The Brooklyn Rail

Table of Contents

Editor's Message

• From the Threshing Floor

  – By Norma Cole

Publisher's Message

• Dear Friends and Readers,

  – By Phong Bui

Art

• RICHARD LONG with Robert C. Morgan

• SUSAN BEE with Phong H. Bui

• GRACIELA ITURBIDE with Sara Roffino

• MERLIN JAMES with Louis Block

• CRAIG KALPAKJIAN with Yasi Alipour

• Letter from Dusseldorf

  – By Toby Kamps

ArtSeen

• Landscapes of the South

  – By Susan Breyer

• Richard Long

  – By Robert C. Morgan

• Arlene Shechet: Skirts

  – By David Rhodes

• Joanna Pousette-Dart

  – By Barbara A. MacAdam

• Georges de La Tour: L'Europa della Luce

  – By Bartolomeo Sala

• Angela Fraleigh: Sound the Deep Waters

  – By Ann C. Collins

• Jutta Koether: 4 the Team

  – By Alfred Mac Adam

• Julian Schnabel: The Patch of Blue the Prisoner Calls the Sky

  – By Alfred Mac Adam

• Rita Ackermann: Mama '19

  – By Charlotte Kent

• Jordan Casteel: Within Reach

  – By Nina Wolpow

• Jana Euler: Unform

  – By Katherine Siboni

• Jennifer West: Future Forgetting

  – By Olivia Gauthier

• Kelly Akashi: Mood Organ

  – By Ann C. Collins

• Nicole Eisenman: Sturm und Drang

  – By Phyllis Tuchman

• Zsófia Keresztes: Glossy Inviolability

  – By Veronika Molnar

• Jennifer Bolande: The Composition of Decomposition

  – By Sahar Khraibani

• Christopher Wilmarth: Sculpture and Drawings from the 1970s

  – By Jan Avgikos

• Alison Rossiter: Substance of Density, 1918-1948

  – By Zach Ritter

• Totally Dedicated: Leonard Contino, 1940-2016

  – By Robert R. Shane

• Donald Judd: Maker, Baker

  – By Elizabeth Buhe

• Against, Again: Art Under Attack in Brazil

  – By Sumeja Tulic

• A Delian Mode: Dear Delia

  – By Israel Lund

• Robert Frank: After The Americans

  – By Lyle Rexer

Critics Page

• Goodbye Pork Pie Hat

  – By David Marriott

• Thresh:

  – By Cole Swensen

• Notes on The New Threshing Floor

  – By Cedar Sigo

• The Trajectory of a Bullet Never Shot

  – By Susan Briante

• from Another Sky

  – By Dale Martin Smith

• Mirage As Errata

  – By Will Alexander

• Resolved

  – By Laura Moriarty

• A chessboard drawn by the child Kuba

  – By Erín Moure

• [Exemplary Title in the Theme of “From the Threshing Floor ”] [?]

  – By Carlos Lara

• Three Threshing Floors

  – By Susan Gevirtz

• Shake

  – By Aaron Shurin

• from A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure

  – By Hoa Nguyen

• Video Tryouts for an American Grammar Book

  – By Farid Matuk

• The Prayers of the Saints

  – By Steven Seidenberg

Books

• Shokoofeh Azar’s The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree

  – By John Domini

• JOHN GALLAHER with Tony Leuzzi

• MARIE MUTSUKI MOCKETT with Eric Farwell

• ELAINE KAHN with Rachel Rabbit White

• Emily St. John Mandel’s The Glass Hotel

  – By Yvonne C. Garrett

• Samuele F.S. Pardini’s In The Name of The Mother

  – By Fiore Sireci

• Talking to My Sons about Varoufakis—and the Economy

  – By William Stroud

• Mary South’s You Will Never Be Forgotten

  – By Yvonne C. Garrett

Music

• Quarantine Hall

  – By George Grella

• Dance Punks Punk Dance

  – By Steve Erickson

• Outline: A Festival for All Seasons

  – By Scott Gutterman

• Opus Jazz Club

  – By Martin Longley

Dance

• A Dancer’s View: Pavel Zuštiak’s Hebel

  – By Doug LeCours

• Tales of Hopper: The Additive Adaptation from Painting to Dance

  – By Hannah Foster

• OXANA CHI and LAYLA ZAMI with Gillian Jakab

  – By Gillian Jakab

Film

• MATIAS PIÑEIRO with Jessica Dunn Rovinelli

• PIETRO MARCELLO with Dan Sullivan

• Before the Circus Left Town: Rachel Mason’s Circus of Books

  – By Daniel Gerwin

Theater

• Let Constraints Set You Free

  – By Billy McEntee

• DAVE HARRIS with Kimber Lee

• Building an Invisible Theater

  – By Karen Thorla

• A selection of virtual theater spaces to gather in

  – By Karen Thorla

Fiction

• Diary of a Foreigner in Paris

  – by Curzio Malaparte, translated from the Italian and French by Stephen Twilley

• Shark Fins

  – by Enrique Serpa, translated from the Spanish by Andrew Feldman

• God Bless You

  – By T. Motley

• inSerial: part sixteen The Mysteries of Paris

  – By Eugène Sue, translated from French by Robert Bononno

• Entering the Glitch: EMMALEA RUSSO with Sarah Hicks

Poetry

• two

  – By Leopoldine Core

• four

  – By Nikki Wallschlaeger

• four

  – By Edwin Torres

• three

  – By Benjamin Friedlander

• from Water & Power

  – By Alli Warren

• two

  – By Tony Towle

• Love Mountain

  – By Emmalea Russo

Art Books

• Rosanna Mclaughlin’s Double-Tracking: Studies in Duplicity

  – By Esmé Hogeveen

• The Saddest Thing Is That I Have Had to Use Words: A Madeline Gins Reader

  – By Megan N. Liberty

• Gustav Metzger’s Writings

  – By Joseph Nechvatal

• Patrick de Vries’s Alberto Giacometti and the Perception of Reality

  – By Isabella Boorman

In Memoriam

• S/HE IS (STILL) HER/E

  – By Jarrett Earnest

• Lia Gangitano

• Carl Abrahamsson

• Edley ODowd

• William Breeze

• Roxy Farman

• Clarity Haynes

• Akiko Hada

• Leigha Mason

• Alan Russell

• Ron Athey

• Jarrett Earnest

• Meena Ysanne

• Benjamin Tischer

• Jane Ursula Harris

• Michael Fox

• Douglas Rushkoff

• Enok Ripley

• James Birch

• Jordi Valls

• Marie Losier

• Paul Bee Hampshire

• Robert Wilson

• Susana Vico Valero

• Genesis Breyer P-Orridge on he/r art

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Field Notes

• Editor’s Note: End Times Politics

  – By Paul Mattick

• Fear is more powerful than facts

  – By Natalie Baker

• Life Comes At You Fast

  – By Jason E. Smith

• A Day without Women

  – By David Schmidt

• Diary from a Genocide in the Making

  – By Margaret M. Seiler