DEC 18-JAN 19 – The Brooklyn Rail

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Publisher's Message

Dear Friends and Readers,
– By Phong Bui

Editor's Message

Artists Extending Their Reach
– By Mark Rosenthal

Art

ArtSeen

Walter Robinson: Salad, Candles, & Money
– By Alfred Mac Adam
Incidental Relays of Memory
– By Phong Bui
A Wild Ass Beyond: ApocalypseRN
– By Che Gossett
The Menil Collection Reinstallation: Selections from the Permanent Collection
– By Alex Jen
Elise Ansel: Time Present
– By Alfred Mac Adam
Yasumasa Morimura: Ego Obscura & In the Room of Art History
– By Graham W. Bell
James Rosenquist: His American Life
– By Mary Ann Caws
Mariana Castillo Deball: Petlacoatl
– By Jared Quinton
Introducing Tony Conrad: A Retrospective
– By Andreas Petrossiants
Bacon’s Women
– By Jessica Holmes
Pope.L: The Escape
– By Elliot J. Reichert
Ivan Forde: Dense Lightness
– By Yasi Alipour
Posing Modernity: The Black Model from Manet and Matisse to Today
– By Jason Rosenfeld
Marguerite Humeau: Birth Canal
– By Nicholas Heskes
Emily Mullin: Woman on Top
– By William Corwin
MOTHA and Chris E. Vargas: Consciousness Razing—The Stonewall Re-Memorialization Project
– By Danilo Machado
Lisa Yuskavage: New Paintings & Babie Brood
– By Eleanor Heartney
Charles White: A Retrospective
– By Nico Wheadon
Gutai
– By Benjamin Clifford
Nick Cave: If a Tree Falls
– By Alan Gilbert
John Houck: Holding Environment
– By David Carrier
Jenny Snider: A selection of paintings, drawings and sculpture, 1970 to the present
– By Dona Nelson
Thornton Willis: Improvisational Structures
– By Alfred Mac Adam
Black Mirror: Art as Social Satire
– By Daniel Pateman
Sable Elyse Smith: BOLO: Be on (the) Lookout
– By Amber Jamilla Musser
Sarah Lucas: Au Naturel
– By Mengna Da
Brendan Fernandes: The Living Mask
– By Lori Waxman
Stanley Whitney: In the Color
– By Tom McGlynn
Harriet Korman: Permeable/Resistant
– By Raphael Rubinstein
Rona Pondick
– By Pac Pobric
Arthur Simms: The Big Picture, One Halo, Sculptures and Drawings
– By Hovey Brock
Harvey Quaytman: Against the Static
– By David Carrier
Vicky Colombet: Paintings from 2007 – 2018
– By Jonathan Goodman
Carnegie International, 57th Edition
– By Sabrina Mandanici
False Flag: The Space Between Paranoia and Reason
– By Ann C. Collins
Tau Lewis: I bet this cave has been here for a really long time
– By Magdalyn Asimakis
MECA Art Fair, Old San Juan
– By Katy Diamond Hamer
Peter Williams: River of Styx
– By Daniel Gerwin
Hélio Oiticica: Spatial Relief and Drawings 1955 - 59
– By Alfred Mac Adam
Mark Grotjahn: New Capri, Capri, Free Capri
– By David Rhodes
A Wild Ass Beyond: ApocalypseRN
– By Alex A. Jones
Spine
– By Megan N. Liberty

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The Listeners
– By Ernesto Pujol

Critics Page

Artist-Endowed Foundations: Mapping the Field
– By Christine J. Vincent
Josef and Anni Albers Foundation
– By Nicholas Fox Weber
Calder Foundation
– By Alexander S. C. Rower
Dedalus Foundation Education Programs
– By Jack Flam
The Jay DeFeo Foundation
– By Leah Levy
Helen Frankenthaler Foundation: Fostering New Insights
– By Elizabeth Smith
The Start of the Gottlieb Foundation
– By Sanford Hirsch
Mike Kelley Foundation
– By Mary Clare Stevens
Don’t Try This At Home (or Alone)
– By Jack Cowart
A Gift from One Artist to Many: The Joan Mitchell Foundation
– By Christa Blatchford
The Noah Purifoy Foundation
– By Joe Lewis
Hands On: Working with Artist-Endowed Foundations and Trusts
– By Patterson Sims
Socrates Sculpture Park: Potential Energy
– By Ivana Mestrovic
Lenore G. Tawney Foundation
– By Kathleen Nugent Mangan
Niki Charitable Art Foundation
– By Bloum Cardenas

