April 2018
The “April 2018” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on April 4, 2018.
Publisher's Message
Dear Readers and Friends,
– By Phong H. Bui
ArtSeen
David Levi Strauss
on Leon GolubThyrza Nichols Goodeve
on Leon GolubTom McGlynn
on Leon GolubSusan Harris
on Leon GolubJan Avgikos
on Leon GolubCARRIE MOYER:
Pagan’s Rapture and Seismic Shuffle– By Osman Can YerebakanMary Ann Caws
on Leon GolubGrant Wood: American Gothic and Other Fables
– By Jason RosenfeldCHRIS MARTIN
– By Alan GilbertCYPRIEN GAILLARD:
Nightlife– By Sarah GoffsteinNATHLIE PROVOSTY:
My Pupil is an Anvil– By Will FenstermakerROBERT GOBER:
Tick Tock– By Pac PobricARLENE GOTTFRIED:
A Lifetime of Wandering– By Anna DunnCARISSA RODRIGUEZ:
The Maid– By Andreas PetrossiantsTarsila do Amaral: Inventing Modern Art in Brazil
– By Madeline Murphy TurnerCY TWOMBLY:
Coronation of Sesostris & In Beauty It Is Finished: Drawings 1951-2008– By Alfred Mac AdamMILTON RESNICK:
Boards 1981-1984– By David RhodesALLISON MILLER:
Feed Dogs– By Marcia E. VetrocqThomas Cole’s Journey: Atlantic Crossings
– By Joe BuccieroStations of The Cross
– By Ann McCoyZOE LEONARD:
Survey– By Jason RosenfeldSHEILA HICKS:
Free Threads, The Textile and its Prehispanic Roots 1954-2017 & Lifelines– By Grant Klarich JohnsonArt in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today
– By Steven PestanaALEXANDRA PIRICI:
Co-natural– By Elizaveta ShneydermanOutrageous Fortune: Jay DeFeo and Surrealism
– By Jessica HolmesPlace for Continuous Eye Contact (8): A Test-Drive with Mindfulness
– By Adam BealKES ZAPKUS:
New Paintings– By Hovey BrockMILTON AVERY:
Early Works on Paper + Late Painting– By William CorwinALEX DA CORTE:
C-A-T SPELLS MURDER– By Jesse Bandler FirestoneHOWARDENA PINDELL:
What Remains To Be Seen– By David SprecherMILDRED THOMPSON: Radiation Explorations and Magnetic Fields
– By Hovey BrockCARLOS REYES:
West Side Club– By Vijay MasharaniGERWALD ROCKENSCHAUB: Geometric Playground (Flamboyant Edit)
– By David RhodesJACOLBY SATTERWHITE:
Blessed Avenue– By Osman Can YerebakanCoop Fund, Amalle Dublon & Constantina Zavitsansos, Devin Kenny, John Neff
– By Ian Edward WallaceMATERIAL WITNESS
WITNESS MATERIAL– By Nicole MillerKARI CHOLNOKY:
True Level– By Chris KasparJOHN McALLISTER:
cymbals of sleep uncurtain the night– By Alex A. JonesGREG LINDQUIST:
Of ash and coal– By William CorwinRACHEL MASON:
Star Death and The Pain Body– By Daniel GerwinISA GENZKEN:
Sky Energy– By Jan AvgikosViolated Bodies: New Languages for Justice and Humanity
– By Elleree ErdosDANH VO:
Take My Breath Away– By AV RyanRICHARD ALDRICH:
Enter the Mirror– By David RhodesJOHAN WAHLSTROM:
Life is Good– By Mark BlochKISHIO SUGA
– By Colin EdgingtonJENNIFER COATES:
Correspondences– By Tom McGlynnBRADLEY EROS:
All that is solid melts into eros– By Ann McCoyJESSE CHUN:
Name Against the Same Sound– By Jonathan GoodmanJEFFREY PERKINS:
George– By Mark Bloch
Books
Language is Always a Shared Occasion: FADY JOUDAH with Alex Dueben
