The Brooklyn Rail

Table of Contents

Editor's Message

• Unvarnished Truths

  – By George Bisacca

Publisher's Message

• Dear Friends and Readers,

  – By Phong Bui

Art

• Getting to res.o.nant

  – By Norman L Kleeblatt

• LEONARDO DREW with Charles Schultz

• HOWARDENA PINDELL with Toby Kamps

• HITO STEYERL with Osman Can Yerebakan

• GERD STERN with Raymond Foye

ArtSeen

• Painters of the East End

  – By Mary Ann Caws

• Dora Maar

  – By Paulina Choh

• Olga Balema: brain damage

  – By Amelia Farley

• Ghost in the Ghost

  – By Danni Shen

• Nine Iranian Artists in London: THE SPARK IS YOU

  – By Daniel Pateman

• Janet Biggs: Overview Effect

  – By Nicole Miller and Eleanor Paynter

• Ghost in the Ghost

  – By Emily Sun

• Lawrence Abu Hamdan: Earwitness Theatre

  – By Joel Kuennen

• Tony Cox: Shadow Bathing

  – By Cal McKeever

• Doing What Comes Naturally: Seven Painters in Their Prime

  – By Tom McGlynn

• Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds: Surviving Active Shooter Custer

  – By Alan Gilbert

• The 33rd Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Arts: Crack Up - Crack Down

  – By Holly Bushman

• Downtown Painting

  – By Jonathan Goodman

• Curating Brexit

  – By George Kan

• Gina Beavers: The Life I Deserve

  – By Charlotte Kent

• Joseph Elmer Yoakum

  – By Alfred Mac Adam

• Crack Up - Crack Down

  – By Osman Can Yerebakan

• cart, horse, cart

  – By Alfred Mac Adam

• Neo Rauch: Aus dem Boden (From The Floor)

  – By Tom McGlynn

• Nicolas Carone: What Matters

  – By Phong Bui

• Painters Reply: Experimental Painting in the 1970s and Now

  – By Phong Bui

• Nothing Succeeds Like Excess: Camp at the Met

  – By Mark Dery

• Sonya Clark: Monumental Cloth, The Flag We Should Know

  – By Maureen Catbagan and Amber Jamilla Musser

• Felix Gonzalez-Torres: Untitled (1989)

