MARIE CHOUINARD with Stephanie Del Rosso
Dance
Marie Chouinard performed her first solo, Crystallization, in 1978: it was an hour-long “study of geometrical movement” inside an art gallery, set to the sound-scape of musician Rober Racine scraping a metal grill.
BILL BERKSON (1939 2016)
WE WERE DESIGNED FOR HEAVEN
Bill Berkson On Arcadia, Utopia, and Collaboration
by Jarrett Earnest
Art
Closing my eyes now, I’m trying to remember what Bill Berkson had written on the blackboarda cloud of disparate names and concepts: UTOPIA; ARCADIA; CHRONOS; AS YOU LIKE IT; KAFKA; OVID.
MUSIC AS A VOLATILE ART FORM: Terry Allen Reissued
by Marshall YarbroughMusic
For a while now I’ve had a theory about a select group of artists who were making music in the 1960s and ’70s. These are musicians who seem related to their time only obliquely: they may have been marked by it, but they were not of it.
Bill & Teds Excellent Adventure
by Edmund BerriganPoetry
Edmund Berrigan is the author most recently of Can It (Letter Machine Editions) and We'll All Go Together (Fewer & Further Press).
Dear Readers and Friends,
by Phong BuiJune 2016 was an emotional rollercoaster. It began with the news late Friday, June 3, that Muhammad Ali had died.
Performing Identities, Identifying Performance
by John TainWherever one turns in the United States these days, one cannot help but find instances of the politics of identity and identification at work.
- Against Identity by Gerard & Kelly
- Skin of the Actor, Teeth of the Artist by Asher Hartman
- Ligia Lewis
- Mark Aguhar by Young Joon Kwak
- Things Left Behind: Black Screen 16:9 by Erin Christovale and Rafa Esparza
- The Woman Who Married a Bear by Simone Forti
- Attention: by Lucky Dragons
- Take My Hand and Lets Get Out of This 4% Universe by Laub and Jennifer Moon
- The Folk Art Collection of Elie and Viola Nadelman by Brandt Junceau
- The Language of Things by Phillip Griffith
- Turners Whaling Pictures by Jason Rosenfeld
- Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet, Films and Their Sites by David Rhodes
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BUT A STORM IS BLOWING FROM PARADISE:
Contemporary Art of the Middle East and North Africa by Yasaman Alipour - NICOLE EISENMAN by Stephen Truax
- AL HELD Brushstrokes: India Ink Drawings From 1960 by Phong Bui
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POPS STANDARD
STUART DAVIS In Full Swing by Tom McGlynn -
Finding the Major Arcana
CARIN RILEY Linear Figurations by William Corwin - ALEX KATZ Drawings by David Rhodes
- GERHARD RICHTER by Hovey Brock
- Son: Signal of Authority by Kang Kang
- (Not So) Still Life by Kim Power
- Subterranean Sculptural Blues by Samuel Feldblum
- PAUL MOGENSEN Painting by Greg Lindquist
- Naomi Campbell: Bread and Circuses by Jonathan Goodman
- MARTIN PURYEAR Big Bling by Jason Rosenfeld
- Andy Warhol & Ai Weiwei by David Carrier
- LEE KRASNER by Darragh McNicholas
- Surface Conditions by Nora Griffin
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SURREAL ENCOUNTERS: COLLECTING THE MARVELOUS
Works from the Collections of Roland Penrose, Edward James, Gabrielle Keiller and Ulla and Heiner Pietzsch by Mary Ann Caws - N. DASH by Phong Bui
Art
- WOLFGANG TILLMANS with Allie Biswas
- LUC TUYMANS with Jarrett Earnest
- THOMAS ROMA and LEO RUBINFIEN with Sara Christoph
- RASHAAD NEWSOME with Laila Pedro
- HARMONY HAMMOND with Phillip Griffith
- JONATHAN LASKER with Phong Bui
- ROBERT BORDO with Seth Cameron
- IN MEMORIAM BILL BERKSON (1939 2016) A Jolt and a Gem by David Levi Strauss
- BILL BERKSON (1939 2016) Bill Berkson: Our Friends Will Pass Among You Silently by Anne Waldman
- BILL BERKSON (1939 2016) WE WERE DESIGNED FOR HEAVEN Bill Berkson On Arcadia, Utopia, and Collaboration by Jarrett Earnest
- BILL BERKSON (1939 2016) All Good Things Must Come to an End by Robert Storr
ArtSeen
- The Folk Art Collection of Elie and Viola Nadelman by Brandt Junceau
- The Language of Things by Phillip Griffith
- Turners Whaling Pictures by Jason Rosenfeld
- Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet, Films and Their Sites by David Rhodes
- BUT A STORM IS BLOWING FROM PARADISE: Contemporary Art of the Middle East and North Africa by Yasaman Alipour
- NICOLE EISENMAN by Stephen Truax
- AL HELD Brushstrokes: India Ink Drawings From 1960 by Phong Bui
- POPS STANDARD STUART DAVIS In Full Swing by Tom McGlynn
