The Brooklyn Rail

Table of Contents

Publisher's Message

• Dear Friends and Readers,

  – By Phong Bui

Editor's Message

• What’s possible now?

  – By Rodrigo Moura, Susanna V. Temkin, and Elia Alba

Art

• Julie Mehretu with Phong H. Bui

• KAWS with Jason Rosenfeld

• Michael Snow with Raymond Foye

• Adriana Varejão with Lee Ann Norman

• Noel W. Anderson with Robert R. Shane

• Arazel Thalez with Olivier Berggruen and Mebrak Tareke

ArtSeen

• Agnes Martin: The Distillation of Color

  – By David Rhodes

• Jorge Galindo & Julian Schnabel: Flower Paintings

  – By Amanda Millet-Sorsa

• Parallel Phenomena

  – By Annabel Keenan

• Kenturah Davis: (a)Float, (a)Fall, (a)Dance, (a)Death

  – By Charles Moore

• Kemar Keanu Wynter: Portions

  – By Louis Block

• Ugo Rondinone: nuns + monks

  – By William Corwin

• Nina Katchadourian: Cumulus

  – By Marcia E. Vetrocq

• Jammie Holmes: Pieces of a Man

  – By Matthew Biro

• Monika Baer: loose change

  – By Dan Cameron

• John Wood and Paul Harrison: Bored

  – By Lyle Rexer

• The Phoenix and the Mountain: In-Centric Abstraction in the ’80s

  – By Charles Schultz

• Emily Ludwig Shaffer & Françoise Grossen

  – By Madeleine Seidel

• Fault Lines

  – By Meghaa Ballakrishnen

• Sydney Shen: Strange But True

  – By Rachel Remick

• Soutine/de Kooning: Conversations in Paint

  – By Jonathan Fineberg

• Soutine/de Kooning: Conversations in Paint

  – By Ruth Fine

• Willem de Kooning: Men and Women and Drawings

  – By Benjamin Clifford

• Huma Bhabha: Facing Giants

  – By Susan Harris

• Adriana Varejão: Talavera

  – By Amanda Gluibizzi

• “Pleasures and Possible Celebrations”: Rosemary Mayer’s Temporary Monuments, 1977–1981

  – By Elizabeth Buhe

• David Hammons: Day’s End

  – By Robert Slifkin

• Katherine Bradford: Philosophers’ Clambake

  – By Jared Quinton

• David Smith: Follow My Path

  – By Phyllis Tuchman

• Dawoud Bey: An American Project

  – By Marcus Civin

• The Bardo: Unpacking the (un)Real

  – By Charlotte Kent

• Joe Houston: RUINS

  – By Jason Rosenfeld

• Ali Banisadr: These Specks of Dust

  – By Jessica Holmes

• Don Voisine

  – By Tom McGlynn

• Kate McQuillen: Wave Amnesia

  – By Robert R. Shane

• Frank Bowling: London/New York

  – By Zoë Hopkins

• Catalina Chervin: Catharsis

  – By Robert C. Morgan

• Sands Murray-Wassink: In Good Company

  – By Titus Nouwens

• Projects: Gabrielle L’Hirondelle Hill

  – By Ann C. Collins

• Guy Goodwin: Mattress World

  – By David Rhodes

• Deborah Remington: Five Decades

  – By Joe Bucciero

• Shervone Neckles: BEACON

  – By William Corwin

• Jacob El Hanani: Recent Works on Canvas

  – By Alfred Mac Adam

Critics Page

• Marcela Guerrero

• Lizania Cruz

• Juana Valdés

• Bernardo Mosqueira

• Carla Acevedo Yates and Isabel Casso

• Alana Hernandez

• Candida Alvarez

• Carolina Caycedo

• Dominique Duroseau

• Francis Almendárez

• Herb Tam

• Josh T Franco

• June Canedo

• Michael Menchaca

• Olga Viso

• Serubiri Moses

Books

• Waking From the Dream of Mark Leidner’s Poetry

  – By Bianca Stone

• Jim Shepard’s Phase Six

  – By Joseph Peschel

• Jonathan Santlofer with J.C. Hallman

• The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison

  – By Samuele F.S. Pardini

• Joanna Fuhrman’s To A New Era

  – By Liz Axelrod

• Playing the Beautiful Game: David Hollander’s Anthropica

  – By Dina Peone

Music

• Daphne A. Brooks’s Liner Notes for the Revolution

  – By George Grella

• Shwabada

  – By Adolf Alzuphar

• Language Muddles Music: Sebastián Maria

  – By S. David

• Beans and the Avant-Garde in Hip Hop

  – By Rob Duguay

• Listening In: Keshav Batish, Both/And

  – By Scott Gutterman

Dance

• Playing with the Truth: Jonathan Jakubowicz’s Resistance and the Memory of Marcel Marceau

  – By Christopher Atamian

• A Choreographed Return to Theaters

  – By Noa Weiss

• New Prayer For Now

  – By Jen C. George

• Formal / Nature

  – By Susan Yung

• Bill T. Jones Dancing Through Disease in Can You Bring It and Afterwardsness

  – By Hallie Chametzky

Film

• Blake Edwards’s Experiment in Terror

  – By Harrison Blackman

• Jia Zhangke: Three Films for the New Cold War

  – By Daniel LoPilato

• Raoul Peck’s Exterminate All the Brutes

  – By Ella Turenne

Theater

• I Forgot to Tell You

  – by Sarah Einspanier, illustrations by Jana La Brasca

Fiction

• from All the Water I’ve Seen Is Running

  – By Elias Rodriques

• Dog Story

  – By Chris Arp

Poetry

• Behavioral Therapy

  – By Diana Hamilton

• Requiem for Elementary Language Acquisition

  – By Lauren Russell

• three

  – By Sarah Jean Grimm

• The Big Fake Gentrification on the Hudson Public Art or Public Fart

  – By Ama Birch

• five

  – By Vyt Bakaitis

• seven from Active Reception

  – By Noah Ross

• three

  – By PJ Lombardo

Art Books

• N.H. Pritchard’s The Matrix and EECCHHOOEESS

  – By Erica N. Cardwell

• Maureen O’Leary’s Record

  – By Anthony Huffman

• Deanna Dikeman’s Leaving and Waving

  – By Alex Merola

• Interspecies Futures, Veiled Taxonomies, and Lights, Tunnels, Passages, and Shadows at Center for Book Arts

  – By Amber Jamilla Musser

• Frankie Alduino’s Vertical Village

  – By Jonah Goldman Kay

In Memoriam

• A Tribute to Aldo Tambellini

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Special Report

• The New York Health Act is Great for the Arts

  – By Keith Gordon

Field Notes

• Both Sides Now

  – By Paul Mattick

• The Future of Automation

  – By Gary Roth

• Did communism make us human?

  – By Chris Knight

• India’s Second COVID-19 Wave

  – By Anandi Mishra

The Miraculous

• 56. (The West Side Highway)

  – By Raphael Rubinstein

• 57. (The Bowery)

  – By Raphael Rubinstein

• 58. (Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx)

  – By Raphael Rubinstein

• 59. (Coney Island, 42nd Street, the Meatpacking District, among other locations)

  – By Raphael Rubinstein

• 60. (Pier 34, Hudson River)

  – By Raphael Rubinstein