The Brooklyn Rail

Table of Contents

Editor's Message

• At the Beginning, A Monologue: The Fate of Self-Taught Art

  – By Valérie Rousseau

Publisher's Message

• Dear Friends and Readers,

  – By Phong Bui

Art

• Art and Community: “Dwelling Munich” CHARLES SIMONDS with Irving Sandler

• DONA NELSON with Leeza Meksin

• SUE DE BEER with Jessica Holmes

• Towards a New Political Space: Quiero un Presidente

  – By Lucía Hinojosa

• DEBORAH NAJAR with Joachim Pissarro and David Carrier

• Forecasting Art and Social Justice*

  – By Rehan Ansari

ArtSeen

• Intimacy

  – By Millie Christie-Dervaux

• The Incomplete Araki

  – By Sadie Rebecca Starnes

• Social Photography VI

  – By Graham W. Bell

• Summer: Curated by Ugo Rondinone

  – By David Rhodes

• ATSUKI SETTANGELI: New Dawns of the Samurai Spirit

  – By Mark Bloch

• 3: Brenda Goodman, Christina Tenaglia, and Marie Vickerilla

  – By Jonathan Goodman

• JASON STOPA: The Gate

  – By Eliza Barry

• GEOFFREY CHADSEY: THAT’S NOT IT

  – By Ivan Talijancic

• Interventions

  – By Millie Christie-Dervaux

• ANN CRAVEN: Sunset Moon

  – By David Rhodes

• AARON FOWLER: Donkey Days, Donkey Nights, and Bigger Than Me

  – By Will Fenstermaker

• CANDICE BREITZ: Love Story

  – By Emily Watlington

• CEAPHAS STUBBS: Phantom Limb

  – By Nico Wheadon

• Forsaking Pop: A New Art Generation from Japan

  – By Mark Bloch

• This Is Not A Prop

  – By Nina Wolpow

• PHOEBE BOSWELL: Take Me To The Lighthouse

  – By Nico Wheadon

• PACIFICO SILANO: After Silence

  – By Osman Can Yerebakan

• Cliche

  – By William Corwin

• JACK SMITH: Art Crust of Spiritual Oasis

  – By Mark Bloch

• You Say You Want a Revolution: Remembering the 60s

  – By Colin Kinniburgh

• 74 million million million tons

  – By Andreas Petrossiants

• JONATHAN LYNDON CHASE: Sheets

  – By Daniel Gerwin

• DEMIAN DINÉYAZHI’ & R.I.S.E.: Radical Indigenous Survivance & Empowerment

  – By Christopher Green

• MARY CORSE: A Survey in Light

  – By Elizabeth M. Gollnick

• PHILIP HUGHES: Vues d’en Haut

  – By Mary Ann Caws

• ERNIE GEHR: Essex Street Quartet (2004)

  – By Jason Rosenfeld

• OTOBONG NKANGA: To Dig A Hole That Collapses Again

  – By Elliot J. Reichert

• RAUL GUERRERO

  – By William Corwin

• TRACEY MOFFATT: Vigils and Travellers

  – By Maureen Catbagan and Amber Jamilla Musser

• STEPHEN ANTONAKOS: Proscenium

  – By Jason Rosenfeld

• MARIANNE VITALE: On the One

  – By Kyle Connors

• PASCALE MARTHINE TAYOU: Colorful Line

  – By Osman Can Yerebakan

• LUCAS SAMARAS: Photo-Transformations

  – By Charles Schultz

• Axis Mundo: Queer Networks in Chicano L.A.

  – By Gillian Sneed

• SUE COE: Graphic Resistance

  – By Ann McCoy

• SUMMER WHEAT: Swamp Hunters (2018)

  – By Alex A. Jones

• MARTHA DIAMOND: Cityscapes

  – By Tom McGlynn

• Indicators: Artists on Climate Change

  – By Patrick Jaojoco

• Giacometti

  – By Alfred Mac Adam

• WAYNE THIEBAUD: Pastel Scatter (1972)

  – By Hearne Pardee

• JULIA PHILLIPS: Fixator (#2) (2017)

  – By Louis Block

• MALICK SIDIBÉ: Love Power Peace

  – By William Whitney

• Multiply, Identify, Her

  – By Anna Dunn

• ROB WYNNE: FLOAT

  – By Barbara A. MacAdam

• The Surface of the East Coast

  – By Jonathan Goodman

• CLARENCE SCHMIDT: Let's Call it Hope

  – By Jonathan Goodman

• Collapsed Field

  – By J C

Critics Page

• A Special Niche for a Special Art

  – By Edward M. Gómez

• Shifting and Symmetry of Time

  – By George Widener

• Self-Taught Artists and Institutional Narratives: Can Museums Find a Balanced Response to an Exclusionary Past? Leslie Umberger Speaks with Kerry James Marshall.

