The Brooklyn Rail

Table of Contents

Publisher's Message

• Dear Friends and Readers,

  – By Phong Bui

Editor's Message

• The Prismatic View

  – By Alexander Nagel

Art

• DURABLE FUTURES AND INTIMATE ENCOUNTERS MCKENZIE WARK with Thyrza Nichols Goodeve

• JOSIAH MCELHENY with Jarrett Earnest

• DAYS OF FUTURES PAST Okwui Enwezor’s Eurocentric Venice Biennale

  – By Marcia E. Vetrocq

• TREVOR PAGLEN with Hunter Braithwaite

• BIG TALK, SMALL TALK Why People Who Read Should Care About Emojis

  – By Jonathan Kalb

• FOR THOSE IN PERIL ON THE SEA Seeing Édouard Glissant in Miami

  – By Laila Pedro

• ARLENE SHECHET with Phong Bui

• A Little Boy Lies Face Down on the Beach

  – By David Levi Strauss

• Landon Metz’s New Paintings

  – By Alex Bacon

ArtSeen

• Space Between

  – By Samuel Feldblum

• Berliner Sommerzeit

  – By Tom McGlynn

• Letter from Paris

  – By Hearne Pardee

• SARAH CHARLESWORTH Doubleworld

  – By Simone Krug

• Picture This: New Orleans Mary Ellen Mark’s Last Assignment

  – By Charles Schultz

• A Painted Horse by JOE SOLA (with MATTHEW CHAMBERS, SAYRE GOMEZ, RUDY K. SLOBECK, and others)

  – By Liz Hirsch

• RODRÍGUEZ CALERO Urban Martyrs and Latter Day Santos

  – By Jessica Holmes

• RUTH ROOT

  – By ANTHONY HAWLEY

• SEAN SCULLY Different Places

  – By David Carrier

• CLIFFORD ROSS Landscape Seen & Imagined

  – By Phong Bui

• MERYL MCMASTER Second Self

  – By Christopher Green

• Type as Image

  – By Jonathan Goodman

• Personal Correspondents: Photography and Letter Writing in Civil War Brooklyn

  – By Sara Christoph

• STANLEY WHITNEY and LORRAINE O’GRADY

  – By Phillip Griffith

• AGNES DENES Living Pyramid

  – By Ann McCoy

• ANDREAS SCHULZE Stau

  – By Terry R. Myers

• EVAN NESBIT Porosity

  – By David Rhodes

• BARBARA TAKENAGA Nebraska

  – By Kara L. Rooney

• WOLFGANG TILLMANS Book for Architects

  – By Michelle Standley

• Means of Approach: New York Painting

  – By Joan Waltemath

• SHIRIN NESHAT Facing History

  – By Yasi Alipour

• MICHAEL SMITH Excuse Me!?!…I’m looking for the “Fountain of Youth”

  – By Andrea Zlotowitz

• CHOONG SUP LIM Void

  – By Jonathan Goodman

• Empty House Casa Vazia

  – By Margaret Graham

Critics Page

• Amelia Saul and St. John the Evangelist (ca. 1410)

• Alexi Worth and Jan van Eyck’s Crucifixion and Last Judgment (ca. 1435 – 40)

• Nina Katchadourian and the Gallery of Late Medieval Secular Art

• CHARLES RAY with Alexander Nagel

• R.H. QUAYTMAN with Alexander Nagel and The Judgment of Paris (ca. 1510 – 20)

• Shahzia Sikander and Princely Deer Hunters (ca. 1660 – 70)

• Rebecca Chamberlain and the Shoin Rooms of Japan (17th century)

• Amie Siegel and 18th-century Dutch houses at the Brooklyn Museum

Books

• Autumn’s Picks for Young Readers

  – By Jordan B. Nielsen

• The Physics of Bearing Witness

  – By Sharon Mesmer

• Your Body Becomes You

  – By Carmiel Banasky

• Cruel Theater

  – By Mary Ann Caws

• The Radiant City

  – By Dustin Illingworth

• Daughter of the West

  – By Jill Dehnert

• The Secret Life of Everything

  – By Madeline Gressel

• UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN PRESS’S 21st CENTURY PROSE SERIES AUTHORS LAUREN FOSS GOODMAN in conversation with RYAN RIDGE

• Living Between the Imagined and the Real MICHAEL KLEIN with Tony Leuzzi

• COREY MESLER with Alex Dueben

• Throw Yourself Accordingly Roberto Montes with Andrew Weatherhead

• Tongues Like as of Fire

  – By Ryan D. Matthews

• SUSAN SHAPIRO with Anne Scardino

• Spells, Riddles, Potions, and Curses

  – By Lucas Hunt

• RENÉE WATSON with Linda Kleinbub

Music

• Brooklyn Rail Highly Selective Music Events

• Selling Out to Freedom

  – By George Grella

• A PARLIAMENT OF SOUND The Twentieth Annual Vision Festival

  – By Ryan Meehan

• SINGING HISTORY The President’s “Amazing Grace”

  – By Brian Barone

• Outtakes

  – By Steve Dalachinsky

• Diary of a Mad Composer

  – By George Grella

• Spacious and Relaxed

  – By Michael Blair

Dance

• Whose Island / Who is Island

  – By Jaime Shearn Coan

• Five on the Black Hand Side / Dapline!

  – By Jaime Shearn Coan

• ABOVE THE FOLD Hierarchy, Hedonism, and Hemlines in Walter Dundervill’s Arena

  – By Erica Getto

Film

• MARY CURTIS RATCLIFF & PARRY TEASDALE OF VIDEOFREEX with Erin Sickler

• ONCE MORE TO THE LAKE Jerome Hiler’s New Shores

  – By Max Goldberg

• HIGH AND LOW Sakura Ando’s Restraint

  – By Jesse Cumming

Theater

• The Salad Days of Sheila Callaghan

  – By Tommy Smith

• Storm, Still:

  – Gabrielle Reisman and Portia Krieger with Morgan Gould

Fiction

• Horror Story

  – by Mirza Athar Baig, translated from the Urdu by Haider Shahbaz

• 1997

  – By Jeremy Tiang

• from Kid Coole

  – By M. G. Stephens

• Young Mothers

  – By Joanna Walsh

• an extract from The Folly

  – By Ivan Vladislavić

• Messages from Home

  – By Molly Roth

• Arrowschmitt!!!!

  – By Arryan Decatur

Poetry

• Three

  – By Carol Mirakove

• Eleven

  – By Joel Lewis

• Four

  – By Nikki Wallschlaeger

• Two

  – By Amy King

Art Books

• Painting Now and Eternally SUZANNE HUDSON with Paula Burleigh

Field Notes

• Editor’s Note

  – By Paul Mattick

• We Gotta Get Out of This Place ANSELM JAPPE with Alastair Hemmens

• Back to School, Back to Work

  – By Samuel Feldblum

• Fighting the Fire Next Time

  – By Peter St. Clair