SEPT 2017 – The Brooklyn Rail

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Publisher's Message

Dear Friends and Readers,
– By Phong Bui

Editor's Message

On Slow Art: Introduction
– By Arden Reed

Art

ArtSeen

LUCIE STAHL: End of Tales
– By Simone Krug
MYSTICAL SYMBOLISM: THE SALON DE LA ROSE+CROIX IN PARIS, 1892—1897
– By Ann McCoy
RADICAL BODIES: Anna Halprin, Simone Forti, and Yvonne Rainer in California and New York, 1955—1972
– By Kaitlyn A. Kramer
BLUE BLACK: Curated by Glenn Ligon
– By Jason Rosenfeld
MARY HEILMANN: RYB: Mary Heilmann paintings 1975—1978
– By David Rhodes
ALVIN BALTROP: Selected by Douglas Crimp
– By Osman Can Yerebakan
Transitions: Dong Yuan, Lam Tung-Pang, and Lao Tongli
– By Alex Woodend
RICHARD GERSTL
– By Will Fenstermaker
DON VAN VLIET: WORKS ON PAPER
– By Jonathan Goodman
RAPHAEL RUBINSTEIN AND HEATHER BAUSE: THE MIRACULOUS
– By Michael McFadden
RAILING OPINION
– By Hans Haacke
Abstract Expressionism Behind the Iron Curtain
– By Joyce Beckenstein
BELKIS AYÓN:NKAME
– By William Whitney
CAMERON MARTIN: ABSTRACTS AND RETICULATIONS
– By Robert R. Shane
ART/AFRIQUE, LE NOUVEL ATELIER (ART/AFRICA, THE NEW WORKSHOP)
– By Eliza Nichols
MAUREEN GALLACE: CLEAR DAY
– By David Rhodes
TAKE BACK THE FIGHT: RESISTING SEXUAL VIOLENCE FROM THE GROUND UP
– By Laura Hatry
Analog Currency
– By Simone Krug
QUEER BRITISH ART 1861-1967
– By William Corwin

Critics Page

The Eyes of Statues
– By Hunter Dukes
The Quick Hello vs. The Long Goodbye
– By Barbara Rose
Darwin's Slow Time
– By Jonathan Sachs
Before the Click
– By Eugenia Parry
On Time
– By Randy Gibson
Speed Living
– By Mark Andrejevic
Andy Warhol, Sleep (1963)
– By Blake Gopnik
La Chambre Clair
– By Paul Saint-Amour
Slowness
– By Chris Dercon
Sublime Boredom and the Drowsy Reader
– By Charles Baxter
Two Slowness-es of Democracy
– By Jeremy McKey
Slowly Repairing Our Relationship with Art Itself
– By Alex Findlay
Picasso, Braque, and Early Film in Cubism
– By Bernice Rose
Slowpoke
– By Gregg M. Horowitz
Reflections on Slowness and Art
– By Enrique Martinez Celaya
The Slow Onset of Catastrophe in the Russian Summer
– By Kevin M. F. Platt
On the Weaponization of Sight
– By Tom Lin
Cinema, Fast and Slow
– By Mark Goble
Luminist Paintings at the National Gallery
– By Edward Hirsch