Books

AIMEE NEZHUKUMATATHIL with Alex Dueben
ITALIAN LOCAL FLAVOR: ANDREW COTTO with Anne Tammel
LEE MARTIN with Nicholas Rys
Daniel Gumbiner’s The Boatbuilder
– By James Faccinto
THE MERE ARTICULATION OF SIGNIFICANCE: Joy Enough: a Memoir, by Sarah McColl
– By J.C. Hallman
Ottessa Moshfegh’s My Year of Rest and Relaxation
– By Deena ElGenaidi
MALCOLM MCNEILL with Edward S. Robinson
Chelsey Minnis's Baby, I Don’t Care
– By Logan Berry

Music

Vaccinated with a Phonograph Needle
– By David Menestres
Smoke and Stars: YOB’s Our Raw Heart
– By John Amen
MISSY MAZZOLI with Anthony Hawley
Outtakes
– By Steve Dalachinsky
December/January Listings
– By George Grella and Brad Cohan
The Sound of Ambivalence: Exploded View at Rough Trade NYC
– By Dan Joseph

Dance

Editor's Note
– By Gillian Jakab
The Deep Roots and Airborne Particulars of Judson Dance Theater
– By Mark Bloch
‘The Work Is Never Done’ at MoMA: enacting and obscuring archives
– By Benedict Nguyen
I Love Judson
– By Trajal Harrell
CORI OLINGHOUSE with Gillian Jakab
Game Plan: Lucinda Childs’s Early Works (1963 – 1978)
– By Madison Mainwaring

Film

Transcending Inheritance: On The Heiresses
– By Madeline Whittle
FABRICE ARAGNO with Ethan Spigland
Expectations Upended: Doclisboa 2018
– By Matt Turner
ERICKA BECKMAN with Shelby Shaw
– By Shelby Shaw
An Undetermined History: On Wang Bing’s Dead Souls
– By Beatrice Grenier
Breaking the Spell: Reykjavík International Film Festival 2018
– By Jordan Cronk
MICHAEL M. BILANDIC with Gina Telaroli
– By Gina Telaroli

Theater

Political Fairy Tales: The Russian and the Jew
– By Jess Chayes
IN DIALOGUE: Toothy Divinity in Jessica Dickey’s The Convent
– By Anna Ziegler
"I Shame You Because I Love You" and Other Songs: Slanty Eyed Mama’s Zombie Asian Moms
– By Elisabeth Ng

Fiction

The House Collapses
– by Amanda Michalopolou, translated from the Greek by Karen Emmerich
What’s Good About The End
– By Naomi Feigelson Chase
New York Cycle, a Diary
– by Catherine Cusset, an excerpt translated from the French by Armine Kotin Mortimer
Highlights from the Life of Raymond Roussel #10: Le Procédé
– By Tom Motley
inSerial: part four The Mysteries of Paris
– By Eugène Sue, translated from the French by Robert Bononno
Pushcart Prize Nominations 2018
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Poetry

Consciousness Self-Learns
– By Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
two
– By Gabriel Don
four
– By Hoa Nguyen
two
– By Andrew Levy
two
– By Farid Matuk
four
– By Jerome Sala
If This Is Paradise Why Are We Still Driving BRENDAN LORBER with Todd Colby

Art Books

Peggy Phelan and Richard Meyer’s Contact Warhol: Photography Without End
– By Karen Chernick
Michalis Pichler's Publishing Manifestos
– By Megan N. Liberty
Christopher Howard's The Jean Freeman Gallery Does Not Exist
– By Jennie Waldow
MARK DERY with Thyrza Nichols Goodeve

Field Notes

“The Most Crucial Election of Our Lifetime?”—The 2018 US Midterm Elections
– By Charlie Post
Hog Farms, Toxic Water, and Toxic Prisons
– By Keith "Malik" Washington
THINKING ABOUT COMMUNISM: Fundamental Principles of Communist Production and Distribution: A New Look at an Old Text *
– By Charles Reeve
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