The Brooklyn Rail

Table of Contents

Editor's Message

• State of Affairs

  – By Olivier Berggruen

Publisher's Message

• Dear Friends and Readers

  – By Phong Bui

Art

• NJIDEKA AKUNYILI CROSBY with Jason Rosenfeld

• GREGG BORDOWITZ with Yasi Alipour

• CHITRA GANESH with Megan N. Liberty

• JO SMAIL with Louis Block

• MADDALENA GRANZIERA with Angela Brisotto, Victoria Stephanie Uzumyemezoglu, Sara Antoniolli and Olga Lepri

ArtSeen

• Aliza Shvarts: Purported

  – By Elizabeth Buhe

• Valerie Jaudon: Prepositions

  – By Alfred Mac Adam

• All What I Want is Life

  – By Ruba Al-Sweel

• Brown’s a Color, Black is Not

  – By Darla Migan

• Rosie Lee Tompkins: A Retrospective

  – By David Carrier

• Thaddeus Mosley

  – By Jonathan Goodman

• The New British Galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

  – By Christian Kleinbub

• From Pot to Plate: Eli Ping at And Now

  – By Israel Lund

• An Incomplete History of Muralism at Rikers Island

  – By Parker Field

• ecofeminism(s)

  – By Alex A. Jones

• Tatiana Arocha: Respiro un bosque/I breathe a forest

  – By Hovey Brock

• NOT OVER

  – By Osman Can Yerebakan

• Josh Smith: High as Fuck

  – By Ann C. Collins

• Farah Al Qasimi: Back and Forth Disco

  – By Nina Wolpow

• Painting at Night

  – By Robert R. Shane

• The Tree of Life

  – By Charlotte Kent

• Letter From New York: Marcin Muchalski and David Rhodes

  – By Hearne Pardee

• The Rock

  – By Peter Brock

• Within Global Isolation: Asian Artists in America

  – By Sahar Khraibani

• Hard Opening: Vigil for Black Death

  – By Kathleen Langjahr

• FIVE.

  – By Charlene K. Lau

• do it (around the world)

  – By Ketter Weissman

• Elizabeth Ibarra

  – By Jason Rosenfeld

• 2 Lizards

  – By Charlene K. Lau

• Paintings Boarded-Up

  – By Robert C. Morgan

• Jonathan Berger: An Introduction to Nameless Love

  – By Ksenia Soboleva

• The Pursuit of Aesthetics: Artwork Created During Quarantine

  – By William Corwin

• Mike Childs: The Journey: Grids, Color and Curvilinear forms, 2004 to 2020

  – By David Rhodes

Critics Page

• The Mystical

  – By Yuk Hui

• I am Prehistory

  – By Rémi Labrusse

• The Promise

  – By Anne-Laure Zevi

• Resilient Objects: Surviving the Collapse of the Institution

  – By Juliana Cerqueira Leite

• John Armleder

• Mai-Thu Perret

• Dance in the Making

  – By Anna Yudina , Diana Vishneva, and Olivier Berggruen

• Lady Lay

  – By Ali Van

• Anicka Yi with Olivier Berggruen

• Symbiontics: a view of present conditions from a place of entanglement

  – By Caroline A. Jones

• The Case for Impure Vision

  – By Antonio Damasio

Books

• KATE GREENE with Jacquelyn Marie Gallo

• LEIGH STEIN with Kathleen Rooney

• Kevin Carey’s Set in Stone: poems

  – By Christopher X. Shade

• Partial Reveals & Inclusive Revelations in the Post-Truth Simulacracy: The Poetics

  – By Chris Campanioni

• Can’t Look Away: Ben Ehrenreich’s Desert Notebooks

  – By Erika Howsare

• Inkblot Journalism: Jay Kirk’s Avoid the Day

  – By J.C. Hallman

Music

• MATTHEW SHIPP with George Grella

• BOTCH-ing Online Opera

  – By Joe Diebes

• Fairuz and Her Family Fusions

  – By Martin Longley

• Listening In: Version and Inversion

  – By Scott Gutterman

Dance

• Can we create lasting mutual aid structures?

  – By Nicole Loeffler-Gladstone

• The Bon Iver Race Dance, Reviewed

  – By Adlan Jackson

• LIZ WOLFF with Ivan Talijancic

  – By Ivan Talijancic

Film

• In Conversation: JOSEPHINE DECKER with Madeline Whittle

• Japan Cuts 2020: Social Shifts Through Time

  – By Jaime Grijalba

• Future Days: Berlinale 2020

  – By Leo Goldsmith

• "It’s Alive! It’s Alive!"

  – By Tyler Wilson

• Quemar para sembrar: Pablo Larraín’s Ema

  – By Bartolomeo Sala

Theater

• Theater Must Hold

  – By Elinor T Vanderburg

• The Case for Telematics

  – By Jared McNeill

• National Queer Theater: Building Community, Shining a Light, and Raising Hell

  – By Billy McEntee

• ANNE BOGART with Tara Ahmadinejad

Fiction

• Excerpt from Parakeet

  – By Marie-Helene Bertino

• Eau de Toilette

  – By Ariel Saramandi

Poetry

• four

  – By Patricia Spears Jones

• five

  – By David Mills

• Triptychs

  – By Sandra Simonds

• five

  – By Kyle Dacuyan

• five

  – By Claire Donato

• Now It Can Be Told

  – By Jonathan Lethem

• four

  – By John Yau

• six from Snoring in Oregon

  – By Paul G. Maziar

Art Books

• Sara Magenheimer’s Beige Pursuit

  – By Maxwell Paparella

• Lorena Lohr’s Tonight Lounge

  – By Sarah Moroz

• Jonas Mekas’s I Seem to Live: The New York Diaries 1950–1969

  – By Paul G. Maziar

• Mayumi Hosokura’s New Skin

  – By Megan N. Liberty

• Alice Trumbull Mason: Pioneer of American Abstraction

  – By Karen Chernick

ArTonic

• Artists Space

  – By Nancy Princenthal

Field Notes

• Prelude to a Hot American Summer

  – By Jarrod Shanahan and Zhandarka Kurti

• For the State, the Best Defense is Sometimes a Deadly Offense

  – By Charles Reeve

• “My son's dreams were cut short”: protests against police brutality go viral in Mexico, the US, and beyond

  – By David Schmidt

• Crowned Plague

  – By Phil A. Neel

• Elise Armani with Piotr Szyhalski

• Journey to a “People's War”

  – By Thomas Dai

• American Factory

  – By Andy Battle

• Beyond the Green New Deal

  – By Max Ajl

The Miraculous

• 11. (Harlem)

  – By Raphael Rubinstein

• 12. (Chelsea, Fifth Avenue)

  – By Raphael Rubinstein

• 13. (Meat Packing District)

  – By Raphael Rubinstein

• 14. (NoHo)

  – By Raphael Rubinstein

• 15. (East Village, Union Square)

  – By Raphael Rubinstein