  – By Phillip Griffith

• Tamara Gonzales: Bo Yancon

  – By Dan Cameron

• Abbas Akhavan: cast for a folly

  – By Maddie Klett

• Fiona Connor: Closed for installation, Fiona Connor, SculptureCenter, #4

  – By Andreas Petrossiants

• The Hugo Boss Prize 2018: Simone Leigh, Loophole of Retreat

  – By Ann C. Collins

• Harmony Hammond: Material Witness, Five Decades of Art

  – By Meredith Mendelsohn

• Jeff Wall

  – By Graham W. Bell

• The Power of Intention: Reinventing the (Prayer) Wheel

  – By Avram C. Alpert

• Simone Fattal: Works and Days

  – By Valentina Di Liscia

• Anne Samat: Greatest Love

  – By J C

• Hannah Black and Juliana Huxtable: Penumbra

  – By Charlene K. Lau

• Emanation 2019

  – By Joyce Beckenstein

• Renaldo Kuhler: Rocaterrania

  – By William Corwin

• Tim Zercie: Regenbogenscherben

  – By William Corwin

• Colored People Time: Quotidian Pasts

  – By Devin Malone

• Heather Dewey-Hagborg: At the Temperature of My Body

  – By Joel Kuennen

• Jos de Gruyter and Harald Thys: Mondo Cane

  – By Helena Haimes

• Arshile Gorky 1904-1948

  – By David Carrier

• Gorky in Venice

  – By David Anfam

• Venice Biennale

  – By Jonathan Fineberg

• I'm lost at the Biennale Arsenale and I can't find my parents

  – By Oliver Katz

• Frankenthaler: History Returns to Venice

  – By Joachim Pissarro and David Carrier

1x1

• Dorothea Rockburne's Visionary Installation at Dia:Beacon

  – By Joan Waltemath

Critics Page

• Beneath the Surface

  – By Keith Christiansen

• Hitting Singles

  – By Jim Coddington

• Brokering Truths: The Inescapability of Subjectivity

  – By Michael Gallagher

• Use it, or lose it

  – By Kate Lewis

• Art, History, and Europe

  – By Lisa Rosen

• Fact and Feeling

  – By Larry Keith

• The Leonardo Effect

  – By Diane Modestini

• Entwined: Artist’s Voice and Conservator’s Expertise

  – By Carol Mancusi-Ungaro

• David Novros

Books

• Rachel Cline’s The Question Authority

  – By Anna Schwartzman

• TALK TALK

  – By Greg Cwik

• The William H. Gass Reader

  – By Jacob Singer

• Amanda Goldblatt’ Hard Mouth

  – By Deena ElGenaidi

• Caroline Hagood’s Personal as the Poetic Politic

  – By Jill Di Donato

• Exiles of Eden

• Joe Pan’s Operating Systems

  – By J.C. Hallman

• THOM SATTERLEE with Tony Leuzzi

• Elvia Wilk’s Oval

  – By Yvonne C. Garrett

Music

• Hosono Haruomi

  – By Sadie Rebecca Starnes

• Aphex Twin

  – By Martin Longley

• Mark Stryker: Jazz from Detroit

  – By George Grella

• Outtakes

  – By Steve Dalachinsky

• Highly Selective Listings

  – By George Grella and Brad Cohan

Dance

• Ratmansky’s Imprint on ABT

  – By Susan Yung

• Ligia Lewis: Water Will (in Melody)

  – By George Kan

• LARISSA VELEZ-JACKSON with Mike Stinavage

• Poses at the House of Metropolitan

  – By Rennie McDougall

• Dragon Spring Phoenix Rise

  – By Nicole Loeffler-Gladstone

Film

• Singing the Blues: Roberto Minervini's What You Gonna Do When the World's on Fire?

  – By Beatrice Loayza

• About Some Meaningful Events: African Cinema and 50 Years of FESPACO

  – By Marius Hrdy

• No Release: Chantal Akerman's My Mother Laughs

  – By Daniel Witkin

• Il Cinema Ritrovato: Forward into the Past

  – By Celluloid Liberation Front

• ALFREDO SALAZAR-CARO with Joel Kuennen

• The Long Morning: J. Hoberman’s Make My Day

  – By Madeline Whittle

• Cannes 2019: The Push and Pull between Genre and Auteurism

  – By James Lattimer

• Time is Luck: The 5th Annual Nitrate Picture Show

  – By Gina Telaroli

Theater

• Merril Mushroom's Bar Dykes: Conjuring '50s Lesbian Bar Culture

  – By Kathleen Warnock

• Seeing the Machine in Miranda Haymon's In the Penal Colony

  – By Jeremy O. Harris

Fiction

• Black Gold

  – by Lara Moreno, translated from the Spanish by Katie Whittemore

• Memories for Olga

  – by Lara Moreno, translated from the Spanish by Katie Whittemore

• Imperfect Future

  – by Lara Moreno, translated from the Spanish by Katie Whittemore

• My Body is (the) Marginalia; The Sun Drawn a Saw Across the Strings

  – By Jennifer Bartlett

• from What Would Emma Goldman Do?

  – By Cara Benson

• The Road to Golgonooza

  – by T. Motley

• inSerial: part ten The Mysteries of Paris

  – by Eugène Sue, translated from the French by Robert Bononno

• Leaves of AstroTurf

  – By Sam Ferri

Poetry

• four

  – By Andrei Codrescu

• three

  – By Sophia Le Fraga

• from PRISE

  – By Broc Rossell

• three

  – By Claire Meuschke

• five

  – By Hamish Ballantyne

• I was having a flashback.

  – By Mónica de la Torre

Art Books

• Mariana Valencia’s Album and Bouquet

  – By Gillian Jakab

• en plein air: Ethnographies of the Digital

  – By Brianna Leatherbury

• Decoding Dictatorial Statues

  – By Cara Jordan

• Meghann Riepenhoff's Littoral Drift and Ecotone

  – By Megan N. Liberty

In Memoriam

• A Tribute to Okwui Enwezor

ArTonic

• The Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation

  – By Tom McGlynn

In Memoriam

• A Tribute to Thomas Nozkowski

• A Tribute to Joyce Pensato

Field Notes

• Expropriate Everything

  – By Jacob Blumenfeld

• We Can Defend Ourselves

  – By Jacob Blumenfeld

• Invasive Architecture

  – By Maurice Maultz

• Accentuate the Positive: YIMBY in the Service of Development

  – By Rico Cleffi

• The Moral Economy in the Black Rural South

  – By Curtis Price