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Art

Roberta Smith with Jarrett Earnest
YOAN CAPOTE with Laila Pedro
THE HELD ESSAYS ON VISUAL ART On Georgia O’Keeffe, In and Out of Sight
By Gaby Collins-Fernandez
Katharina Grosse with Phong Bui
Douglas Gordon with William Corwin
TAMARA GONZALES with Raymond Foye and Peter Lamborn Wilson
Dore Ashton in East Hampton, 2012
By Jarrett Earnest

ArtSeen

Wangechi Mutu Ndoro Na Miti
By Ilka Scobie
Lynn Hershman Leeson Remote Controls
By Lara Atallah
Perpetual Revolution: The Image and Social Change
By Alexandra Juhasz
Gut Feeling
By Erin Sweeny
Marisa Merz The Sky Is a Great Space
By Tom McGlynn
Johan Grimonprez | blue orchids |
By Sara Christoph
Raymond Pettibon A Pen of All Work
By Terence Trouillot
Meditations on Time: Tacita Dean in Mexico City
By Lucía Hinojosa
Paul Mpagi Sepuya Figures, Grounds and Studies
By Phillip Griffith
Fast Forward: Painting From the 1980s
By Jason Rosenfeld
Jackson Mac Low Lines‑Letters‑Words
By Rabia Ashfaque
One And One Is Four: The Bauhaus Photocollages of Josef Albers
By Tim Barry
Jack Whitten
By David Rhodes
EJ HAUSER Me + You
By Phong Bui
A.K. BURNS Shabby but Thriving
By Connor Hamm
AGNIESZKA POLSKA Little Planet
By Anthony Hawley
Morgan O'Hara Live Transmissions
By Joan Grubin
RYAN MCGINLEY Early
By Timothy Francis Barry
Robert Mangold: A Survey, 1965 – 2003
By David Carrier
JOANNA MALINOWSKA Not a Metaphorical Forest
By Parker Henry

Critics Page

Art as Fashion, Fashion as Art
Guest Critic: Alexandra Schwartz
Is Fashion Art?
By Valerie Steele
The Museum of Modern Art’s Items: Is Fashion Modern?
By Paola Antonelli and Michelle Millar Fisher
A Dream of Identity
By Rhonda Garelick
Renaissance Fashion, Renaissance Bodies
By Timothy McCall
Fashionable Distractions
By Marika Takanishi Knowles
Art into Life—and Back Again
By Juliet Bellow
The African Roots of Modern Fashion
By Camara Dia Holloway
Texts That Are Knit To Be Worn On Me
By Lisa Anne Auerbach
Sympathetic Magic
By Mark Newport
Fantastical New Bodies
By Saya Woolfalk

Books

Adventures in Self-Voyeurism
By William Lessard
Same as I Ever Was Susan Perabo with Weston Cutter
On “Gay Conversion” Therapy
By Amy Deneson
Touring Trump Country in a Clown Car
By John Domini
Left Lying
By Weston Cutter
Ghost Story
By Weston Cutter

Music

Brooklyn Rail Highly Selective Music Events
Synchronize/Resonance/Blend Vishwa Mohan Bhatt with Neha Kirpal
Various Artists: Desconstrução
By Adolf Alzuphar
Synth Pop Politics: Austra at Warsaw
By Dan Joseph
What I Learn From... Christian Wolff
By Craig Shepard
MAKE YOUR POINTE Dots Will Echo’s Nick Berry Sings Like a Girl EP
By Mik Pointe
Outtakes
By Steve Dalachinsky

Dance

Justin Peck’s New Language
By Susan Yung
Strange Love at RadioLoveFest: Three Acts, Two Dancers, One Radio Host
By Nicole Loeffler-Gladstone
Mr. Gaga’s (not quite) Last Work
By Ivan Talijancic
A Bicycle is Loved and Lost, Orgasm Found
By Michael Parmelee and Mike Stinavage

Film

Without End: Val del Omar at Anthology Film Archives
By Almudena Escobar López
The Maps of The Settlers
By Michela Moscufo
Even The Dead Will Not Be Safe: Part II of III
By Madison Brookshire
Mixed Use: E.S.P. TV’s Unit 11
By Mary Billyou
Inside the Pleasure Palace
By Brett Kashmere
Two Contentious New Waves: “Oshima x Godard” at BAM
By Julia Alekseyeva

Theater

Room for the Bigger Thing: ELLEN MADDOW and PAUL ZIMET with Lizzie Olesker
Agents of Change: Meghan Finn and Julia May Jonas Take Back the Michigan Murders
By Andi Stover
The International Human Rights Arts Festival at Dixon Place
By Pirronne Yousefzadeh

