MAY 2020 – The Brooklyn Rail

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Editor's Message

Made of linguistic forms and failures: inquiry in times of isolation
– By Daisy Desrosiers

Publisher's Message

Dear Friends and Readers,
– By Phong Bui

Art

ArtSeen

Rashid Johnson: Untitled Anxious Red Drawings
– By David Carrier
Off the Wall
– By Alfred Mac Adam
Bharti Kher: The Unexpected Freedom of Chaos
– By David Rhodes
Sarah Charlesworth: Image Language
– By Robert C. Morgan
Gerhard Richter: Painting After All
– By Jessica Holmes
Ida Kohlmeyer: Cloistered
– By William Corwin
Hernan Bas: Developing TiME LiFE
– By Charlotte Kent
Agnes Pelton: Desert Transcendentalist
– By Ann McCoy
Mohammed Kazem: Infinite Angles
– By Ruba Al-Sweel
Feliciano Centurión: Abrigo
– By Susan Breyer
Adrian Morris
– By Brian T. Leahy
Rochelle Goldberg: Psychomachia
– By Peter Brock
Peter Saul
– By David Carrier
Hell is a Place on Earth. Heaven is a Place in Your Head.
– By Kathleen Langjahr
Jean-Jacques Lequeu: Visionary Architect
– By Brandt Junceau
Sara Erenthal’s Art of the Street and Screen
– By Megan N. Liberty
Things on Walls
– By Darla Migan
Hadi Fallahpisheh and Phoebe d’Heurle: What a Fuck and What the Fuck
– By Ketter Weissman
Kate Shepherd: Surveillance
– By Susan Harris
Curtis Talwst Santiago: Can’t I Alter
– By Magdalyn Asimakis
Masculinities: Liberation Through Photography
– By Daniel Pateman
Petra Cortright: borderline aurora borealis
– By Barbara A. MacAdam
Leap of Color
– By Tom McGlynn
Louise Fishman: An Hour is a Sea
– By Hearne Pardee
Nick Raffel: plenum
– By Alex Jen
Matt Mullican: Universal Perspective
– By William Whitney

Critics Page

Catachresis
– By Ambera Wellmann
The losses we carry across: an afternoon with Azza El Siddique and Sahar Te
Thinking about you, thinking about translation
– By Frances Loeffler
Poetic Intention: Correspondence in isolation between Daisy Desrosiers and Jesse Chun.
KHAAREJ NO.3 (2019)
– By Sahar Te
What Sound Does The Blk Atlantic Make?—on translation in the work of artist Alberta Whittle
– By Mother Tongue
Marble benches, Anatolian weavers, and Madonnas: Shannon Bool and Daisy Desrosiers
Babble
– By Kathleen Ritter
The Twofold Room
– By Marie-Michelle Deschamps

Books

Blowin’ in the Wind
– By Bailey Trela
Tracy O’Neill’s Quotients
– By Yvonne C. Garrett
Down Away from the Sun You’ll Burrow
Chelsea Bieker's Godshot
– By Deena ElGenaidi
Mark Nowak’s Social Poetics
– By John Domini
Fires Burning, Windows Breaking
JUDITHA DOWD with Ruth Foley

Music

MATT EVANS with Vanessa Ague
Enlightened Aesthetics: LOUISE LANDES LEVI with Raymond Foye
Lontano (“As from a distance”)
– By George Grella
No Joke: ehh hahah's Non-Generic “Kreativitet”
– By S. David
Lydia Lunch’s Retrovirus And Other Sonic Infections
– By Martin Longley

Dance

Editor’s Note
– By Gillian Jakab
Dancing Paula Abdul in my Living Room
– By Rennie McDougall
Trading Velvet Seats for Couch Viewing
– By Hannah Foster
UnSequenced: A Podcast About the Choreographic Process
– By Sima Belmar
Touch Without Touching
– By George Kan

Film

KLEBER MENDONÇA FILHO and JULIANO DORNELLES with Anthony Hawley
Imprisonment of the Pregnant Body
– By Ilana Herzig
Physical Outcomes: True/False 2020
– By Gina Telaroli

Theater

Morgan Gould and Ren Dara Santiago with Kate Cortesi about the untimely closing of their plays due to you know what
– By Kate Cortesi
Power & Punk: New York's Avant-Garde Lifers: Richard Foreman with Sara Farrington
– By Sara Farrington
Trickling Up: The Theater Community Uplifts its Own
– By Billy McEntee

Fiction

Dreamstamps
– By Wah-Ming Chang
A Protective Archipelago: A Covid-19 Correspondence
– By Celina Su and Wah-Ming Chang
Three Asian Hair Stories
– By Lisa Chen
In the Beginning, Sometimes I Left Messages in the Street
– By Lisa Chen
Degrees of Retreat
– By Carina Kohn
The Road to Golgonooza
– By T. Motley, Mariko Sanchez, and Dorothy and Dashiell Morse
inSerial: part seventeen The Mysteries of Paris
– by Eugène Sue, translated from the French by Robert Bononno

Poetry

five from Unemployment Insurance
– By Brendan Joyce
four
– By Jameson Fitzpatrick
three
– By Tishani Doshi
But I Have Always Been the Same
– By Matt Longabucco
two
– By Andrei Codrescu
True Account of Talking to the 7 in Sunnyside
– By Paolo Javier
from Alisoun Sings
– By Caroline Bergvall
Informants
– By Anna Gurton-Wachter

Art Books

André Breton's Nadja: fac-similé du manuscrit de 1927
– By Mary Ann Caws
Joseph Jarman's Black Case Volume I & II: Return From Exile
– By George Grella
David Wojnarowicz's In the Shadow of Forward Motion
– By Megan N. Liberty
Esopus's Modern Artifacts
– By Jennie Waldow

ArTonic

Studio in a School
– By Lilly Wei

Special Report

Outdoor Sculpture: Virtual Edition
– By Martha Tuttle

Field Notes

The Plague and the Wrath
– By Charles Reeve
New Pandemic, Old Story
– By Ana V. Diez Roux
Their Money or Your Life
– By Paul Mattick
The Numbers Must Have Context
– By Natalie Baker
A Disaster Foretold
– By Pavlos Roufos
Viral Biopolitics
– By Rachel Nelson

The Miraculous

1. [Greenwich Village, SoHo, Harlem]
– By Raphael Rubinstein
2. [NoHo, SoHo, Queens, Hudson River Piers]
– By Raphael Rubinstein
3. [Battery Park City]
– By Raphael Rubinstein
4. [Washington Heights]
– By Raphael Rubinstein
5. [SoHo, Broadway, and various other points]
– By Raphael Rubinstein

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