July/August 2020
Featuring interviews with Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Gregg Bordowitz, Chitra Ganesh, and Jo Smail. Guest Critic Olivier Berggruen: “State of Affairs.”
The “July/August 2020” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on July 9, 2020.
Critics Page
State of Affairs
– By Olivier BerggruenThe Mystical
– By Yuk HuiI am Prehistory
– By Rémi LabrusseThe Promise
– By Anne-Laure ZeviResilient Objects: Surviving the Collapse of the Institution
– By Juliana Cerqueira LeiteJohn Armleder
Mai-Thu Perret
Dance in the Making
– By Anna Yudina, Diana Vishneva, and Olivier BerggruenLady Lay
– By Ali VanAnicka Yi with Olivier Berggruen
Symbiontics: a view of present conditions from a place of entanglement
– By Caroline A. JonesThe Case for Impure Vision
– By Antonio Damasio
Publisher's Message
Dear Friends and Readers
– By Phong H. Bui
ArtSeen
Lin May Saeed: Arrival of the Animals
– By Holly BushmanLaurie Kang: Her Own Devices
– By Esmé HogeveenErik Olson: Through the States
– By Hearne PardeeAlexa West: Triple Expo
– By Rachel RemickFlávio de Carvalho
– By Bruna ShapiraVirtual Views: Video Lives
– By Madeleine SeidelGary Simmons: Screaming into the Ether
– By William CorwinMulyana & Iwan Effendi: Jumping the Shadow
– By Charlotte KentLigoranoReese: School of Good Citizenship
– By Marisa LererTim Kent: Enfilade
– By William CorwinAliza Shvarts: Purported
– By Elizabeth BuheValerie Jaudon: Prepositions
– By Alfred Mac AdamAll What I Want is Life
– By Ruba Al-SweelBrown’s a Color, Black is Not
– By Darla MiganRosie Lee Tompkins: A Retrospective
– By David CarrierThaddeus Mosley
– By Jonathan GoodmanThe New British Galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
– By Christian KleinbubFrom Pot to Plate: Eli Ping at And Now
– By Israel LundAn Incomplete History of Muralism at Rikers Island
– By Parker Fieldecofeminism(s)
– By Alex A. JonesTatiana Arocha: Respiro un bosque/
I breathe a forest – By Hovey BrockNOT OVER
– By Osman Can YerebakanJosh Smith: High as Fuck
– By Ann C. CollinsFarah Al Qasimi: Back and Forth Disco
– By Nina WolpowPainting at Night
– By Robert R. ShaneThe Tree of Life
– By Charlotte KentLetter From New York: Marcin Muchalski and David Rhodes
– By Hearne PardeeThe Rock
– By Peter BrockWithin Global Isolation: Asian Artists in America
– By Sahar KhraibaniHard Opening: Vigil for Black Death
– By Kathleen LangjahrFIVE.
– By Charlene K. Laudo it (around the world)
– By Ketter WeissmanElizabeth Ibarra
– By Jason Rosenfeld2 Lizards
– By Charlene K. LauPaintings Boarded-Up
– By Robert C. MorganJonathan Berger: An Introduction to Nameless Love
– By Ksenia M. SobolevaThe Pursuit of Aesthetics: Artwork Created During Quarantine
– By William CorwinMike Childs: The Journey: Grids, Color and Curvilinear forms, 2004 to 2020
– By David Rhodes
Books
KATE GREENE with Jacquelyn Marie Gallo
LEIGH STEIN with Kathleen Rooney
Kevin Carey’s Set in Stone: poems
– By Christopher X. ShadePartial Reveals & Inclusive Revelations in the Post-Truth Simulacracy: The Poetics
– By Chris CampanioniCan’t Look Away: Ben Ehrenreich’s Desert Notebooks
– By Erika HowsareInkblot Journalism: Jay Kirk’s Avoid the Day
– By J.C. Hallman
Music
MATTHEW SHIPP with George Grella
BOTCH-ing Online Opera
– By Joe DiebesFairuz and Her Family Fusions
– By Martin LongleyListening In: Version and Inversion
– By Scott Gutterman
Dance
Can we create lasting mutual aid structures?
– By Nicole Loeffler-GladstoneThe Bon Iver Race Dance, Reviewed
– By Adlan JacksonLIZ WOLFF with Ivan Talijancic
– By Ivan Talijancic
Film
In Conversation: JOSEPHINE DECKER with Madeline Whittle
Japan Cuts 2020: Social Shifts Through Time
– By Jaime GrijalbaFuture Days: Berlinale 2020
– By Leo Goldsmith"It’s Alive! It’s Alive!"
– By Tyler WilsonQuemar para sembrar: Pablo Larraín’s Ema
– By Bartolomeo Sala
Theater
Theater Must Hold
– By Elinor T VanderburgThe Case for Telematics
– By Jared McNeillNational Queer Theater: Building Community, Shining a Light, and Raising Hell
– By Billy McEnteeANNE BOGART with Tara Ahmadinejad
Fiction
Excerpt from Parakeet
– By Marie-Helene BertinoEau de Toilette
– By Ariel Saramandi
Poetry
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– By Patricia Spears Jonesfive
– By David MillsTriptychs
– By Sandra Simondsfive
– By Kyle Dacuyanfive
– By Claire DonatoNow It Can Be Told
– By Jonathan Lethemfour
– By John Yausix from Snoring in Oregon
– By Paul G. Maziar
Art Books
Sara Magenheimer's Beige Pursuit
– By Maxwell PaparellaLorena Lohr's Tonight Lounge
– By Sarah MorozJonas Mekas's I Seem to Live: The New York Diaries 1950–1969
– By Paul G. MaziarMayumi Hosokura’s New Skin
– By Megan N. LibertyAlice Trumbull Mason: Pioneer of American Abstraction
– By Karen Chernick
ArTonic
Artists Space
– By Nancy Princenthal
Field Notes
Prelude to a Hot American Summer
– By Jarrod Shanahan and Zhandarka KurtiFor the State, the Best Defense is Sometimes a Deadly Offense
– By Charles Reeve“My son's dreams were cut short”: protests against police brutality go viral in Mexico, the US, and beyond
– By David SchmidtCrowned Plague
– By Phil A. NeelElise Armani with Piotr Szyhalski
Journey to a “People's War”
– By Thomas DaiAmerican Factory
– By Andy BattleBeyond the Green New Deal
– By Max Ajl
The Miraculous
11. (Harlem)
– By Raphael Rubinstein12. (Chelsea, Fifth Avenue)
– By Raphael Rubinstein13. (Meat Packing District)
– By Raphael Rubinstein14. (NoHo)
– By Raphael Rubinstein15. (East Village, Union Square)
– By Raphael Rubinstein