The Brooklyn Rail

Table of Contents

Publisher's Message

• Dear Friends and Readers,

  – By Phong Bui

Editor's Message

• To Declare a New World

  – By Will Fenstermaker

Art

• Sanford Biggers with Yasi Alipour

• Enrique Martínez Celaya with Eleanor Heartney

• Hilary Harnischfeger with Louis Block

• Tschabalala Self with Natasha Becker

ArtSeen

• Mark McKnight: Hunger for the Absolute

  – By Zach Ritter

• TR Ericsson: Pale Fires

  – By Emily Chun

• The Symbolists: Les Fleurs du mal

  – By Elizabeth Buhe

• Ezra Tessler: An angle to the place I live in

  – By Joel Parsons

• The Frick Madison

  – By Jason Rosenfeld

• Goya’s Graphic Imagination

  – By Joseph Masheck

• Engineer, Agitator, Constructor: The Artist Reinvented

  – By Sam Korman

• Mortality: A Survey of Contemporary Death Art

  – By Robert R. Shane

• David Hammons: Body Prints, 1968–1979

  – By Zoë Hopkins

• Lucas Blalock: Florida, 1989

  – By Avram C. Alpert

• Esteban Cabeza de Baca: Nepantla

  – By Amanda Gluibizzi

• Paul McCarthy: A&E; Sessions–Drawing and Painting

  – By David Rhodes

• Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration

  – By Darla Migan

• Shirin Neshat: Land of Dreams

  – By Sahar Khraibani

• Mariana Castillo Deball: Between making and knowing something

  – By Vanilla Anandam

• Albers and Morandi: Never Finished

  – By Tom McGlynn

• Mildred Thompson: Throughlines, Assemblages and Works on Paper from the 1960s to the 1990s

