March 2019
Featuring interviews with Ellen Altfest, Hanne Tierney, Robert Grosvenor, and Wayne Thiebaud. Guest Critic: Kathleen Landy.
The “March 2019” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on March 7, 2019.
Critics Page
Welcome to the Feminist Institute’s Guest Critic Edition of the Brooklyn Rail
– By Kathleen LandyAlison Knowles with Carolee Schneemann
No footage? No problem! Eva Hesse: A Feature Documentary Crafted from Archives
– By Marcie BegleiterThe Feminist Institute
– By John CarvalhoMy History With History
– By Kashana CauleyLifting the Mask
– By Alexandra DeanHelène Aylon with Monika Fabijanska
Pussy Speak Out
– By Karen FinleyLiz Nielsen and Carolina Wheat-Nielsen with Jessamyn Fiore
Considering Mary Beth Edelson’s Some Living American Women Artists
– By Kat GriefenJudith Bernstein’s Archive
– By Jillian McManeminMy Women Mentors: Mentorship as Activism
– By Natalie FrankForbidden Archeology of the Divine Feminine
– By Otep ShamayaHelloBETTY
– By Alyson PalmerAmy Cutler: Using Magical Materiality as Feminist Critique
– By Kristen RacanielloClaudia Rankine with Julie Scelfo
The Oldest Woman in the Room: A Feminist Life Lesson from my Mother
– By Laurie Gwen ShapiroManaging the Archive
– By Sarah WatsonWomen’s Art Collectives: Framing the Future
– By Kathleen WentrackLisa Le Feuvre with Keith Wilson
Publisher's Message
Dear Friends and Readers,
– By Phong H. Bui
ArtSeen
BRIC Biennial: Volume III, “The Impossible Possible”
– By Nina WolpowLesley Vance
– By Alfred Mac AdamRicardo Brey: Doble Existencia / Double Existence
– By Jonathan GoodmanCharles LeDray: American Standard
– By Jason RosenfeldGabo Camnitzer and Lluís Alexandre Casanovas Blanco: Aesthetic Behavior; Developmental Sequences
– By Joseph LubitzLouise Lawler: She’s Here
– By Osman Can YerebakanRobert Duran: 1968 – 1970
– By David RhodesKeltie Ferris: RELIEF
– By Daniel GerwinRona Pondick: Works 2013 – 2018
– By Hearne PardeeWilmer Wilson IV: Slim… you don’t got the juice
– By Harry PhilbrickNicholas Galanin: The Value of Sharpness: When It Falls
– By Christopher GreenAdrift: Cao Yi, Li Qing, Yi Xin Tong, and Zhao Zhao
– By Tanner TafelskiThe Young and Evil
– By Osman Can YerebakanViva Ruiz: ProAbortion Shakira: A Thank God for Abortion Introspective
– By Simon WuSymbolism in Europe: Burne-Jones, Khnopff, Mucha, and Gauguin
– By Jason RosenfeldIn Search of the Cuenca Biennial
– By Evan MoffittMargrit Lewczuk: Angels
– By Alfred Mac AdamMatvey Levenstein
– By Jason RosenfeldDavid Weiss: Drawings
– By Hovey BrockNick Brandt: This Empty World
– By Daniel PatemanKevin Beasley: A view of a landscape
– By Sadie Rebecca StarnesJon Key: Violet: Mythologies and Other Truths
– By Danilo MachadoLuke Stettner: ri ve rr hy me sw it hb lo od
– By Avram C. AlpertDavid Byrd
– By Nicholas HeskesBanu Cennetoğlu
– By Ann C. CollinsCally Spooner: SWEAT SHAME ETC.
– By Kaegan SparksJacob Lawrence: The Life of Toussaint L’Ouverture
– By Amber Jamilla MusserDaniel Baird: murmur
– By Jared QuintonYukultji Napangati
– By Maureen Catbagan and Amber Jamilla MusserMargrit Lewczuk: Angels
– By Joan WaltemathLibita Clayton: Quantum Ghost
– By Michael EbyThe Deceptive Everyday
– By Tom McGlynn
1×1
Shigeko Kubota: River
– By Ida Pruitt
Books
Anselm Berrigan’s Something for Everybody
– By Tony LeuzziMarlon James's Black Leopard, Red Wolf
– By Yvonne C. GarrettLiminal Dispatches: Esmé Weijun Wang's The Collected Schizophrenias
– By Ashley P. TaylorRebecca Solnit's Call Them By Their True Names
– By Deena ElGenaidiEula Biss’s Notes from No Man’s Land
– By Aly TadrosStrange Objects & Sockdolagers
– By John DominiSTEVE POWELL with Jill Dearman
Beyond Metaphor: On Prose by Chris Campanioni & Elizabeth Powell
– By Kristina Marie DarlingTom Sleigh with Alex Dueben
Verdant Voices: The Women of Green Writers Press
– By Emma IrvingDebra Di Blasi with Joe Milazzo
Music
Kristina Esfandiari's Songs of Sorrow
– By John AmenElliott Sharp’s IrRational Music
– By George GrellaRobert Ashley's Improvement
– By Dan JosephOuttakes
– By Steve DalachinskyMarch Listings
– By George Grella and Brad Cohan
Dance
Up Space, Down Space: Moving Dancers of New York
– By MG LeeRehearsed Formulas: Momix and Loïe Fuller
– By George KanNew Leadership, and Work, at New York City Ballet
– By Susan YungNI’JA WHITSON with Dillon Heyck
Film
Surveying the Demos: Reviving Civic Dialogue in Astra Taylor's What is Democracy?
– By Esmé HogeveenThe Past Lingers On: Ash is Purest White
– By Zoe GreenwayCHRISTIAN PETZOLD with Anthony Hawley
In the Rotterdam of the Senses: International Film Festival Rotterdam 2019
– By Celluloid Liberation Front
Fiction
from Arabian Nights of 1934
– By Geoffrey O’BrienOn Cannibalism
–inSerial: part six
The Mysteries of Paris–New Routes in Fiction: NEEL PATEL with Alec Niedenthal
Poetry
Silence As Instrument Too
– By Sarah Passinosix
– By Betsy Faginfour
– By Donna de la Perrièrefour
– By Matthew Henriksenfour
– By Pamela SneedThe Birds of Marseilles
– By Steve Dalachinskyfrom Lost Horizon
– By Nathaniel Farrell
Art Books
Iris Müller–Westermann: Hilma af Klint: Notes and Methods
– By Madeline WeisburgLeslie Hewitt
– By Megan N. LibertyChris Kraus: Social Practices
– By Gretchen CoombsMary Jane Jacob: Dewey For Artists
– By Cara Jordan
Field Notes
Fairy Tales About Climate Change
– By José A. TapiaRepeating Israel
– By Oded NirSuffocation of the Young: A Report from Brooklyn on Schooling, Childhood and Mental Illness Today
– By Juan Chabrier