July/August 2018
The “July/August 2018” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on July 11, 2018.
Publisher's Message
Dear Friends and Readers,
– By Phong H. Bui
Critics Page
At the Beginning, A Monologue: The Fate of Self-Taught Art
– By Valérie RousseauA Special Niche for a Special Art
– By Edward M. GómezShifting and Symmetry of Time
– By George WidenerSelf-Taught Artists and Institutional Narratives: Can Museums Find a Balanced Response to an Exclusionary Past? Leslie Umberger Speaks with Kerry James Marshall.
Collecting and Curating Art Brut in the 21st Century
– By Barbara SafarovaThornton Dial Takes Fifth Ave
– By Aleesa P. AlexanderInside Out: Reflections on Outsider Art
– By W.J.T. MitchellSpeaking in Tongues
– By Massimiliano GioniRethinking (Art) History (without Reaching a Conclusion)
– By Daniel Baumann
Art
Art and Community: “Dwelling Munich”
CHARLES SIMONDS
with Irving SandlerDONA NELSON
with Leeza MeksinSUE DE BEER with Jessica Holmes
Towards a New Political Space: Quiero un Presidente
– By Lucía HinojosaDEBORAH NAJAR with Joachim Pissarro and David Carrier
Forecasting Art and Social Justice*
– By Rehan Ansari
ArtSeen
Intimacy
– By Millie Christie-DervauxThe Incomplete Araki
– By Sadie Rebecca StarnesSocial Photography VI
– By Graham W. BellSummer: Curated by Ugo Rondinone
– By David RhodesATSUKI SETTANGELI:
New Dawns of the Samurai Spirit– By Mark BlochJASON STOPA:
The Gate– By Eliza Barry3: Brenda Goodman, Christina Tenaglia, and Marie Vickerilla
– By Jonathan GoodmanGEOFFREY CHADSEY:
THAT’S NOT IT– By Ivan TalijancicInterventions
– By Millie Christie-DervauxANN CRAVEN:
Sunset Moon– By David RhodesAARON FOWLER: Donkey Days, Donkey Nights, and Bigger Than Me
– By Will FenstermakerCANDICE BREITZ:
Love Story– By Emily WatlingtonCEAPHAS STUBBS:
Phantom Limb– By Nico WheadonForsaking Pop: A New Art Generation from Japan
– By Mark BlochThis Is Not A Prop
– By Nina WolpowPHOEBE BOSWELL:
Take Me To The Lighthouse– By Nico WheadonPACIFICO SILANO: After Silence
– By Osman Can YerebakanCliche
– By William CorwinJACK SMITH: Art Crust of Spiritual Oasis
– By Mark BlochYou Say You Want a Revolution: Remembering the 60s
– By Colin Kinniburgh74 million million million tons
– By Andreas PetrossiantsJONATHAN LYNDON CHASE:
Sheets– By Daniel GerwinDEMIAN DINÉYAZHI’ & R.I.S.E.: Radical Indigenous Survivance & Empowerment
– By Christopher GreenMARY CORSE:
A Survey in Light– By Elizabeth M. GollnickPHILIP HUGHES:
Vues d’en Haut– By Mary Ann CawsERNIE GEHR:
Essex Street Quartet (2004)– By Jason RosenfeldOTOBONG NKANGA:
To Dig A Hole That Collapses Again– By Elliot Josephine Leila ReichertRAUL GUERRERO
– By William CorwinTRACEY MOFFATT: Vigils and Travellers
– By Maureen Catbagan and Amber Jamilla MusserSTEPHEN ANTONAKOS:
Proscenium– By Jason RosenfeldMARIANNE VITALE: On the One
– By Kyle ConnorsPASCALE MARTHINE TAYOU:
Colorful Line– By Osman Can YerebakanLUCAS SAMARAS:
Photo-Transformations– By Charles SchultzAxis Mundo: Queer Networks in Chicano L.A.
