The Brooklyn Rail

Table of Contents

Co-Founder's Message

• Dear Friends and Readers,

  – By Phong Bui

Editor's Message

• And What Shall I Love? Looking at Giorgio de Chirico

  – By Heather Ewing

Art

• Emma Sulkowicz with Kang Kang

• Helène Aylon with Ann McCoy

• Yuji Agematsu with Phong Bui

• Heide Hatry with Thyrza Nichols Goodeve and Laila Pedro

• The 2017 Whitney Biennial

  – By Amy Ontiveros

• Thelma Golden with Joachim Pissarro and David Carrier

• Siri Hustvedt with Jarrett Earnest

• THE HELD ESSAYS ON VISUAL ART Like a Glowing Worm

  – By Katie Anania

• Salty/Fresh: Paula Wilson's House of Art

  – By Rhonda Garelick

ArtSeen

• The Arcades: Contemporary Art and Walter Benjamin

  – By Rabia Ashfaque

• Art or Politics?

  – By Jurriaan Benschop

• Ian Wilson

  – By Mira Dayal

• Doug Wheeler PSAD Synthetic Desert

  – By Hannah Sage Kay

• Lygia Pape A Multitude of Forms

  – By Yasi Alipour

• Teresita Fernández Fire (America)

  – By Lara Atallah

• Ian Cheng Emissaries

  – By Charlene K. Lau

• Threads of Fire and Water and Gold

  – By Laila Pedro

• Postcommodity Coyotaje

  – By Jared Quinton

• Beatriz Santiago MUÑOZ A Universe of Fragile Mirrors

  – By Sara Christoph

• Jimmie Durham At the Center of the World

  – By Anthony Hawley

• Max Ernst Big Brother: Teaching Staff for a School of Murderers

  – By Mary Ann Caws

• Stephen Irwin Check to see if still dead inside

  – By Stephen Truax

• Lisa Alvarado Sound Talisman

  – By Joe Bucciero

• Sean Scully Wall of Light Cubed

  – By Jonathan Goodman

• Age of Empires: Chinese Art of the Qin and Han Dynasties (221 B.C. – A.D. 220)

  – By Hovey Brock

• Peder Balke: Painter of Northern Light

  – By Jason Rosenfeld

Critics Page

• Looking at Late de Chirico: Matvey Levenstein, Stephen Ellis, and Lisa Yuskavage

• The Trouble with De Chirico: Verifalsi and the Study of Backdated Paintings

  – By Sophia Maxine Farmer

• Giulio Paolini on Giorgio de Chirico

  – By Fabio Cafagna

• On Warhol’s “After de Chirico”

  – By Neil Printz

• The Disquieting Muses

  – By Sylvia Plath

• Giorgio de Chirico, The Enigma of the Hour (1910): The First Conceptual Work of Art

  – By Paolo Baldacci

• The Anxious Journey

  – By Michael Dumanis

• September Is

  – By Mary Jo Bang

• The Disquieting Muses (from “Two De Chiricos”)

  – By Mark Strand

• “Homeric Dawns” Giorgio de Chirico’s Metaphysical Interior (with Small Factory)

  – By Ara H. Merjian

Books

• Deft, Eloquent, Shiversome, and Timely

  – By Elizabeth Block

• This Ever-Migrating Curse: Hannah Lillith Assadi with Sean Madigan Hoen

• Emotional Tumult, Formal Play

  – By Weston Cutter

• Knott Knowing

  – By Tony Leuzzi

• Killers of the Flower Moon

  – By Weston Cutter

• Saints & Sinners: JOSIP NOVAKOVICH with Coe Douglas

• Aperture for Glimpsing the Abyss: ALEXANDER BOLDIZAR with Kevin Winchester

• Not Another Holocaust Novel

  – By Marina Petrova

• Inside the Museums, Infinity Goes Up On Trial

  – By Bill Gatti

• Found Footage

  – By Chris Campanioni

Music

• Brooklyn Rail Highly Selective Music Events

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• Sparse Melody and High-Class Noise: Phil Kline with Jim Jarmusch

  – By Marshall Yarbrough

• From Watermelon to Lemonade Sobering Up with Beyoncé

  – By Rachel Lyon

• Jeff Buckley’s Iconic Flame

  – By Jane Gabriels

• Bitter Beats and Vitriol Sleaford Mods at Warsaw

  – By Dan Joseph

• Originality and Derivation Sondre Lerche’s Pleasure

  – By John Amen

• Outtakes

  – By Steve Dalachinsky

Dance

• Social Bodies: Inside Work/Travail/Arbeid Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker with Gillian Jakab

• Paul Taylor: Dance-Dramas and Icons

  – By Susan Yung

• Town, Country, and the Schoolyard

  – By Ryan Wenzel

• A Structured Life

  – By Sariel Frankfurter

• Dramaturgy for Jerks

  – By Willie Filkowski

Film

• Roger Beebe with Jordan Cronk

• End of Days Béla Tarr at the EYE Museum in Amsterdam

  – By Nathan Dunne

• How to find beauty in a sea of data Korakrit Arunanondchai at C L E A R I N G

  – By Adriana Blidaru

• Her Eternity On Terence Davies’s A Quiet Passion

  – By Paul Felten

Theater

• Raising a Collective Voice: Martín Zimmerman and Seven Spots on the Sun

  – By Matthew Paul Olmos

• All Hail the Fever State: Buran Theatre at Ten Years

  – By Sarah Matusek

Fiction

• Brown Seaweed Soup

  – By Stacey Levine

• Four

  – By Steph Gray

• Two

  – By Matthew Jakubowski

• inSerial: part eight Delusions of Being Observed

  – By Lewis Warsh

• LOST AND FOUND ANIMALS a misplaced bestiary Part 8: The Visual Damselfly (coenagrioniidae cinemata)

  – By Sid Gershgoren

• from The Teeth of the Comb & Other Stories

  – by Osama Alomar, translated from the Arabic by Osama Alomar and C. J. Collins, out now from New Directions

• from My Vibe

  – by Jeremy Sigler, out now from Spoonbill books

• New Routes in Fiction A talk with Jaroslav Kalfar

  – by Alec Niedenthal

• Tragic Strip

  – By Tom Motley

Poetry

• The Blood Barn

  – By Carrie Lorig

• Visions and Miracles*

  – By Tom Savage

• Seven

  – By Noah Eli Gordon

• from Foreign Terms

  – By Divya Victor

• Two

  – By Ed Coletti

• Five

  – By Linda Nochlin

Verbatim

• Barry Flanagan Sculpting the Ephemeral

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Art Books

• The Estrangement Principle

  – By Phillip Griffith

• Here/There: Telepresence, Touch, and Art at the Interface

  – By Hannah Stamler

Field Notes

• Is Donald Trump a Fascist?

  – By Michael Mann

• The New Deal Lives On in the City

  – By Richard Walker

• Tycoons of Despair: Austerity, Aesthetics, and Sentimentality

  – By Adam Theron-Lee Rensch

The Well

• The Fat Black Pussycat

  – By Sara Christoph