The Brooklyn Rail

Table of Contents

Editor's Message

• Bay Watch: A Snapshot of the Visual Arts in the Bay Area

  – By Constance Lewallen

Publisher's Message

• Dear Friends and Readers,

  – By Phong Bui

Art

• JIMMY ROBERT with Will Fenstermaker

• ZANELE MUHOLI: Visual Activism & Performa 17

  – By William Whitney

• DAVID ROW with Barbara MacAdam

• JANET BIGGS with Nancy Princenthal

• WALTON FORD with Jason Rosenfeld

• GEORGE CONDO with Joachim Pissarro

• SUSAN LARSEN with Phong Bui

• PETER SCOTT with Andreas Petrossiants

  – By Andreas Petrossiants

• FRED MOTEN with Jarrett Earnest

• EDITOR'S NOTE Thyrza Nichols Goodeve

• Mary Ann Caws

• Jason Rosenfeld

• Maurice Berger

• Judith Rodenbeck

• Coco Fusco

• Martha Rosler

• Aruna D'Souza

ArtSeen

• Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World

  – By Banyi Huang

• The Risorgimento of Arte Povera

  – By Steven Pestana

• Lines of Thought: Drawing from Michelangelo to now

  – By Thyrza Nichols Goodeve

• Anger Management

  – By Nicole Miller

• Restoring the Minoans: Elizabeth Price and Sir Arthur Evans

  – By Ann McCoy

• CHRIS OFILI: Paradise Lost

  – By Jan Avgikos

• WALTER SWENNEN: Bewtie

  – By Pac Pobric

• SAM FALLS

  – By David Rhodes

• Homage to Dimitris Condos

  – By Vanessa Thill

• JOYCE KOZLOFF: Girlhood

  – By Hovey Brock

• MEL KENDRICK: Woodblock Drawings

  – By Jonathan Goodman

• DAVID BROOKS: Rock, Mosquito and Hummingbird: A Prehistory of Governor's Island

  – By Patrick Jaojoco

• ISRAEL LUND / AMY GRANAT

  – By William Corwin

• JOAN BROWN

  – By David Carrier

• Sunshower: Contemporary Art from Southeast Asia 1980s to Now

  – By Vivian Li

• Artist of the Visible

  – By Mary Di Lucia 

• Defining “We” 2017: The Study Center for Group Work

  – By Heather Schatz

• TRACEY ROSE: The Good Ship Jesus vs. The Black Star Line Hitching a Ride with Die Alibama [Working Title]

  – By Charles Schultz

• PAT STEIR: Kairos

  – By Benjamin Clifford

• ANDY CAHILL: Home

  – By Louis Block

• Kyoung eun Kang: 1402 Seok-Dong

  – By Jonathan Goodman

• Somewhere Some Pictures Sometimes

  – By Jan Avgikos

• ALICE AYCOCK: The Turbulence Series

  – By Siwin Lo

• BARB SMITH: Cup

  – By Adam Beal

• ISHMAEL RANDALL WEEKS: Annotations, Striations and Souvenirs

  – By William Corwin

• ANNETTE LEMIEUX: Mise en Scène

  – By Emily Watlington

• MIRALDA MADEINUSA

  – By Kathy Brew

• The Experimental Music of Maryanne Amacher and Philip Corner

  – By Charles Eppley

• RON BARON: Beyond, Beyond

  – By Alexandra Hammond

• BEN WILSON: From Social Realism to Abstraction

  – By Tom McGlynn

• TRAVIS FITZGERALD: Until Adwaita

  – By Vijay Masharani

• TSIBI GEVA: Jolt

  – By Osman Can Yerebakan

• Resistance Across Time: Interference Archive

  – By Andreas Petrossiants

• Deadeye Dick: Richard Bellamy and His Circle

  – By David Rhodes

• Immigrancy

  – By Arden Cone

Critics Page

• Bay Watch: Public Art

  – By Lynne Baer

• For A Reason

  – By Kevin Killian

• A Generosity of Spirit: Bay Area Art Today

  – By Janet Bishop

• Spaces Together: Alternative Sites for Bay Area Arts

  – By Sophia Wang

• As I See It, Yes

  – By Gay Outlaw

• Ceramics and Preservation in the Bay

  – By Woody De Othello

• LA is Not the Capital of California

  – By Renny Pritikin

• Way Bay

  – By Lawrence Rinder

• Jim Melchert

  – By Jim Melchert

• BILL BERKSON with Thomas Devaney

• Digital Punk

  – By Kota Ezawa

• What is Its Future?

