Art In Conversation
Julie Mehretu with Phong H. Bui
Phong H. Bui speaks with Julie Mehretu about how she reinvents the alchemy of drawing as a thinking process into painting, especially in the language of abstraction.
Art In Conversation
KAWS with Jason Rosenfeld
Jason Rosenfeld speak with KAWS about the artists exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum in New York.
Art In Conversation
Michael Snow with Raymond Foye
Raymond Foye speaks with Michael Snow about his pioneering work as an artist and filmmaker.
Art In Conversation
Adriana Varejão with Lee Ann Norman
Lee Ann Norman speaks with Adriana Varejão about her career, artistic influences, and her relationship to the azulejo.
Art In Conversation
Noel W. Anderson with Robert R. Shane
Robert R. Shane speaks with Noel W. Anderson about what happens when Blackness falls into abstraction.
Art In Conversation
Arazel Thalez with Olivier Berggruen and Mebrak Tareke
Olivier Berggruen and Mebrak Tareke speak with Arazel Thalez about how they engage their audience with themes in the realms of the spiritual, the erotic, and the taboocaught in the tension between the sacred and the profaneencouraging the viewers to frollick in the shadows of subconscious, for all the darkness is alive.
From the Publisher & Artistic Director
Dear Friends and Readers,
By Phong BuiWhen we think of the notion of defense, we think of it at the expense of having achieved the objective of what is considered offense. As the United States of America entered World War II on December 11, 1941, we knew we would succeed the British Empire as the worlds most powerful nation.
Editor's Message
Whats possible now?
By Rodrigo Moura, Susanna V. Temkin, and Elia AlbaBetween the summer of 2020 and the fall of 2021, El Museo del Barrio is presenting ESTAMOS BIEN LA TRIENAL 20/21, a large-scale nationwide survey exhibition of Latinx contemporary artists, both online and in its galleries. The physical show opened in March 2021 and, with the intention to expand its resonance and extend its scope, we invited art workers, cultural leaders, and creatives to participate in the Critics Page of the Brooklyn Rails June issue
Critics Page
ArtSeen
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Juan Uslé: Horizontal Light
– By Hearne Pardee -
Diana Sofia Lozano: Suspended in the Iris
– By Everett Narciso -
Feedback
– By Tom McGlynn -
Agnes Martin: The Distillation of Color
– By David Rhodes -
Jorge Galindo & Julian Schnabel: Flower Paintings
– By Amanda Millet-Sorsa -
Parallel Phenomena
– By Annabel Keenan -
Terry Winters: Table of Contents
– By David Rhodes -
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:
– By Benjamin Clifford
Men and Women
and Drawings -
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
Table of Contents
Publisher's Message
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Dear Friends and Readers,
– By Phong Bui
Editor's Message
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Whats possible now?
– By Rodrigo Moura, Susanna V. Temkin, and Elia Alba
Art
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Julie Mehretu with Phong H. Bui
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KAWS with Jason Rosenfeld
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Michael Snow with Raymond Foye
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Adriana Varejão with Lee Ann Norman
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Noel W. Anderson with Robert R. Shane
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Arazel Thalez with Olivier Berggruen and Mebrak Tareke
ArtSeen
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Juan Uslé: Horizontal Light
– By Hearne Pardee -
Diana Sofia Lozano: Suspended in the Iris
– By Everett Narciso -
Feedback
– By Tom McGlynn -
Agnes Martin: The Distillation of Color
– By David Rhodes -
Jorge Galindo & Julian Schnabel: Flower Paintings
– By Amanda Millet-Sorsa -
Parallel Phenomena
– By Annabel Keenan -
Terry Winters: Table of Contents
– By David Rhodes -
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
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Marcela Guerrero
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Lizania Cruz
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Juana Valdés
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Bernardo Mosqueira
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Carla Acevedo Yates and Isabel Casso
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Alana Hernandez
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Candida Alvarez
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Carolina Caycedo
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Dominique Duroseau
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Francis Almendárez
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Herb Tam
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Josh T Franco
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June Canedo
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Michael Menchaca
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Olga Viso
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Serubiri Moses
Books
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Matt Bell with Joseph Scapellato
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Waking From the Dream of Mark Leidners Poetry
– By Bianca Stone -
Jim Shepard’s Phase Six
– By Joseph Peschel -
Jonathan Santlofer with J.C. Hallman
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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
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Daphne A. Brookss 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
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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
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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
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I Forgot to Tell You
– by Sarah Einspanier, illustrations by Jana La Brasca
Fiction
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from All the Water I’ve Seen Is Running
– By Elias Rodriques -
Dog Story
– By Chris Arp
Poetry
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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
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N.H. Pritchards The Matrix and EECCHHOOEESS
– By Erica N. Cardwell -
Maureen OLearys Record
– By Anthony Huffman -
Deanna Dikemans 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 Alduinos Vertical Village
– By Jonah Goldman Kay
In Memoriam
Special Report
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The New York Health Act is Great for the Arts
– By Keith Gordon
Field Notes
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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
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56. (The West Side Highway)
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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