Dec/Jan 18–19
The “Dec/Jan 18–19” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on December 11, 2018.
Publisher's Message
Dear Friends and Readers,
– By Phong H. Bui
Critics Page
Artists Extending Their Reach
– By Mark RosenthalArtist-Endowed Foundations: Mapping the Field
– By Christine J. VincentJosef and Anni Albers Foundation
– By Nicholas Fox WeberCalder Foundation
– By Alexander S. C. RowerDedalus Foundation Education Programs
– By Jack FlamThe Jay DeFeo Foundation
– By Leah LevyHelen Frankenthaler Foundation: Fostering New Insights
– By Elizabeth SmithThe Start of the Gottlieb Foundation
– By Sanford HirschMike Kelley Foundation
– By Mary Clare StevensDon’t Try This At Home (or Alone)
– By Jack CowartA Gift from One Artist to Many: The Joan Mitchell Foundation
– By Christa BlatchfordSocrates Sculpture Park: Potential Energy
– By Ivana MestrovicThe Noah Purifoy Foundation
– By Joe LewisLenore G. Tawney Foundation
– By Kathleen Nugent ManganHands On: Working with Artist-Endowed Foundations and Trusts
– By Patterson SimsNiki Charitable Art Foundation
– By Bloum Cardenas
ArtSeen
Walter Robinson: Salad, Candles, & Money
– By Alfred Mac AdamIncidental Relays of Memory
– By Phong H. BuiA Wild Ass Beyond: ApocalypseRN
– By Che GossettThe Menil Collection Reinstallation: Selections from the Permanent Collection
– By Alex JenElise Ansel: Time Present
– By Alfred Mac AdamJames Rosenquist: His American Life
– By Mary Ann CawsYasumasa Morimura: Ego Obscura & In the Room of Art History
– By Graham W. BellMariana Castillo Deball: Petlacoatl
– By Jared QuintonIntroducing Tony Conrad: A Retrospective
– By Andreas PetrossiantsBacon’s Women
– By Jessica HolmesPope.L: The Escape
– By Elliot Josephine Leila ReichertIvan Forde: Dense Lightness
– By Yasi AlipourPosing Modernity: The Black Model from Manet and Matisse to Today
– By Jason RosenfeldMarguerite Humeau: Birth Canal
– By Nicholas HeskesEmily Mullin: Woman on Top
– By William CorwinMOTHA and Chris E. Vargas: Consciousness Razing—The Stonewall Re-Memorialization Project
– By Danilo MachadoLisa Yuskavage: New Paintings & Babie Brood
– By Eleanor HeartneyCharles White: A Retrospective
– By Nico WheadonGutai
– By Benjamin CliffordNick Cave: If a Tree Falls
– By Alan GilbertJohn Houck: Holding Environment
– By David CarrierJenny Snider: A selection of paintings, drawings and sculpture, 1970 to the present
– By Dona NelsonThornton Willis: Improvisational Structures
– By Alfred Mac AdamBlack Mirror: Art as Social Satire
– By Daniel PatemanSable Elyse Smith: BOLO: Be on (the) Lookout
– By Amber Jamilla MusserSarah Lucas: Au Naturel
– By Mengna DaBrendan Fernandes: The Living Mask
– By Lori WaxmanStanley Whitney: In the Color
– By Tom McGlynnHarriet Korman: Permeable/Resistant
– By Raphael RubinsteinRona Pondick
– By Pac PobricArthur Simms: The Big Picture, One Halo, Sculptures and Drawings
– By Hovey BrockHarvey Quaytman: Against the Static
– By David CarrierVicky Colombet: Paintings from 2007 – 2018
– By Jonathan GoodmanCarnegie International, 57th Edition
– By Sabrina MandaniciFalse Flag: The Space Between Paranoia and Reason
– By Ann C. CollinsTau Lewis: I bet this cave has been here for a really long time
