June 2019
Featuring interviews with Joanna Pousette-Dart, Lorna Simpson, Shara Hughes, Marcus Jahmal, and Sanya Kantarovsky. Guest Critic Julie Reiss: “Art in the Climate Crisis.”
The “June 2019” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on June 5, 2019.
Publisher's Message
Dear Friends and Readers,
– By Phong H. Bui
Critics Page
Art in the Climate Crisis
– By Julie ReissExhibiting Nature’s Nation
– By Alan C. BraddockCreating a New Narrative About Climate Change: 1000 Steps
– By Mary MissELIZABETH CORR with Julie Reiss
Fragility Curve
– By Janet BiggsArt Project Summary: Holding Ice
– By Zak HajjaouiMartha
– By Alice MommMaterial Supply Chains and Eco-traumas
– By Mary MattinglyThe Masochism Tango
– By Aurora RobsonAgainst Hope
– By Jenny KendlerCommunicating Climate Change Through Art
– By Zaria Forman
ArtSeen
Bruce Pearson: Shadow Language
– By Lilly WeiJames Nares: Monuments
– By Jason RosenfeldYasi Alipour: As Dreams
– By Vered EngelhardPedro Mesa: No One Listening
– By Colin EdgingtonThief of Baghdad: Arabs in World Cinema
– By Giovanni VimercatiJack Youngerman: Cut-Ups
– By Jonathan GoodmanWritings on the Wall
– By Daniel Pateman2019 Whitney Biennial
– By Alex JenRichard Pousette-Dart: Works 1940 – 1992
– By Phillip GriffithRico Gatson and Baseera Khan: Free to Be
– By Danilo MachadoIdris Khan:Blue Rhythms
– By Tom McGlynnJulia Scher: American Promises
– By Charlotte KentJoan Mitchell: All by Herself
– By Jeremy SiglerMarley Freeman: Park Closes at Midnight
– By Kathleen HeftySarah Grass: Unmanned
– By Hovey BrockVivian Suter
– By Louis BlockMary Bauermeister: Live in Peace or Leave the Galaxy
– By Mark BlochHeidi Bucher: The site of Memory
– By Jennifer Rose Bonilla-EdgingtonDe Kooning: Five Decades
– By Tom McGlynnCarlos Motta: Conatus
– By Osman Can YerebakanMandy El-Sayegh: Cite Your Sources
– By Michael EbyPerilous Bodies
– By Mengna DaCorita Kent: Works from the 1960s
– By Sophie KovelLorna Simpson: Darkening
– By Maureen Catbagan and Amber Jamilla MusserDavid Novros
– By David RhodesAnsel Krut: Back to Back Balloons
– By Alfred Mac AdamWendy Red Star: Accession
– By Eleanor HeartneyVisions of Brazil
– By Madeline Murphy TurnerSurrealism in Mexico
– By Mary Ann CawsSanya Kantarovsky: On Them
– By Nicholas HeskesDavid Driskell: Resonance: Paintings, 1965–2002
– By Hovey BrockSean Scully: PAN
– By Robert C. MorganSimone Fattal: Works and Days
– By Ann C. CollinsYuji Agematsu: 1995 & 2003
– By Jan AvgikosDiana Copperwhite: The Clock Struck Between Time
– By Robert R. ShaneLiz Magor: Blowout
– By Jared QuintonBerna Reale: While you laugh / Enquanto Você Ri
– By Charlene K. LauMing Fay: Beyond Nature
– By Robert C. MorganAs If: Alternative Histories from Then to Now
– By Avram C. AlpertEsteban Cabeza de Baca: Worlds without Borders
– By Colin EdgingtonTodd Gray: Cartesian Gris Gris
– By Graham W. BellPeggy Ahwesh: CLEAVE
– By Ann McCoyIrma Blank: Painting Between the Lines
– By Marcia E. VetrocqAlex Katz: New Paintings and Sculptures
– By Tom McGlynnDeborah Turbeville: Collages
– By Benjamin Clifford
1×1
My Stonehenge
– By Taney Roniger
Books
Summer Round-up
– By Sarah NeilsonThe Politics of Language, In & Of Translation
– By Chris CampanioniMark Doten's Trump Sky Alpha
– By Kurt BaumeisterAbi Andrews's The Word for Woman is Wilderness
– By Yvonne C. GarrettSARAH McCOLL in conversation with Rachel Aydt
Where We Come From by Oscar Cásares
– By Joseph PeschelInvasive species by Marwa Helal
– By Danilo MachadoThe Trouble with Men: Reflections on Sex, Love, Marriage, Porn & Power essays by David Shields
– By John DominiOn Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
– By Tanjil RashidLoudermilk: Or, The Real Poet, Or, The Origin of the World By Lucy Ives
– By Elizabeth BlockNever Ours to Give: Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through
– By Corinne Manning
Music
Guillermo Galindo’s Songs of the Border
– By Patrick GreeneA Soundtrack for the Age of Immanence
– By John AmenTimo Andres: Work Songs
– By Jamison PfeiferOuttakes
– By Steve DalachinskyHighly Selective Listings
– By George Grella and Brad Cohan
Dance
At Long Last Tanowitz
– By Susan YungGiving Voice to Collective Memory
– By Rennie McDougallBewitching Stagecraft and Competing Objects
– By Dillon Heyck
Film
Prison Films and the Idea of Two Worlds
– By Evelyn EmileThe New Le Cinéma Club
– By Gina TelaroliCan't Spare a Dime: Play-Doc XV
– By Christopher Small
Theater
The Universe Doesn't Cast Leading Roles: Zhu Yi's You Never Touched the Dirt
– By Billy McEnteeIn Dialogue: Inner Life, Out Loud: A Strange Loop
– By Branden Jacobs-Jenkins“WHY WAIT?” On Being the Artistic Director of Your Own Work
– By Crystal SkillmanBlood Sacrifice: Adolescence, Borderlands, and Love in Julia Jarcho's Pathetic
– By Miriam Felton-Dansky
Poetry
four
– By Filip Marinovichfrom THE MINGUS POEMS
– By Mona KareemMARKED SAFE/ For Stonewall 50th
– By Pamela SneedTHE PALLYSADOE
– By Brenda IijimaAdvil Cream Cheese Kompromat
– By Anthony Hawley
Art Books
John Stezaker: Love
– By Jennie WaldowGuestbook: Ghost Stories
– By Megan N. LibertyCzech and Slovak Photo Publications 1918–1989
– By Lynn MaliszewskiDorothy Iannone: A Cookbook
– By Shelby Shaw
Field Notes
Louisiana State Penitentiary
– By Leslie CozziFrom the factory to the warehouse
– By Dan Nemser, Alejo Stark, and Duncan TarrSome Reflections on Prison Labor
– By Ruth Wilson Gilmore and James KilgoreReflections of an Incarcerated Worker
– By Keith "Malik" Washington