The Brooklyn Rail

Table of Contents

Editor's Message

• Notes from a Sunken Third Place

  – By Jasmine Wahi

Publisher's Message

• Dear Friends and Readers,

  – By Phong Bui

Art

• JO BAER with Amanda Gluibizzi

• BRAD KAHLHAMER with Susan Harris

• THEASTER GATES with Phong H. Bui

• JIM MELCHERT with Constance Lewallen

ArtSeen

• Freddy Rodríguez: Early Paintings 1970–1990

  – By Susan Breyer

• Cauleen Smith: Mutualities

  – By Sasha Panaram

• Meg Lipke

  – By Tom McGlynn

• Alienation ?

  – By Robert C. Morgan

• Otto Piene: Rasterbilder / Ceramics

  – By Tom McGlynn

• MORE TIME LESS

  – By Sophia Ma

• ART CLUB2000: Selected Works 1992–1999

  – By Sam Korman

• Luther Hampton

  – By Earnestine Jenkins

• TITAN

  – By Bruna Shapira

• Hulda Guzmán: my flora, my fauna

  – By Will Fenstermaker

• Wassef Boutros-Ghali: A Retrospective

  – By Kaleem Hawa

• Jack Whitten: I AM THE OBJECT

  – By Dan Cameron

• Frank Auerbach: Selected Works, 1978–2016

  – By Tom McGlynn

• Ronnie Landfield: Concurrence

  – By Tom McGlynn

• Yuji Agematsu: Times Square Times (Kodak All-Stars)

  – By Peter Brock

• James Luna: Take a Picture with a Real Indian

  – By Susan Harris

• Philip Mueller: Last Days of Soft Machine

  – By Nadine Khalil

• James Hyde: Public Sculpture

  – By Hovey Brock

• Genesis Belanger: Through the Eye of a Needle

  – By Holly Bushman

• Michelangelo Pistoletto

  – By Ann C. Collins

• Astrid Kajsa Nylander: minijobs

  – By Ann C. Collins

• John Edmonds: A Sidelong Glance

  – By Jean Dykstra

• Julie Mehretu: about the space of half an hour

  – By William Corwin

• Tom Sachs: Handmade Paintings

  – By Jonathan Goodman

• Ariana Papademetropoulos: Unweave a Rainbow

  – By Kathleen Hefty

• Sanford Biggers: Codeswitch

  – By Adriana Furlong

• Mary Mattingly: Pipelines and Permafrost

  – By Charlotte Kent

• The Archive to Come

  – By Charlotte Kent

• Joseph Holtzman: Six Recent Paintings

  – By Gilles Heno-Coe

• Vivian Springford

  – By Barbara A. MacAdam

• RosTA

  – By Olivia Gilmore

• Jonathan Lyndon Chase: Big Wash

  – By Amber Jamilla Musser

• Luigi Ghirri: The Idea of Building

  – By David Rhodes

• Luisa Rabbia: From Mitosis to Rainbow

  – By Jason Rosenfeld

• Tschabalala Self: Cotton Mouth

  – By Osman Can Yerebakan

• Mark Mulroney and Soyeon Shin

  – By Nina Wolpow

• Theaster Gates: Black Vessel

  – By Robert C. Morgan

• Alexis Rockman: Lost Cargo: Watercolors

  – By Alfred Mac Adam

• Michael Clark: Cosmic Dancer

  – By Alex Bacon

Critics Page

• 3 poems

  – By K. Desireé Milwood

• The Project as Institution and Individual

  – By Tiana Webb Evans

• Freedom Dreaming

  – By Rujeko Hockley

• “We Are Our Own Monuments”: Dispatch from Philly

  – By Paul M. Farber

• Impossible (2020)

  – By Chantal Fischzang and Rebecca P. Jampol

• Liar’s Pie #3

  – By Kambui Olujimi

• /Ten notes to decolonize vision /Ten notes to my younger self /Ten notes to a younger artist /Ten notes to remember

  – By Jaret Vadera

• Go Forth

  – By Kaneza Schaal

• Intersectional Nomad

  – By Shoshanna Weinberger

• Jason Elizondo with David Antonio Cruz

• Sutured Futures: Composite Bodies and Queer Futurity

  – By Cat Dawson

• …and you called it entertainment. / Black Girl was shot.

