The Brooklyn Rail

Table of Contents

Publisher's Message

• Dear Friends and Readers,

  – By Phong Bui

Editor's Message

• Only Anthropophagy Unites Us?

  – By Tiago Gualberto and Sara Roffino

Art

• ETEL ADNAN with Charles Bernstein

• SARAH CROWNER with Tom McGlynn

• TISHAN HSU with Martha Schwendener

• JENNY SAVILLE with Jason Rosenfeld

ArtSeen

• Emily Mason: Chelsea Paintings

  – By Elizabeth Buhe

• Samara Golden: Upstairs at Steve’s

  – By Elizabeth Buhe

• Patchwork

  – By Barbara Calderón

• Rachel Eulena Williams: Tracing Memory

  – By Dan Cameron

• The Asia Society Triennial

  – By David Carrier, Yung-Wen (Mag) Yao, and Paul Gladston

• Rembrandt's Orient

  – By David Carrier

• Aleksandar Duravcevic: Empire

  – By William Corwin

• Wolf Kahn & Emily Mason

  – By David Ebony

• Felipe Baeza: Through the Flesh to Elsewhere

  – By Olivia Gauthier

• Hiwa K: Do you remember what you are burning?

  – By Ruba Al-Sweel

• This Longing Vessel

  – By Zoë Hopkins

• Cross-cuts

  – By Alfred Mac Adam

• Elizabeth Schwaiger: From the Dark Sea

  – By Barbara A. MacAdam

• Salman Toor: How Will I Know

  – By Peter Murphy

• GEST

  – By Yxta Maya Murray

• Jennifer Packer: The Eye Is Not Satisfied With Seeing

  – By Claire Phillips

• Jack Tworkov: Towards Nirvana / Works from the 70s

  – By David Rhodes

• Lynette Yiadom-Boakye: Fly in League With the Night

  – By Bartolomeo Sala

• Haim Steinbach: 1991 – 1993

  – By Katherine Siboni

• 11:11

  – By Angela Starita

• Martha Diamond: 1980-1989

  – By Nina Wolpow

• Helmut Federle: Basics on Composition

  – By David Rhodes

• Justin Matherly: Compost

  – By Ann McCoy

Critics Page

• Note from the Translator

  – By Ramón J. Stern

• We are Borg!

  – By Renato Araújo da Silva

• a country of anonymous pain no more

  – By rafael amorim

• Ka’aguy Porã

  – in the words of Sandra Benites, from an interview with Tiago Gualberto

• The Almost-Brazilians

  – by Vivian Braga dos Santos, artwork by Rosana Paulino

• Anthropophagous Manifesto from the Periphery

  – By Sergio Vaz

• ReAnthropophagy

  – By Denilson Baniwa

• Claudia Andujar: anthropophagie?, fényképezés, yanõmami!

  – by André Pitol

• Attacking the Biennial

  – in the words of Cripta Djan, from an interview with Tiago Gualberto

• At Any Time, Hard Meat

  – By Caetano Dias

• Plas Ayiti (Neon Project)

  – By Milla Jung

• Antonio Dias and the Kidnapping of Pop Art

  – By Luiz Renato Martins

• Sons of the Nation

  – By María Iñigo Clavo

• The Originality of the Herd of Cannibals

  – By Thays Berbe

• I Continue My “Auto-phagy” and Winds Gust Over My Own Ashes

  – By Caetano Dias

• Cotton Candy in Grandma’s Hair

  – By Viviane A. Pistache

Books

• ALBERT MOBILIO with Tony Leuzzi

• Randa Jarrar’s Love Is an Ex-Country

  – By Yvonne C. Garrett

• Rose Szabo’s What Big Teeth

  – By Jacquelyn Marie Gallo

• Lauren Oyler’s Fake Accounts

  – By Yvonne C. Garrett

• ERICA BUIST with J.C. Hallman

• BRANDON HOBSON with Andrew Ervin

• Matthew Salesses’s Craft in the Real World

  – By Yvonne C. Garrett

• Sigrid Nunez’s What Are You Going Through

  – By John Kazanjian

• LAURA CRONK with Justin Sherwood

Music

• Universal Tonality: The Life and Music of William Parker

  – By George Grella

• Azu Tiwaline and Her Saharan Electro-Dub Pulse

  – By Martin Longley

• Hanging On with Don Giovanni Records

  – By Rob Duguay

• Hindsight

  – By Scott Gutterman

Dance

• Continuation and the Break: Notes on Black Lives and Tap Dance

  – By Orlando Hernández

• Retreat from the Divided States of America

  – By Ivan Talijancic

Film

• “They’re Not Normal People”: Azazel Jacobs’s French Exit

  – By Madeline Whittle

• FERNANDA VALADEZ and ASTRID RONDERO with Caitlin Quinlan

• Rebel Against Reality: The Spheres of Henri Plaat

  – By Marius Hrdy

• The People's Demands Are Lawful: Jill Li's Lost Course

  – By Matt Turner

Theater

• PATRICK & DANIEL LAZOUR with Lama El Homaïssi

• MELODY BATES with Ivan Talijancic

• Adapt or Perish: Surveying the Status of the American Theater

  – By Donny Repsher

• JULIA “JUJU” NIETO & RISHI MUTALIK with Jose Solís

Fiction

• Editor’s Note

  – By Will Chancellor

• Symbology

  – By Betsy M. Narváez

• from The President Shop

  – By Vesna Maric

Poetry

• from the she said dialogues: flesh memory

  – By Akilah Oliver

• LaDavid

  – By Gabrielle Daniels

• from Except for This Unseen Thread

  – by Ra’ad Abdulqadir, translated from the Arabic by Mona Kareem

• from City Dwellers/After Brecht

  – By Owen Hill

• three

  – By Katie Fowley

• five

  – By Trevor Ketner

• from Petrarchan Ditties

  – By Adam Strauss

• Friend: A Tribute to Jean Valentine

  – By Jaime Shearn Coan

Art Books

• Designing a New Tradition: Loïs Mailou Jones and the Aesthetics of Blackness

  – By Karen Chernick

• Luis Camnitzer’s One Number is Worth One Word

  – By Leah Gallant

• Martine Syms’s Shame Space

  – By Megan N. Liberty

• World War 3 Illustrated’s Shameless Feminists

  – By Lucy Lippard

• Aby Warburg’s Bilderatlas Mnemosyne

  – By David Carrier

Field Notes

• The Coup That Wasn’t

  – By Paul Mattick

• Fault Line of the American Civil War

  – By Sandro Moiso

• The Longue Durée of Racialized Capitalism

  – By Satnam Virdee

• Curating Ridgewood

  – By Max-Henry Moorhead

• The Money Theory of the State

  – By Jamie Merchant

The Miraculous

• 36. (West 43rd Street)

  – By Raphael Rubinstein

• 37. (West 8th Street)

  – By Raphael Rubinstein

• 38. (Williamsburg, Pier 88)

  – By Raphael Rubinstein

• 39. (Times Square, Columbus Circle, Union Square)

  – By Raphael Rubinstein

• 40. (330 West 42nd Street)

  – By Raphael Rubinstein