May 2019
Featuring interviews with Marina Adams, Jane Benson, Josh Smith, and De Wain Valentine. Guest Critic Barry Schwabsky “Fictions Of Art.”
The “May 2019” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on April 30, 2019.
Critics Page
Fictions Of Art
– By Barry SchwabskyPicture a Picture of a Bed
– By Edwin FrankPaula Rego and Balzac: A Footnote
– By Anthony RudolfThe Cursed Painter
– By Jean FrémonOscar Wilde's Basil Hallward
– By Tosh BermanA War on the World of Surfaces
– By Ann ReynoldsElstir's Harbor at Carquethuit
– By David CarrierA Hunger Artist
– By Betsy KaufmanVirginia Woolf's Paragone
– By Jonathan GilmoreArt World Doggerel
– By John YauThe Museum Frozen In Amber
– By Seph RodneyA Chance Encounter
– By Rhona BitnerThe Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting
– By Dalia NeisNalo Hopkinson's Message in a Bottle
– By Steven Shaviro
ArtSeen
Tim Rollins and K.O.S.: Workshop
– By Hovey BrockLawrence Lek: AIDOL 爱道
– By Michael EbyChando Ao, Sam Ghantous, David OReilly, and Bjorn Sparrman
– By Danni ShenMoira Dryer: Paintings & Works on Paper
– By David RhodesLouis Fratino: Come Softly to Me
– By W TaoJohn Sonsini
– By Dan CameronWalid Raad
– By Elleree ErdosSharon Horvath: Gaze at Your Own Risk
– By Jeremy SiglerPaul Anthony Smith: Junction
– By Dan CameronLeeroy New: Aliens of Manila
– By Osman Can YerebakanSuzanne Anker & Frank Gillette: Strata
– By Taney RonigerThe Drowned World
– By Nicole MillerHaegue Yang: Tracing Movement
– By Michael EbyAdolph Gottlieb: Classic Paintings
– By David RhodesOverture
– By Joseph LubitzANOHNI: LOVE
– By Simon WuNathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg: Delights of an Undirected Mind
– By Alex A. JonesTattfoo Tan: Heal the Man in Order to Heal the Land
– By Kristen RacanielloMonumental Journey: The Daguerreotypes of Girault de Prangey
– By Louis BlockJessi Reaves: II
– By Eliza BarryIn Celebration
– By Joyce BeckensteinThe Symbolist Vision
– By Mary Ann CawsRadicalism in the Wilderness: Japanese Artists in the Global 1960s
– By Benjamin CliffordBarthélemy Toguo: Urban Requiem
– By Ann C. CollinsGretchen Bender: So Much Deathless
– By Dan CameronJoan Miró: Birth of the World
– By Jessica HolmesEric N. Mack: Lemme walk across the room
– By Sophie KovelLeonard Cohen: A Crack in Everything
– By Steven PestanaOdette England: The Outskirts, Exposed, and Punched
– By tamara suarez porrasMichelle Handelman: LOVER HATER CUNTY INTELLECTUAL
– By Alex A. JonesN. Dash
– By Steven PestanaSheer Presence: Monumental Paintings by Robert Motherwell
– By Robert C. MorganNew York-Centric
– By William CorwinWarhol Women
– By Robert C. MorganZoe Avery Nelson: The Measure of a Boi
– By William Corwin
1×1
Jorge Méndez Blake: Amerika
– By Colin Edgington
Books
Then I Put In My False Heart: SARAH ROSE ETTER in conversation with Andrew Ervin
– By Andrew ErvinLiving on the Borderlines: Stories, by Melissa Michal and Sabrina & Corina: Stories, by Kali Fajardo-Anstine
– By Yvonne C. GarrettWhat My Mother And I Don’t Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break The Silence
– By Elizabeth BlockMy Roots Were Somewhere With You
– By Shohreh LaiciMy Struggle: Book Six by Karl Ove Knausgaard
– By Nathan KnappThe Girls in My Town By Angela Morales
– By Erin CardenThe Aesthetics of Silence: New Books by Ilya Kaminsky & Donna Stonecipher
– By Kristina Marie DarlingThe Fat Kid by Jamie Iredell
– By Hugh Sheehy
Music
Pay the Artist
– By George GrellaHey Internet DJ
– By Greta RainbowKinesiology of the Viola
– By Eli ZegerOuttakes
– By Steve DalachinskyMay Listings
– By George Grella and Brad CohanJon Savage: This Searing Light, The Sun And Everything Else
– By Dan Joseph
Dance
Take Off From the Earth, Then Go To The Moon
– By Erica GettoAmendments, New Waves, and Updates
– By Gillian JakabLauren Bakst’s More Problems with Form
– By Rennie McDougallKyle Abraham’s Live! The Realest MC
– By Susan YungChoreographing "Lines of Flight"
– By George Kan
Film
Change as Real as New York Schist: “This Used to Be New York” at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival
– By Williams ColeThe Craftsman
– By Giovanni Marchini CamiaOtro Mundo: The Wandering Soap Opera
– By Violet LuccaAn Antidote for These Trying Times: Diamantino
– By Kristen Yoonsoo KimThere are no rules!: Restored and Revisited Avante–garde Films from the Netherlands
– By Marius HrdyLosing Control of the Nightclub: Everybody in the Place
– By Matt Turner
Fiction
From The New York Jail
–From My Friends
–Tragic Strip
– By Tom MotleyinSerial: part eight
The Mysteries of Paris–
Poetry
Anemone
– By Norma ColeGrand Army Plaza
– By James Loopfive from Cosmic Bottom
– By Lucas de Limathree
– By Catherine Wagnerfour
– By Kate Colbyfour
– By John Williams Narins%NSFW
– By Joshua Escobardandy aisle
– By Mike Lala
Art Books
Anna Ostoya's and Ben Lerner's The Polish Rider
– By Taylor DafoeR. Crumb's Dream Diary
– By Lily MajtelesSaul Fletcher, Essays by Ralph Rugoff and Kirsty Bell
– By Nick BennettOlivier Schrauwen's Parallel Lives
– By Bill Kartalopoulos
Field Notes
Frontera/Frontier: Chaos at the US-Mexico Border
– By Marisela BarreraAlgeria: A Historic and Ambivalent Movement
–Why 3508 Economists Are Probably Wrong
– By José A. TapiaFreaky Realism: Michael Taussig's Palma Africana
– By McKenzie Wark