– By Gillian SneedSUE COE:
Graphic Resistance– By Ann McCoySUMMER WHEAT:
Swamp Hunters (2018)– By Alex A. JonesMARTHA DIAMOND:
Cityscapes– By Tom McGlynnIndicators: Artists on Climate Change
– By Patrick JaojocoGiacometti
– By Alfred Mac AdamWAYNE THIEBAUD:
Pastel Scatter (1972)– By Hearne PardeeJULIA PHILLIPS:
Fixator (#2) (2017)– By Louis BlockMALICK SIDIBÉ:
Love Power Peace– By William WhitneyMultiply, Identify, Her
– By Anna DunnROB WYNNE:
FLOAT– By Barbara A. MacAdamThe Surface of the East Coast
– By Jonathan GoodmanCLARENCE SCHMIDT: Let's Call it Hope
– By Jonathan GoodmanCollapsed Field
– By J C
Books
The Oligarch Is In Charge
( …and has to go)– By Tod ThillemanPaul Tremblay’s The Cabin at the End of the World
– By Joseph SalvatoreTO THROW AWAY UNOPENED: VIV ALBERTINE with Yvonne C. Garrett
– By Yvonne C. GarrettAnna Moschovakis's Eleanor, or, the Rejection of the Progress of Love
– By Veronica Scott EspositoPoems from the Dark Side: JOE FLETCHER with TONY TRIGILIO
Kevin Wilson’s Baby, You’re Gonna Be Mine
– By Deena ElGenaidiTyler Cohen’s Primahood: Magenta
– By Elizabeth BlockUncured of Myself: John Edgar Wideman's American Histories
– By David VarnoFAN FICTION: Andrew Shaffer's Hope Never Dies
– By Matt GrantTwo New Anthologies Look Beyond Body Positivity and Sexism
– By Randle BrowningRedefining our Subject Object Relations: Junk, by Tommy Pico
– By Chris CampanioniCARRIE LA SEUR in coversation with Olivia Kate Cerrone
Jennifer Gilmore's If Only
– By Jordan NielsenMICHELLE TEA in conversation with Yvonne C Garrett
– By Yvonne C. Garrett
Music
Swiss Beats
– By George GrellaOuttakes
– By Steve DalachinskyJazzkaar; Tallinn, Estonia, April 20-29
– By Martin LongleyMoers Festival
– By Martin LongleySummer Listings
– By Brad CohanNotes Toward the Death of New York
– By George Grella
Dance
Layers of Possibility: Site-specific dance and the River to River Festival
– By Nicole Loeffler-GladstonePassing the Torch: Michael Novak with Susan Yung
ABT Looks Forward and Back
– By Susan YungSomething to Hold Onto
– By Erica GettoRegeneration
– By Katy DammersDisorderly Conduct: On THEM, Police Brutality, and Following Orders
– By Joey Cannizzaro
Film
Films as Lips and Teeth to Bite With: Godard at Cannes, at the ZAD, and Online
– By Rona LorimerCannes 2018: No Miraculous Conversions
– By James LattimerDONAL FOREMAN with Leo Goldsmith
– By Leo GoldsmithStaging Xenophobia: The Legacy of German Iconoclast Christoph Schlingensief
– By Esmé HogeveenHow Much Better Is Silence: On Valérie Massadian’s Milla
– By Erin Delaney
Theater
Offerings of Hope with Marcus Gardley
– By Matthew Paul OlmosSculpting the Particular:
AMINA HENRY with Joshua YoungThe Uptown Transfer: Playwrights Redux
– By John Michael DiResta
Fiction
from Who Among Us
–Underneath the Ruins
– By Grace ChiaFresh Blood
– By Grace ChiaOn the Current Symbolic Status of Oil
–Highlights from the Life of Raymond Roussel #6: Solus
– By Tom MotleyGolthar, Terror of the Deep
– By Nathan PlaceMathias Svalina’s Dream Delivery Service
– By Mathias Svalina
Poetry
The Pleasure and Satisfaction of Living
– By Amy De'Athfour
– By Jessica HolburnEd Steck
– By Josef KaplanStanzas from an untitled poem
– By Daniel Tiffanyfive from Museum Penghancur Dokumen / Document Shredding Museum
–Biography
– By Isabel Sobral Camposthree
– By Trace DePass
Verbatim
Niki de Saint Phalle: Le Cimetière de Montparnasse
– By Devon Whitehead
Art Books
Nell Painter's Old in Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over
– By Karen ChernickAdrian Piper: A Synthesis of Intuitions, 1965 – 2016 and Adrian Piper: A Reader
– By Phillip GriffithSteel Stillman: Black Point
– By Taylor DafoeKatherine Bernhardt: Houses
– By Eli Hill
LastWords
Young, Black, Rich and Haitian
– By Christopher Stackhouse
Field Notes
On Laundromats
– By George GryllsDreams of National Capital: Market Socialism, Past and Present
– By Jamie MerchantJobs, Bullshit, and the Bureaucratization of the World
– By Jason E. SmithThe Aggressiveness of Vulnerability
– By Pavlos RoufosZAD: The State of Play
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