November 2018
The “November 2018” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on October 31, 2018.
Critics Page
Fifteen People Select Their Favorite Book
– By Jo MelvinForgotten Moments, Future Exhibitions
Ian Davenport and Jo Melvin on Sol LeWitt
Molinology
– By Emanuele and Primo De Donno33⅓ RPM—Performance for record turntable, loop effect pedal and vinyl records
– By Sean DowerBadenheim 1939 and My Painting
– By Jeff GibbonsChimera
– By Jeffrey IsaacExistere
– By JocJonJoschParrots, Parrots
– By Giovanni RendinaSol LeWitt Wall Drawings, Torre Bonomo, Spoleto
– By Guy RobertsonDrawing 4: Bruce Chatwin What am I doing Here, 2010
– By David TremlettSol LeWitt—Extraordinary traveller in Spoleto
– By Franco TroianiGrace Weir
Publisher's Message
Dear Friends and Readers,
– By Phong H. Bui
ArtSeen
Tamar Ettun: Jubilation Inflation
– By Nicole MillerOdyssey: Jack Whitten Sculpture 1963 – 2017
– By William CorwinAi Weiwei: Cao / Humanity
– By Vivian LiMiguel Trelles
– By Jonathan GoodmanJaimie Warren: One Moment in Time
– By Nina WolpowArthur Jafa: A Series of Utterly Improbable, Yet Extraordinary Renditions
– By Hannah StamlerThinking Collections: Telling Tales: A Survey Exhibition of Kyzyl Tractor Art Collective
– By Osman Can YerebakanJohn Bock: Dead + Juicy
– By Jessica HolmesLOL Cats: In Marx For Cats the Internet Confronts Its Favorite Meme
– By G Douglas Barrett and Mr. Love Bunny, Sailor Boy, Mr. Big Stuff, and Little MooHew Locke: Patriots
– By Marcia E. VetrocqJuan Pablo Langlois: Afterwards no one will remember
– By Colin EdgingtonSuzanne Bocanegra: Poorly Watched Girls
– By Grant Klarich JohnsonAnn McCoy: The Procession of the Invisible College
– By Hovey BrockBeverly Fishman
– By David RhodesUmber Majeed: In the Name of Hypersurface of the Present
– By Julie NelsonThe Safarani Sisters: Reincarnation
– By Jonathan GoodmanIndian Ceramics Triennale: Breaking Ground
– By Romain MaitraRhys Lee: Good Boy and Kevin Bourgeois: Wall of Sound
– By Jonathan GoodmanMinoru Yoshida: Performance in New York
– By George KanMahmoud Khaled: I want you to know that I am hiding something from you
– By Isis AwadFrank Bowling: Make It New
– By Nicole MillerEverything is Connected: Art and Conspiracy
– By Hovey BrockCarnegie International, 57th Edition
– By Graham Shearing and David CarrierHilma af Klint: Paintings for the Future
– By Ann McCoyJohn Ashbery: The Construction of Fiction
– By Phillip GriffithActs of Art and Rebuttal in 1971
– By Pac PobricJames Hyde: Western Painting—Magnasco
– By Alfred Mac AdamGillian Wearing: Life
– By Osman Can YerebakanDismantling the Master’s House: The Color Curtain Dinner
– By Nicole KaackHiwa K: Blind as the Mother Tongue
– By Yasi AlipourSpeculative Color: 100 lines for Stephen Mueller
– By Anthony HawleyA Void
– By Maddie KlettPeter Moore: 1968
– By Mark BlochThe Women Behind
– By Naomi LevSedimentations: Assemblage as Social Repair
– By Osman Can YerebakanDelacroix
– By Jason RosenfeldHugh Hayden: Border States
– By Eliza BarryAES+F, Inverso Mundus
– By Katy Diamond Hamer
1×1
Ruins in Reverse
– By Sadie Rebecca Starnes
Books
Running the Devil's Gauntlet: Ahmed Bouanani's The Hospital
– By John DominiJeff Jackson's Destroy All Monsters: The Last Rock Novel
– By Nicholas RysMay-Lee Chai's Useful Phrases for Immigrants
– By Yvonne C. GarrettKim Sagwa's Mina
– By Yvonne C. GarrettLexi Freiman’s Inappropriation
– By Deena ElGenaidiArmonía Somers's The Naked Woman
– By Yvonne C. GarrettSimon Sellars's Applied Ballardianism: Memoir from a Parallel Universe
– By Michael Eby
Music
November Listings
– By George Grella and Brad CohanNuits Sonores, Brussels
– By Martin LongleyDo We Deserve Beethoven?
– By George Grellaslowthai And The Path Out
– By Steve EricksonIt's Not A Safe Space But It’s Where We Live: Listening to Stew and the Negro Problem's Notes of a Native Song and Total Bent
– By Eric WallachOuttakes
– By Steve Dalachinsky
Dance
Mette Ingvartsen’s 21 pornographies
– By Rennie McDougallInfinite Recombinations
– By Nicole Loeffler-GladstoneWhat Remains: Rankine and Rawls’s Mindscape
– By Gillian Jakabanother piece apart: two parts as a whole
– By Jen GeorgeMigratory patterns: Sasha Waltz's recent works
– By Ivan TalijancicThe Tenant: A Dark Tale Told Through Movement
– By Susan Yung
Film
Mixed Use: MONO NO AWARE
– By Mary BillyouA Failure to Respond: On Ruth Beckermann’s The Waldheim Waltz
– By Sean NamShow Me Your Original Face: On Tsai Ming-liang’s Your Face
– By Sadie Rebecca StarnesBut Not For Always: Alice Rohrwacher’s Happy as Lazzaro
– By Gina TelaroliDeep Listening: Mary Helena Clark’s The Glass Note
– By Phil Coldiron
Theater
Sam Hunter Brings Two New Plays—and a Meal—to Rattlestick
– By Billy McEnteeLife as a hologram: Lee Breuer
– By Avinash RajendranTunneling through Density: Ben Gassman's NYC
– By Jess Barbagallo
Art Books
Intermedia, Fluxus, and the Something Else Press: Selected Writings by Dick Higgins
– By Jennie WaldowEd Atkins’s A Primer for Cadavers
– By Brianna LeatherburyRichard McGuire’s Art For The Street 1978 – 1982
– By Megan N. LibertyDAVID CASAVANT with Michela Moscufo
Jason Lutes's Berlin
– By Jason Rosenfeld
In Memoriam
Robert Pincus-Witten and Postmodernism
– By Robert C. Morgan
Field Notes
Beyond the Green New Deal
– By Max AjlThe Secret is Out
– By David Levi StraussTapping into the unrealized futures of the past: QUINN SLOBODIAN with Pavlos Roufos
– By Pavlos RoufosBorder Jumpers: Afropean Itineraries
– By Bruno Le Dantec