July/August 2019
Featuring interviews with Leonardo Drew, Howardena Pindell, Hito Steyerl, and Gerd Stern; choreographer Larissa Velez-Jackson; and playwright Amina Henry. Guest critic George Bisacca: “Unvarnished Truths”
The “July/August 2019” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on July 9, 2019.
Critics Page
Unvarnished Truths
– By George BisaccaBeneath the Surface
– By Keith ChristiansenHitting Singles
– By Jim CoddingtonBrokering Truths: The Inescapability of Subjectivity
– By Michael GallagherUse it, or lose it
– By Kate LewisArt, History, and Europe
– By Lisa RosenFact and Feeling
– By Larry KeithThe Leonardo Effect
– By Diane ModestiniEntwined: Artist's Voice and Conservator's Expertise
– By Carol Mancusi-UngaroDavid Novros
Publisher's Message
Dear Friends and Readers,
– By Phong H. Bui
ArtSeen
Painters of the East End
– By Mary Ann CawsOlga Balema: brain damage
– By Amelia FarleyGhost in the Ghost
– By Danni ShenNine Iranian Artists in London: THE SPARK IS YOU
– By Daniel PatemanDora Maar
– By Paulina ChohJanet Biggs: Overview Effect
– By Nicole Miller and Eleanor PaynterGhost in the Ghost
– By Emily SunLawrence Abu Hamdan: Earwitness Theatre
– By Joel KuennenTony Cox: Shadow Bathing
– By Cal McKeeverDoing What Comes Naturally: Seven Painters in Their Prime
– By Tom McGlynnHock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds: Surviving Active Shooter Custer
– By Alan GilbertThe 33rd Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Arts: Crack Up - Crack Down
– By Holly BushmanDowntown Painting
– By Jonathan GoodmanCurating Brexit
– By George KanGina Beavers: The Life I Deserve
– By Charlotte KentJoseph Elmer Yoakum
– By Alfred Mac AdamCrack Up - Crack Down
– By Osman Can Yerebakancart, horse, cart
– By Alfred Mac AdamNeo Rauch: Aus dem Boden (From The Floor)
– By Tom McGlynnNicolas Carone: What Matters
– By Phong H. BuiPainters Reply: Experimental Painting in the 1970s and Now
– By Phong H. BuiNothing Succeeds Like Excess: Camp at the Met
– By Mark DerySonya Clark: Monumental Cloth, The Flag We Should Know
– By Maureen Catbagan and Amber Jamilla MusserFelix Gonzalez-Torres: Untitled (1989)
– By Phillip GriffithTamara Gonzales: Bo Yancon
– By Dan CameronAbbas Akhavan: cast for a folly
– By Maddie KlettFiona Connor: Closed for installation, Fiona Connor, SculptureCenter, #4
– By Andreas PetrossiantsThe Hugo Boss Prize 2018: Simone Leigh, Loophole of Retreat
– By Ann C. CollinsHarmony Hammond: Material Witness, Five Decades of Art
– By Meredith MendelsohnJeff Wall
– By Graham W. BellThe Power of Intention: Reinventing the (Prayer) Wheel
– By Avram C. AlpertSimone Fattal: Works and Days
– By Valentina Di LisciaAnne Samat: Greatest Love
– By J CHannah Black and Juliana Huxtable: Penumbra
– By Charlene K. LauEmanation 2019
– By Joyce BeckensteinRenaldo Kuhler: Rocaterrania
– By William CorwinTim Zercie: Regenbogenscherben
– By William CorwinColored People Time: Quotidian Pasts
– By Devin MaloneHeather Dewey-Hagborg: At the Temperature of My Body
– By Joel KuennenJos de Gruyter and Harald Thys: Mondo Cane
– By Helena HaimesArshile Gorky 1904-1948
– By David CarrierGorky in Venice
– By David AnfamVenice Biennale
– By Jonathan FinebergI'm lost at the Biennale Arsenale and I can't find my parents
– By Oliver KatzFrankenthaler: History Returns to Venice
– By Joachim Pissarro and David Carrier
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Dorothea Rockburne's Visionary Installation at Dia:Beacon
– By Joan Waltemath
Books
TALK TALK
– By Greg CwikThe William H. Gass Reader
– By Jacob SingerRachel Cline’s The Question Authority
– By Anna SchwartzmanAmanda Goldblatt’ Hard Mouth
– By Deena ElGenaidiCaroline Hagood’s Personal as the Poetic Politic
– By Jill Di DonatoExiles of Eden
Joe Pan’s Operating Systems
– By J.C. HallmanTHOM SATTERLEE with Tony Leuzzi
Elvia Wilk’s Oval
– By Yvonne C. Garrett
Music
Hosono Haruomi
– By Sadie Rebecca StarnesAphex Twin
– By Martin LongleyMark Stryker: Jazz from Detroit
– By George GrellaOuttakes
– By Steve DalachinskyHighly Selective Listings
– By George Grella and Brad Cohan
Dance
Ratmansky’s Imprint on ABT
– By Susan YungLigia Lewis: Water Will (in Melody)
– By George KanLARISSA VELEZ-JACKSON with Mike Stinavage
Poses at the House of Metropolitan
– By Rennie McDougallDragon Spring Phoenix Rise
– By Nicole Loeffler-Gladstone
Film
Singing the Blues: Roberto Minervini's What You Gonna Do When the World's on Fire?
– By Beatrice LoayzaAbout Some Meaningful Events: African Cinema and 50 Years of FESPACO
– By Marius HrdyNo Release: Chantal Akerman's My Mother Laughs
– By Daniel WitkinIl Cinema Ritrovato: Forward into the Past
– By Celluloid Liberation FrontALFREDO SALAZAR-CARO with Joel Kuennen
The Long Morning: J. Hoberman’s Make My Day
– By Madeline WhittleCannes 2019: The Push and Pull between Genre and Auteurism
– By James LattimerTime is Luck: The 5th Annual Nitrate Picture Show
– By Gina Telaroli
Theater
Merril Mushroom's Bar Dykes: Conjuring '50s Lesbian Bar Culture
– By Kathleen WarnockSeeing the Machine in Miranda Haymon's In the Penal Colony
– By Jeremy O. Harris
Fiction
Black Gold
–Memories for Olga
–Imperfect Future
–My Body is (the) Marginalia; The Sun Drawn a Saw Across the Strings
– By Jennifer Bartlettfrom What Would Emma Goldman Do?
– By Cara BensonThe Road to Golgonooza
–inSerial: part ten
The Mysteries of Paris–Leaves of AstroTurf
– By Sam Ferri
Poetry
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– By Andrei Codrescuthree
– By Sophia Le Fragafrom PRISE
– By Broc Rossellthree
– By Claire Meuschkefive
– By Hamish BallantyneI was having a flashback.
– By Mónica de la Torre
Art Books
Mariana Valencia’s Album and Bouquet
– By Gillian Jakaben plein air: Ethnographies of the Digital
– By Brianna LeatherburyDecoding Dictatorial Statues
– By Cara JordanMeghann Riepenhoff's Littoral Drift and Ecotone
– By Megan N. Liberty
ArTonic
The Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation
– By Tom McGlynn
Field Notes
Expropriate Everything
– By Jacob BlumenfeldWe Can Defend Ourselves
– By Jacob BlumenfeldInvasive Architecture
– By Maurice MaultzAccentuate the Positive: YIMBY in the Service of Development
– By Rico CleffiThe Moral Economy in the Black Rural South
– By Curtis Price