The Brooklyn Rail

Table of Contents

Publisher's Message

• Dear Friends and Readers,

  – By Phong Bui

Editor's Message

• Looking Into the Darkness of One’s Time

  – By Anne Waldman

Art

• JACOB COLLINS with MARY ANN CAWS: Thinking About Ateliers

  – By Mary Ann Caws

• JOHN HOUCK with Charlie Schultz

• HILTON ALS with Jarrett Earnest

• ANDREA FRASER with Thyrza Nichols Goodeve

• BARKLEY L. HENDRICKS with Laila Pedro

• BILL CONLON with Barbara Rose

• BETTY WOODMAN with Phong Bui

• “I’ll take a picture of you, do you want to hide behind the code?” Michael Riedel and Jarrett Earnest at the American Museum of Natural History

  – By Jarrett Earnest

• NANCY DAVIDSON with Ashley McNelis

ArtSeen

• Nora Griffin: Modern Love

  – By Darragh McNicholas

• MARCEL BROODTHAERS A Retrospective

  – By Tom McGlynn

• JULIANA CERQUEIRA LEITE: INTRANSITIVE

  – By Phillip Griffith

• Late Medieval Panel Paintings II: Materials, Methods, Meanings

  – By David Carrier

• JEAN SHIN Surface Tension

  – By Jonathan Goodman

• MOLLY LOWE Redwood

  – By Samuel Feldblum

• CHELSEA CULPRIT Blessed With a Job

  – By Ashton Cooper

• GABRIEL LIMA life, vest ; coffee, tray

  – By Joyce Beckenstein

• SOUNDING THE NEW CARRIE MOYER Sirens

  – By Clarity Haynes

• TAMARA JOHNSON No Your Boundaries

  – By Kate Harding

• Munch and Expressionism

  – By Hovey Brock

• TIM HAWKINSON Counterclockwise

  – By Jessica Holmes

• KAREN KILIMNIK

  – By Jessica Caroline Holburn

• BERLINDE DE BRUYCKERE No Life Lost

  – By Sarah Goffstein

• SUZANNE MCCLELLAND Articulate Muscle 1976

  – By Terence Trouillot

• MEL BOCHNER AND ALIGHIERO BOETTI Verba Volant Scripta Manent

  – By Kara L. Rooney

• HERMENEUTICS OF EVERYTHING MARK GREENWOLD The Rumble of Panic Underlying Everything

  – By Phong Bui

• NICKY NODJOUMI You and Me

  – By Yasi Alipour

• THE LADY IS A TRAMP Vigée Le Brun

  – By Adele Tutter

• Truth in the Visual Arts Skepticism in the Work of Ellen K. Levy and Patricia Olynyk

  – By William Corwin

• Torkwase Dyson: Unkeeping

  – By Alexandra Fowle

• CARL BOUTARD Life is Elsewhere

  – By Jonathan Goodman

• THOMAS NOZKOWSKI Works on Paper

  – By Margaret Graham

• “I’ll Stick With Exactly What I Said.” Slavs and Tatars Mirrors for Princes

  – By ANTHONY HAWLEY

• MARTIN PURYEAR Multiple Dimensions

  – By Kate Liebman

• MARYAM JAFRI Economy Corner

  – By Tom McGlynn

Critics Page

• Rhizome of Poets

  – By Alystyre Julian

• After Rilke

  – By Bernadette Mayer

• A Winsome Pinnock

  – By Lisa Jarnot

• Notebook, 1981

  – By Eileen Myles

• as if your life depends on it

  – By Evie Shockley

• How We Cause the Universe to Exist

  – By Alice Notley

• Holland Tunnel

  – By Emily Skillings

• Corpses, Arts and Dreams Of An Excerpt

  – By Poupeh Missaghi

• La Peira | (The Stone)

  – by Marcela Delpastre, translated from the Occitan by Nicole Peyrafitte & Pierre Joris

• LOST AND FOUND Excerpts from Murderers Criminals Join Sunlight

  – By Kathy Acker

• LOST AND FOUND Dharma Committee Rules

  – By Joanne Kyger

• LOST AND FOUND Barcelona, 19361

  – By Muriel Rukeyser

• LOST AND FOUND I. The Boat is Tethered to the Floor

  – By Helene Johnson

• Song for the Deadbeat

  – By Laura Hinton

• Land Art

  – By Jennifer Foerster

• Excerpt from “Contes d’une tête tranchée” in Blessures au vent

  – by Rachida Madani, translated by Pierre Joris

• Ugly Duckling Presse

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• UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE Stop

  – By Jennifer Nelson

• UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE i. Preface, Part I of Love, Delight, and Alarm

  – By Karen Weiser

• UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE with Anne Waldman

• DAVID HINTON

• Premonition of Barrel Bombs (Syria)

