DEC 17-JAN 18 – The Brooklyn Rail

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Publisher's Message

Dear Friends and Readers,
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Editor's Message

Art, Science, and the Question of Convergence
– By Taney Roniger

Art

ArtSeen

The Enigma of Arrival: On Gonzalo Fonseca’s Timeless Vista
– By Phong Bui
CAROLEE SCHNEEMANN: Kinetic Painting
– By Hovey Brock
Walter De Maria and The Lightning Field at Forty: Art as Symbiosis
– By Jason Rosenfeld
Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon
– By Rindon Johnson
RICHARD SERRA: Sculpture and Drawings
– By Benjamin Clifford
ELIZABETH MURRAY: Painting in the ’80s
– By William Corwin
HIROSHI SUGIMOTO: Gates of Paradise
– By Jessica Holmes
JOSEPHINE HALVORSON: As I Went Walking
– By Hearne Pardee
JONATHAN MONAGHAN: The Disco Beast
– By Alex A. Jones
THOMAS BANGSTED JEANNE SILVERTHORNE
– By Joyce Beckenstein
BENJAMIN KRESS: New Paintings
– By Ann McCoy
The Internal Machine
– By Tom McGlynn
Ardent Nature: Arshile Gorky Landscapes, 1943-47
– By David Rhodes
ANTOINE CATALA: Everything is Okay
– By Vijay Masharani
Nuvolo and Post-War Materiality 1950-1965
– By Benjamin Clifford
MIKE KELLEY: Kandors 1999-2011
– By Hannah Sage Kay
SETH PRICE: Circa 1981
– By Patrick Langley
DUNCAN HANNAH: Adrift in the 21st Century
– By Nicole Miller
MARTÍN RAMÍREZ: A Journey
– By Jonathan Goodman
DUKE RILEY: Now Those Days Are Gone
– By Kate Harding
Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960–1985
– By Michael Valinsky
London Painters
– By Tom McGlynn
LIN YAN: Gateway
– By Jonathan Goodman
JUDITH BERNSTEIN: Cabinet of Horrors
– By Rabia Ashfaque
Below the Underground: Renegade Art and Action in 1990s Mexico
– By Liz Hirsch
The Oscar Wilde Temple
– By Carlos Kong
ELLEN HARVEY: Nostalgia
– By Nicole Miller
HOWARDENA PINDELL: Recent Paintings
– By Jan Avgikos
AGNIESZKA KURANT: Collective Intelligence
– By Hunter Braithwaite
Golden Eyes: Alex Katz at Ninety
– By William Corbett
Deep in the Static: Raghubir Singh’s Photographs
– By Louis Block
MARK DION: Misadventures of a 21st-Century Naturalist
– By Vivian Li
Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman and Designer
– By Brandt Junceau
RICHARD SERRA: Sculpture and Drawings
– By David Carrier
Measuring the Weight with Richard Serra
– By Mary Ann Caws
Dalí/Duchamp
– By Elizabeth Fullerton
Club 57: Film, Performance, and Art in the East Village, 1978-1983
– By Nicole Miller
MINOUK LIM: Mamour
– By Osman Can Yerebakan
HASSEL SMITH: The Ferus Years
– By David Rhodes
JOSÉ LEONILSON: Empty Man
– By Andreas Petrossiants
NINA CHANEL ABNEY: Safe House/Seized the Imagination
– By William Whitney
KATE GROOBEY: I'm Made of Milk
– By Alfred Mac Adam

Critics Page

Figuring Forms
– By Margaret Wertheim
Diagramming a New Theory of Picture
– By Matthew Ritchie
Why Sci-Art Needs Not to Make Sense
– By James Elkins
Two Branches, One Tree
– By Werner Sun
Art is Irrelevant
– By Daniel Hill
Monstrosity, Spectacle, Wonder
– By Dan Weiskopf
Sci-Art Doubts and Disruptions
– By Stephen Nowlin
Complexity and Accessibility: Why Science Needs Art
– By Elaine R. Reynolds
Some Thoughts on Art and Science
– By Linda Francis
Tortured Artists and Mad Scientists: Separated at Birth
– By Wavelength
Describing Flow: An Interaction Between Science and Art
– By Luis F. Schettino
ALEXIS ROCKMAN with Tom McGlynn
Notes on Science and Film
– By Sonia Shechet Epstein
Intimate Knowledge
– By Ed Kerns
Staging Physical Analogues of Entangled Black Holes
– By Evelina Domnitch and Dmitry Gelfand
Remote Sensing
– By Suzanne Anker
Haptico-Visual Observation and Drawing: A Novel Method for Studying Anatomy
– By Leonard Shapiro
What if?
– By Lorrie Fredette
RadWaste: A Shadow Without a Body
– By Eve Andrée Laramée
The Original Social Network
– By Catherine Chalmers