- Finding the Major Arcana CARIN RILEY Linear Figurations by William Corwin
- ALEX KATZ Drawings by David Rhodes
- GERHARD RICHTER by Hovey Brock
- Son: Signal of Authority by Kang Kang
- (Not So) Still Life by Kim Power
- Subterranean Sculptural Blues by Samuel Feldblum
- PAUL MOGENSEN Painting by Greg Lindquist
- Naomi Campbell: Bread and Circuses by Jonathan Goodman
- MARTIN PURYEAR Big Bling by Jason Rosenfeld
- Andy Warhol & Ai Weiwei by David Carrier
- LEE KRASNER by Darragh McNicholas
- Surface Conditions by Nora Griffin
- SURREAL ENCOUNTERS: COLLECTING THE MARVELOUS Works from the Collections of Roland Penrose, Edward James, Gabrielle Keiller and Ulla and Heiner Pietzsch by Mary Ann Caws
- N. DASH by Phong Bui
Critics Page
- Against Identity by Gerard & Kelly
- Skin of the Actor, Teeth of the Artist by Asher Hartman
- Ligia Lewis
- Mark Aguhar by Young Joon Kwak
- Things Left Behind: Black Screen 16:9 by Erin Christovale and Rafa Esparza
- The Woman Who Married a Bear by Simone Forti
- Attention: by Lucky Dragons
- Take My Hand and Lets Get Out of This 4% Universe by Laub and Jennifer Moon
Books
- JOHN DOMINI with Christina Milletti by Christina Milletti
- Harlem to the Moon by Jill Dearman
- The Critics and the Chroniclers: Four Writers on Food in Our Times by Alison Tate Lewis
- To Boldly Go: ANN VANDERMEER & JEFF VANDERMEER With Nancy Hightower by Nancy Hightower
- The Writers' Writers: Bookmarked Series by Ig Publishing AARON BURCH, KIRBY GANN, CURTIS SMITH, and ROBERT LASNER with Joseph Salvatore
- SARA BAUME with Torrey Crim
- Caring for the Underdog: JEROME CHARYN with Alex Dueben
- Canon Fodder by Weston Cutter
- Nothing Embarrassing or Strange: Curating KGB Bars Writers Series by David Winner
- The What is That by Weston Cutter
- Status Update: MATTHEW VOLLMER Speaks with Joseph Salvatore
- Expanding the Possibilities of Story: AMBER SPARKS with John Madera
- BELINDA MCKEON with Torrey Crim
- GIRL ON FIRE (AND ICE) BLAIR BRAVERMAN with Leigh Kamping‑Carder
- Father Figures by Joshua Alvarez
- Artistic Wanderings by Gretchen Schmid
- SESQUIPEDALIAN ECCENTRICS DYLAN HICKS with Evan Lavender‑Smith
- The Unfinished World of the Short Story by Darley Stewart
- The Barely-There Before or: Paradise Lost (& Found) by Chris Campanioni
- BOOKS ARE NOT CHILDREN RUMAAN ALAM with Catherine LaSota
- The Fog Machine by Jon Krampner
- Trove of Secrets by Gillie Collins
Music
- Brooklyn Rail Highly Selective Music Events
- MUSIC AS A VOLATILE ART FORM: Terry Allen Reissued by Marshall Yarbrough
- Hearing With Your Eyes by George Grella
- Jon Savages Very Good Year by Jeff Tompkins
- Outtakes by Steve Dalachinsky
Dance
- Now More Than Ever, We Need This Party by Jaime Shearn Coan
- MARIE CHOUINARD with Stephanie Del Rosso
- Ratmanskys Quiet Revolution by Susan Yung
- MOVEMENT REALIZED Anna Sperbers Prize by Lori Degolyer
Film
- LOUIS HENDERSON with Leo Goldsmith
- MIXED USE: Spectacles Trailers by Mary Billyou
- IMAGES OF THE WORLD: At the Harun Farocki Institut by Jesse Cumming
Theater
- The Art of Capturing the Ephemeral Maria Baranovas performance photography by Ivan Talijancic
- Lindsay Joys In the Event of My Death: New Plays Grown Down at The Farm Theater by Addie Johnson Talbott
- The authenticity in getting Caught with Christopher Chen by Matthew Paul Olmos
Fiction
- Excerpts from Nioque by Francis Ponge, translated from the French by JD Larson | forthcoming from Red Dust, 2017
- Bartleby on Carmine Street by Raphael Rubinstein
- Three by Peter Wortsman
- The Crying Scout by Debora Kuan
- Tragic Strip by T. Motley
Verbatim
Poetry
- Two by Amy De'Ath
- Two by Denver Butson
- ☐ descriptions that leave out by Binswanger Friedman
- Bill & Teds Excellent Adventure by Edmund Berrigan
- Two by Shira Dentz
- Five by Shanna Compton
- from Animals of Dawn by Murat Nemet-Nejat
Art Books
- Jon-Michael Frank and Bianca Stone by Megan N. Liberty
- RICHARD VINE with David Ebony
Field Notes
- Letter from the Netherlands: We Refugees are Like Chemical Waste by Nick Vos
- From Welcome to Farewell: Germany, the refugee crisis and the global surplus proletariat by Felix Baum
- White, Rural, and Poor: On the Politics of Non-Identity by Adam Theron-Lee Rensch
- After Being Up All Night, We Wake up with a Political Strike1 by Charles Reeve
Editor's Message
- Performing Identities, Identifying Performance by John Tain
Publisher's Message
- Dear Readers and Friends, by Phong Bui