The Brooklyn Rail

Table of Contents

Editor's Message

• Welcome to the Feminist Institute’s Guest Critic Edition of the Brooklyn Rail

  – By Kathleen Landy

Publisher's Message

• Dear Friends and Readers,

  – By Phong Bui

Art

• ELLEN ALTFEST with Phong Bui

• HANNE TIERNEY with Alex A. Jones

• ROBERT GROSVENOR with Alex Bacon

• WAYNE THIEBAUD with Hearne Pardee

• Seeing, Naming, Knowing

  – By Nora N. Khan

ArtSeen

• BRIC Biennial: Volume III, “The Impossible Possible”

  – By Nina Wolpow

• Lesley Vance

  – By Alfred Mac Adam

• Ricardo Brey: Doble Existencia / Double Existence

  – By Jonathan Goodman

• Charles LeDray: American Standard

  – By Jason Rosenfeld

• Gabo Camnitzer and Lluís Alexandre Casanovas Blanco: Aesthetic Behavior; Developmental Sequences

  – By Joseph Lubitz

• Louise Lawler: She’s Here

  – By Osman Can Yerebakan

• Rona Pondick: Works 2013 – 2018

  – By Hearne Pardee

• Robert Duran: 1968 – 1970

  – By David Rhodes

• Keltie Ferris: RELIEF

  – By Daniel Gerwin

• Wilmer Wilson IV: Slim… you don’t got the juice

  – By Harry Philbrick

• Nicholas Galanin: The Value of Sharpness: When It Falls

  – By Christopher Green

• Adrift: Cao Yi, Li Qing, Yi Xin Tong, and Zhao Zhao

  – By Tanner Tafelski

• The Young and Evil

  – By Osman Can Yerebakan

• Viva Ruiz: ProAbortion Shakira: A Thank God for Abortion Introspective

  – By Simon Wu

• Symbolism in Europe: Burne-Jones, Khnopff, Mucha, and Gauguin

  – By Jason Rosenfeld

• In Search of the Cuenca Biennial

  – By Evan Moffitt

• Margrit Lewczuk: Angels

  – By Alfred Mac Adam

• Matvey Levenstein

  – By Jason Rosenfeld

• David Weiss: Drawings

  – By Hovey Brock

• Nick Brandt: This Empty World

  – By Daniel Pateman

• Kevin Beasley: A view of a landscape

  – By Sadie Rebecca Starnes

• Jon Key: Violet: Mythologies and Other Truths

  – By Danilo Machado

• Luke Stettner: ri ve rr hy me sw it hb lo od

  – By Avram C. Alpert

• David Byrd

  – By Nicholas Heskes

• Banu Cennetoğlu

  – By Ann C. Collins

• Cally Spooner: SWEAT SHAME ETC.