Isaac Babel’s The Essential Fictions
– By Veronica Scott EspositoDenis Johnson’s The Largesse of the Sea Maiden: Stories
– By Yvonne C. GarrettTayari Jones’s An American Marriage
– By Deena ElGenaidiLaura Kasischke's Where Now: New and Selected Poems
– By Gale Renee WaldenTADZIO KOELB
with Michael NatalieThe Disintegrations: ALISTAIR McCARTNEY with Jordan A. Rothacker
Sofia Samatar's Monster Portraits
– By Rebecca RukeyserSheryl St. Germain's The Small Door of Your Death
– By Tony Leuzzi
Music
Burns Like Hell
– By Eli ZegerSexmob and John Medeski at Jazz Standard, March 9th, 2018
– By Martin LongleyShelley Hirsch: The Flourishing Fields of Reception
– By MV CarbonOuttakes
– By Steve DalachinskyNot Even Preaching: NYFOS: Protest, February 27, Merkin Concert Hall
– By Marshall YarbroughApril Selections
– By Brad Cohan
Dance
GESEL MASON with Megan Pugh
– By Megan PughHonest Women
– By Erica GettoImage to Body, and Back Again
– By Gillian JakabMixed Means and Precarious Performance: Dancers on Nick Mauss's Transmissions
– By Benedict NguyenReflections on Reggie Wilson's Danspace Platform: in Conversation with Drawings
and Text– By Gyun Hur and Helly Minarti
Film
Escape from the Internet Swamp: ZACH BLAS with Iván Zgaib
Having Some Space: Dissociation and Generative Embodiment in Basma Alsharif's Ouroboros
– By Lydia OgwangIn the Field: Sharon Lockhart, James Benning, and People
– By Steffanie LingBerlinale Forum 2018
– By Giovanni Marchini CamiaHigh and Low: The Light and Shadows of Kazuo Miyagawa
– By Jaime Grijalba
Theater
Alternating Currents: Visiting Electchester with Adam Kraar
– By Ed Cardona JrTHE DEFIANT POLITICS OF COLLECTIVITY: The Assembly’s SEAGULLMACHINE
– By Adam R. Burnett
Fiction
The Cursed Hunter in the Red Lands (January 1836)
– By Douglas GloverThe Threesome (That Eventually Led to Spike Lee)
– By Alejandro VarelaThe Nameable : on experimental writing
– By Eugene LimHighlights from the Life of Raymond Roussel #3: Prospecting
– By Tom MotleyinSerial: part seventeen
Delusions of Being Observed– By Lewis Warsh4 stories from Malay Sketches
– By Alfian Sa’atfrom Ivory Pearl
–New Routes in Fiction:
ELIZABETH STROUT with Alec NiedenthalThrowing Stones
– By Joshua Daniel
Poetry
trick o’death
– By Anne Waldmanvisual notes on the constitution
– By Andrei Codrescufrom ROSWELL/GREENCREST
– By Jay Besemerfour
– By Douglas Piccinninisymbolic philosophy
– By Roberto HarrisonSix from Atopia
– By Sandra Simonds
Art Books
In Part:
Writings by Julie Ault– By Madeline WeisburgThe Collages of Helen Adam
– By Mary Ann CawsGiorgio Morandi:
Late Paintings– By David CarrierDepero Futurista
– By Nick Bennett
Field Notes
What Lessons Does the WV Teacher Strike Have for Labor’s Future?
– By Ken Fones-WolfDisaster Preparedness Is an Illusion
– By Natalie BakerIs Democracy Compatible with Capitalism?
Reconstruction in the US, 1863-1877– By Charlie PostPHIL NEEL
with Paul MattickOnly Connect: A Review of Richard Walker’s Pictures of a Gone City
– By Max Moorhead