September 2018
The “September 2018” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on September 4, 2018.
Critics Page
Why Luciano Fabro Today?
– By Sharon HeckerRobert Morris
Paolo Canevari
Re: Moving Pictures
– By Neil PowellFabro: Why Now
– By Nancy OlnickLuciano Fabro with Martin Schwander
Luciano Fabro: Timely and Defiant
– By Margit RowellEvery Order is Contemporaneous of Every Other Order
– By Mami KataokaLawrence Weiner
Technique as Alibi
– By Jessica MorganLuciano Fabro: In Virtue of References
– By Frances Morris
Publisher's Message
Dear Friends and Readers,
– By Phong H. Bui
ArtSeen
To the Pit of Things: On Patrick Nagatani and Mentorship
– By Colin EdgingtonRackstraw Downes: Paintings & Drawings
– By Alfred Mac AdamDiana Thater
– By Emily WatlingtonThe Racial Imaginary Institute:
On Whiteness– By Nico WheadonThe Otolith Group: A Lost Future
– By Swagato ChakravortyThe First Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art (RIBOCA): Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More
– By Joyce BeckensteinBodys Isek Kingelez: City Dreams
– By Maddie KlettMartha Rosler and Hito Steyerl: War Games
– By Lisa E. BloomYaara Zach: Unreasonable Doubt
– By Naomi LevChaim Soutine: Flesh
– By Alfred Mac AdamThe Thomas Cole House, Olana, and Lyndhurst
– By Jason RosenfeldHope and Hazard: A Comedy of Eros
– By Steven PestanaAnalia Segal: Contra la pared
– By Jonathan GoodmanVincent Fecteau
– By Alex JenPatrick Staff: hatefull to the stomach, harmefull to the braine
– By Nick HermanPlease Touch: Body Boundaries
– By Yasi AlipourTony Oursler: TC: the most interesting man alive
– By Ida PruittBrand-New & Terrific: Alex Katz in the 1950s
– By Phong H. BuiBrand-New & Terrific: Alex Katz in the 1950s
– By Tom McGlynnSummer of David
– By Osman Can YerebakanDavid Wojnarowicz
– By Jan AvgikosDavid Wojnarowicz: History Keeps Me Awake at Night
– By Danilo MachadoThe Water Lilies: American Abstract Painting and the Last* Monet
– By Norman L KleeblattSheila Pepe: Hot Mess Formalism
– By Anthony HawleyRichanda Rhoden
– By Hadley SuterSeed
– By Michela MoscufoJonas Mekas: Notes from Downtown
– By Mark Bloch13th Forum Expanded Exhibition: A Mechanism Capable of Changing Itself
– By Anthony Hawley
1×1
Introducing 1 by 1
– By Thyrza Nichols GoodeveFor Bill Berkson
– By Andrei CodrescuRichard Serra: Tilted Arc
– By Nicole Miller
Books
Karl Ove Knausgaard's Summer
– By Robert BlaisdellLaura Esther Wolfson's For Single Mothers Working as Train Conductors
– By Lily MajtelesTommy Orange's There There
– By Yvonne C. GarrettWilliam T. Vollmann’s Carbon Ideologies
– By Jacob SingerPorochista Khakpour's Sick
– By Deena ElGenaidiTsitsi Dangarembga’s This Mournable Body
– By John DominiDonna Masini’s 4:30 Movie
– By Tony LeuzziNEW WORLD POSTCOLONIAL: JAMES W. FUERST with Juan E. De Castro
Maggie Nelson's Something Bright, Then Holes
– By Elizabeth BlockBLAIR HURLEY with Olivia Kate Cerrone
STEVE ALMOND with Curt Smith
TIMOTHY LIU with Tony Leuzzi
The Delicious Unease of A Lesser Day
– By Aimee ParkinsonDALE PECK with Christine Sang
Assimilation as Disappearing Act: José Olivarez's Citizen Illegal
– By Chris CampanioniAlistair McCartney's The Disintegrations
– By Tim HorvathSusan Shapiro’s The Byline Bible
– By Matt GrantWelcome to Lagos
– By Yvonne C. Garrett
Music
Punkt Festival
– By Martin LongleyDANIEL LOPATIN with George Grella
Nick Soulsby's Swans: Sacrifice And Transcendence, The Oral History
– By Dan JosephZeal & Ardor’s Visionary Diptych
– By John AmenOuttakes
– By Steve DalachinskySeptember Listings
– By Brad Cohan
Dance
INSITU: dance in its first position
– By Jen GeorgeMisfiring synapses: a conversation with Gabri Christa about her stage comeback with Magdalena
– By Ivan TalijancicMark Morris’s Ascension in a Shrinking Summer Dancescape at Lincoln Center
– By Susan YungFour Continents and Five Boroughs on the Harbor
– By Gillian Jakab
Film
RaMell Ross’s Hale County This Morning, This Evening
– By Steve MacfarlaneHANNAH GREENBERG with Gina Telaroli
Il Cinema Ritrovato 2018: The Timeliness of the Past
– By Celluloid Liberation FrontThe Neurotic Gothic Deviated Sex-Colored World: Dietrich & von Sternberg in Hollywood
– By Leo Goldsmith
Theater
Theater in the Wild: The Motor Company at Large in NYC
– By Jen GushuePoking Holes in Performance Publishing: Brooklyn-based 3 Hole Press
– By Erik FreerGathering Round The Hearth: New Theater, Strong Women, and Fiery Plays
– By Billy McEntee
Fiction
From Samuel Johnson’s Eternal Return
– By Martin RikerNarrating Forgetting
– By Hilary PluminSerial: part one
The Mysteries of Paris–New Routes in Fiction:
KEITH GESSEN with Alec NiedenthalHighlights from the Life of Raymond Roussel #7: Vaudeville
– By Tom MotleyGolthar, Terror of the Deep
– By Nathan Place
Poetry
five
– By Ron Padgett and Yu Jianfive
– By Uche Ndukafrom Trying
– By Jackie Clarkthree
– By Charles NorthMERCEDES ROFFÉ
with Anna Deeny Morales
Verbatim
Sean Scully: Illuminated Manuscripts
– By Jessica Holmes
Art Books
Maura Reilly's Curatorial Activism: Towards an Ethics of Curating
– By Gretchen CoombsIsabelle Graw's The Love of Painting: Genealogy of a Success Medium
– By Lauren PalmerLuigi Ghirri's The Map and The Territory
– By Sarah Heather BrownSONEL BRESLAV with Megan N. Liberty
Field Notes
Letter from San Antonio
– By Marisela BarreraQuotation, Paraphrase, and Plagiarism: An Exchange
– By Pavlos Roufos and LibcomLittle Caughnawaga
– By Isabel LockhartDegrowth Considered
– By Max Ajl