  – By Kaegan Sparks

• Jacob Lawrence: The Life of Toussaint L’Ouverture

  – By Amber Jamilla Musser

• Daniel Baird: murmur

  – By Jared Quinton

• Yukultji Napangati

  – By Maureen Catbagan and Amber Jamilla Musser

• Margrit Lewczuk: Angels

  – By Joan Waltemath

• Libita Clayton: Quantum Ghost

  – By Michael Eby

• The Deceptive Everyday

  – By Tom McGlynn

1x1

• Shigeko Kubota: River

  – By Ida Pruitt

Critics Page

• Alison Knowles with Carolee Schneemann

• No footage? No problem! Eva Hesse: A Feature Documentary Crafted from Archives

  – By Marcie Begleiter

• The Feminist Institute

  – By John Carvalho

• My History With History

  – By Kashana Cauley

• Lifting the Mask

  – By Alexandra Dean

• Helène Aylon with Monika Fabijanska

• Pussy Speak Out

  – By Karen Finley

• Liz Nielsen and Carolina Wheat-Nielsen with Jessamyn Fiore

• Considering Mary Beth Edelson’s Some Living American Women Artists

  – By Kat Griefen

• Judith Bernstein’s Archive

  – By Jillian McManemin

• My Women Mentors: Mentorship as Activism

  – By Natalie Frank

• Forbidden Archeology of the Divine Feminine

  – By Otep Shamaya

• HelloBETTY

  – By Alyson Palmer

• Amy Cutler: Using Magical Materiality as Feminist Critique

  – By Kristen Racaniello

• Claudia Rankine with Julie Scelfo

• The Oldest Woman in the Room: A Feminist Life Lesson from my Mother

  – By Laurie Gwen Shapiro

• Managing the Archive

  – By Sarah Watson

• Women’s Art Collectives: Framing the Future

  – By Kathleen Wentrack

• Lisa Le Feuvre with Keith Wilson

Books

• Anselm Berrigan’s Something for Everybody

  – By Tony Leuzzi

• Marlon James's Black Leopard, Red Wolf

  – By Yvonne C. Garrett

• Rebecca Solnit's Call Them By Their True Names

  – By Deena ElGenaidi

• Eula Biss’s Notes from No Man’s Land

  – By Aly Tadros

• Liminal Dispatches: Esmé Weijun Wang's The Collected Schizophrenias

  – By Ashley P. Taylor

• Strange Objects & Sockdolagers

  – By John Domini

• STEVE POWELL with Jill Dearman

• Beyond Metaphor: On Prose by Chris Campanioni & Elizabeth Powell

  – By Kristina Marie Darling

• Verdant Voices: The Women of Green Writers Press

  – By Emma Irving

• Tom Sleigh with Alex Dueben

• Debra Di Blasi with Joe Milazzo

Music

• Kristina Esfandiari's Songs of Sorrow

  – By John Amen

• Elliott Sharp’s IrRational Music

  – By George Grella

• Robert Ashley's Improvement

  – By Dan Joseph

• Outtakes

  – By Steve Dalachinsky

• March Listings

  – By George Grella and Brad Cohan

Dance

• Up Space, Down Space: Moving Dancers of New York

  – By MG Lee

• Rehearsed Formulas: Momix and Loïe Fuller

  – By George Kan

• New Leadership, and Work, at New York City Ballet

  – By Susan Yung

• NI’JA WHITSON with Dillon Heyck

Film

• Surveying the Demos: Reviving Civic Dialogue in Astra Taylor's What is Democracy?

  – By Esmé Hogeveen

• The Past Lingers On: Ash is Purest White

  – By Zoe Greenway

• CHRISTIAN PETZOLD with Anthony Hawley

• In the Rotterdam of the Senses: International Film Festival Rotterdam 2019

  – By Celluloid Liberation Front

Theater

• Growing Young: Will Pullen on the Serious Art of Make Believe and Playing Jem on Broadway

  – By Addie Talbott

• The Art of Supporting a Writing Life: Joshua Young and Phillip Christian Smith with Elisabeth Ng

Fiction

• from Arabian Nights of 1934

  – By Geoffrey O’Brien

• On Cannibalism

  – By ‘Linke Poot,’ translated from the German by Chris Godwin

• inSerial: part six The Mysteries of Paris

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

• New Routes in Fiction: NEEL PATEL with Alec Niedenthal 

Poetry

• Silence As Instrument Too

  – By Sarah Passino

• six

  – By Betsy Fagin

• four

  – By Donna de la Perrière

• four

  – By Matthew Henriksen

• four

  – By Pamela Sneed

• The Birds of Marseilles

  – By Steve Dalachinsky

• from Lost Horizon

  – By Nathaniel Farrell

Art Books

• Iris Müller–Westermann: Hilma af Klint: Notes and Methods

  – By Madeline Weisburg

• Leslie Hewitt

  – By Megan N. Liberty

• Chris Kraus: Social Practices

  – By Gretchen Coombs

• Mary Jane Jacob: Dewey For Artists

  – By Cara Jordan

Field Notes

• Fairy Tales About Climate Change

  – By José A. Tapia

• Repeating Israel

  – By Oded Nir

• Suffocation of the Young: A Report from Brooklyn on Schooling, Childhood and Mental Illness Today

  – By Juan Chabrier