The Brooklyn Rail

Table of Contents

Editor's Message

• New Worlds

  – By Allison Glenn

Publisher's Message

• Dear Friends and Readers

  – By Phong Bui

Art

• Fred Eversley with Allie Biswas

• Mark Bradford with Katy Siegel

• Gabriel Orozco with Hearne Pardee

• Lawrence Abu Hamdan with Will Fenstermaker

• Janne Sirén with Joachim Pissarro & Jennifer Stockman

• Reflections on Philip Guston Now

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ArtSeen

• Isaac Julien: What Freedom Is To Me

  – By William Corwin

• Alison Elizabeth Taylor

  – By Jason Rosenfeld

• Ethan Ryman: New Work

  – By Tom McGlynn

• Henry Gunderson: House Painting and Various Odd Jobs

  – By Nicholas Heskes

• Anne Hicks Siberell: Concrete Journals

  – By Megan N. Liberty

• Jennifer Bolande: Persistence of Vision

  – By Tim Maul

• Chakaia Booker: Public Opinion

  – By Alfred Mac Adam

• Jim Dine: Three Ships

  – By Alex Grimley

• Courtney Childress: Fuzzy Logic

  – By Elizabeth Buhe

• Thornton Dial: Handwriting on the Wall

  – By Jane McFadden

• Bob Thompson

  – By Katherine Siboni

• Chosen Memories: Contemporary Latin American Art from the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Gift and Beyond

  – By Clara Maria Apostolatos

• Tessa Boffin: 1989—1993

  – By Olivia McCall

• Sarah Sze: Timelapse

  – By Alfred Mac Adam

• Michael Ross: Time Repair

  – By Rodrigo Quintero

• Hito Steyerl: Contemporary Cave Art

  – By Matthew Biro

• Giovanni Bellini: Influences croisées

  – By Joyce Beckenstein

• Emmanuel Louisnord Desir: Ashes of Zion

  – By Andrew Paul Woolbright

• Leon Xu: Empty Orchestra

  – By Hindley Wang

• Talia Levitt: Schmatta

  – By Jason Rosenfeld

• List Projects 26: Alison Nguyen

  – By Tuong Linh Do

• Stephen Deffet: Shadow Heir

  – By Joanna Seifter

• Harmony Hammond: Accumulations

  – By Ksenia Soboleva

• Tom McGlynn: What Gives

  – By Louis Block

• John Walker: New Work

  – By Amy Rahn

• Controlled Burnings: Hiller, Latham, Schneemann

  – By Norman L Kleeblatt

• Samuel Ross: COARSE

  – By Joel Danilewitz

• Kim Young Won

  – By Robert C. Morgan

• Clare Grill: At the Soft Stages

  – By Elizabeth Buhe

• Matthew Day Jackson: Against Nature

  – By Andrew Paul Woolbright

• Picasso Sculptor. Matter and Body

  – By Phong Bui

• Andy Warhol: Thirty Are Better Than One

  – By David Ebony

• Fred Eversley: Cylindrical Lenses

  – By Amanda Gluibizzi

• Carey Young: Appearance

  – By Toby Kamps

• Peter Halley: Paintings and Drawings, 1980–81

  – By David Whelan

• On-Site: Major Paintings by Rackstraw Downes & Stanley Lewis

  – By Alfred Mac Adam

• Karin Davie: “To Boldly Go Where No Man’s Gone Before”

  – By Alfred Mac Adam

• Chrysanne Stathacos: The Re-turn

  – By Ann McCoy

• Kehinde Wiley: HAVANA

  – By Charles Moore

• Chryssa: Chryssa & New York

  – By David Charles Shuford

• Dread Scott: Goddam

  – By Ann C. Collins

• Frank Stella: From the Studio

  – By David Carrier

• Alexis Rockman: Melancolia

  – By Jonathan Goodman

• Mark di Suvero: Steel Like Paper

  – By Jessica Holmes

• David Henderson: Disturbances

  – By Elizabeth Johnson

• Kay Sage and Yves Tanguy: Ring of Iron, Ring of Wool

  – By Megan Kincaid

• Josh Kline: Project for a New American Century

  – By Saul Ostrow

• Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty

  – By Ruby Redstone

• Tim Brawner: Glad Tidings

  – By Andrew Paul Woolbright

• RF. Alvarez: Eros

  – By Annabel Keenan

1x1

• Kit Schluter on Joe Brainard

Critics Page

• Getting It Wrong

  – By César García-Alvarez

• An Immeasurable Melody

  – By Nirbhai Singh Sidhu

• Dear Allison,

  – By eunice bélidor

• An Act of Futuring

  – By James McAnally

• Is our obsession with money a curse to humanity?

