October 2018
The “October 2018” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on October 3, 2018.
Critics Page
The Vanishing Middle
– By Lane RelyeaFrom Center to Middle and Back Again
– By Josh RiosWasp sting
– By Matthew GoulishThe Triumphant Middle
– By Blake StimsonDevouring the middle to see the ends
– By Stephanie OwensWhat Have We Done with the Autonomy of Art?
– By Mary LeclèreCharles Gaines
The Strategic Middle
– By Michelle Grabner
Publisher's Message
Dear Friends and Readers,
– By Phong H. Bui
Art
KEITH SONNIER with Michael Straus
ALI BANISADR with Phong Bui
PETAH COYNE with Jonathan Goodman
BARBARA DAWSON & SEAN RAINBIRD with David Carrier & Joachim Pissarro
Everywhere and Nowhere
– By Kim LevinPETER HALLEY with Tom McGlynn
BENJAMIN PRITCHARD with Joseph Masheck
PAUL MOGENSEN with Dan Gratz
MICHAEL FOX and TONY ZANETTA with James Barron
Forecasting Art and Social Justice*
– By Rehan Ansari
ArtSeen
Endless Enigma: Eight Centuries of Fantastic Art
– By Thyrza Nichols GoodeveKatherine Bradford: Friends and Strangers
– By Lilly WeiEllen Lesperance: Lily of the Arc Lights
– By Hovey BrockIvy Haldeman: The Interesting Type
– By Alex A. JonesLineage: de Kooning and His Influence
– By Joachim PissarroJudith Murray: Tempest
– By Barbara A. MacAdamDavid Row: Counter Clockwise
– By William CorwinVivian Springford
– By David RhodesAbby Leigh: Sledgehammer Paintings
– By Alfred Mac AdamGreg Burak: Visitations
– By Hadley SuterEckhaus Latta: Possessed
– By J CWater Lilies: American Abstract Painting and the Last Monet
– By Hearne PardeeDorian Gaudin: The Coffee Cup Spring
– By Louis BuryDorothea Rockburne
– By A.V. RyanToyin Ojih Odutola: When Legends Die
– By Amber Jamilla MusserMarilyn Lerner: Walking Backward Running Forward
– By Jessica HolmesAnne Truitt: Paintings
– By Louis BlockGabriel Orozco
– By Benjamin CliffordGlen Fogel: With You... Me
– By Ida PruittEndless Enigma: Eight Centuries of Fantastic Art
– By Mary Ann CawsEmily Jacir: La Mia Mappa
– By Alan GilbertPÒTOPRENS: The Urban Artists of Port-au-Prince
– By Maureen Catbagan and Amber Jamilla MusserWill Corwin: The Old Gods
– By Tom McGlynnRoderic O’Conor and the Moderns. Between Paris and Pont-Aven
– By William DavieAmanda Valdez: First Might
– By Grant Klarich JohnsonIntimate Infinite: Imagine a Journey
– By David CarrierLee Krasner: Mural Studies
– By Hovey BrockBrancusi & Duchamp: the Art of Dialogue
– By Mary Ann CawsToward a Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia, 1948 - 1980
– By Bartolomeo SalaSamuel Jablon: Unstung
– By Ryan ChapmanColter Jacobsen: Essays
– By Maddie KlettRachelle Dang: Southern Oceans
– By Nina WolpowThe Un-Heroic Act: Representations of Rape in Contemporary Women’s Art in the U.S.
– By Jessica HolmesEugène Delacroix at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
– By Alfred Mac Adam
1×1
Thoughts on Mies’s Lemke House: Architecture—Feminism—Philosophy
– By Joseph Masheck
Books
Nicole Chung’s All You Can Ever Know
– By Deena ElGenaidiChelsea Hodson Dares Us to Desire
– By Erin BartnettShelley Jackson’s Riddance
– By Yvonne C. GarrettThe Dualities of Love and War
– By Maikie PajeWell-Trained into This Savage Vista
– By William LessardThe Aesthetic Animal
– By Taney RonigerJuxtapositions Across Languages: 3 by Poets & Traitors Press
– By Robert E. TannerRoy Scranton’s We’re Doomed. Now What? Essays on War and Climate Change
– By Yvonne C. GarrettLydia Kiesling’s The Golden State
– By Yvonne C. GarrettThe Jazz of Life: BUD SMITH with Nicholas Rys
MATTHEW VOLLMER with Evan Lavender-Smith
Ivelisse Rodriguez’s Love War Stories
– By Yvonne C. GarrettWomen and War Literature
The Disappearing Acts of Refuse
– By Chris Campanioni
Music
Do Not Seek For Things Outside Yourself
– By George GrellaGreen Man Festival
– By Martin LongleyOuttakes
– By Steve DalachinskyHard (not necessarily sad, certainly not tragic) Truths
– By Josh SintonOctober Listings
– By George Grella and Brad Cohan
Dance
Fractured Dialogues: Juliana May’s Folk Incest
– By Rennie McDougallEcstasy and Exorcism in Kimberly Bartosik’s I hunger for you
– By Ivan TalijancicThe Shuffle
– By Erica GettoFinley's Current Politics, Loud and Clear
– By Mike StinavageNY Quadrille: Modern Dances, Fresh Views
– By Susan YungMigratory patterns: Sasha Waltz's recent works
– By Ivan Talijancic
Film
What Do Images Do
– By Lucia CocoJODIE MACK with Leo Goldsmith
Surveillance as the Shooting Script of Documentary
– By Shelby ShawCAROLINE GOLUM with Gina Telaroli
– By Gina Telaroli
Theater
HEIDI SCHRECK with Erin Courtney
Entertaining Marx in the Machine of Capital
– By Adam R. Burnett
Fiction
from Unclay
– By T. F. Powysfrom Americas
–Highlights from the Life of Raymond Roussel #8: Travels
– By Tom MotleyinSerial: part two
The Mysteries of Paris–New Routes in Fiction:
JAMEL BRINKLEY with Alec NiedenthalGolthar, Terror of the Deep
– By Nathan Place
Poetry
AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF FATNESS
– By Diana HamiltonGILA RIVER
– By Brandon Shimoda
Art Books
Ellie Ga’s Square Octagon Circle
– By Lee Ann NormanGenesis Breyer P‑Orridge’s Brion Gysin: His Name Was Master
– By Nick BennettAruna D’Souza’s Whitewalling: Art, Race & Protest in 3 Acts
– By Nico WheadonNoah Charney’s The Museum of Lost Art
– By Olivia McEwan
Field Notes
THINKING ABOUT COMMUNISM
– By Charles ReeveHistorical Inertia and Binary Stars
– By Eddie DioguardiCrossing the River Styx: The Endgame
– By Peter St. Clair