– By Magdalyn AsimakisMECA Art Fair, Old San Juan
– By Katy Diamond HamerPeter Williams: River of Styx
– By Daniel GerwinHélio Oiticica: Spatial Relief and Drawings 1955 - 59
– By Alfred Mac AdamMark Grotjahn: New Capri, Capri, Free Capri
– By David RhodesA Wild Ass Beyond: ApocalypseRN
– By Alex A. JonesSpine
– By Megan N. Liberty
1×1
The Listeners
– By Ernesto Pujol
Books
AIMEE NEZHUKUMATATHIL with Alex Dueben
ITALIAN LOCAL FLAVOR: ANDREW COTTO with Anne Tammel
LEE MARTIN with Nicholas Rys
Daniel Gumbiner’s The Boatbuilder
– By James FaccintoTHE MERE ARTICULATION OF SIGNIFICANCE: Joy Enough: a Memoir, by Sarah McColl
– By J.C. HallmanOttessa Moshfegh’s My Year of Rest and Relaxation
– By Deena ElGenaidiMALCOLM MCNEILL with Edward S. Robinson
Chelsey Minnis's Baby, I Don’t Care
– By Logan Berry
Music
Vaccinated with a Phonograph Needle
– By David MenestresSmoke and Stars: YOB’s Our Raw Heart
– By John AmenMISSY MAZZOLI with Anthony Hawley
Outtakes
– By Steve DalachinskyDecember/January Listings
– By George Grella and Brad CohanThe Sound of Ambivalence: Exploded View at Rough Trade NYC
– By Dan Joseph
Dance
Editor's Note
– By Gillian JakabThe Deep Roots and Airborne Particulars of Judson Dance Theater
– By Mark Bloch‘The Work Is Never Done’ at MoMA: enacting and obscuring archives
– By Benedict NguyenI Love Judson
– By Trajal HarrellCORI OLINGHOUSE with Gillian Jakab
Game Plan: Lucinda Childs’s Early Works (1963 – 1978)
– By Madison Mainwaring
Film
Transcending Inheritance: On The Heiresses
– By Madeline WhittleFABRICE ARAGNO with Ethan Spigland
Expectations Upended: Doclisboa 2018
– By Matt TurnerERICKA BECKMAN with Shelby Shaw
– By Shelby ShawAn Undetermined History: On Wang Bing’s Dead Souls
– By Beatrice GrenierBreaking the Spell: Reykjavík International Film Festival 2018
– By Jordan CronkMICHAEL M. BILANDIC with Gina Telaroli
– By Gina Telaroli
Theater
Political Fairy Tales: The Russian and the Jew
– By Jess ChayesIN DIALOGUE: Toothy Divinity in Jessica Dickey’s The Convent
– By Anna Ziegler"I Shame You Because I Love You" and Other Songs: Slanty Eyed Mama’s Zombie Asian Moms
– By Elisabeth Ng
Fiction
The House Collapses
–What’s Good About The End
– By Naomi Feigelson ChaseNew York Cycle, a Diary
–Highlights from the Life of Raymond Roussel #10: Le Procédé
– By Tom MotleyinSerial: part four
The Mysteries of Paris–Pushcart Prize Nominations 2018
Poetry
Consciousness Self-Learns
– By Mei-mei Berssenbruggetwo
– By Gabriel Donfour
– By Hoa Nguyentwo
– By Andrew Levytwo
– By Farid Matukfour
– By Jerome SalaIf This Is Paradise Why Are We Still Driving
BRENDAN LORBER with Todd Colby
Art Books
Michalis Pichler's Publishing Manifestos
– By Megan N. LibertyChristopher Howard's The Jean Freeman Gallery Does Not Exist
– By Jennie WaldowPeggy Phelan and Richard Meyer’s Contact Warhol: Photography Without End
– By Karen ChernickMARK DERY with Thyrza Nichols Goodeve
Field Notes
“The Most Crucial Election of Our Lifetime?”—The 2018 US Midterm Elections
– By Charlie PostTHINKING ABOUT COMMUNISM:
Fundamental Principles of Communist Production and Distribution: A New Look at an Old Text *– By Charles ReeveHog Farms, Toxic Water, and Toxic Prisons
– By Keith "Malik" Washington[censored]