  – By Phyllis Hollis

• You can’t raise money in an environment of control

  – By Melissa Cowley Wolf

• The Business of Art is the Business of People

  – By Lise K. Ragbir and Julia V Hendrickson

Books

• J.C. Hallman with Lydia Moland

• Domenico Starnone’s The House on Via Gemito

  – By John Domini

• Lorrie Moore’s I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home

  – By Yvonne C. Garrett

• Emma Cline’s The Guest

  – By Madeleine Crum

• Giada Scodellaro with Julia Brown

• Brandon Taylor’s The Late Americans

  – By Henry Hicks IV

• Tembe Denton-Hurst with Naomi Elias

• Greg Marshall’s Leg: The Story of a Limb and the Boy Who Grew from It

  – By Sara Polsky

• Henry Hoke’s Open Throat

  – By Meg Whiteford

• Mark Wish and Elizabeth Coffey with D.Z. Stone

• Dorothy Tse’s Owlish

  – By Andrew Ervin

• Sophia Giovannitti’s Working Girl: On Selling Art and Selling Sex

  – By Cassie Packard

• Helen Schulman with Alexandra Kleeman

• Donatien Grau’s De Civitate Angelorum

  – By Jeffrey Spier

• Stephanie McCarter with Tony Leuzzi

• Adam Shatz with Pac Pobric

• Lauren Rankin’s Bodies on the Line

  – By Yvonne C. Garrett

Music

• Henry Threadgill and Brent Hayes Edwards’s Easily Slip Into Another World: A Life in Music

  – By George Grella

• Castrator with Andrey Henkin

• BRDCST

  – By Martin Longley

• Just Folk

  – By Scott Gutterman

Dance

• Voicing Together

  – By Hallie Chametzky

• Chris Masters and Eva Yaa Asantewaa with Karen Hildebrand

• I was sitting in my seat when I saw a sensation

  – By Amit Noy

• Intimacy from a Distance

  – By Susan Yung

• Sydnie Mosley with Siobhan Burke

Film

• Youssef Chebbi’s Ashkal

  – By Farah Abdessamad

• Amanda Kim’s Nam June Paik: Moon is the Oldest TV

  – By Maya Han

• Cristian Mungiu’s R.M.N.

  – By Nolan Kelly

• “Anna” in Literature and Film

  – By Ana Vidal

• Ari Aster’s Beau Is Afraid

  – By Payton McCarty-Simas

• Giacomo Abbruzzese’s Disco Boy

  – By Anthony Hawley

Theater

• dots is Everywhere: Meet the Design Triumvirate Devising a New Model

  – By Joey Sims

• Brittain Ashford with Charles Quittner

• Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s The Comeuppance Goes Where Only Fools Dare: The High School Reunion

  – By Paul David Young

• At Paper Mill, Rent Honors a Lost Generation and City

  – By Billy McEntee

• Check into Grief Hotel: Wading through Woe with Liza Birkenmeier’s Latest

  – By Billy McEntee

Fiction

• Notifications

  – By Lincoln Michel

• from The God of Good Looks

  – By Breanne Mc Ivor

Poetry

• ARTUR SCHNABEL AND JOSEPH SZIGETI PLAY MOZART AT THE FRICK COLLECTION (APRIL 4, 1948)

  – By Lloyd Schwartz

• three

  – By Ariel Yelen

• six

  – By Will Stanier

• Alphabet as letters

  – By Rachel Blau DuPlessis

• The Rate At Which

  – By Jaylen Strong

• Trans Genital Mutilation or SRS in Five Easy Steps

  – By Dahlia Damoiselle

• five

  – By Álvaro de Campos/Fernando Pessoa, translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa and Patricio Ferrari

• Dale Herd’s Dreamland Court

  – By Dale Martin Smith

• Interdiasporic Frequencies: Divya Victor & Ariel Resnikoff

Art Books

• Claire Dederer’s Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma

  – By Cynthia Payne

• Helen Cammock’s I Will Keep My Soul

  – By Briana Ellis-Gibbs

• Lucy Lippard’s I See / You Mean

  – By Rhiannon Vogl

• Steve Lawrence’s Newspaper

  – By Noa Wesley

• Hidden in Plain Sight: Selected Writings of Karin Higa

  – By Yuki Higashino

• Susanna Heller’s Beyond Pain, The Last Drawings

  – By Mira Schor

In Memoriam

• Bernice Berend Rose

  – By Eileen Costello

ArTonic

• Artist as Thinker: The Camargo Foundation

  – By Amanda Millet-Sorsa

Field Notes

• The Angel and the Mole: On the Struggle for the Atlanta Forest

  – By Darien Acero

• Deeds and Propaganda

  – By Jasper Bernes

• The New ‘Old’ Unionism: The Strike Campaign at Rutgers University

  – By Gary Roth

• Nudging toward Bethlehem

  – By Akshay Pendyal