JUNE 2018 – The Brooklyn Rail

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Louis Michel Eilshemius: Most Rapid Master Painter and Mightiest Mind of Mankind
– By Stefan Banz
Henry Darger: A Storm Cloud of the 20th Century
– By Carl Watson
Ralph Albert Blakelock: Earthen Spirits
– By Chris Martin
Myron Stout, Aegis
– By Nathlie Provosty
Cosimo Tura 1430 – 1495 Notes—Thoughts
– By James HD Brown
Agnes Pelton: The Familiar Sublime
– By Lisa Beck
Bob Thompson, prescient narrative
– By Joel Shapiro
Renoir: Saving the Best for Last
– By Kyle Staver
Marino Marini
– By Brandt Junceau
Antonio López García: In Defense of the Little
– By Lawrence Carroll
Carmelo Bene, Ali Baba Bilabarabilabi
– By Marie Cool and Fabio Balducci
Hilma af Klint, a world bigger than perceived
– By Margrit Lewczuk
Duane Zaloudek
– By Olivier Mosset
A Touch of Tao
– By Bill Jensen

ArtSeen

CECILIA VICUÑA:
La India Contaminada
– By Madeline Murphy Turner
Being: New Photography
– By Graham W. Bell
YUN-FEI JI: Rumors, Ridicules, and Retributions
– By Alan Gilbert
Global Alt Comics
– By Bartolomeo Sala
An External/Eternal Affair: On the Recent Paintings of Carroll Dunham
– By Phong Bui
Projects 108: Gauri Gill
– By Nicole Miller
JEAN PAGLIUSO:
In Plain Sight
– By Adam Beal
A Story to Be Told
– By J C
CHLÖE BASS: The Tone, Texture & Taste of Intimacy
– By Nico Wheadon
JOAN WALTEMATH:
M’s Crossing
– By Ann McCoy
YTO BARRADA: How to Do Nothing with Nobody All Alone by Yourself
– By Alan Gilbert
Like Life: Sculpture, Color, and the Body
– By Jason Rosenfeld
FERNANDO PALMA RODRÍGUEZ:
In Ixtli in Yollotl, We the People
– By Jonelle Mannion
THOMAS GAINSBOROUGH:
Experiments in Drawing
– By Alfred Mac Adam
SHEIDA SOLEIMANI:
Medium of Exchange
– By Matthew Biro
URSULA VON RYDINGSVARD:
TORN
– By William Corwin
HELEN O’LEARY:
Home is a Foreign Country
– By Ann McCoy
KIKI SMITH:
Below the Horizon
– By Pac Pobric
HEIDE HATRY:
Material Reality III
– By J.W. McCormack
LIZ DESCHENES:
Rates (Frames per Second)
– By Millie Christie-Dervaux
Image Building: How Photography Transforms Architecture
– By Joyce Beckenstein
Al Held in Paris: 1952-53
– By Tom McGlynn
DAVID SALLE:
Paintings 1985—1995
– By Benjamin Clifford
JORDAN WOLFSON:
Riverboat song
– By Ida Pruitt
CARROLL DUNHAM
– By William Corwin
BARRY FLANAGAN:
The Hare is Metaphor
– By Tom McGlynn
Moon Dancers: Yup'ik Masks and the Surrealists
– By Mary Ann Caws
MARLENE DUMAS:
Myths & Mortals
– By Alfred Mac Adam
Marx@200
– By Matthew Friday
JORINDE VOIGT:
Integral
– By Jessica Holmes
Declaration, A Group Exhibition
– By Hovey Brock
JENNY SAVILLE:
Ancestors
– By Jason Rosenfeld
Gutai: 1953 –1959
– By Mark Bloch
ANGELA HEISCH:
Resting Position
– By Alex A. Jones
(IM)MORTALITY:
John Bruce and Pawel Wojtasik, with a performance by Matt Freedman
– By Taney Roniger

