FEB 2019 – The Brooklyn Rail

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Editor's Message

Downturn New York
– By Daniel S. Palmer

Publisher's Message

Dear Friends and Readers,
– By Phong Bui

Art

ArtSeen

Magic Realism: Art in Weimar Germany 1919 – 1933
– By Daniel Pateman
West By Midwest
– By Elliot Josephine Leila Reichert
Ella Kruglyanskaya: Fenix
– By Alex A. Jones
Cameron Rowland: D37
– By Alex Jen
Raha Raissnia: Galvanization
– By Benjamin Clifford
Imagined Communities: Photographs by Mila Teshaieva
– By Vivian Li
Enrique Martínez Celaya: The Boy: Witness and Marker 2003 – 2018
– By Lilly Wei
The Lure of the Dark: Contemporary Painters Conjure the Night
– By Alex Jen
Erik Parker: New Soul
– By Robert C. Morgan
Gordon Parks: The New Tide, Early Work 1940-1950
– By Nico Wheadon
Berthe Morisot: Woman Impressionist
– By A.V. Ryan
Gaylen Gerber
– By Lori Waxman
Viktor Timofeev: God Room
– By Rudy Natanzon
Viktor Timofeev: God Room
– By Alex A. Jones
Richard Artschwager: Primary Sources and Self-Portraits and the American Southwest
– By Robert C. Morgan
Jeanne Silverthorne: From Darkness
– By William Corwin
Archie Rand: Misfits
– By Ann McCoy
Torey Thornton: Sustenance Traversing Foundational Urgencies (STFU [some])(Re-Faux Outing)
– By Vijay Masharani
God Made My Face: A Collective Portrait of James Baldwin
– By Amber Jamilla Musser
Kathy Acker: Get Rid of Meaning
– By McKenzie Wark
Venceremos: Resisting the Rise of the Far-right in Brazil
– By Tatiane Santa Rosa
Pierre Huyghe: UUmwelt
– By Will Fenstermaker
Forest Law
– By Lisa E. Bloom, Iris Morrell, and Ariel Hoage
Francesco Clemente: Works 1978-2018
– By Alan Gilbert
Bruce Nauman: Disappearing Acts
– By Swagato Chakravorty
Dana Schutz: Imagine Me and You
– By Alfred Mac Adam
Nancy Holt
– By Ann McCoy
James Siena: Painting
– By Tom McGlynn
Epic Abstraction: Pollock to Herrera
– By Benjamin Clifford
Maya Lin: A River Is a Drawing
– By Taney Roniger
Max Kozloff: The Atmospherics of Interruption: Paintings 1966-2018
– By Hovey Brock
David Rabinowitch: Périgord Construction of Vision Drawings
– By Marcia E. Vetrocq
EJ Hauser: Barn Spirits
– By Louis Block
Rochelle Feinstein: Image of an Image
– By David Carrier
Maria Antelman: Disassembler
– By Ann C. Collins
Robert Janitz: Uptown Campus / College Robert Janitz
– By David Rhodes
Caroline Larsen: Kaleidoscopic & Mathew Zefeldt: Customizable Realities
– By Nina Wolpow
Lyle Ashton Harris: Flash of the Spirit
– By Jan Avgikos
Max Neumann: Specter
– By Will Fenstermaker
Under Erasure
– By William Corwin

1x1

Barbara Takenaga and Patricio Guzmán: telescopes and other visions
– By Joan Waltemath

Critics Page

Loose Spaces
– By Wilson Sherwin
Internet Bulldozing: Gentrification and The Rise of Cyberharassment, BRUJAS Calls for Coalition, Again!
– by Arianna Gil, approved by BRUJAS
Finding Up
– By Akwetey Orraca-Tetteh
No Condition Is Permanent
– By Lisa Cooley
In Search of a Darkroom
– By Remy Amezcua
Endangered Species: An Artist’s Loft
– By John Newman
The Lover’s War
– By Siyona Ravi