  – By Susan Harris

• Laura Aguilar: Show and Tell

  – By Rachel Remick

• Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration

  – By Adriana Furlong

• Ron Athey: Queer Communion

  – By Ksenia Soboleva

• Ljiljana Blazevska

  – By Nicholas Heskes

• Engineer, Agitator, Constructor: The Artist Reinvented, 1918–1939

  – By Charlotte Kent

• Sun You: This Two

  – By Jonathan Goodman

• Goya’s Graphic Imagination

  – By Alfred Mac Adam

• Carl Craig: Party/After-party

  – By Simon Wu

• Lawrence Weiner

  – By Robert C. Morgan

• Georg Baselitz: Pivotal Turn

  – By Phyllis Tuchman

• Souvenirs: Cornell Duchamp Johns Rauschenberg

  – By Amanda Gluibizzi

• Peter Sacks: Republic

  – By Jonathan Goodman

• Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America

  – By David Carrier

Critics Page

• Radical Care

  – By Sarah Cowan

• 9 Primers

  – By Emmanuel Iduma

• Something in the Air

  – By Kaitlyn A. Kramer

• The Revolution Is the Trial

  – By Pac Pobric

• A Guide to Eating and Walking

  – By José Peña Loyola

• Seeds, Sharing, Manifestos

  – By Amelia Rina

• What We Cannot Speak About We Must Pass Over in Silence

  – By Noah Dillon

• New England Bauhaus

  – By Christopher Alessandrini

Books

• ROSS BENES with Christopher Heine

• Fluid Selves: Legacy Russell’s Glitch Feminism

  – By Olivier Berggruen

• Paul Mendez’s Rainbow Milk

  – By Tony Leuzzi

• DARRYL PINCKNEY with William Corwin

• Hoda Barakat’s Voices of the Lost

  – By John Domini

• Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun

  – By Andrew Ervin

• Jamie Figueroa’s Brother, Sister, Mother, Explorer

  – By Carissa Chesanek

• Jackie Wang’s The Sunflower Cast a Spell to Save Us From the Void

  – By Amanda Auerbach

• Lucy Ives’s Cosmogony

  – By Cigdem Asatekin

• William Boyd’s TRIO

  – By Joseph Peschel

Music

• Jen Shyu and the Music of Loss

  – By George Grella

• DEFORREST BROWN, JR. with S. David

• Raúl Monsalve y Los Forajidos

  – By Adolf Alzuphar

• Luke Stewart Calls Two Places Home

  – By Rob Duguay

• Listening In: Cat Toren, Inside the Sound

  – By Scott Gutterman

Dance

• Ralph Lemon Takes The Fall

  – By Luise Mörke

• Thinking with the Body: Dance and Performance at the 13th Gwangju Biennale

  – By Emily May

• Darkness Manifest, Onstage and Off

  – By Susan Yung

Film

• A Moveable Feast: International Film Festival Rotterdam 2021

  – By Marius Hrdy

• The Immeasurable Unseen: All Light, Everywhere

  – By Tyler Wilson

• Rubbing Elbows: The Criterion Collection’s “World of Wong Kar Wai”

  – By Anthony Hawley

Theater

• In Search of Shared Goals

  – By Dylan Pickus

• All the World’s A Couch

  – By Lauren Emily Whalen

• BRYN HERDRICH with Jeesun Choi

Fiction

• Editor’s Note

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• Antonio

  – by Beatriz Bracher, translated from the Portuguese by Adam Morris

• To the Sea

  – By Sharon Adarlo

Poetry

• Lewis Warsh: Part of His History

  – By Steve Clay

• three from Elixir

  – By Lewis Warsh

• Losing Lewis

  – By Barbara Henning

• L.W. I.M.

  – By Simon Pettet

• For Lewis

  – By Peter Bushyeager

• Dad you are this cloud I am looking at above the San Francisco Bay

  – By Sophia Warsh

• two

  – By John Godfrey

• Clouds

  – By Daniel Owen

• Lewis’s Sound

  – By Daniel Kane

• LET GO /

  – By Anne Waldman

• He Stood There (For Lewis)

  – By Uche Nduka

• They Oughta Name a Shoe After You

  – By KB Nemcosky

• Big Lew

  – By Giuseppe Infante

• Sixty Lines for Lewis on His Sixtieth Birthday

  – By Gloria Frym

• “Everyone you’ve ever been with for a moment”

  – By Gary Lenhart

• Poem

  – By Ron Padgett

• Yes?

  – By Lydia Cortés

• Days of the Week

  – By Sarah Anne Wallen

• Robert Hullot-Kentor

• two

  – By Dennis Moritz

• Fragments for Lewis Warsh

  – By Valérie Déus

• Tribute

  – By Tony Iantosca

• Remembering Lewis Warsh, a Planter of Poets

  – By Don Yorty

• Falling into Conversation with Lewis

  – By Ed Friedman

• Pillow Talk

  – By Lisa Jarnot

• Marcella Durand

• For Lewis

  – By Vincent Katz

• From an ongoing untitled poem for Lewis Warsh

  – By Anselm Berrigan

Art Books

• Mårten Lange’s Ghost Witness

  – By Edmée Lepercq

• Ulises Carrión's Sonnet(s)

  – By Megan N. Liberty

• François Halard’s 56 Days In Arles

  – By Sarah Moroz

• Rated RX: Sheree Rose with and after Bob Flanagan

  – By Eli Winter

• Hal Foster’s Brutal Aesthetics: Dubuffet, Bataille, Jorn, Paolozzi, Oldenburg

  – By Joseph Nechvatal

Field Notes

• Trouble in Paradise

  – By Matthew Byrne

• My Beautiful City

  – By Thomas Heise

• Community Policing Is Not The Solution To Racist Police Violence

  – By Oliver Hinds

• Corona is the virus, Capitalism is the pandemic, what do we do next?

  – By Philip RIZK

The Miraculous

• 41. (322 Seventh Avenue)

  – By Raphael Rubinstein

• 42. (5 West 21st Street)

  – By Raphael Rubinstein

• 43. (407 Greenwich Street, 105 Hudson Street, 260 Elizabeth Street)

  – By Raphael Rubinstein

• 44. (Washington Market, Lower East Side)

  – By Raphael Rubinstein

• 45. (568 Broadway, Hoboken)

  – By Raphael Rubinstein