OCT 2017 – The Brooklyn Rail

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Editor's Message

Alt-Art Spaces and the Question of Identity Refusal: Introduction
– By Ysabel Pinyol

Publisher's Message

Dear Readers and Friends,
– By Phong Bui

Art

LARRY POONS with David Rhodes
ANDRES SERRANO with Eleanor Heartney
LIN TIANMIAO with Kang Kang
ANDREW ROSS with Jarrett Earnest
THE HELD ESSAYS ON VISUAL ART I Didn't Like Sitting With the Rattle for Hours: On the Motherhood Paintings of Paula Modersohn-Becker and Mary Cassatt
– By Sheila Heti
Subway Drawing: Guno Park, Animation, and the Line
– By Adam Beal
ALEXANDER KARGALTSEV with Ivan Talijancic
On Ellen Cantor: JAMES BARRON with Barry Schwabsky
Architectures of Blue: Race, Representation, and Black and Brown Abstraction
– By Amber Jamilla Musser
The Cult of Creative Failure
– By Ernesto Pujol
Moving Towards Community Benefit: Shifting the Paradigm
– By Roberta Uno

ArtSeen

TREVOR PAGLEN: A Study of Invisible Images
– By Sadie Rebecca Starnes
Minimalism and Beyond
– By Benjamin Clifford
MERIEM BENNANI: Siham and Hafida
– By Jane Cavalier
TIFFANY JAEYEON SHIN: Like Water and Oil Never Assimilating
– By Jaclyn Jaconetta
LOIE HOLLOWELL: Point of Entry
– By Hearne Pardee
Kara Walker and the New History Painting
– By Allison Hewitt Ward
Queering Queer Abstraction
– By Joseph Henry
MICHAEL BERRYHILL: A Window, Adore
– By Tom McGlynn
SANFORD BIGGERS: Selah
– By Steven Pestana
Resurgent Histories, Insurgent Futures
– By T. D. Tucker
LOUISE FISHMAN
– By Jan Avgikos
WILLIAM WEGMAN: Dressed and Undressed
– By Pac Pobric
MIRA SCHENDEL: Sarrafos and Black and White Works
– By David Rhodes
HOLLY COULIS: Table Studies
– By Jason Rosenfeld
NAOTAKA HIRO: Gibbous
– By William Whitney
ROSALYN DREXLER: Occupational Hazard
– By Colin Edgington
ALEX BRADLEY COHEN: Flat Top
– By Jane Cavalier
NSFW: Female Gaze
– By Jesse Firestone
KIKI SMITH: From The Creek
– By Steven Pestana
PETER SAUL: Fake News
– By Hovey Brock
AMIR NIKRAVAN: Rational Design
– By Ian Cofre
RAILING OPINION
– By Maura Brewer
Animal Farm, curated by Sadie Laska
– By Will Fenstermaker
ANETA BARTOS: Family Portrait
– By Osman Can Yerebakan
MOUNIR FATMI: Survival Signs
– By Alan Gilbert
Proof: Francisco Goya, Sergei Eisenstein, Robert Longo
– By Louis Block
Robert Motherwell: Early Paintings | Enormity of the Possible
– By Mary Ann Caws
AD MINOLITI: G.S.F.C. (Geometrical Sci-Fi Cyborg)
– By Anthony Hawley
LIZA BUZYTSKY and KAWITA VATANAJYANKUR: Stamina
– By Alexandra Hammond
AD REINHARDT: Blue Paintings
– By Eleanor Ray
AD REINHARDT: Blue Paintings
– By Alex Bacon
AD REINHARDT: Blue Paintings
– By Nathlie Provosty
FIAT#LUX
– By Mary Ann Caws
ELLIE GA: Strophe, A Turning
– By Kaitlyn A. Kramer
AMANDA ROSS-HO: My Pen is Huge
– By Hovey Brock
DIANA AL-HADID: Falcon's Fortress
– By Steven Pestana
MARK THOMAS GIBSON: Early Retirement
– By William Corwin

