The Brooklyn Rail

Table of Contents

Publisher's Message

• Dear Readers and Friends,

  – By Phong Bui

Editor's Message

• Performing Identities, Identifying Performance

  – By John Tain

Art

• WOLFGANG TILLMANS with Allie Biswas

• LUC TUYMANS with Jarrett Earnest

• THOMAS ROMA and LEO RUBINFIEN with Sara Christoph

• RASHAAD NEWSOME with Laila Pedro

• HARMONY HAMMOND with Phillip Griffith

• JONATHAN LASKER with Phong Bui

• ROBERT BORDO with Seth Cameron

• IN MEMORIAM BILL BERKSON (1939 – 2016) A Jolt and a Gem

  – By David Levi Strauss

• BILL BERKSON (1939 – 2016) Bill Berkson: Our Friends Will Pass Among You Silently

  – By Anne Waldman

• BILL BERKSON (1939 – 2016) “WE WERE DESIGNED FOR HEAVEN” Bill Berkson On Arcadia, Utopia, and Collaboration

  – By Jarrett Earnest

• BILL BERKSON (1939 – 2016) All Good Things Must Come to an End

  – By Robert Storr

ArtSeen

• The Folk Art Collection of Elie and Viola Nadelman

  – By Brandt Junceau

• Yoshiaki Mochizuki: Summer Solstice

  – By Taney Roniger

• The Language of Things

  – By Phillip Griffith

• Turner’s Whaling Pictures

  – By Jason Rosenfeld

• Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet, Films and Their Sites

  – By David Rhodes

• BUT A STORM IS BLOWING FROM PARADISE: Contemporary Art of the Middle East and North Africa

  – By Yasi Alipour

• NICOLE EISENMAN

  – By Stephen Truax

• AL HELD Brushstrokes: India Ink Drawings From 1960

  – By Phong Bui

• POPS STANDARD STUART DAVIS In Full Swing

  – By Tom McGlynn

• Finding the Major Arcana CARIN RILEY Linear Figurations

  – By William Corwin

• ALEX KATZ Drawings

  – By David Rhodes

• GERHARD RICHTER

  – By Hovey Brock

• Son: Signal of Authority

  – By Kang Kang

• (Not So) Still Life

  – By Kim Power

• Subterranean Sculptural Blues

  – By Samuel Feldblum

• PAUL MOGENSEN Painting

  – By Greg Lindquist

• Naomi Campbell: Bread and Circuses

  – By Jonathan Goodman

• MARTIN PURYEAR Big Bling

  – By Jason Rosenfeld

• Andy Warhol & Ai Weiwei

  – By David Carrier

• LEE KRASNER

  – By Darragh McNicholas

• Surface Conditions

  – By Nora Griffin

• SURREAL ENCOUNTERS: COLLECTING THE MARVELOUS Works from the Collections of Roland Penrose, Edward James, Gabrielle Keiller and Ulla and Heiner Pietzsch

  – By Mary Ann Caws

• N. DASH

  – By Phong Bui

Critics Page

• Against Identity

  – By Gerard & Kelly

• Skin of the Actor, Teeth of the Artist

  – By Asher Hartman

• Ligia Lewis

• Mark Aguhar

  – By Young Joon Kwak

• Things Left Behind: Black Screen 16:9

  – By Erin Christovale and Rafa Esparza

• The Woman Who Married a Bear

  – By Simone Forti

• Attention:

  – By Lucky Dragons

• Take My Hand and Let’s Get Out of This 4% Universe

  – By Laub and Jennifer Moon

Books

• JOHN DOMINI with Christina Milletti

  – By Christina Milletti

• Harlem to the Moon

  – By Jill Dearman

• To Boldly Go: ANN VANDERMEER & JEFF VANDERMEER With Nancy Hightower

  – By Nancy Hightower

• The Critics and the Chroniclers: Four Writers on Food in Our Times

  – By Alison Tate Lewis

• SARA BAUME with Torrey Crim

• Caring for the Underdog: JEROME CHARYN with Alex Dueben

• Canon Fodder

  – By Weston Cutter

• Nothing Embarrassing or Strange: Curating KGB Bar’s Writers’ Series

  – By David Winner

• The What is That

  – By Weston Cutter

• Status Update: MATTHEW VOLLMER Speaks with Joseph Salvatore

• Expanding the Possibilities of Story: AMBER SPARKS with John Madera

• BELINDA MCKEON with Torrey Crim

• The Writers' Writers: Bookmarked Series by Ig Publishing AARON BURCH, KIRBY GANN, CURTIS SMITH, and ROBERT LASNER with Joseph Salvatore

• GIRL ON FIRE (AND ICE) BLAIR BRAVERMAN with Leigh Kamping‑Carder

• Father Figures

  – By Joshua Alvarez

• Artistic Wanderings

  – By Gretchen Schmid

• SESQUIPEDALIAN ECCENTRICS DYLAN HICKS with Evan Lavender‑Smith

• The Unfinished World of the Short Story

  – By Darley Stewart

• The Barely-There Before or: Paradise Lost (& Found)

  – By Chris Campanioni

• BOOKS ARE NOT CHILDREN RUMAAN ALAM with Catherine LaSota

• The Fog Machine

  – By Jon Krampner

• Trove of Secrets

  – By Gillie Collins

Music

• Danay Suárez, Polvo de la Humedad

  – By Adolf Alzuphar

• Pneumatic Mnemonic: Pylon Live

  – By Daniel Gold

• Brooklyn Rail Highly Selective Music Events

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• MUSIC AS A VOLATILE ART FORM: Terry Allen Reissued

  – By Marshall Yarbrough

• Hearing With Your Eyes

  – By George Grella

• Jon Savage’s Very Good Year

  – By Jeff Tompkins

• Outtakes

  – By Steve Dalachinsky

Dance

• Now More Than Ever, We Need This Party

  – By Jaime Shearn Coan

• MARIE CHOUINARD with Stephanie Del Rosso

• Ratmansky’s Quiet Revolution

  – By Susan Yung

• MOVEMENT REALIZED Anna Sperber’s Prize

  – By Lori DeGolyer

Film

• LOUIS HENDERSON with Leo Goldsmith

• MIXED USE: Spectacle’s Trailers

  – By Mary Billyou

• IMAGES OF THE WORLD: At the Harun Farocki Institut

  – By Jesse Cumming

Theater

• The Art of Capturing the Ephemeral Maria Baranova’s performance photography

  – By Ivan Talijancic

• Lindsay Joy’s In the Event of My Death: New Plays Grown Down at The Farm Theater

  – By Addie Johnson Talbott

• The authenticity in getting Caught with Christopher Chen

  – By Matthew Paul Olmos

Fiction

• Excerpts from Nioque

  – by Francis Ponge, translated from the French by JD Larson | forthcoming from Red Dust, 2017

• Bartleby on Carmine Street

  – By Raphael Rubinstein

• Three

  – By Peter Wortsman

• The Crying Scout

  – By Debora Kuan

• Tragic Strip

  – By Tom Motley

Poetry

• Two

  – By Amy De'Ath

• Two

  – By Denver Butson

• ☐ descriptions that leave out

  – By Binswanger Friedman

• Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure

  – By Edmund Berrigan

• Two

  – By Shira Dentz

• Five

  – By Shanna Compton

Verbatim

• Helen Frankenthaler “Postcardisms”

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Art Books

• Jon-Michael Frank and Bianca Stone

  – By Megan N. Liberty

• RICHARD VINE with David Ebony

Field Notes

• Letter from the Netherlands: “We Refugees are Like Chemical Waste”

  – By Nick Vos

• From Welcome to Farewell: Germany, the refugee crisis and the global surplus proletariat

  – By Felix Baum

• White, Rural, and Poor: On the Politics of Non-Identity

  – By Adam Theron-Lee Rensch

• After Being Up All Night, We Wake up with a Political Strike1

  – by Charles Reeve, translated from the French by Janet Koenig