  – By Jordan Stein

• The Point

  – By John Bankston

• Everywhere and Nowhere

  – By Glen Helfand

• Slow Art

  – By Ed Gilbert

• Carry the Bones

  – By Dena Beard

• Why Grow? In praise of quiet influence

  – By Anne Walsh

• Dear Connie,

  – By Claudia La Rocco

Books

• An Increased Clarity of Address: KEVIN KILLIAN with Tony Leuzzi

• Osama Alomar's The Teeth of the Comb & Other Stories

  – By Ben Tripp

• The Movement Toward Art

  – By J.C. Hallman

• Chris Kraus’s After Kathy Acker

  – By Yvonne C. Garrett

• The Debacle

  – By Allen Guy Wilcox

• Laura Jane Grace and Dan Ozzi’s Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock’s Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout

  – By Yvonne C. Garrett

• Peter Markus’s Inside My Pencil: Teaching Poetry in Detroit Public Schools

  – By Joseph Scapellato

• The Care for Precision

  – By Weston Cutter

• Matthew Vollmer’s “Situated Self”

  – By Robert Siegle

• Empire of Intimacy: Ishiguro’s Nobel

  – By Ernesto Pujol

Music

• Rome to New York: Orpheus and Eurydice

  – By Alessandro Cassin

• Annea Lockwood, Aki Onda, and Akio Suzuki: Presented by Blank Forms

  – By Andreas Petrossiants

• Seeing The Light

  – By Kurt Gottschalk

• To Have Not And to Have: O17, Philadelphia, September 14 - 25

  – By George Grella

• A Trip to the Alter with Priests

  – By Richard Klin

• Outtakes

  – By Steve Dalachinsky

• November Listings

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Dance

• Fall for Dance—Tweaking the Menu

  – By Susan Yung

• A Moving Meditation on Context

  – By Jen George

• APOLLONIA HOLZER with Elizabeth Regan

  – By Elizabeth Regan

Film

• EPHRAIM ASILI with Ekrem Serdar

• SKY HOPINKA and belit sağ with Almudena Escobar López

• VIFF 2017: On watching and being seen in Dragonfly Eyes, Claire’s Camera, and Happy End

  – By Steffanie Ling

• Before the End of the World: Strugatsky Brothers on Film at Anthology Film Archives

  – By Forrest Cardamenis

Theater

• IVO VAN HOVE with Ivan Talijancic

• Reclaiming Cultural Extractions: Safe Harbors Indigenous Collective’s Don't Feed the Indians—A Divine Comedy Pageant!

  – By Adam R. Burnett

• The Light and the Dark of Susan Soon He Stanton

  – By Matthew Paul Olmos

• Finding Bess: 17c and the Restoration Theater of Annie-B Parson

  – By Amber Reed

Fiction

• Wallenstein Extracts

  – By Alfred Döblin, translated from the German by C D Godwin

• Died Young

  – By Francis Levy

• inSerial: part thirteen Delusions of Being Observed

  – By Lewis Warsh

• New Routes in Fiction: Tessa Hadley with Alec Niedenthal

• Awkwardly Calling Your Representatives

  – By Joshua Daniel

Poetry

• five

  – By David Mills

• five

  – By Stacy Blint

• three

  – By Vanessa Jimenez Gabb

• four

  – By Julian Talamantez Brolaski

• (As, Within Three Parts, Each Thus Pronominal)

  – By Judah Rubin

• seven

  – By Don Yorty

• AXIS RESOURCE

  – By Clayton Eshleman

Verbatim

• Louise Bourgeois: Breaking the Mold

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Art Books

• LYNN STERN with Alex Chowaniec

• Stanley Whitney: Sketchbook

  – By Megan N. Liberty

• The Hungry Years, by Jack Pierson Peter Hujar: Speed of Life, by Peter Hujar

  – By Timothy Francis Barry

Field Notes

• Climate Change: What is to be Done?

  – By José A. Tapia

• Welcome to Brexitland

  – By Jimmy Meyer

• Letter from Eastham Unit

  – By Noah "Comrade Kado" Coffin

• Worth the Pilgrimage: Eugenio Granell

  – By Charles Reeve, translated from the French by Janet Koenig