Critics Page

Books

Secret Societies from Bohemians to Bullies—ED HAMILTON with Elizabeth Smith
– By Elizabeth Smith
Everything Lost Will Be Given a Name: SAFIA ELHILLO with Alex Dueben
Edges and Intestines
– By Elizabeth Block
Salman Rushdie's The Golden House
– By John Domini
Jenny Zhang's Sour Heart
– By Christine Mi
Refuge in Peril: LAURIE SHECK with Christine Sang
The Little Crack of Light: CHRIS MOORE with Peter Markus
Scott McClanahan's The Sarah Book
– By Eric Nelson
The Making and Unburying of Salem Poet Malcolm Miller: KEVIN CAREY, MARK HILLRINGHOUSE, ROD KESSLER, KEVIN CAREY JR., and R.G. EVANS with Elisabeth Weiss

Music

Untangling RATKING: Wiki comes into his own as a solo artist
– By Gary Sullivan
What Are They To You?
– By George Grella
MARC SABAT with Ondrej Vesely
Outtakes
– By Steve Dalachinsky
October Listings
– By The Editors

Dance

EDITOR'S NOTE Pina Bausch: Three Generations On
Deborah Jowitt on Pina Bausch
Clare Croft on Pina Bausch
Sariel Frankfurter on Pina Bausch
No Glitter Allowed On-stage
– By Mike Stinavage
The Future Starts Now: A Night With Emily Johnson/Catalyst
– By Nicole Loeffler-Gladstone
Faustin Linyekula—An Intensive
– By Susan Yung

Film

BEN VAN METER with Andy Ditzler & Gregory Zinman
WANG BING with Zoe Meng Jiang
An Excerpt from Slow Writing: Thom Andersen on Cinema With an introduction by Mark Webber
The Festival Beneath the Festival: Selections from Toronto International Film Festival 2017
– By Phil Coldiron
Watching READERS
– By Madison Brookshire
American Stalker: Nathan Silver's Thirst Street
– By Paul Felten

Theater

JAMES THIERRÉE with Ivan Talijancic
The Stakes of Exile: Arden/Everywhere: The As You Like It Project
– By Alison Smith
The Other White America: Poverty, Inclusivity, and the Ball Grant: JOSHUA YOUNG with Elisabeth Ng
Nine Questions for Diana Oh
– By Zhailon Levingston
Bolaño in the Americas: Old Debates Demand New Language
– By Will Fenstermaker
There is Always Room for Cream
– By Jessica Del Vecchio

Fiction

The Dogs That Kill Men
– By Takiji Kobayashi, translated from Japanese by Bonnie Huie
Interment for Yard & Garden
– By Pamela Ryder
inSerial: part twelve Delusions of Being Observed
– By Lewis Warsh
Lost and Found Animals Part 12: Constant Recognitions of Constancy
– By Sid Gershgoren
Tragic Strip
– By Tom Motley

Poetry

JA Reprise
– By Ann Lauterbach
The World Without John Ashbery
– By Ron Padgett
Shadow Behind Eclipse for John Ashbery
– By Anne Waldman
Two John Ashbery Jokes
– By Alice Notley
from I Want to Write an Honest Sentence
– By Susan M. Schultz
Remembering JA
– By Ben Sloan
John Ashbery Intro at The Poetry Project 5/14/09
– By Charles North
The Balloon is Ascending (for JA ~ In memoriam)
– By Cedar Sigo
Dictionary of Insolid Things To JA
– By Marcella Durand
Seeing John
– By Todd Colby
Quickish Answer
– By Rachel Levitsky

Verbatim

Reality TV
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Art Books

Marie Darrieusecq: Being Here is Everything: The Life of Paula M. Becker
– By Jessica Holmes
Gregory Sholette: Delirium and Resistance: Activist Art and the Crisis of Capitalism
– By Gretchen Coombs
Stan Brakhage: Metaphors on Vision
– By Sadie Rebecca Starnes
Lieko Shiga: Blind Date
– By Sophie Barbasch

Field Notes

Editor's Note: Party hats for Marx and Lenin
– By Paul Mattick
Soft Shell, Hard Core: On the 150th Anniversary of the Publication of Karl Marx's Capital, Vol. 1
– By Ingo Stützle
Letter from Samos: The Last Fisherman
– By Leonhard Bartussek
Identity and its Discontents
– By Adam Theron-Lee Rensch

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