Table of Contents

Publisher's Message

Dear Friends and Readers,
– By Phong Bui

Editor's Message

Artists for Artists, About some shared empathies
– By Choghakate Kazarian

Art

ArtSeen

CECILIA VICUÑA: La India Contaminada
– By Madeline Murphy Turner
Being: New Photography
– By Graham W. Bell
YUN-FEI JI: Rumors, Ridicules, and Retributions
– By Alan Gilbert
Global Alt Comics
– By Bartolomeo Sala
An External/Eternal Affair: On the Recent Paintings of Carroll Dunham
– By Phong Bui
Projects 108: Gauri Gill
– By Nicole Miller
JEAN PAGLIUSO: In Plain Sight
– By Adam Beal
A Story to Be Told
– By J C
CHLÖE BASS: The Tone, Texture & Taste of Intimacy
– By Nico Wheadon
JOAN WALTEMATH: M’s Crossing
– By Ann McCoy
YTO BARRADA: How to Do Nothing with Nobody All Alone by Yourself
– By Alan Gilbert
Like Life: Sculpture, Color, and the Body
– By Jason Rosenfeld
FERNANDO PALMA RODRÍGUEZ: In Ixtli in Yollotl, We the People
– By Jonelle Mannion
THOMAS GAINSBOROUGH: Experiments in Drawing
– By Alfred Mac Adam
SHEIDA SOLEIMANI: Medium of Exchange
– By Matthew Biro
URSULA VON RYDINGSVARD: TORN
– By William Corwin
HELEN O’LEARY: Home is a Foreign Country
– By Ann McCoy
KIKI SMITH: Below the Horizon
– By Pac Pobric
HEIDE HATRY: Material Reality III
– By J.W. McCormack
LIZ DESCHENES: Rates (Frames per Second)
– By Millie Christie-Dervaux
Image Building: How Photography Transforms Architecture
– By Joyce Beckenstein
Al Held in Paris: 1952-53
– By Tom McGlynn
DAVID SALLE: Paintings 1985—1995
– By Benjamin Clifford
JORDAN WOLFSON: Riverboat song
– By Ida Pruitt
CARROLL DUNHAM
– By William Corwin
BARRY FLANAGAN: The Hare is Metaphor
– By Tom McGlynn
Moon Dancers: Yup'ik Masks and the Surrealists
– By Mary Ann Caws
MARLENE DUMAS: Myths & Mortals
– By Alfred Mac Adam
Marx@200
– By Matthew Friday
JORINDE VOIGT: Integral
– By Jessica Holmes
Declaration, A Group Exhibition
– By Hovey Brock
JENNY SAVILLE: Ancestors
– By Jason Rosenfeld
Gutai: 1953 –1959
– By Mark Bloch
ANGELA HEISCH: Resting Position
– By Alex A. Jones
(IM)MORTALITY: John Bruce and Pawel Wojtasik, with a performance by Matt Freedman
– By Taney Roniger

Critics Page

Louis Michel Eilshemius: Most Rapid Master Painter and Mightiest Mind of Mankind
– By Stefan Banz
Henry Darger: A Storm Cloud of the 20th Century
– By Carl Watson
Ralph Albert Blakelock: Earthen Spirits
– By Chris Martin
Myron Stout, Aegis
– By Nathlie Provosty
Cosimo Tura 1430 – 1495 Notes—Thoughts
– By James HD Brown
Agnes Pelton: The Familiar Sublime
– By Lisa Beck
Bob Thompson, prescient narrative
– By Joel Shapiro
Renoir: Saving the Best for Last
– By Kyle Staver
Marino Marini
– By Brandt Junceau
Antonio López García: In Defense of the Little
– By Lawrence Carroll
Carmelo Bene, Ali Baba Bilabarabilabi
– By Marie Cool and Fabio Balducci
Hilma af Klint, a world bigger than perceived
– By Margrit Lewczuk
Duane Zaloudek
– By Olivier Mosset
A Touch of Tao
– By Bill Jensen

