The Brooklyn Rail

Table of Contents

Publisher's Message

• Dear Friends and Readers,

  – By Phong Bui

Editor's Message

• Fifteen People Select Their Favorite Book

  – By Jo Melvin

Art

• KEN PRICE with Douglas Dreishpoon

• CHARLINE VON HEYL with Raphael Rubinstein

• JAMES ENGLISH LEARY with Charles Schultz

• FIRELEI BÁEZ with Hồng-Ân Trương

• SETH PRICE with Will Fenstermaker

• ANN MCCOY with Aaron Rosen

• JOYCE J. SCOTT with Lowery Stokes Sims

ArtSeen

• Tamar Ettun: Jubilation Inflation

  – By Nicole Miller

• Odyssey: Jack Whitten Sculpture 1963 – 2017

  – By William Corwin

• Ai Weiwei: Cao / Humanity

  – By Vivian Li

• Miguel Trelles

  – By Jonathan Goodman

• Arthur Jafa: A Series of Utterly Improbable, Yet Extraordinary Renditions

  – By Hannah Stamler

• Jaimie Warren: One Moment in Time

  – By Nina Wolpow

• Thinking Collections: Telling Tales: A Survey Exhibition of Kyzyl Tractor Art Collective

  – By Osman Can Yerebakan

• John Bock: Dead + Juicy

  – By Jessica Holmes

• LOL Cats: In Marx For Cats the Internet Confronts Its Favorite Meme

  – By G Douglas Barrett and Mr. Love Bunny, Sailor Boy, Mr. Big Stuff, and Little Moo

• Hew Locke: Patriots

  – By Marcia E. Vetrocq

• Juan Pablo Langlois: Afterwards no one will remember

  – By Colin Edgington

• Suzanne Bocanegra: Poorly Watched Girls

  – By Grant Klarich Johnson

• Ann McCoy: The Procession of the Invisible College

  – By Hovey Brock

• Beverly Fishman

  – By David Rhodes

• Umber Majeed: In the Name of Hypersurface of the Present

  – By Julie Nelson

• The Safarani Sisters: Reincarnation

  – By Jonathan Goodman

• Indian Ceramics Triennale: Breaking Ground

  – By Romain Maitra

• Rhys Lee: Good Boy and Kevin Bourgeois: Wall of Sound

  – By Jonathan Goodman

• Minoru Yoshida: Performance in New York

  – By George Kan

• Mahmoud Khaled: I want you to know that I am hiding something from you

  – By Shehab Awad

• Frank Bowling: Make It New

  – By Nicole Miller

• Everything is Connected: Art and Conspiracy

  – By Hovey Brock

• Carnegie International, 57th Edition

  – By David Carrier and Graham Shearing

• Hilma af Klint: Paintings for the Future

  – By Ann McCoy

• John Ashbery: The Construction of Fiction

  – By Phillip Griffith

• Acts of Art and Rebuttal in 1971

  – By Pac Pobric

• James Hyde: Western Painting—Magnasco

  – By Alfred Mac Adam

• Gillian Wearing: Life

  – By Osman Can Yerebakan

• Dismantling the Master’s House: The Color Curtain Dinner

  – By Nicole Kaack

• Hiwa K: Blind as the Mother Tongue

  – By Yasi Alipour

• Speculative Color: 100 lines for Stephen Mueller

  – By Anthony Hawley

• A Void

  – By Maddie Klett

• Peter Moore: 1968

  – By Mark Bloch

• The Women Behind

  – By Naomi Lev

• Sedimentations: Assemblage as Social Repair

  – By Osman Can Yerebakan

• Delacroix

  – By Jason Rosenfeld

• Hugh Hayden: Border States

  – By Eliza Barry

• AES+F, Inverso Mundus

  – By Katy Diamond Hamer

1x1

• Ruins in Reverse

  – By Sadie Rebecca Starnes

Critics Page

• Forgotten Moments, Future Exhibitions

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• Ian Davenport and Jo Melvin on Sol LeWitt

