June 2018
The “June 2018” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on June 5, 2018.
Publisher's Message
Dear Friends and Readers,
– By Phong H. Bui
Critics Page
Artists for Artists, About some shared empathies
– By Choghakate KazarianLouis Michel Eilshemius: Most Rapid Master Painter and Mightiest Mind of Mankind
– By Stefan BanzHenry Darger: A Storm Cloud of the 20th Century
– By Carl WatsonRalph Albert Blakelock: Earthen Spirits
– By Chris MartinMyron Stout, Aegis
– By Nathlie ProvostyCosimo Tura 1430 – 1495 Notes--Thoughts
– By James HD BrownAgnes Pelton: The Familiar Sublime
– By Lisa BeckBob Thompson, prescient narrative
– By Joel ShapiroRenoir: Saving the Best for Last
– By Kyle StaverMarino Marini
– By Brandt JunceauAntonio López García: In Defense of the Little
– By Lawrence CarrollCarmelo Bene, Ali Baba Bilabarabilabi
– By Marie Cool and Fabio BalducciHilma af Klint, a world bigger than perceived
– By Margrit LewczukDuane Zaloudek
– By Olivier MossetA Touch of Tao
– By Bill Jensen
ArtSeen
CECILIA VICUÑA:
La India Contaminada– By Madeline Murphy TurnerBeing: New Photography
– By Graham W. BellYUN-FEI JI: Rumors, Ridicules, and Retributions
– By Alan GilbertGlobal Alt Comics
– By Bartolomeo SalaAn External/Eternal Affair: On the Recent Paintings of Carroll Dunham
– By Phong H. BuiProjects 108: Gauri Gill
– By Nicole MillerJEAN PAGLIUSO:
In Plain Sight– By Adam BealCHLÖE BASS: The Tone, Texture & Taste of Intimacy
– By Nico WheadonA Story to Be Told
– By J CJOAN WALTEMATH:
M’s Crossing– By Ann McCoyYTO BARRADA: How to Do Nothing with Nobody All Alone by Yourself
– By Alan GilbertLike Life: Sculpture, Color, and the Body
– By Jason RosenfeldFERNANDO PALMA RODRÍGUEZ:
In Ixtli in Yollotl, We the People– By Jonelle MannionTHOMAS GAINSBOROUGH:
Experiments in Drawing– By Alfred Mac AdamSHEIDA SOLEIMANI:
Medium of Exchange– By Matthew BiroURSULA VON RYDINGSVARD:
TORN– By William CorwinHELEN O’LEARY:
Home is a Foreign Country– By Ann McCoyKIKI SMITH:
Below the Horizon– By Pac PobricHEIDE HATRY:
Material Reality III– By J.W. McCormackLIZ DESCHENES:
Rates (Frames per Second)– By Millie Christie-DervauxImage Building: How Photography Transforms Architecture
– By Joyce BeckensteinAl Held in Paris: 1952-53
– By Tom McGlynnDAVID SALLE:
Paintings 1985—1995– By Benjamin CliffordJORDAN WOLFSON:
Riverboat song– By Ida PruittCARROLL DUNHAM
– By William CorwinBARRY FLANAGAN:
The Hare is Metaphor– By Tom McGlynnMoon Dancers: Yup'ik Masks and the Surrealists
– By Mary Ann CawsMARLENE DUMAS:
Myths & Mortals– By Alfred Mac AdamMarx@200
– By Matthew FridayJORINDE VOIGT:
Integral– By Jessica HolmesDeclaration, A Group Exhibition
– By Hovey BrockJENNY SAVILLE:
Ancestors– By Jason RosenfeldGutai: 1953 –1959
– By Mark BlochANGELA HEISCH:
Resting Position– By Alex A. Jones(IM)MORTALITY:
John Bruce and Pawel Wojtasik, with a performance by Matt Freedman– By Taney Roniger
Books
Rumaan Alam’s That Kind of Mother
– By Deena ElGenaidiLillian Li's Number One Chinese Restaurant
– By Katharina SmundakHarry Mathews's The Solitary Twin
– By John ReedVirginie Despentes's Vernon Subutex 1
– By Rebecca RukeyserPatrick Chamoiseau's Slave Old Man
– By David VarnoLeslie Jamison's The Recovering: Intoxication and its Aftermath
– By Deena ElGenaidiJoshua Mensch's Because, A Lyric Memoir
– By John DominiSkate Dad: NEAL THOMPSON with Marina Petrova
They Can't Kill Us Until they Kill Us: HANIF ABDURRAQIB with Nicholas Rys
Elle Nash's Animals Eat Each Other
– By John Domini
Music
All Gates Open: The Story of Can
– By George GrellaVoices at the End of the Night:
The Fall, New Facts Emerge, Cherry Red Records, 2017
Mike Hudson & the Pagans, Hollywood High, Ruin Discos, 2014– By Ron HorningPunk With Personality: Idles at Rough Trade NYC
– By Dan JosephOuttakes
– By Steve DalachinskyMajor Dudes: A Steely Dan Companion
– By George GrellaJune Selections
– By Brad Cohan
Dance
Holding Space
– By Jen GeorgeAnother Song, Another Feeling
– By Rennie McDougallDances in a Modular “Shed”– a Prelude to the Larger One to Come
– By Sariel FrankfurterCarousel—Talent Transcends a Prickly Book
– By Susan YungI Know You Are Here
– By Erica GettoBRINDA KUMAR and ANDREA MILLER with Gillian Jakab
Film
RYUICHI SAKAMOTO with Sadie Rebecca Starnes
Revolutionary Cinematic Suicide, Godard+Gorin: Five Films, 1968-1971
– By David FreskoFrames of Representation 2018: The Human Epoch
– By Matt TurnerReady Player One? Sizing Up VR at Tribeca
– By Williams Cole
Fiction
from The Seated Woman
–The Barn on Rowdy Creek
– By Aurora LöfgrenShort Shorts
– By Claudia Acevedo-QuiñonesHighlights from the Life of Raymond Roussel #5: Locus
– By Tom MotleyinSerial: part nineteen–the conclusion
Delusions of Being Observed– By Lewis WarshNew Routes in Fiction:
SHEILA HETI with Alec Niedenthal– By Alec Niedenthal
Poetry
Alaska Language Odyssey
– By Bob HolmanAlaska Odyssey Essay
– By Bob Holmanfrom VANTABLACK
– By Joey De Jesustwo poems for bitches
– By Mel Elbergtwo
– By Elisa Gabbertfive
– By Adam DeGraff
Verbatim
Woodstock, January 1959
– By Eric Sutphin
Art Books
The Blind Man
– By Nick BennettLandscape into Eco Art: Articulations of Nature Since the ’60s
– By David CarrierAfter Kathy Acker: A Literary Biography
– By Ingrid DudekAn Atlas of Rare & Familiar Colour
– By Megan N. Liberty
Field Notes
Revolutionary Greetings!
– By Keith "Malik" WashingtonEnd Prison Slavery!
– By Julie SchneyerWhy Does Class Matter?
– By Peter St. Clair