The Brooklyn Rail

Table of Contents

Editor's Message

• World on Fire

  – By Elizabeth Bishop

Publisher's Message

• Dear Friends and Readers,

  – By Phong Bui

Art

• MICHAEL ARMITAGE with Toby Kamps

• DAWOUD BEY with Lyle Rexer

• TORKWASE DYSON with Robert R. Shane

• MAX HOLLEIN with Phong H. Bui

• TONY OURSLER with Thyrza Nichols Goodeve

ArtSeen

• Rute Merk: SS20

  – By William Corwin

• Hélio Oiticica: Dance in My Experience

  – By Bruna Shapira

• Artist Stories from the Pandemic

  – By Joyce Beckenstein

• Jeffrey Gibson: Because Once You Enter My House It Becomes Our House

  – By Susan Breyer

• Artemisia

  – By David Carrier

• Banksy: A Visual Protest

  – By David Carrier

• An Alternative Canon: Art Dealers Collecting Outsider Art

  – By Jonathan Goodman

• Susan Philipsz: Muffled Drums/The Unquiet Grave

  – By Nicholas Heskes

• Frank Jones: 114591

  – By Nicholas Heskes

• The Institute of Queer Ecology: Metamorphosis

  – By Alex A. Jones

• The Game of Life - Emergence in Generative Art

  – By Charlotte Kent

• Philip Guston: What Endures

  – By Barbara A. MacAdam

• Jorinde Voigt

  – By Barbara A. MacAdam

• Scott Benzel: Mindless Pleasures

  – By Yxta Maya Murray

• Maureen Catbagan

  – By Amber Jamilla Musser

• Barkley L. Hendricks: In the Paint

  – By Lee Ann Norman

• Ashley Garrett: Aegis

  – By Robert R. Shane

• Ari Marcopoulos: Fast Breaks

  – By Robert Slifkin

• Nancy Shaver, Max Goldfarb & Sterrett Smith: fastness, slowness and Monstrous Beauty

  – By Simon Wu

• Clotilde Jiménez: The Contest

  – By Simon Wu

• Andrew Sendor: InstaCOVID Drawings

  – By Osman Can Yerebakan

• Susan Philipsz: Sleep Close and Fast

  – By Patrick J. Reed

Critics Page

• Pandemic Poetics: An Eulogy and Manifesto in an AntiBlack World

  – By Gwendolyn Baxley and Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz

• Black Joy Is Not Canceled

  – By Damaris Dunn

• On Confinement

  – By Nicole Hamilton

• On Circular Economy

  – By Regina Anderson

• Anti-Racism at the Borderlands of Whiteness

  – By Nassim Zerriffi

• Peace by Understanding

  – By Elizabeth Bishop and Carolyn Eanes

• The Real Virus

  – By Henry Beltrán Pérez

• From Beirut, Borikén, and Brooklyn with Love

  – By Meghan McDermott

• The Discord

  – By Ioanna Opidee

• Am I Dying, Mister?

  – By The Lost Child of Emma Goldman and Bernie Sanders

Books

• Buttercream & Symbiosis: Joon Oluchi Lee's Neotenica

  – By June Daowen Lei

• Emily Hashimoto's A World Between

  – By Yvonne C. Garrett

• Sulaiman Addonia's Silence Is My Mother Tongue

  – By John Domini

• Transcendent Kingdom

  – By Joseph Peschel

• The Bass Rock

  – By Yvonne C. Garrett

• Elena Ferrante's The Lying Life of Adults

  – By John Domini

• Red Pill

  – By Joseph Peschel

• THERESIA ENZENSBERGER with Elvia Wilk

• KATHLEEN ROONEY with Robert Puccinelli

  – By Robert Puccinelli

• JESSICA GROSS with David Burr Gerrard

• Statement of Record: A Conversation with StatORec Editors Andrea Scrima and David Winner in conversation with Rebecca Chace

• Benjamin Taylor's Here We Are

  – By David Burr Gerrard

• Steven Belletto's The Beats: A Literary History

  – By Regina Weinrich

• I Hold a Wolf by the Ears

  – By Cariss Chesanek

• Neeli Cherkovski's Hang On To The Yangtze River

  – By Iván Argüelles

Music

• Zillions of Things Become One Thing: CATHERINE CHRISTER HENNIX with Marcus Boon

  – By Marcus Boon

• Citadelic: Astridpark, Gent, Belgium, 18th July 2020

  – By Martin Longley

• Electro-vodou

  – By Adolf Alzuphar

• Listening In: All the Way Live

  – By Scott Gutterman

• AMBROSE AKINMUSIRE with George Grella

Dance

• The Grand Union: Accidental Anarchists of Downtown Dance

  – By Aileen Dowling

• Finding Dis/orientation in Alexa West’s Triple Expo

  – By Tiffany Jaeyeon Shin

• CHARMAIN WARREN and NORA CHIPAUMIRE with Gillian Jakab

• “It's Our Time Now”: The Aesthetics of Horror in Jordan Peele’s Us

  – By Luke Williams

Film

• AMY SEIMETZ with Madeline Whittle

• MARTHA COLBURN and PAT O’NEILL with Marius Hrdy

• Object of Reverence: Natalie Erika James’s Relic

  – By Gina Telaroli

Theater

• NEW Black Mutual Aid Carves a Path for What Support Can Be in a Revolution

  – By Marcus Scott

• Brick by Brick by Buchheister

  – By Charles Quittner

• As the World Slowly Reopens, Theaters Remain Closed, Leaving Furloughed Employees Uncertain About Their Futures

  – By Joey Sims

Fiction

• Clearance

  – By María José Navia and Lily  Meyer

• Brother and Sister

  – By Alix Hawley

Poetry

• four

  – By Peter Gizzi

• three

  – By Guillermo Filice Castro

• three

  – By Barry Schwabsky

• six

  – By Courtney Bush

• four

  – By Joanna Fuhrman

• five

  – By Hannah Emerson

• four

  – By David Brazil

• from Migrainer

  – By Sarah Sala

Art Books

• Andrei Monastyrski’s Elementary Poetry

  – By Nolan Kelly

• Jonathan Lyndon Chase’s wild wild Wild West / Haunting of the Seahorse

  – By Megan N. Liberty

• Moyra Davey’s Index Cards

  – By David Richardson

• Lisa Hanawalt’s I Want You

  – By Wyatt Sarafin

• Hundertwasser For Future

  – By Lily Majteles

In Memoriam

• A Tribute to Christo

  – By Barbara Rose

Special Report

• RIZOMA: Poetry & Performance Workshops at Santiaguito de Almoloya Women’s Prison

  – By Emma Gomis

Field Notes

• The Rent is Too Damn High

  – By Nathan Eisenberg and Richard Hunsinger

• Corona Crisis Governmentality

  – By Bini Adamczak

• What’s the Use of a University?

  – By Samuel Feldblum and John Schmidt

• Against the Wall

  – By Hovey Brock

• Save CUNY

  – By Carol Lang

• My Rosenberg COVID-19 Mask

  – By Eric Gabriel Lehman

• The Spiral

  – By Phil A. Neel

The Miraculous

• 16. (Tribeca)

  – By Raphael Rubinstein

• 17. (The East Village, the Subway)

  – By Raphael Rubinstein

• 18. (Chelsea)

  – By Raphael Rubinstein

• 19. (The East Village, Queens)

  – By Raphael Rubinstein

• 20. (Canal Street)

  – By Raphael Rubinstein