• Collecting and Curating Art Brut in the 21st Century

  – By Barbara Safarova

• Thornton Dial Takes Fifth Ave

  – By Aleesa P. Alexander

• Inside Out: Reflections on Outsider Art

  – By W.J.T. Mitchell

• Speaking in Tongues

  – By Massimiliano Gioni

• Rethinking (Art) History (without Reaching a Conclusion)

  – By Daniel Baumann

Books

• The Oligarch Is In Charge ( …and has to go)

  – By Tod Thilleman

• Paul Tremblay’s The Cabin at the End of the World

  – By Joseph Salvatore

• TO THROW AWAY UNOPENED: VIV ALBERTINE with Yvonne C. Garrett

  – By Yvonne C. Garrett

• Anna Moschovakis's Eleanor, or, the Rejection of the Progress of Love

  – By Veronica Scott Esposito

• Poems from the Dark Side: JOE FLETCHER with TONY TRIGILIO

• Kevin Wilson’s Baby, You’re Gonna Be Mine

  – By Deena ElGenaidi

• Tyler Cohen’s Primahood: Magenta

  – By Elizabeth Block

• Uncured of Myself: John Edgar Wideman's American Histories

  – By David Varno

• FAN FICTION: Andrew Shaffer's Hope Never Dies

  – By Matt Grant

• Two New Anthologies Look Beyond Body Positivity and Sexism

  – By Randle Browning

• Redefining our Subject Object Relations: Junk, by Tommy Pico

  – By Chris Campanioni

• CARRIE LA SEUR in coversation with Olivia Kate Cerrone

• Jennifer Gilmore's If Only

  – By Jordan Nielsen

• MICHELLE TEA in conversation with Yvonne C Garrett

  – By Yvonne C. Garrett

Music

• Swiss Beats

  – By George Grella

• Outtakes

  – By Steve Dalachinsky

• Jazzkaar; Tallinn, Estonia, April 20-29

  – By Martin Longley

• Moers Festival

  – By Martin Longley

• Summer Listings

  – By Brad Cohan

• Notes Toward the Death of New York

  – By George Grella

Dance

• Layers of Possibility: Site-specific dance and the River to River Festival

  – By Nicole Loeffler-Gladstone

• Passing the Torch: Michael Novak with Susan Yung

• ABT Looks Forward and Back

  – By Susan Yung

• Something to Hold Onto

  – By Erica Getto

• Regeneration

  – By Katy Dammers

• Disorderly Conduct: On THEM, Police Brutality, and Following Orders

  – By Joey Cannizzaro

Film

• Films as Lips and Teeth to Bite With: Godard at Cannes, at the ZAD, and Online

  – By Rona Lorimer

• Cannes 2018: No Miraculous Conversions

  – By James Lattimer

• DONAL FOREMAN with Leo Goldsmith

  – By Leo Goldsmith

• Staging Xenophobia: The Legacy of German Iconoclast Christoph Schlingensief

  – By Esmé Hogeveen

• How Much Better Is Silence: On Valérie Massadian’s Milla

  – By Erin Delaney

Theater

• Offerings of Hope with Marcus Gardley

  – By Matthew Paul Olmos

• Sculpting the Particular: AMINA HENRY with Joshua Young

• The Uptown Transfer: Playwrights Redux

  – By John Michael DiResta

Fiction

• from Who Among Us

  – by Mario Benedetti, translated from the Spanish by Harry Morales

• Underneath the Ruins

  – By Grace Chia

• Fresh Blood

  – By Grace Chia

• On the Current Symbolic Status of Oil

  – by Duncan Smith

• Highlights from the Life of Raymond Roussel #6: Solus

  – By Tom Motley

• Golthar, Terror of the Deep

  – By Nathan Place

• Mathias Svalina’s Dream Delivery Service

  – By Mathias Svalina

Poetry

• The Pleasure and Satisfaction of Living

  – By Amy De'Ath

• four

  – By Jessica Holburn

• Ed Steck

  – By Josef Kaplan

• Stanzas from an untitled poem

  – By Daniel Tiffany

• five from Museum Penghancur Dokumen / Document Shredding Museum

  – By Afrizal Malna, translated by Daniel Owen

• Biography

  – By Isabel Sobral Campos

• three

  – By Trace DePass

Verbatim

• Niki de Saint Phalle: Le Cimetière de Montparnasse

  – By Devon Whitehead

Art Books

• Nell Painter's Old in Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over

  – By Karen Chernick

• Adrian Piper: A Synthesis of Intuitions, 1965 – 2016 and Adrian Piper: A Reader

  – By Phillip Griffith

• Steel Stillman: Black Point

  – By Taylor Dafoe

• Katherine Bernhardt: Houses

  – By Eli Hill

LastWords

• Young, Black, Rich and Haitian

  – By Christopher Stackhouse

In Memoriam

• A Tribute to Irving Sandler

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Field Notes

• On Laundromats

  – By George Grylls

• Dreams of National Capital: Market Socialism, Past and Present

  – By Jamie Merchant

• Jobs, Bullshit, and the Bureaucratization of the World

  – By Jason E. Smith

• The Aggressiveness of Vulnerability

  – By Pavlos Roufos

• ZAD: The State of Play

  – by S.G. and G.K., translated from the French by Janet Koenig