  – By Jasmine Mans

Books

• The Best of the Brooklyn Rail’s Books in 2020

  – By Joseph Salvatore

• In Conversation: SUSAN SHAPIRO with Stephanie Siu

  – By Stephanie Siu

• Scholastique Mukasonga’s Igifu

  – By John Domini

• PANKAJ MISHRA with Pac Pobric

• Vincent Van Gogh: A Life in Letters

  – By Joshua Sperling

• Jonathan Lethem’s The Arrest

  – By Joseph Peschel

• Wilhelm Reich’s The Mass Psychology of Fascism

  – By William Stroud

• Kevin Carey’s Murder in the Marsh

  – By Carissa Chesanek

Music

• Opera in Our New World

  – By George Grella

• Listening In: The Art of Intuitive Engineering

  – By Scott Gutterman

• The Free Musketeers

  – By Martin Longley

• Ann O’Aro

  – By Adolf Alzuphar

Dance

• The Many Face(t)s of Michael Clark

  – By Maximiliane Leuschner

• Living Through History: ABSCONDED #EjectionDay2020

  – By Noa Weiss

• JANESSA CLARK with Ivan Talijancic

Film

• Destination Out: Cinematic Illumination, More Than Cinema and Japanese Expanded Cinema and Intermedia

  – By Steve Macfarlane

• Modes of Resistance: Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival 2020

  – By Marius Hrdy

• Citizen Ghost: David Fincher's Mank

  – By Madeleine Seidel

Theater

• I Want You in My Zoom

  – By Eliza Bent

• The Jerk Comes Full Circle: Reflections on Developing, Dramaturging, and Directing Fake Friends’ Cinematic and Theatrical Feat

  – By Rory Pelsue, Cat Rodríguez, and Ariel Sibert

• How the Flea Become the Fled

  – By Joey Sims

Fiction

• Editor’s Note

  – By Will Chancellor

• from Divorcing

  – By Susan Taubes

• from The Boiled in Between

  – By Helen Marten

Poetry

• Lewis Warsh: Part of His History

  – By Steve Clay

• Brooklyn 2020

  – By Steven Taylor

• five

  – By Jennifer Soong

• six

  – By Rae Armantrout

• two

  – By Robert Hershon

• from The Songs of Raimbaut D’Aurenga

  – by Raimbaut D’Aurenga, translated from the Occitan by Brandon Brown

• seven

  – By Pat Nolan

• from Except for This Unseen Thread

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

• from Tec Alliance

  – By Roberto Harrison

Art Books

• Ray Johnson and William S. Wilson: Frog Pond Splash

  – By Mark Bloch

• Renee Gladman’s One Long Black Sentence

  – By Megan N. Liberty

• Karlheinz Weinberger’s Photographs: Together & Alone

  – By Sarah Moroz

• Son Ni’s The Well-Tempered Us

  – By Jordan Spencer

• HANNAH WHITAKER with Naomi Elias

• 20 Best Art Books of 2020

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ArTonic

• Full Circle: The Holt/Smithson Foundation

  – By Alan Gilbert

Field Notes

• How Could It Get Worse?

  – By John W. W. Zeiser

• The American Crisis: A Trans-Atlantic View

  – By Charles Reeve

• “Won’t somebody please think of the children?”

  – By David Schmidt

The Miraculous

• 31. (27 Cooper Square)

  – By Raphael Rubinstein

• 32. (A six-story building on Cooper Square)

  – By Raphael Rubinstein

• 33. (10 Cooper Square, 5 Cooper Square)

  – By Raphael Rubinstein

• 34. (27 Cooper Square)

  – By Raphael Rubinstein

• 35. (48 Cooper Square)

  – By Raphael Rubinstein