The Brooklyn Rail

Table of Contents

Editor's Message

• Experiments in Freedom

  – By Nico Wheadon

Publisher's Message

• Dear Friends and Readers,

  – By Phong Bui

Art

• MELVIN EDWARDS with Choghakate Kazarian

• RACHEL FEINSTEIN with Phong Bui

• DONALD MOFFETT with Dan Cameron

• CAROL SZYMANSKI with David Carrier

ArtSeen

• Howardena Pindell: Autobiography

  – By Susan Harris

• Tiona Nekkia McClodden: Hold on, let me take the safety off

  – By Madeleine Seidel

• Postwar Women

  – By Jonathan Goodman

• Modernisms: Iranian, Turkish, and Indian Highlights from NYU’s Abby Grey Collection

  – By Vivian Li

• Kim Tschang-Yeul: New York to Paris

  – By Robert C. Morgan

• Tetsuya Ishida: Self-Portrait of Other

  – By Jared Quinton

• Betye Saar: The Legend of Black Girl’s Window

  – By Ann C. Collins

• Alex Sewell: When I Wanted Everything

  – By Hovey Brock

• Julia Bland: The Half That Ties, the Half that Breaks

  – By Claire Voon

• Rachelle Dang: Uncertain Haven

  – By Valentina Di Liscia

• Hope Gangloff

  – By Kathleen Hefty

• Agnes Denes: Absolutes & Intermediates

  – By Marcia E. Vetrocq

• Helen Frankenthaler and Robert Motherwell: The Art of Marriage

  – By Alfred Mac Adam

• Wayne Thiebaud: Mountains 1965–2019

  – By Alfred Mac Adam

• Suzanne Bocanegra: Wardrobe Test

  – By Amanda Gluibizzi

• Pat Passlof: The Brush is the Finger of the Brain

  – By Eleanor Heartney

• Okayama Art Summit 2019: If the Snake

  – By Osman Can Yerebakan

• Sanam Khatibi: An hour before the Devil fell

  – By Elizabeth Buhe

• Michael Eade: past is present is future

  – By Jonathan Goodman

• Mark Leckey: O’ Magic Power of Bleakness

  – By Toby Kamps

• Whose Reality?

  – By Mengna Da

• Janine Antoni: I am fertile ground

  – By Nolan Kelly

• Caroline Coon: The Great Offender

  – By William Davie

• Ron Gorchov: At the Cusp of the 80s, Paintings 1979–1983

  – By David Carrier

• Brendan Fernandes: Contract and Release

  – By Avram C. Alpert

• Hadi Fallahpisheh: Almost Alone

  – By Simon Wu

• Vija Celmins: To Fix the Image in Memory

  – By Cynthia Cruz

• Bojana Ginn: Phygital Muse

  – By Rebecca Brantley

• Marco Maggi: Initialism (From Obscurantism to Enlightenment)

  – By Alfred Mac Adam

• Andrea del Verrocchio: Sculptor and Painter of Renaissance Florence

  – By Christian Kleinbub

• Tamar Hirschfeld: Neuland

  – By Naomi Lev

• Sandra Brewster: Blur

  – By Magdalyn Asimakis

• Antony Gormley

  – By Daniel Pateman

• Albert Oehlen: Fn Paintings

  – By Tom McGlynn

• Albert Oehlen

  – By David Rhodes

• Torkwase Dyson: 1919: Blackwater

  – By Nina Wolpow

• Francesca DiMattio: Statues

  – By Robert R. Shane

• The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

  – By Charlotte Kent

• Terry Fox: Resonance

  – By Hannah Maier-Katkin

• David Hartt: The Histories (Le Mancenillier)

  – By Alex Jen

• Rajni Perera: Traveller

  – By Esmé Hogeveen

• A Letter from Tbilisi

  – By Greg Lindquist

1x1

• Nancy Holt: Sun Tunnels

  – By Helen Georgas

Critics Page

• Reflections on Free

  – By Malik Lewis

• Living Without Gravity

  – By Aruna D'Souza

• On Being a Pest

  – By Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

• desert creature

  – By korde arrington tuttle

• Where Does My Heart Reside?