• Molinology

  – By Emanuele and Primo De Donno

• 33⅓ RPM—Performance for record turntable, loop effect pedal and vinyl records

  – By Sean Dower

• Badenheim 1939 and My Painting

  – By Jeff Gibbons

• Chimera

  – By Jeffrey Isaac

• Existere

  – By JocJonJosch

• Parrots, Parrots

  – By Giovanni Rendina

• Sol LeWitt Wall Drawings, Torre Bonomo, Spoleto

  – By Guy Robertson

• Drawing 4: Bruce Chatwin What am I doing Here, 2010

  – By David Tremlett

• Sol LeWitt—Extraordinary traveller in Spoleto

  – By Franco Troiani

• Grace Weir

Books

• Running the Devil's Gauntlet: Ahmed Bouanani's The Hospital

  – By John Domini

• May-Lee Chai's Useful Phrases for Immigrants

  – By Yvonne C. Garrett

• Lexi Freiman’s Inappropriation

  – By Deena ElGenaidi

• Jeff Jackson's Destroy All Monsters: The Last Rock Novel

  – By Nicholas Rys

• Kim Sagwa's Mina

  – By Yvonne C. Garrett

• Armonía Somers's The Naked Woman

  – By Yvonne C. Garrett

• Simon Sellars's Applied Ballardianism: Memoir from a Parallel Universe

  – By Michael Eby

Music

• November Listings

  – By George Grella and Brad Cohan

• Nuits Sonores, Brussels

  – By Martin Longley

• Do We Deserve Beethoven?

  – By George Grella

• slowthai And The Path Out

  – By Steve Erickson

• It's Not A Safe Space But It’s Where We Live: Listening to Stew and the Negro Problem's Notes of a Native Song and Total Bent

  – By Eric Wallach

• Outtakes

  – By Steve Dalachinsky

Dance

• Mette Ingvartsen’s 21 pornographies

  – By Rennie McDougall

• Infinite Recombinations

  – By Nicole Loeffler-Gladstone

• What Remains: Rankine and Rawls’s Mindscape

  – By Gillian Jakab

• another piece apart: two parts as a whole

  – By Jen George

• Migratory patterns: Sasha Waltz's recent works

  – By Ivan Talijancic

• The Tenant: A Dark Tale Told Through Movement

  – By Susan Yung

Film

• Mixed Use: MONO NO AWARE

  – By Mary Billyou

• A Failure to Respond: On Ruth Beckermann’s The Waldheim Waltz

  – By Sean Nam

• Show Me Your Original Face: On Tsai Ming-liang’s Your Face

  – By Sadie Rebecca Starnes

• But Not For Always: Alice Rohrwacher’s Happy as Lazzaro

  – By Gina Telaroli

• Deep Listening: Mary Helena Clark’s The Glass Note

  – By Phil Coldiron

Theater

• Sam Hunter Brings Two New Plays—and a Meal—to Rattlestick

  – By Billy McEntee

• Life as a hologram: Lee Breuer

  – By Avinash Rajendran

• Tunneling through Density: Ben Gassman's NYC

  – By Jess Barbagallo

Fiction

• Friends and Strangers

  – By Max Frisch, translated from the German by Linda Frazee Baker

• Giorgio de Chirico’s ‘Other’ Novel: An Excerpt from Monsieur Dudron

  – translated from the Italian by Ara H. Merjian

• “Kiki Ortega” From Nefando

  – By Mónica Ojeda, translated from the Spanish by Sarah Booker.

• Highlights from the Life of Raymond Roussel #9: Bliss

  – By Tom Motley

• inSerial: part three The Mysteries of Paris

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

• New Routes in Fiction: ANDREW MARTIN with Alec Niedenthal

Poetry

• three

  – By Norman Fischer

• Hold On

  – By Dale Martin Smith

• Oxygen Solder

  – By Adam Strauss

• three

  – By Emily Liebowitz

• three

  – By Coco Fitterman

• “Heaven”

  – By Shiv Kotecha

Art Books

• Intermedia, Fluxus, and the Something Else Press: Selected Writings by Dick Higgins

  – By Jennie Waldow

• Ed Atkins’s A Primer for Cadavers

  – By Brianna Leatherbury

• Richard McGuire’s Art For The Street 1978 – 1982

  – By Megan N. Liberty

• DAVID CASAVANT with Michela Moscufo

• Jason Lutes's Berlin

  – By Jason Rosenfeld

In Memoriam

• Robert Pincus-Witten and Postmodernism

  – By Robert C. Morgan

Field Notes

• Beyond the Green New Deal

  – By Max Ajl

• The Secret is Out

  – By David Levi Strauss

• Tapping into the unrealized futures of the past: QUINN SLOBODIAN with Pavlos Roufos

  – By Pavlos Roufos

• Border Jumpers: Afropean Itineraries

  – By Bruno Le Dantec