Books

The Rail's Best Books of 2017
– Joseph Salvatore, Books Editor
Ordinary Beast: NICOLE SEALEY with Alex Dueben
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Vengeance: ZACHARY LAZAR with David Winner
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Ultraluminous: KATHERINE FAW with Sean Madigan Hoen
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My Cousin A.J.: A.J. JACOBS with Meg Kissel
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Really Any Desert Creature: CLAIRE VAYE WATKINS with Allison Field Bell
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Naomi Alderman’s The Power
– By Yvonne C. Garrett
Anelise Chen’s So Many Olympic Exertions
– By James Duesterberg
Gil Fagiani's Logos
– By Kevin Carey
Cristina Rivera Garza’s The Iliac Crest
– By Yvonne C. Garrett
Eyes Without a Face: Christine Hume and Jeff Clark’s Question Like A Face
– By Chris Campanioni
Claire Messud’s The Burning Girl
– claire messud, the burning girl, yvonne c. garret, books, fiction
The Lonely Scrivener: GAY TALESE with John Domini
Time-Trails and Travelled Roads: GALE RENEE WALDEN with Rod Kessler
Beyond Violence: Paul Yoon’s The Mountain
– By Darley Stewart
Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi’s Futurability: The Age of Impotence and the Horizon of Possibility
– By Giovanni Vimercati
ADAM BRAVER with David Winner
Ta-Nehisi Coates’s We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
– By Matt Grant
Anthony DeCurtis's Lou Reed: A Life
– By Ben Tripp
Fathers and Daughters: Jennifer Egan’s Manhattan Beach
– By Tom Deignan
D. Foy’s Absolutely Golden
– By Sean Gill
On the Impossibility of Teaching Writing: Rainald Goetz
– By Andrea Scrima
Patrick McGrath's The Wardrobe Mistress
– By Yvonne C. Garrett
Structures in Service to Wonder: Ivy Pochoda's Wonder Valley
– By Michael Natalie
Karl Ove Knausgaard: Autumn and Winter
– By David Varno
CELESTE LIM, TERESE SVOBODA, GAYATRI CHAKRAVORTY SPIVAK with Gabriel Don
– By Gabriel Don

Music

Tomokawa Kazuki at Greene Naftali
– By Sadie Rebecca Starnes
Scenes From The Class Struggle
– By George Grella
It Just Gets Out of Hand: JOHN COHEN In Conversation with Stephen Ellis, Ivy Sheppard, and David Sheppard
Songs About Fucking and Killing: Diamanda Galás at Murmrr Theatre, October 31
– By George Grella
Cutting Ties with Cut Worms
– By Marshall Yarbrough
Dan Bejar’s Latest Iteration
– By John Amen
Outtakes
– By Steve Dalachinsky
December & January Listings
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Dance

Dance and Music Speak the Heart: Two Generations
– By Susan Yung
Dissolving into Chaos
– By Nicole Loeffler-Gladstone
Art and science of the unraveling mind: A My Name Is… STEFANIE NELSON and DAVID SHENK with Ivan Talijancic
Savage Logic
– By Erica Getto
Shaping Up
– By Erica Getto

Film

Specious Realities at DOC NYC
– By Williams Cole
BARBARA HAMMER with Alexandra Juhasz
Lost in the Field of Screens: The Films of Olivia Ciummo
– By Michael Sicinski
MICHAEL ROBINSON with Z. W. Lewis
The Collaborators: Yuzo Kawashima x Ayako Wakao at Japan Society
– By Jaime Grijalba

Theater

DIVING IN: On the Pop-Up Theater Company The Pool and the Generous Act of Producing
– By Deborah Stein
From the Inside Out: Rock Monster Jody Christopherson
– By Mariah MacCarthy
JIM FINDLAY with Ivan Talijancic
– By Ivan Talijancic

Fiction

Art Brut
– By Carlos Fonseca Suárez
Christmas at the Boarding School
– By Dominique Fabre, translated from the French by Michael Z. Wise
inSerial: part fourteen Delusions of Being Observed
– By Lewis Warsh
from Palace of Rubble
– By Kyra Simone
New Routes in Fiction: David Coventry with Alec Niedenthal
from Satania
– By Kerascoet and Fabien Vehlmann
Absurd Things That Happened You Might Have Forgotten!
– By Joshua Daniel
Carmel, California—1992
– By Tom Daly

Poetry

five
– By Thomas Devaney
five
– By Stacey Tran
five
– By Sean Cole and David Kirschenbaum
three
– By Camonghne Felix
seven
– By Jeffrey Joe Nelson
three
– By Charity Coleman

Verbatim

NORMAN LEWIS: Behind the Mask

Art Books

Boris Arvatov's Art & Production
– By Celluloid Liberation Front
Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960-1985
– By Gillian Sneed
Intimate Geometries: The Art and Life of Louise Bourgeois
– By Amei Wallach

In Memoriam

Editor's Note
– By Thyrza Nichols Goodeve
RICK SAVINON
Angel Abreu
Jorge Abreu
Robert Branch, Ed.M
– By Robert Branch, Ed.M.
Julie Ault
Doug Ashford
Andres Serrano
Jim Hodges
Robert Bordo
Pastor Vanessa Brown
Dara Birnbaum
Marc J. Straus
Eleanor Heartney
Sergio Bessa
Stefan Kalmár
David Rhodes
Conrad Atkinson
Thyrza Nichols Goodeve
Larry Littany Litt
David Ross

Field Notes

Climate Change: What is to be Done? Part 2: Climate and the Economy
– By José A. Tapia
The Future of the Past
– By Bini Adamczak
The Critique of Value at Belshazzar’s Feast: A Review of Anselm Jappe’s The Writing on the Wall
– By Andy Battle
The Vietnam War
– By Peter St. Clair
NATALIE BAKER with Sammy Feldblum

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