Books

Sherman Alexie's You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me: A Memoir
– By Yvonne C. Garrett
Kurt Baumeister’s Pax Americana
– By Gabino Iglesias
Jessie Chaffee's An Oasis, An Abyss: Florence in Ecstasy
– By Darley Stewart
Yuri Herrera's Kingdom Cons
– By Weston Cutter
Daniel Kehlmann's Realism, Horror, Multiverse, and Unreliable Narration: You Should Have Left
– By Diego Gerard
Nancy Lord's pH: A Novel
– By Yvonne C. Garrett
LONGING, THEY SAY: On Sally Rooney's novel Conversations With Friends
– By Erin Bartnett
Joseph Scapellato's Big Lonesome
– By William Lessard
Juan Villoro's The Reef
– By David Varno
Suicide Blonde Turns 25: DARCEY STEINKE with Ruwa Alhayek
Some of Them Are Wild: JENNY ZHANG with Tucker Newsome
Sarah Perry's After the Eclipse
– By Laura Jean Moore
Emily Culliton's The Misfortune of Marion Palm: A Novel
– By Marina Petrova
Margo Berdeshevsky's Before the Drought
– By Kelly Cherry
Patricia Carlin's The Art of the Underneath: Second Nature
– By Tony Leuzzi
Kristina Marie Darling's Je Suis L'Autre: Essays and Interrogations
– By Chris Campanioni
Marie NDiaye's My Heart Hemmed In
– By Jacob Singer
Darcy Steinke's Suicide Blonde
– By Yvonne C. Garrett
Inara Verzemnieks's Among the Living and the Dead: A Tale of Exile and Homecoming on the War Roads of Europe
– By Kerri Arsenault
Laura E. Ruberto and Joseph Sciorra's New Italian Migrations to the United States
– By Fiore Sireci
Alex Gilvarry's Eastman Was Here
– By Tom Deignan
JAY MURPHY with Joseph Nechvatal

Music

Whadda You Got?
– By George Grella
What I Learn from Pauline Oliveros
– By Craig Shepard
A Talk about Music: Joey Agresta's Let's Not Talk About Music & Viewfound's Memorate
– By Daniel Wilson
Outtakes
– By Steve Dalachinsky
for September 2017
– By By The Editors

Dance

Timeless and Tamed: Lincoln Center Festival Koch Theater, July 2017
– By Susan Yung
LILI CHOPRA with Gillian Jakab
Queer Dance: Performing the Capacity to Desire Differently
– By Charmian Wells
YANIRA CASTRO with Ivan Talijancic

Film

Unortho-docs at Locarno 70
– By Matt Turner
MAPLE RAZSA with Duncan Ranslem
If You See Something Say Something: On Jason Giampietro
– By Dan Sullivan
Stop Motion: On Evan Calder Williams's Shard Cinema
– By Phil Coldiron
What Erupts and What Matters: On Yvonne Rainer's Films
– By Vered Engelhard

Theater

In Dialogue: Steal the Stars with Mac Rogers & Nat Cassidy
– By Clay McLeod Chapman
Entering the Lightbulb with Robert Heide: 25 Plays
– By Ben Shields

Fiction

from Seizure Book
– By Emmalea Russo
TOM MOTLEY: Tragic Strip
– By Tom Motley
extracts from ETERNAL FRIENDSHIP
– By ANOUCK DURAND
inSerial: part eleven Delusions of Being Observed
– By Lewis Warsh
from 88 Dreams
– by Juan Eduardo Cirlot translated from the Spanish by Fedra Rodriguez
an extract from Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl
– By Andrea Lawlor
Lost and Found Animals Part 11: N-Escolia Wilawispia Transitoria [NEWT] (Periscopia Microcosmica Gershgorniana)
– By Sid Gershgoren
excerpt from THE STAMPOGRAPHER
– By Vincent Sardon

Poetry

from Madame Bildungsroman's Optimistic Worldview
– By Nora Chassler
five
– By Daniel Owen
from The Ashbery Riff-Offs
– By Eileen Tabios
from Farallones
– By Tim VanDyke

Verbatim

RUTH KLIGMAN: The Driver's Seat
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Art Books

Sarah Tulloch's ObjectImage
– By Megan N. Liberty
Lauren Greenfield's Generation Wealth
– By Hannah Stamler
“I can imagine you (reading these words) into being”: The documenta 14 Reader
– By Thyrza Nichols Goodeve

Field Notes

A Guided Tour of Europe's Largest Refugee Camp
– By Leanne Tory-Murphy
Cowboy Stories
– By Nora Brooks
Solidarity Behind Bars: NYC’s Correction Officers’ Benevolent Association
– By Jarrod Shanahan
Inside the Disenchanted World of Left Keynesianism: A Review of Yanis Varoufakis's Adults in the Room
– By Pavlos Roufos

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