DEC 16-JAN 17 – The Brooklyn Rail

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Co-Founder's Message

Dear Friends and Readers,
– By Phong Bui

Editor's Message

What is Criticism, Now?
– By David Levi Strauss

Art

ArtSeen

Philip Guston: Laughter in the Dark
– By William Corbett
Max Beckmann in New York
– By Tom McGlynn
William Eggleston The Democratic Forest
– By Sara Christoph
Beverly Buchanan Ruins and Rituals
– By Jared Quinton
Gimme Shelter
– By Michelle Standley
The Democracy of Touches: A New Reading of Richard Pousette-Dart
– By Phong Bui
Carrie Mae Weems
– By Matthew Biro
Pipilotti Rist Pixel Forest
– By Lara Atallah
Æthelred Eldridge
– By William Corwin
Doris Salcedo The Materiality of Mourning
– By Timothy Francis Barry
Kerry James Marshall Mastry
– By Hovey Brock
Zao Wou-Ki No Limits
– By David Carrier
Ragnar Kjartansson Scenes from Western Culture/Architecture and Morality/World Light
– By Jason Rosenfeld
Carolee Schneemann
– By Ann McCoy
Alex Da Corte A Man Full of Trouble
– By Osman Can Yerebakan
Tetsumi Kudo
– By Ciara Moloney
Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art 1905-2016
– By Charlene K. Lau
Decolonize This Place
– By Terence Trouillot
Julia Rommel Man Alive
– By Phong Bui
Leah Raintree: Another Land: After Noguchi
– By Taney Roniger
Black Pulp!
– By Terence Trouillot
Francis Picabia: Our Heads Are Round so Our Thoughts Can Change Direction
– By Jason Rosenfeld
No Man's Land: Women Artists from the Rubell Family Collection
– By Joyce Beckenstein
Siah Armajani
– By Jonathan Goodman
Reflections on The Sea is Mine: 2016 Qalandiya International in Palestine
– By Elliot J. Reichert
MICHAEL MANDIBERG | SIMON DENNY
– By Ian Cofre

Critics Page

Reparative Criticism
– By Kareem Estefan
A Shelter for Shadows
– By Sam Swasey
Critics of the Corners
– By Alexandra Nicolaides
Criticism and Civility
– By Jessica Holmes
Why I Am Not a Tech Writer
– By Will Fenstermaker
How to Value Criticism?
– By Noah Dillon
What is Art Criticism?
– By Clay Matlin
The Promise of Mutability
– By Emmanuel Iduma
Embracing the Unseen
– By Aimee Walleston
The Ineluctable Task
– By Eric Sutphin
Words as Necessities
– By Sabrina Mandanici
Art Is Our Last Hope
– By Tatiane Schilaro
Critical Catastrophes
– By Amelia Rina
Dear Grace & Quinn
– By Charles Schultz
A Sequence of Coherent Words
– By Sara Christoph

Books

Intimations and Hints
– By Weston Cutter
The Underground Railroad
– By Weston Cutter
Requiem for a Great America
– By Joshua Alvarez
What the Darkness Was For
– By Dustin Illingworth
A Poet’s Guide to Death
– By Gillie Collins
A Poet is a Mood
– By J. C. Hallman
Flower or Whip?
– By John Domini
DAN SIMON with Phong Bui
By Godlis! DAVID GODLIS with Jacquelyn Gallo

Music

Brooklyn Rail Highly Selective Music Events
LIMPE FUCHS with Cammisa Buerhaus
The Return of the Legendary Pink Dots
– By Dan Joseph
The Maestro and His Double
– By Jeff Tompkins
Outtakes
– By Steve Dalachinsky
I Thought That We Were Winning: In Remembrance of Leonard Cohen
– By Marshall Yarbrough
Diary of a Mad Composer
– By George Grella

Dance

India, Illuminating and Inspiring
– By Ryan Wenzel
End of Party Ionesco Meets Beckett
– By Ivan Talijancic

