DEC 15-JAN 16 – The Brooklyn Rail

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Editor's Message

David Salle

Publisher's Message

Dear Friends and Readers,
– By Phong Bui

Art

ArtSeen

CAMILLE HENROT
– By Thyrza Nichols Goodeve
ALINA SZAPOCZNIKOW
– By Alexandra Fowle
Power of Pictures: Early Soviet Photography, Early Soviet Film
– By Yasi Alipour
Alberto Burri, The Trauma of Painting
– By Anna Tome
Show Me Something New
– By Holly Gavin
Rico Gatson and Chris Larson
– By Sheila Dickinson
Ford Crull, New Paintings
– By Jonathan Goodman
THE WORLDS OF MC ESCHER Nature, Science, and Imagination
– By Samuel Feldblum
THE CLAMOR OF REASON Frank Stella: A Retrospective
– By Tom McGlynn
ANGEL OTERO New Paintings
– By Jessica Holmes
Berlin Metropolis: 1918 –1933
– By Virginia McBride
Picasso Sculpture
– By Hovey Brock
DAVID HOCKNEY Early Drawings
– By Margaret Graham
THE DIVIDED CITY STADT/BILD
– By Michelle Standley
WALID RAAD and ANDREA GEYER
– By Phillip Griffith
ALEXIS SMITH History in the Making
– By Darragh McNicholas
THE SURREALIST IMPULSE CORINNE WASMUHT Alnitak
– By William Corwin
JOHN LEES
– By Ed Breslin
ROBIN WINTERS Free Standing Sentence
– By Alexandra Hammond
GIORGIO MORANDI
– By Phong Bui
GIOTTO L’Italia
– By David Rhodes
MARTIN WONG Human Instamatic
– By Ingrid Dudek
HIBA SCHABAZ Hanged with Roses
– By Jonathan Goodman
ECHO AT THE MARGINS MAPPLETHORPE + 25
– By Kara L. Rooney
Where is Surrealism Now?
– By Mary Ann Caws
Bodies and Cities in Greater New York
– By Sarah Goffstein
School Daze
– By Taney Roniger
Dream Screens
– By Clarity Haynes
MARY BETH EDELSON My Favorite and Most Disturbing
– By Ann McCoy
Greater New York 2015 Edition
– By Tom McGlynn
EDUARDO CHILLIDA
– By Phong Bui
DONALD JUDD
– By Phong Bui
JAMES HYDE: Ground
– By Hearne Pardee

Critics Page

Books

A Social Ecology
– By Jack Finnegan
This Will Do
– By Artie Niederhoffer
Seeking Grace
– By Ashley P. Taylor
Unholy Love
– By David Winters
WINTER’S PICKS Books on The Craft of Writing
– By Catherine LaSota
THE TALENTED MS. BRAVURA JILL DEARMAN with Robert Polito
TO SHATTER AND CREATE MATTHEW KRESSEL with Valya Dudycz Lupescu
The Global and the Local
– By Tony Leuzzi
On the Road
– By Katie Rogin
No House to Call My Home: Love, Family, and Other Transgressions RYAN BERG with Melissa Febos
Speculative Compilation
– By Brendan Garrison
Quite Close To Murder
– By David Winner
Revisiting Plato PAUL CHAN with Diego Gerard
AMY KOPPELMAN with Lux Sommers
Don’t Ever Change
– By J.T. Price
Dogs As I See Them
– By J.T. Price
New York Stories
– By John Domini
Who's Your Daddy? SORAYA SHALFOROOSH with Michael Montlack
A Micro-study of Micro-fiction
– By Darley Stewart
A New Nation Where Words Line Up
– By Davy Knittle
The Odd Woman and the City
– By Christen Clifford
Building Ships Out of Matchsticks
– By Yvonne C. Garrett
TROUBLEMAKER: MATTHEW VOLLMER with Rob Kenagy

Music

Brooklyn Rail Highly Selective Music Events
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MIKE LADD with Boice‑Terrel Allen
All Music Fans Everywhere
– By Marshall Yarbrough
The Ex at Monty Hall
– By Dan Joseph
Outtakes
– By Steve Dalachinsky
Cécile McLorin Salvant: For One to Love
– By Adolf Alzuphar
At Le Poisson Rouge, Three Voices Become One
– By Alessandro Cassin
Diary of a Mad Composer
– By George Grella
Shostakovich Slips the Noose: Quatuor Debussy and Circa
– By Jeff Tompkins

Dance

A SHORT TRIP, UNPLANNED Rebeca Medina’s Paraíso
– By Tara Sheena
“I’M KIND OF FUCKED SHARING THIS” Ralph Lemon’s Scaffold Room
– By Jaime Shearn Coan
BALLETCOLLECTIVE The Group as Power Source
– By Susan Yung

Film

MIGUEL GOMES with Leo Goldsmith
History of the Thirteen Plus One
– By Colin Beckett
GARDEN CITY REVISITED Frederick Wiseman’s In Jackson Heights
– By Zach Lewis

Theater

William Kentridge Takes New York
– By Ann McCoy
Love, in Exploded View How to Get Into Buildings
– By Liza Birkenmeier
Jackie, Blondi, and the Mooncats Mac Wellman’s The Offending Gesture
– By Trish Harnetiaux
MOTHERSTRUCK! STACEYANN CHIN with Jamie Maleszka
– By Jamie Maleszka
Still Imagining The Imaginary with Ruth Maleczech
– By Matthew Paul Olmos

Fiction

Lake
– by Zhang Yueran, translated from the Chinese by Jeremy Tiang
from Kid Coole
– By M. G. Stephens
from Graveyard of Bitter Oranges
– by Josef Winkler, translated by Adrian Nathan West (2015, Contra Mundum Press)
Communication with the Dead
– By Bianca Stone

Poetry

Three
– by Waly SalomÃƒÂ£o, translated from the Portuguese by Maryam Monalisa Gharavi
from Autobiography of Michael Nicoloff
– By Michael Nicoloff
Seven
– By Pattie McCarthy
Four
– By Alan Felsenthal
My Statement is Material
– By Barb Smith
from HYPERBANQUET
– By Alex Batkin

Verbatim

RAY JOHNSON Nothing in Print
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Art Books

Year in Review
Mark di Suvero
– By Jessica Holmes
Agnes Martin: Her Life and Art
– By Erin Hinz

Field Notes

Editor’s Note
– By Paul Mattick
Huntsville Notes
– By Curtis Price
Rising Mortality of US Whites Around Age 50 An American Tragedy?
– By Jose A. Tapia
A Communist Life
– By Felix Baum

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