Fiction

Baby of the Family: Love Lost, But Not Forgotten
By Douglas Scott Mickey
ESSAY The Erotics of Restraint, or the Angel in the Novel: A Note on Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park
By Douglas Glover
inSerial: part six Delusions of Being Observed
By Lewis Warsh
LOST AND FOUND ANIMALS a misplaced bestiary Part 6: The Responsible Echo Birds (Echoicoicae Mimimiata)
By Sid Gershgoren
two extracts from Nights as Day, Days as Night
by Michel Leiris, translated from the French by Richard Sieburth. Out now from Spurl Editions.
Tragic Strip
By Tom Motley

Poetry

Rachel Levitsky with Ana Paula
Two
By Sahar Muradi
Four
By Dustin Williamson
from There Have Been Some Days I Didn't Know Your Name
By Amanda Nadelberg
New Year’s Eve & Day in the Anthropocene
By Craig Santos Perez
Five
By Sommer Browning
Two
By Marcella Durand
Seven
By Arlo Quint
Released From Within the Turned Up Cultures
By Leonard Schwartz
Two
By Connie Mae Oliver
Four
By Craig Morgan Teicher
Seven
By Vincent Katz

Verbatim

The Baroness Elsa: AFFECTIONATE

Art Books

Manifestly Haraway
By Chloe Wyma
The Apparently Marginal Activities of Marcel Duchamp
By James Miller
YVE-ALAIN BOIS with Alex Bacon
Melissa Rachleff, Inventing Downtown: Artist-Run Galleries in New York City, 1952 – 1965
By Wendy Vigroux

Field Notes

India: Demonetization Indian-Style and What It Says About All Our Futures
By Serge Quadruppani
Nowhere to Go: Automation, Then and Now
By Jason E. Smith
Harvard’s Graduate Students Union Versus the Trappings of Success
By Samuel Feldblum
Culture from Horror: On Teaching the Mexican Drug Wars
By Douglas Unger

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MAR 2017

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Tom Motley

Tom Motley is a cartoonist, illustrator, and educator. His publications include Tragic Strip (a monthly strip in the Brooklyn Rail), The Golden Ass, The One Marvelous Thing, and contributions to the indie anthology Cartozia Tales. He teaches cartooning at the School of Visual Arts and illustration at Pratt.

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Find the RAIL in print

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Art

Roberta Smith with Jarrett Earnest
YOAN CAPOTE with Laila Pedro
THE HELD ESSAYS ON VISUAL ART On Georgia O’Keeffe, In and Out of Sight
By Gaby Collins-Fernandez
Katharina Grosse with Phong Bui
Douglas Gordon with William Corwin
TAMARA GONZALES with Raymond Foye and Peter Lamborn Wilson
Dore Ashton in East Hampton, 2012
By Jarrett Earnest

ArtSeen

Wangechi Mutu Ndoro Na Miti
By Ilka Scobie
Lynn Hershman Leeson Remote Controls
By Lara Atallah
Perpetual Revolution: The Image and Social Change
By Alexandra Juhasz
Gut Feeling
By Erin Sweeny
Marisa Merz The Sky Is a Great Space
By Tom McGlynn
Johan Grimonprez | blue orchids |
By Sara Christoph
Raymond Pettibon A Pen of All Work
By Terence Trouillot
Meditations on Time: Tacita Dean in Mexico City
By Lucía Hinojosa
Paul Mpagi Sepuya Figures, Grounds and Studies
By Phillip Griffith
Fast Forward: Painting From the 1980s
By Jason Rosenfeld
Jackson Mac Low Lines‑Letters‑Words
By Rabia Ashfaque
One And One Is Four: The Bauhaus Photocollages of Josef Albers
By Tim Barry
Jack Whitten
By David Rhodes
EJ HAUSER Me + You
By Phong Bui
A.K. BURNS Shabby but Thriving
By Connor Hamm
AGNIESZKA POLSKA Little Planet
By Anthony Hawley
Morgan O'Hara Live Transmissions
By Joan Grubin
RYAN MCGINLEY Early
By Timothy Francis Barry
Robert Mangold: A Survey, 1965 – 2003
By David Carrier
JOANNA MALINOWSKA Not a Metaphorical Forest
By Parker Henry