Film

Idle in Ireland: Albert Serra’s Singularity
– By Samuel Adelaar
Drifting Architectures: Deborah Stratman’s The Illinois Parables
– By Joe Bucciero
Wild and Vocal: Flaherty NYC Autumn 2016
– By Irina Leimbacher
Artist and Models: Bresson’s Interviews and Writings
– By Michael Blum
Urban Legend: Matt Tyrnauer’s Citizen Jane: Battle for the City
– By Erica Peplin

Theater

Letter From Queens: Reflections on a Homegrown Disruption
– By Ben Gassman
From Great Lakes to Porto KATE BENSON with Ariel Stess
Manifesting Destiny Playwrights Traverse the Theater and TV Divide
– By Addie Johnson Talbott
Playwright, Citizen, Educator Lucy Thurber at The New School
– By Emily Morse
Breaking the Theatrical Fundraising Mold Lesser America Launches The Dare Fund
– By Dorit Avganim
Exponentially Inclusive: Brooklyn’s January Performance Festival
– By Adam R. Burnett
In Mariah MacCarthy’s World, “Weirdos” Take the Lead
– By Leah Nanako Winkler

Fiction

The Manifesto of the 121 (On the Right to Refuse Military Service)
– translated from the French by Mitchell Abidor
an extract from Fractals in a Box
– by Luis Othoniel Rosa, translated from the Spanish by Noel Black
inSerial: part four Delusions of Being Observed
– By Lewis Warsh
LOST AND FOUND ANIMALS a misplaced bestiary Part 4: Sound Spiders (Sondifera terrastis)
– By Sid Gershgoren
New Routes in Fiction: TAYLOR LARSEN with Alec Niedenthal
23 Clinton Street
– By Tom Daly
Tragic Strip
– By Tom Motley

Poetry

Jury
– By Ann Lauterbach
Seven
– By Barbara Jane Reyes
Three
– By Edwin Torres
Three
– By Andrei Codrescu
Homage to Ralph Nader
– By Garrett Caples
My Little Envoi, For Nancy, Travis, and Roswell
– By Jennifer Bartlett
Make America Again
– By Greg Fuchs
Trump Morning, A Grief Sequence
– By Sue Landers
Opinion Sonnet
– By John Yau
A nasty woman has a vision
– By Allison Cobb
November 9th, 2016
– By Robert Booras
Four
– By Uche Nduka

Verbatim

Adolph Gottlieb Polarities
–

Art Books

ON DONALD JUDD’S WRITINGS Mirror and Bridge
– By Greg Lindquist
“Judd’s Answer”
– By Colleen Asper
bent reflections: a response to Judd’s writings
– By Joan Waltemath
Reply to “It’s Hard to Find a Good Lamp”
– By Jose Dávila
Distance Learning
– By Ethan Greenbaum
God is Dead! Painting is Dead?
– By James Kalm
[Untitled]
– By Marjorie Welish
6 September 1986
– By Martha Tuttle
A YEAR IN ART BOOKS Negative Publicity: Artefacts of Extraordinary Rendition
– By Benjamin Gottlieb
Working Conditions: The Writings of Hans Haacke
– By Greg Lindquist
Float
– By Phillip Griffith
How To See the World: An Introduction to Images, from Self-Portraits to Selfies, Maps to Movies, and More
– By Sara Christoph

Field Notes

SPECIAL SECTION: AFTER THE ELECTION
– Editor's Note by Paul Mattick
The Stakes Are High: An Interview with Noam Chomsky
The Road Not Taken
– By Steve Fraser
Donald J. Trump, or How He Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Establishment
– By Adam Theron-Lee Rensch and Nicoletta Rousseva
The Presidential Election of 2016: The Rise of the Kakistocracy
– By Peter St. Clair
A Door to the Unknown
– By Jose A. Tapia
Delete Your Account: A Brief History of an Election Night Collapse
– By Dane A. Wisher
Infinite Crisis
– By Jacob Blumenfeld
White Noise: Gun Deaths in the Background
– By Stephanie Skaff
Take It Off!: An Evening on the Jersey Shore with God and Michael Bolton
– By Dane A. Wisher

The Well

KGB Bar
– By Mitchell Kuga

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