amaral:
Inventing Modern Art in Brazil– By Vitoria Hadba GroomQuinn Likes Trucks
– By J CTHOMAS DEMAND
– By Louis BlockApocalypse, Right Now: Abel Tilahun: Vital Signs
– By William CorwinAL TAYLOR:
What Are You Looking At?– By William WhitneyNATE ETHIER:
Wilderness– By Jason StopaAn Assembly of Gods
– By Hovey BrockCalifornia Landscapes: Richard Diebenkorn / Wayne Thiebaud
– By Hearne PardeeJAYNE COUNTY:
Paranoia Paradise– By Ingrid DudekTransformer: Native Art in Light and Sound
– By Christopher GreenROBERT MOSKOWITZ: Window Shades, 1959–62
– By Barbara A. MacAdampeter campus: pause
– By Pac PobricMichael Goldberg End to End: The 1950s & 2000s
– By Alfred Mac AdamIn Practice: Another Echo
– By Phillip GriffithThe Sweat of Their Face: Portraying American Workers
– By Andrew HolterDEANA LAWSON
– By Jessica Bell BrownBARKLEY HENDRICKS:
Them Changes– By Osman Can YerebakanTHORNTON DIAL:
Mr. Dial’s America– By Jessica HolmesIncision: Feminist in Residence Exhibition
– By Cassandra NeyeneschPETER PLAGENS
– By David RhodesLAUREL SPARKS:
Geomantria– By Alfred Mac AdamROBERT RYMAN:
Drawings– By Tom McGlynnPETER DOIG
– By William DavieThe Ghosts of Italy’s ’68
– By Michela MoscufoCHRISTOPHER KNOWLES:
In a Word– By Vivian LiSome Roads Yet Untraveled in Abstraction
– By John Michael ColónThe Beautiful Brain: The Drawings of Santiago Ramón y Cajal
– By Taney RonigerLEANDRO ERLICH:
Seeing and Believing– By Siwin LoClub 57
– By Meredith Mowder
Books
Poignant Repairs: JOHN FREEMAN GILL with Hilary Reyl
– By Hilary ReylJohn Freeman Gill’s The Gargoyle Hunters
– By Matt GrantMorgan Jerkins’s This Will Be My Undoing
– By Deena ElGenaidiDude, What’s My Age Again? Cheston Knapp’s Up Up, Down Down: Essays
– By David VarnoState Your Name for the Record: NATALIE SINGER with Christine Sang
– By Christine SangLeni Zumas’s Red Clocks
– By Matt GrantTeju Cole’s Blind Spot
– By Leah Gallant
Music
Tinariwen: Elwan
– By Adolf AlzupharFake Music For Fake Times
– By George GrellaOuttakes
– By Steve DalachinskyPlaylist for Prefab Houses: YouTube and the Revitalization of Japanese Ambient Music
– By Sadie Rebecca StarnesMarch Listings
– By Brad CohanOut of Time
– By George Grella
Dance
Uncanny Worlds in Familiar Spaces
– By Sariel FrankfurterAn Unusual Evening of Baroque Opera and Kuchipudi Flavors
– By Susanna SloatSuspended Animation
– By Susan YungThe Making Room: A dance performance with required reading
– By Jen GeorgeGESEL MASON with Megan Pugh
– By Megan Pugh
Film
PEDRO PINHO with Jesse Cumming
– By Jesse Cumming“The Primary Event was the Performance”: Anthony McCall’s Play with Light
– By Swagato ChakravortyFEMEXFILMARCHIVE with Benjamin Schultz-Figueroa
– By Benjamin Schultz-FigueroaA Methodone Film: On Ashley McKenzie’s Werewolf
– By Jessica Dunn RovinelliLooking Again, Slowly: On Hong Sangsoo’s Claire’s Camera
– By Peter Kim
Theater
A Brave New World, at Your Doorstep
– By Jim KnableWholehearted: Suli Holum and Deborah Stein
– By Aaron Landsman
Fiction
Witch!
–Our Neighbors
–Disfigurements
– By Kim-Anh SchreiberRoll of the Dice
–inSerial: part sixteen
Delusions of Being Observed– By Lewis WarshHighlights from the Life of Raymond Roussel #2: Doublure
– By Tom MotleyThe Black Market
– By Joshua Daniel
Verbatim
Milton Resnick:
Wielding the Club– By Geoffrey Dorfman
Art Books
Stephan Keppel's Flat Finish
– By Adam BellTisa Bryant, Miranda Mellis, and Katie Aymar's The Encyclopedia Project, Volume III L-Z
– By Eli HillMirtha Dermisache's Selected Writings and Renee Gladman's Prose Architectures
– By Megan N. LibertyEyal Weizman's Forensic Architecture: Violence at the Threshold of Detectability
– By Andreas Petrossiants
Field Notes
Visions of Resilience: New York City’s Infrastructural Response to Climate Change
– By Max MoorheadSecond Chances in the Era of the Jobless Future
– By Zhandarka Kurti“Despite it All!”
– By Paul MattickDon't Mourn, Organize!
Is Communism a Pipe Dream—or a Viable Future?– By Gabriel KuhnA New Man Is No Good on Earth: The Great Cowboy Strike
– By Adam Theron-Lee Rensch