Critics Page

Art as Fashion, Fashion as Art
Guest Critic: Alexandra Schwartz
Is Fashion Art?
By Valerie Steele
The Museum of Modern Art’s Items: Is Fashion Modern?
By Paola Antonelli and Michelle Millar Fisher
A Dream of Identity
By Rhonda Garelick
Renaissance Fashion, Renaissance Bodies
By Timothy McCall
Fashionable Distractions
By Marika Takanishi Knowles
Art into Life—and Back Again
By Juliet Bellow
The African Roots of Modern Fashion
By Camara Dia Holloway
Texts That Are Knit To Be Worn On Me
By Lisa Anne Auerbach
Sympathetic Magic
By Mark Newport
Fantastical New Bodies
By Saya Woolfalk

Books

Adventures in Self-Voyeurism
By William Lessard
Same as I Ever Was Susan Perabo with Weston Cutter
On “Gay Conversion” Therapy
By Amy Deneson
Touring Trump Country in a Clown Car
By John Domini
Left Lying
By Weston Cutter
Ghost Story
By Weston Cutter

Music

Brooklyn Rail Highly Selective Music Events
Synchronize/Resonance/Blend Vishwa Mohan Bhatt with Neha Kirpal
Various Artists: Desconstrução
By Adolf Alzuphar
Synth Pop Politics: Austra at Warsaw
By Dan Joseph
What I Learn From... Christian Wolff
By Craig Shepard
MAKE YOUR POINTE Dots Will Echo’s Nick Berry Sings Like a Girl EP
By Mik Pointe
Outtakes
By Steve Dalachinsky

Dance

Justin Peck’s New Language
By Susan Yung
Strange Love at RadioLoveFest: Three Acts, Two Dancers, One Radio Host
By Nicole Loeffler-Gladstone
Mr. Gaga’s (not quite) Last Work
By Ivan Talijancic
A Bicycle is Loved and Lost, Orgasm Found
By Michael Parmelee and Mike Stinavage

Film

Without End: Val del Omar at Anthology Film Archives
By Almudena Escobar López
The Maps of The Settlers
By Michela Moscufo
Even The Dead Will Not Be Safe: Part II of III
By Madison Brookshire
Mixed Use: E.S.P. TV’s Unit 11
By Mary Billyou
Inside the Pleasure Palace
By Brett Kashmere
Two Contentious New Waves: “Oshima x Godard” at BAM
By Julia Alekseyeva

Theater

Room for the Bigger Thing: ELLEN MADDOW and PAUL ZIMET with Lizzie Olesker
Agents of Change: Meghan Finn and Julia May Jonas Take Back the Michigan Murders
By Andi Stover
The International Human Rights Arts Festival at Dixon Place
By Pirronne Yousefzadeh

Fiction

Baby of the Family: Love Lost, But Not Forgotten
By Douglas Scott Mickey
ESSAY The Erotics of Restraint, or the Angel in the Novel: A Note on Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park
By Douglas Glover
inSerial: part six Delusions of Being Observed
By Lewis Warsh
LOST AND FOUND ANIMALS a misplaced bestiary Part 6: The Responsible Echo Birds (Echoicoicae Mimimiata)
By Sid Gershgoren
two extracts from Nights as Day, Days as Night
by Michel Leiris, translated from the French by Richard Sieburth. Out now from Spurl Editions.
Tragic Strip
By Tom Motley

Poetry

Rachel Levitsky with Ana Paula
Two
By Sahar Muradi
Four
By Dustin Williamson
from There Have Been Some Days I Didn't Know Your Name
By Amanda Nadelberg
New Year’s Eve & Day in the Anthropocene
By Craig Santos Perez
Five
By Sommer Browning
Two
By Marcella Durand
Seven
By Arlo Quint
Released From Within the Turned Up Cultures
By Leonard Schwartz
Two
By Connie Mae Oliver
Four
By Craig Morgan Teicher
Seven
By Vincent Katz

Verbatim

The Baroness Elsa: AFFECTIONATE

Art Books

Manifestly Haraway
By Chloe Wyma
The Apparently Marginal Activities of Marcel Duchamp
By James Miller
YVE-ALAIN BOIS with Alex Bacon
Melissa Rachleff, Inventing Downtown: Artist-Run Galleries in New York City, 1952 – 1965
By Wendy Vigroux

Field Notes

India: Demonetization Indian-Style and What It Says About All Our Futures
By Serge Quadruppani
Nowhere to Go: Automation, Then and Now
By Jason E. Smith
Harvard’s Graduate Students Union Versus the Trappings of Success
By Samuel Feldblum
Culture from Horror: On Teaching the Mexican Drug Wars
By Douglas Unger

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