  – By Natasha Becker

• An Archive of Proximity

  – By LeRonn P. Brooks

• A Literary Collective of Care

  – By Jessica Lynne

• Survival and Dying

  – By Reginald Dwayne Betts and Titus Kaphar

Books

• The Collected Poems of Bob Kaufman

  – By Tony Leuzzi

• Night Boat to Tangier

  – By Weston Cutter

• SHEILA O'CONNOR with Brache James

• Nothing to See Here

  – By Deena ElGenaidi

• Chronology

  – By Erica N. Cardwell

• CAN'T QUIT YOU, BABY

  – AMY LONG with Trysh Travis

• Fiona Alison Duncan’s Exquisite Mariposa

  – By Elizabeth Block

• Rachel Rabbit White with Sophia Giovannitti

  – By Sophia Giovannitti

Music

• Joshua Abrams & Natural Information Society at Union Pool

  – By Dan Joseph

• Music: A Subversive History

  – By George Grella

• Music of Harry Partch, Vol. 3: Sonata Dementia, Bridge Records (2019)

  – By Jude Thomas

• Artonov, Brussels, Belgium, 7th-13th October 2019

  – By Martin Longley

• BRYAN A. CRUMPLER with Jean Huets

• Goldberg Variations

  – By Scott Gutterman

• Highly Selective Listings

  – By George Grella and Brad Cohan

Dance

• JOANNA FUTRAL with Doug LeCours

• DIMITRIS PAPAIOANNOU with Ivan Talijancic

• A Study of Form and Individuality

  – By Jen C. George

• Crossing the Line: Germaine Acogny's Somewhere at the Beginning

  – By Rennie McDougall

• Crossing the Line: Jérôme Bel's Isadora Duncan

  – By George Kan

• Crossing the Line: Stefanie Batten Bland's Look Who's Coming to Dinner

  – By Gillian Jakab

Film

• The Eyes of Another: “Tokyo Stories” at the Japan Society

  – By Jaime Grijalba

• KAZIK RADWANSKI AND DERAGH CAMPBELL with Tyler Wilson

• Replete and Incomplete Portraits: Documentaries at TIFF 2019

  – By Esmé Hogeveen

• Notes on Berwick: “Why this passion for pictures, why this passion for darkness?”

  – By Marius Hrdy

• Please Glauber Don’t Hurt ’Em: Glauber Rocha’s On Cinema

  – By Steve Macfarlane

Theater

• Mediterranean Migration Monologues

  – Director Michael Ruf with Maresi Starzmann and Farhiya Hassan

• Édouard Louis Comes to Brooklyn: The History of Violence and The End of Eddy

  – By Emma Grillo

• Fear Becomes Exhilaration: BrandoCapote

• The Regime is Female

  – By Alexis Spiegel

• The Final Frontier of Liza Birkenmeier

  – By Trish Harnetiaux

Fiction

• Shaggy Dog

  – By Eugene Lim

• An excerpt from SPEECH

  – By Jill Magi

• The Road to Golgonooza

  – By T. Motley, Medea Starkers, and Motte & Bailey

• inSerial: part twelve The Mysteries of Paris

  – By Eugène Sue and Robert Bononno

• Golthar, Terror of the Deep

  – By Nathan Place

Poetry

• Peace

  – By Tom Savage

• For Steve Dalachinsky

  – By Ted Reichman

• from Mostly Clearing

  – By Michael Gottlieb

• Five Poems from Pavilion

  – By Gabriel Palacios

• two

  – By Elena Alexander

• three

  – By David Mills

• seven

  – By jen fisher

• three

  – By Carley Moore

Art Books

• Conversations About Sculpture

  – By Phillip Griffith

• We are in Open Circuits: Writings by Nam June Paik

  – By Isabella Boorman

• Alive Still: Nell Blaine, American Painter

  – By Karen Chernick

• Steven Leiber Catalogs

  – By Megan N. Liberty

Field Notes

• Squat Calabria

  – By Bill Weinberg

• The Central American Death Cult

  – By Eric Vázquez

• Class Act: Warren's Triangulation

  – By Adam Theron-Lee Rensch

• Socialism, Capitalism, and Democracy

  – By Steve Fraser