MAR 2019 – The Brooklyn Rail

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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

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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

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

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