The Brooklyn Rail

Table of Contents

Editor's Message

• Art Encounters Law

  – By Joan Kee

Publisher's Message

• Dear Friends and Readers,

  – By Phong Bui

Art

• HIROSHI SUGIMOTO with Phong Bui

• NICOLAS LOBO with Hunter Braithwaite

• LARRY BELL with Alex Bacon

• MARIE LORENZ with Jarrett Earnest

• HOUSE OF LADOSHA with Laila Pedro

• RAILING OPINION IN RESPONSE TO “JOAN MITCHELL/MEDITATIONS IN AN EMERGENCY” (“Verbatim,” the Brooklyn Rail, February, 2016)

  – By Bill Berkson

ArtSeen

• BECKY HOWLAND: Weeds of New York

  – By Chloe Rossetti

• Pia Camil: A Pot for a Latch

  – By Michelle Standley

• ANECHOIC* MIRROR ANRI SALA Answer Me

  – By Tom McGlynn

• HENRIK OLESEN

  – By Terry R. Myers

• POPE.L WILL BOONE

  – By Phillip Griffith

• Photo-Poetics: An Anthology

  – By Taylor Dafoe

• JONG OH

  – By Taney Roniger

• I Am a Lie and I am Gold

  – By Yasi Alipour

• MIRIAM SCHAPIRO

  – By Kim Power

• Laura Poitras Astro Noise

  – By Chloe Wyma

• CAMERON ROWLAND 91020000

  – By Terence Trouillot

• Regards Sur Beyrouth: 160 Ans D’images 1800 – 1960

  – By Holly Gavin

• PETER HUJAR Lost Downtown

  – By Hovey Brock

• DANA DEGIULIO & MOLLY ZUCKERMAN-HARTUNG Queen

  – By Ashton Cooper

• MERNET LARSEN Things People Do

  – By Eleanor Ray

• Reality of My Surroundings: The Contemporary Collection

  – By Samuel Feldblum

• NONA FAUSTINE White Shoes

  – By Jessica Holmes

• AMY SILLMAN Stuff Change

  – By Kate Liebman

• HOW TO . . . IN BERLIN How to Be Unique

  – By Joan Waltemath

• The World is a Totality of Things

  – By William Corwin

• CARRIE MOYER Sirens

  – By Phong Bui

• MARTHA DIAMOND

  – By Jonathan Goodman

Critics Page

• Cowboys Milking Formerly Attributed to Cady Noland

  – By Amy Adler

• Just More than Zero

  – By Kris Cohen

• On the Maintenance of Maria Eichhorn Aktiengesellschaft

  – By Jeannine Tang

• Vagina Dialogues Ann Hirsch’s Free Speech Battles on the Web

  – By Kibum Kim

• BRANDED On the Semiotic Disobedience of Hank Willis Thomas

  – By Sonia K. Katyal

• Legal Entanglement The Body in Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s “Untitled”, 1989

  – By Joshua Chambers-Letson

• Art and Law Enforcement in a Ring Box: TALWST’s Miniature Aesthetic Revolution

  – By Cristina Vatulescu

• Justice Must be Seen to be Done

  – By Carey Young

• The Law in Our Hands

  – By Joan Kee

Books

• Single Alright Female

  – By Leigh Kamping-Carder

• Everyone’s a Critic

  – By Geoffrey Young

• The Domestic Fantastic

  – By Artie Niederhoffer

• The Visitations

  – By Tadzio Koelb

• The Mundane and the Miraculous

  – By Daniel Blue

• TOD MARSHALL and TONY LEUZZI

• SCOTT ALEXANDER HESS with Joseph Salvatore

• Missing the Big Picture

  – By Joshua Alvarez

Music

• Brooklyn Rail Highly Selective Music Events

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• Outtakes

  – By Steve Dalachinsky

• COLOR AND GROOVE: Winter Jazzfest 2016

  – By Marshall Yarbrough

• Cinematic Indulgence, Rewarded

  – By Daniel Gold

• Rova’s Electric Ascension

  – By Chris Nelson

• Diary of a Mad Composer

  – By George Grella

Dance

• The Work of Reworking

  – By Erica Getto

• Unplugged

  – By Tara Sheena

• Ruffling Feathers

  – By Susan Yung

Film

• Planetarium of Blended Dreams

  – By Felix Bernstein

• LANA LIN and CAULEEN SMITH

• The Belly of a Filmmaker: Peter Greenaway’s Eisenstein in Guanajuato

  – By Rumsey Taylor

• JAMES N. KIENITZ WILKINS with Herb Shellenberger

• THE BLACK LIBERATION KOOL-AID ACID TEST On Chi-Raq

  – By Brandon Harris

• ADAM & ZACK KHALIL with Leo Goldsmith

Theater

• Shifting Shape: Ironbound’s Martyna Majok

  – By Tommy Smith

• The Whole Body Thing: DODO’s The Last Class: A Jazzercize Play

  – By Crystal Skillman

Fiction

• Pigeons

  – By Glendaliz Camacho

• I’m Here Now but Hiding my Face

  – By Mirene Arsanios

• Modern Bodies

  – By Cara Benson

• Translating Oneself

  – By Johannah Rodgers

• The Golem

  – By Maria Rapoport

• from Kid Coole

  – By M. G. Stephens

• Tragic Strip

  – By Tom Motley

Poetry

• BRAIN FLOWERS (from Making Water)

  – By Laura Jaramillo

• Two

  – By Toby Fitch

• Six

  – By Michael Kelleher

• Two

  – By Allan M. Jalon

• from Orlando

  – By Sandra Simonds

• Three

  – by Francisco Pérez Perdomo, translated by Guillermo Parra

Verbatim

• AL HELD: The Conversant Artist

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Art Books

• International Pop

  – By Megan N. Liberty

• JOCELYN MILLER with Maya Harakawa

Field Notes

• Terra Infirma: Berning Questions

  – By Steve Fraser

• Sharks on the Riverbank: A Jersey Shore Town, its White Supremacist Past, and its Supremely White Present

  – By Dane A. Wisher

• SPECIAL REPORT: SOUTH AFRICA South Africa: The State of the Movement

  – By Trevor Ngwane

• SPECIAL REPORT: SOUTH AFRICA #OutsourcingMustFall: Unity in Action in South African Universities

  – by Thembi Luckett and Francesco Pontarelli