SEPT 2020 – The Brooklyn Rail

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Editor's Message

World on Fire
– By Elizabeth Bishop

Publisher's Message

Dear Friends and Readers,
– By Phong Bui

Art

ArtSeen

Summer McCorkle: des abends
– By Ann C. Collins
Isaac Aden: Vespers and Auroras
– By David Carrier
(Nothing but) Flowers
– By Alfred Mac Adam
George Ortman: Against Abstraction
– By David Rhodes
erotics: towards a poetics of the liminal
– By Lucia Hinojosa
Our World is Burning
– By Olivia Gilmore
Don Voisine: Time Out
– By Robert C. Morgan
Torkwase Dyson: Studies for Bird and Lava
– By Jason Rosenfeld
Jennie C. Jones: Passing Tones and Broken Chords
– By Adriana Furlong
Rute Merk: SS20
– By William Corwin
Hélio Oiticica: Dance in My Experience
– By Bruna Shapira
Artist Stories from the Pandemic
– By Joyce Beckenstein
Jeffrey Gibson: Because Once You Enter My House It Becomes Our House
– By Susan Breyer
Artemisia
– By David Carrier
Banksy: A Visual Protest
– By David Carrier
An Alternative Canon: Art Dealers Collecting Outsider Art
– By Jonathan Goodman
Susan Philipsz: Muffled Drums/The Unquiet Grave
– By Nicholas Heskes
Frank Jones: 114591
– By Nicholas Heskes
The Institute of Queer Ecology: Metamorphosis
– By Alex A. Jones
The Game of Life - Emergence in Generative Art
– By Charlotte Kent
Philip Guston: What Endures
– By Barbara A. MacAdam
Jorinde Voigt
– By Barbara A. MacAdam
Scott Benzel: Mindless Pleasures
– By Yxta Maya Murray
Maureen Catbagan
– By Amber Jamilla Musser
Barkley L. Hendricks: In the Paint
– By Lee Ann Norman
Ashley Garrett: Aegis
– By Robert R. Shane
Ari Marcopoulos: Fast Breaks
– By Robert Slifkin
Nancy Shaver, Max Goldfarb & Sterrett Smith: fastness, slowness and Monstrous Beauty
– By Simon Wu
Clotilde Jiménez: The Contest
– By Simon Wu
Andrew Sendor: InstaCOVID Drawings
– By Osman Can Yerebakan
Susan Philipsz: Sleep Close and Fast
– By Patrick J. Reed

Critics Page

Pandemic Poetics: An Eulogy and Manifesto in an AntiBlack World
– By Gwendolyn Baxley and Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz
Black Joy Is Not Canceled
– By Damaris Dunn
On Confinement
– By Nicole Hamilton
On Circular Economy
– By Regina Anderson
Anti-Racism at the Borderlands of Whiteness
– By Nassim Zerriffi
Peace by Understanding
– By Elizabeth Bishop and Carolyn Eanes
The Real Virus
– By Henry Beltrán Pérez
From Beirut, Borikén, and Brooklyn with Love
– By Meghan McDermott
The Discord
– By Ioanna Opidee
Am I Dying, Mister?
– By The Lost Child of Emma Goldman and Bernie Sanders

Books

Vincent Katz’s Broadway for Paul
– By Greg Masters
Buttercream & Symbiosis: Joon Oluchi Lee's Neotenica
– By June Daowen Lei
Emily Hashimoto's A World Between
– By Yvonne C. Garrett
Sulaiman Addonia's Silence Is My Mother Tongue
– By John Domini
Transcendent Kingdom
– By Joseph Peschel
The Bass Rock
– By Yvonne C. Garrett
Elena Ferrante's The Lying Life of Adults
– By John Domini
Red Pill
– By Joseph Peschel
THERESIA ENZENSBERGER with Elvia Wilk
KATHLEEN ROONEY with Robert Puccinelli
– By Robert Puccinelli
JESSICA GROSS with David Burr Gerrard
Statement of Record: A Conversation with StatORec Editors Andrea Scrima and David Winner in conversation with Rebecca Chace
Benjamin Taylor's Here We Are
– By David Burr Gerrard
Steven Belletto's The Beats: A Literary History
– By Regina Weinreich
I Hold a Wolf by the Ears
– By Carissa Chesanek
Neeli Cherkovski's Hang On To The Yangtze River
– By Iván Argüelles

Music

Zillions of Things Become One Thing: CATHERINE CHRISTER HENNIX with Marcus Boon
– By Marcus Boon
Citadelic: Astridpark, Gent, Belgium, 18th July 2020
– By Martin Longley
Electro-vodou
– By Adolf Alzuphar
Listening In: All the Way Live
– By Scott Gutterman
AMBROSE AKINMUSIRE with George Grella

Dance

The Grand Union: Accidental Anarchists of Downtown Dance
– By Aileen Dowling
Finding Dis/orientation in Alexa West’s Triple Expo
– By Tiffany Jaeyeon Shin
CHARMAIN WARREN and NORA CHIPAUMIRE with Gillian Jakab
“It's Our Time Now”: The Aesthetics of Horror in Jordan Peele’s Us
– By Luke Williams

Film

A Rich and Revitalizing Legacy: Ephraim Asili’s The Inheritance
– By Esmé Hogeveen
AMY SEIMETZ with Madeline Whittle
MARTHA COLBURN and PAT O’NEILL with Marius Hrdy
Object of Reverence: Natalie Erika James’s Relic
– By Gina Telaroli

Theater

NEW Black Mutual Aid Carves a Path for What Support Can Be in a Revolution
– By Marcus Scott
Brick by Brick by Buchheister
– By Charles Quittner
As the World Slowly Reopens, Theaters Remain Closed, Leaving Furloughed Employees Uncertain About Their Futures
– By Joey Sims

Fiction

Clearance
– By María José Navia and Lily Meyer
Brother and Sister
– By Alix Hawley

Poetry

four
– By Peter Gizzi
three
– By Guillermo Filice Castro
three
– By Barry Schwabsky
six
– By Courtney Bush
four
– By Joanna Fuhrman
five
– By Hannah Emerson
four
– By David Brazil
from Migrainer
– By Sarah Sala

Art Books

Andrei Monastyrski’s Elementary Poetry
– By Nolan Kelly
Jonathan Lyndon Chase’s wild wild Wild West / Haunting of the Seahorse
– By Megan N. Liberty
Moyra Davey’s Index Cards
– By David Richardson
Lisa Hanawalt’s I Want You
– By Wyatt Sarafin
Hundertwasser For Future
– By Lily Majteles

In Memoriam

Special Report

RIZOMA: Poetry & Performance Workshops at Santiaguito de Almoloya Women’s Prison
– By Emma Gomis

Field Notes

The Rent is Too Damn High
– By Nathan Eisenberg and Richard Hunsinger
Corona Crisis Governmentality
– By Bini Adamczak
What’s the Use of a University?
– By Samuel Feldblum and John Schmidt
Against the Wall
– By Hovey Brock
Save CUNY
– By Carol Lang
My Rosenberg COVID-19 Mask
– By Eric Gabriel Lehman
The Spiral
– By Phil A. Neel

The Miraculous

16. (Tribeca)
– By Raphael Rubinstein
17. (The East Village, the Subway)
– By Raphael Rubinstein
18. (Chelsea)
– By Raphael Rubinstein
19. (The East Village, Queens)
– By Raphael Rubinstein
20. (Canal Street)
– By Raphael Rubinstein

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