The Brooklyn Rail

Table of Contents

Editor's Message

• Tools and Contemporary Art

  – By Barbara London

Publisher's Message

• Dear Friends and Readers,

  – By Phong Bui

Art

• JOHN ELDERFIELD and PETER GALASSI with Phong Bui

• LABOR INTENSITY URSULA VON RYDINGSVARD and CLAUDIA COMTE with Kara Rooney

• AGNÈS B. with Phong Bui

• ALEC SOTH with Charlie Schultz

ArtSeen

• Davina Semo

  – By Noah Dillon

• Olivier Mosset

  – By Tom McGlynn

• A Panel on Painting

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• Don’t Shoot the Messenger

  – By Phyllis Tuchman

• Forever Now Tomorrow

  – By Barbara Rose

• Seeing It Now

  – By Mary Ann Caws

• The Forever Now vs. Recombinant DNA

  – By Amei Wallach

• RYDER RIPPS Ho

  – By Taylor Dafoe

• OYSTER PERPETUAL Mathias Poledna

  – By Aren K. Yama

• ROBIN PECK

  – By Ben La Rocco

• PICTURE/THING Curated by Sasha Rudensky and Jeffrey Schiff

  – By Joyce Beckenstein

• MARIAH DEKKENGA

  – By Tyler Akers

• Specters of Communism: Contemporary Russian Art

  – By Aaron Richmond

• HEIDI HOWARD

  – By Kate Liebman

• JOHN ZURIER

  – By Eleanor Ray

• DAN WALSH

  – By David Rhodes

• Ross Bleckner and Volker Eichelmann

  – By Shana Beth Mason

• LORIS GRÉAUD The Unplayed Notes Museum

  – By Hunter Braithwaite

• DANIELLE MYSLIWIEC Harbinger

  – By Taney Roniger

• MERLIN JAMES Genre Paintings

  – By Phong Bui

• The Great Debate About Art

  – By Lynn Maliszewski

• ENTANG WIHARSO

  – By Jonathan Goodman

• Lands' End

  – By Jody Graf

• FRANCESCA WOODMAN

  – By Sara Christoph

• Madame Cézanne

  – By Adele Tutter and David Carrier

• In Practice: Under Foundations

  – By Simone Krug

• Ron Cooper

  – By Michael Straus

• Robert Barry: All the things I know ... 1962 to present

  – By Alexandra Nicolaides

• Someday We Will Draw Lions Together: Les Combarelles and Font-de-Gaume

  – By William Corwin

Critics Page

• Christopher Thomas Allen

• Ken Okiishi

• Jana Winderen

• Karen Archey

• Tun Win Aung and Wah Nu

• Marilyn Minter

• Judith Barry

• Johanna Fateman

• A Tool is a Tool is a Rose

  – By Sala-manca

• Teppei Kaneuji

• The Artist’s Hands

  – By Homer Flynn

• Josh Kline

• Haroon Mirza

• Antoine Catala

• Guy Goldstein

• Tools of the Trade

  – By Naiza Khan

Books

• Winter’s Picks for Young Readers

  – By Jordan B. Nielsen

• The Absolution of Roberto Acestes Laing

  – By Andrew Ervin

• Elegies for Existence

  – By Tony Leuzzi

• Patterns of Anticipation

  – By David Winters

• A Hundred and Fifty Years’ Sleep

  – By Cate Fricke

• The Old Familiar Song

  – By Madeline Gressel

• American Dissolve

  – By Dustin Illingworth

• The Limitations of Gender

  – By Jill Dehnert

• Seeing and Knowing: Graphesis: Visual Forms of Knowledge Production

  – By Johannah Rodgers

• TIME, SWEAT, AND IMAGINATION: J.C. HALLMAN in conversation with Matt Bell

• HARD TIMES T.C. BOYLE with Catherine LaSota

Music

• Diary of a Mad Composer

  – By George Grella

• White Hills

  – By Marshall Yarbrough

• Music as Mystery: John Carpenter's Lost Themes and Career Retrospective at BAM

  – By Jeff Tobias

• Brooklyn Rail Highly Selective Music Events

• MEREDITH MONK A Vocabulary for the World

  – By George Grella

• Zoe Keating at SubCulture

  – By Stephanie Del Rosso

• The Specials Revisited

  – By Kurt Gottschalk

• Outtakes

  – By Steve Dalachinsky

Dance

• IT'S JUST THE CHOREOGRAPHY THAT SOMETIMES GETS IN THE WAY ANNIE-B PARSON with Stephanie Joy Del Rosso

• SOMETHING OLD, SOMETHING NEW A Marriage Of Styles In Baroque’d

  – By Madison Mainwaring

• APPROACHING THE POLE Gerard & Kelly's P.O.L.E. at the New Museum

  – By Leslie Allison

• Houses without Masters: Part 1 of 2 on "Platform 2015: Dancers, Buildings, and People in the Streets"

  – By Siobhan Burke

Film

• PEGGY AHWESH with Rachael Rakes & Leo Goldsmith

• James Benning and Peter Hutton NATURE IS A DISCIPLINE

  – By Ben Mendelsohn

• FREDERICK WISEMAN with Sophie Hamacher

Theater

• Theater Comes Home Gideon Irving is Living Here

  – By Ben Coleman

• David Greenspan. And his Little Dog, Too

  – By Alexander Borinsky

Fiction

• Home Remedies for Non Life-Threatening Ailments

  – By Xuan Juliana Wang

• Tunnel

  – By Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi

• The Other Couple

  – By Amanda K. Davidson

• Python

  – By Sarah Gerard

• from Fall

  – By Jill Magi

• Two Stories from Portraits and Conversations

  – By Johannah Rodgers

• from Miransù

  – by Monica Sarsini, translated from the Italian by Maryann De Julio

• Joe McVie & the End of the Mayan Calendar

  – By Margarita Shalina

• Tragic Strip

  – By Tom Motley

Poetry

• Five

  – By Chia-Lun Chang

• from Opinion Sonnets

  – By John Yau

• Three

  – By Alan Semerdjian

• Two

  – By Christopher Stackhouse

• The Air’s Home

  – By Joanna Fuhrman and Toni Simon

Art Books

• A DIALOGUE BETWEEN PAST AND PRESENT PRIMARY INFORMATION’S MIRIAM KATZEFF with Maya Harakawa

• Nicolò Degiorgis, Hidden Islam

  – By Yasi Alipour

Field Notes

• Editor's Note

  – By Paul Mattick

• If Syriza is the answer, then the question was wrong.

  – By Pavlos Roufos

• Negation of the Diaspora

  – By Jacob Blumenfeld

• THE FIRST BITTER FRUITS OF NATIONAL UNITY Wars, Fears, Humiliations, Surveillance

  – By Said Bouamama

• Notes from the Anthropocene #2: Infrastructure

  – By Glenn Dyer and Stephanie Wakefield