Books

Rumaan Alam’s That Kind of Mother
– By Deena ElGenaidi
Lillian Li's Number One Chinese Restaurant
– By Katharina Smundak
Harry Mathews's The Solitary Twin
– By John Reed
Virginie Despentes's Vernon Subutex 1
– By Rebecca Rukeyser
Patrick Chamoiseau's Slave Old Man
– By David Varno
Joshua Mensch's Because, A Lyric Memoir
– By John Domini
They Can’t Kill Us Until they Kill Us: HANIF ABDURRAQIB with Nicholas Rys
Leslie Jamison's The Recovering: Intoxication and its Aftermath
– By Deena ElGenaidi
Skate Dad: NEAL THOMPSON with Marina Petrova
Elle Nash's Animals Eat Each Other
– By John Domini

Music

All Gates Open: The Story of Can
– By George Grella
Voices at the End of the Night: The Fall, New Facts Emerge, Cherry Red Records, 2017 Mike Hudson & the Pagans, Hollywood High, Ruin Discos, 2014
– By Ron Horning
Punk With Personality: Idles at Rough Trade NYC
– By Dan Joseph
Outtakes
– By Steve Dalachinsky
Major Dudes: A Steely Dan Companion
– By George Grella
June Selections
– By Brad Cohan

Dance

Holding Space
– By Jen George
Another Song, Another Feeling
– By Rennie McDougall
Dances in a Modular “Shed”– a Prelude to the Larger One to Come
– By Sariel Frankfurter
Carousel—Talent Transcends a Prickly Book
– By Susan Yung
I Know You Are Here
– By Erica Getto
BRINDA KUMAR and ANDREA MILLER with Gillian Jakab

Film

RYUICHI SAKAMOTO with Sadie Rebecca Starnes
Revolutionary Cinematic Suicide, Godard+Gorin: Five Films, 1968-1971
– By David Fresko
Frames of Representation 2018: The Human Epoch
– By Matt Turner
Ready Player One? Sizing Up VR at Tribeca
– By Williams Cole

Theater

Gently Abandoning the Theater: Martina Potratz
– By Adam R. Burnett
Manufacturing Michief: PEDRO REYES with Torry Bend
– By Torry Bend
Private Collection: LAUREN BAKST with Jess Barbagallo
– By Jess Barbagallo
The Marathon Muse of Blessed Unrest: JESSICA BURR and IDRIS GOODWIN with Ivan Talijancic

Fiction

from The Seated Woman
– by Guillaume Apollinaire, translated from the French by Richard Kostelanetz
The Barn on Rowdy Creek
– By Aurora Löfgren
Short Shorts
– By Claudia Acevedo-Quiñones
Highlights from the Life of Raymond Roussel #5: Locus
– By Tom Motley
inSerial: part nineteen–the conclusion Delusions of Being Observed
– By Lewis Warsh
New Routes in Fiction: SHEILA HETI with Alec Niedenthal
– By Alec Niedenthal

Poetry

Alaska Language Odyssey
– By Bob Holman
Alaska Odyssey Essay
– By Bob Holman
from VANTABLACK
– By Joey De Jesus
two poems for bitches
– By Mel Elberg
two
– By Elisa Gabbert
five
– By Adam DeGraff

Verbatim

Woodstock, January 1959
– By Eric Sutphin

Art Books

The Blind Man
– By Nick Bennett
Landscape into Eco Art: Articulations of Nature Since the ’60s
– By David Carrier
After Kathy Acker: A Literary Biography
– By Ingrid Dudek
An Atlas of Rare & Familiar Colour
– By Megan N. Liberty

In Memoriam

Artschwager’s Interest in Arthur Wesley Dow and ‘Arts and Crafts’ c.1900: A Documentation
– By Joseph Masheck

Field Notes

Revolutionary Greetings!
– By Keith "Malik" Washington
End Prison Slavery!
– By Julie Schneyer
Why Does Class Matter?
– By Peter St. Clair

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