  – By Sterrett Smith

• Good Stock

  – By Dawn Lundy Martin

• DAWN LUNDY MARTIN with Anne Waldman

• Excerpt from A Year from Today

  – By Stacy Szymaszek

• Oracle, or, Utopia

  – By Eleni Sikelianos

• Infrastructure Poetics STACY SZYMASZEK with Anne Waldman

• Friday March 25 at 4 pm

  – By Etel Adnan

• Dixie Don’t Shoot

  – By Kristin Prevallet

• NEW YORK STREETS: 2013 - 2015 Cement Resistance, Fume through a Vacuum

  – By No Land

• Drawings from Markets in (New) Delhi

  – By Miriam Gross

• To Err on the Side of Peace

  – By Allison Adelle Hedge Coke

• Dead Horse Watch

  – By Allison Adelle Hedge Coke

• ALLISON ADELLE HEDGE COKE with Anne Waldman

• Shall We Cut The Cake

  – By Anne Carson

• VIVIEN BITTENCOURT with Vincent Katz

• ALEXIS MYRE Power of Limits

  – By Amy Matterer

• ALEXIS MYRE with Anne Waldman

• Use Alternate Route

  – By Alan Gilbert

• HOMAGES TO LEROI JONES Excerpt from Diary

  – By Kathy Acker

• HOMAGE TO LEROI JONES Dream

  – By Joanne Kyger

• HOMAGE TO LEROI JONES [John Wieners to Joanne Kyger]

• HOMAGE TO LEROI JONES Poem from John W. [to Joanne Kyger] September, 1972

  – By John Wieners

• HOMAGE TO LEROI JONES For O.B.

  – By Muriel Rukeyser

• Rachida Madani

• THOMAS SAYERS ELLIS with Anne Waldman (January 2016)

• Diaries of an Artist The Art and Writing of Rosemary Mayer

  – By Marie Warsh and Gillian Sneed

• Champion Flowers

  – By Emily Skillings

Books

• No Judgments

  – By J.T. Price

• A Pill for the Heart

  – By Taney Roniger

• The Imponderable Bloom

  – By Dustin Illingworth

• Escape from American Noise

  – By John Domini

• Don’t Think

  – By Ryan Krull

• CHRIS BACHELDER with Weston Cutter

• The Art of Stepping Away from the Internet

  – By Gretchen Schmid

• The Suicide of Claire Bishop

  – By David Joiner

• Abandon All Hope, Ye Who Enter Here

  – By Yvonne C. Garrett

• This Great Violence

  – By Simona Blat

• The Curiosity of the Long Distance Runner

  – By Aditi Sriram

Music

• Brooklyn Rail Highly Selective Music Events

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• Masters of Their Own Reality

  – By George Grella

• Shapeshifter Star

  – By Yvonne Juris

• The Amateur Sound: nonkeen

  – By Marshall Yarbrough

• Outtakes

  – By Steve Dalachinsky

Dance

• A Slippery and Elusive Quality

  – By Erica Getto

• Notes on PLASTIC

  – By Stormy Budwig

Film

• Girl’s Best Friend: Alexander Chee and The Earrings of Madame de...

  – By Brittany Stigler

• ROSS LIPMAN with Tanya Goldman

• PEMA TSEDEN with Lu Yangqiao

• Planetarium of Blended Dreams BEN COONLEY Moonley

  – By Felix Bernstein

• On John Latham’s Films

  – By Nathan Dunne

• Radu Jude’s Aferim! and the Politics of Distance

  – By Mihai-Dan Cirjan

Theater

• Tragedy in Spades: A Crime Documentary TELE-VIOLET’s Reenactment Ceremony

  – By Roger Babb

• The Play, Space, and Grace of Antlia Pneumatica ANNE WASHBURN with Peggy Stafford

• For This Moment I Would Give My Whole Life! Robert Lyons and Kristin Marting’s Idiot

  – By Erin Courtney

• Getting Graphic with finkle: U R ★

  – By Trista Baldwin

• Feeding the Lake: Charlotte Miller’s Ugly Little Sister at Strasberg

  – By Michael Padden

Fiction

• Sandy Cinderella A Scene from Daily Life in al-Najaf, Iraq

  – by Faleeha Hassan, translated from the Arabic by William M. Hutchins

• A False Accounting

  – By Tan Lin

• Masters of Despair

  – By Anna Mockler

• The Joyous Science, Part 1 The True Story of the Famous Bruce, Composed in Verse from the Accounts of Several Eyewitnesses

  – by Maxim Amelin, translated from the Russian by Derek Mong and Anne O. Fisher

• from Kid Coole

  – By M. G. Stephens

• Les Halles, Belly Of Paris from Paris Vagabond by Jean-Paul Clebert

  – with photographs by Patrice Molinard, translated from the French by Donald Nicholson-Smith, out now from NYRB Classics

• Guy

  – By Tom Motley

Poetry

• Excerpt from Voice’s Daughter of a Heart Yet To Be Born

  – By Anne Waldman

• Five

  – By Edwin Torres

• Two

  – By Nina Puro

• Five

  – By Todd Colby

Verbatim

• HEDDA STERNE: Passport to Safety

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Art Books

• On a Universal Serial Bus

  – By Madeline Weisburg

Field Notes

• Editor’s Note

  – By Paul Mattick

• BREXIT A New Crisis Acronym

  – By Tony Norfield

• Let Us Be Terrible: Considerations on the Jacobin Club

  – By Jason E. Smith

• An exchange on the perspectives for the world economy

  – By Jose A. Tapia