Books

Aimee Parkison and Carol Guess’s Girl Zoo
– By Melanie Odelle
Sophie Mackintosh's The Water Cure
– By Yvonne C. Garrett
How to Be Human: Some Beheadings by Aditi Machado
– By Julie Carr
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's At the End of the Century
– By Rachel Aydt
JAMES CHARLESWORTH with Kathleen Rooney
A Life Not Fit to Form: The Restoration of Unnamable Joy
– By Chris Campanioni
JOSIP NOVAKOVICH with Joseph Salvatore
Ross Barkan’s Demolition Night
– By Joseph Peschel
JEFF JACKSON with Nicholas Rys
R.O. Kwon’s The Incendiaries
– By Deena ElGenaidi
DAVID PEAK with Joseph Scapellato

Music

The Known and the Unknown: Winter Jazzfest marathon, January 11-12, 2019
– By George Grella
Andy Statman: Practical Mystic
– By Scott Gutterman
Outtakes
– By Steve Dalachinsky
Akio Suzuki and Aki Onda: ke i te ki
– By Daniel Wilson
February Listings
– By George Grella and Brad Cohan

Dance

BOBBI JENE SMITH with Sima Belmar
Miguel Gutierrez’s This Bridge Called My Ass
– By George Kan
Dear Chaos
– By Erica Getto
Make 'Em Laugh
– By Madison Mainwaring

Film

True to Form: International Documentary Festival Amsterdam 2018
– By Leo Goldsmith
Routine Pleasures: Termite Art and the Paintings of Manny Farber
– By Sean Nam
Double Vision: On Ryūsuke Hamaguchi’s Asako I & II
– By Kazu Watanabe
Love Screams: Valentine’s Day Massacre at Anthology Film Archives
– By Hillary Weston
Rear Windows: International Film Festival Rotterdam 2019
– By Giovanni Marchini Camia

Theater

Tragedy with a Chewy Comic Center: MADELEINE GEORGE with Matt Longabucco
Jeremy O. Harris Continues His Firecracker Season with “Daddy”
– By Billy McEntee
Venturing into the Dark with a Lifeline: PAUL CALDERON with Elisabeth Ng
God Said This: Dying Laughing with Leah Nanako Winkler
– By Clare Barron

Fiction

Two Excerpts from a Novel in Progress
– By Pamela Ryder
Gone Runt
– By Erica Kent
LSD Halloween
– By Erica Kent
Melody Plays a Tune
– By Erica Kent
Excerpt of Carne de Dios
– by Homero Aridjis, translated from the Spanish by Chloe Garcia Roberts
Highlights from the Life of Raymond Roussel #11: The Punchline
– By Tom Motley
inSerial: part five The Mysteries of Paris
– By Eugène Sue, translated from the French by Robert Bononno
Day Trip to Durmitor
– by Asja Bakić, translated by Jennifer Zoble
Golthar, Terror of the Deep
– By Nathan Place

Poetry

Little Dog at the End of the Rainbow
– By Sharon Mesmer
NUDE GDUDE (SCRATCH AND SNIFF) (MY RIDES)
– By Farnoosh Fathi
A User’s Guide to the Miracle
– By Dave Morse
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– By Tenaya Nasser-Frederick
four
– By Ana Božičević
three
– By Jeffrey Grunthaner
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– By Merritt Waldon

Art Books

Remedios Varo's Letters, Dreams & Other Writings
– By Zack Hatfield
Tavia Nyong’o's Afro-Fabulations: The Queer Drama of Black Life
– By Peter Murphy
Stéphane Mallarmé's The Book and Un Coup de dés jamais n’abolira le Hasard
– By Mary Ann Caws
Judson Dance Theater: The Work is Never Done
– By Nicole Meily

Field Notes

The Class Struggle in France
– by Charles Reeve and Jean-Luc Sahagian, translated by Janet Koenig
In Search of the Promised Land: Hope and Despair in the Migrant Caravan
– By David Schmidt
Bolsonarism and “Frontier Capitalism”
– By Daniel Cunha
Roots and Continuities of the Crisis: ADAM TOOZE with Pavlos Roufos

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