DEC 20-JAN 21 – The Brooklyn Rail

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Editor's Message

Notes from a Sunken Third Place
– By Jasmine Wahi

Publisher's Message

Dear Friends and Readers,
– By Phong Bui

Art

ArtSeen

Freddy Rodríguez: Early Paintings 1970–1990
– By Susan Breyer
Cauleen Smith: Mutualities
– By Sasha Panaram
Meg Lipke
– By Tom McGlynn
Alienation ?
– By Robert C. Morgan
Otto Piene: Rasterbilder / Ceramics
– By Tom McGlynn
MORE TIME LESS
– By Sophia Ma
ART CLUB2000: Selected Works 1992–1999
– By Sam Korman
Luther Hampton
– By Earnestine Jenkins
TITAN
– By Bruna Shapira
Hulda Guzmán: my flora, my fauna
– By Will Fenstermaker
Wassef Boutros-Ghali: A Retrospective
– By Kaleem Hawa
Jack Whitten: I AM THE OBJECT
– By Dan Cameron
Frank Auerbach: Selected Works, 1978–2016
– By Tom McGlynn
Ronnie Landfield: Concurrence
– By Tom McGlynn
Yuji Agematsu: Times Square Times (Kodak All-Stars)
– By Peter Brock
James Luna: Take a Picture with a Real Indian
– By Susan Harris
Philip Mueller: Last Days of Soft Machine
– By Nadine Khalil
James Hyde: Public Sculpture
– By Hovey Brock
Genesis Belanger: Through the Eye of a Needle
– By Holly Bushman
Michelangelo Pistoletto
– By Ann C. Collins
Astrid Kajsa Nylander: minijobs
– By Ann C. Collins
John Edmonds: A Sidelong Glance
– By Jean Dykstra
Julie Mehretu: about the space of half an hour
– By William Corwin
Tom Sachs: Handmade Paintings
– By Jonathan Goodman
Ariana Papademetropoulos: Unweave a Rainbow
– By Kathleen Hefty
Sanford Biggers: Codeswitch
– By Adriana Furlong
Mary Mattingly: Pipelines and Permafrost
– By Charlotte Kent
The Archive to Come
– By Charlotte Kent
Joseph Holtzman: Six Recent Paintings
– By Gilles Heno-Coe
Vivian Springford
– By Barbara A. MacAdam
RosTA
– By Olivia Gilmore
Jonathan Lyndon Chase: Big Wash
– By Amber Jamilla Musser
Luigi Ghirri: The Idea of Building
– By David Rhodes
Luisa Rabbia: From Mitosis to Rainbow
– By Jason Rosenfeld
Tschabalala Self: Cotton Mouth
– By Osman Can Yerebakan
Mark Mulroney and Soyeon Shin
– By Nina Wolpow
Theaster Gates: Black Vessel
– By Robert C. Morgan
Alexis Rockman: Lost Cargo: Watercolors
– By Alfred Mac Adam
Michael Clark: Cosmic Dancer
– By Alex Bacon

Critics Page

3 poems
– By K. Desireé Milwood
The Project as Institution and Individual
– By Tiana Webb Evans
Freedom Dreaming
– By Rujeko Hockley
“We Are Our Own Monuments”: Dispatch from Philly
– By Paul M. Farber
Impossible (2020)
– By Chantal Fischzang and Rebecca P. Jampol
Liar’s Pie #3
– By Kambui Olujimi
/Ten notes to decolonize vision /Ten notes to my younger self /Ten notes to a younger artist /Ten notes to remember
– By Jaret Vadera
Go Forth
– By Kaneza Schaal
Intersectional Nomad
– By Shoshanna Weinberger
Jason Elizondo with David Antonio Cruz
Sutured Futures: Composite Bodies and Queer Futurity
– By Cat Dawson
…and you called it entertainment. / Black Girl was shot.
– By Jasmine Mans

Books

The Best of the Brooklyn Rail’s Books in 2020
– By Joseph Salvatore
In Conversation: SUSAN SHAPIRO with Stephanie Siu
– By Stephanie Siu
Scholastique Mukasonga’s Igifu
– By John Domini
PANKAJ MISHRA with Pac Pobric
Vincent Van Gogh: A Life in Letters
– By Joshua Sperling
Jonathan Lethem’s The Arrest
– By Joseph Peschel
Wilhelm Reich’s The Mass Psychology of Fascism
– By William Stroud
Kevin Carey’s Murder in the Marsh
– By Carissa Chesanek

Music

Opera in Our New World
– By George Grella
Listening In: The Art of Intuitive Engineering
– By Scott Gutterman
The Free Musketeers
– By Martin Longley
Ann O’Aro
– By Adolf Alzuphar

Dance

The Many Face(t)s of Michael Clark
– By Maximiliane Leuschner
Living Through History: ABSCONDED #EjectionDay2020
– By Noa Weiss
JANESSA CLARK with Ivan Talijancic

Film

Destination Out: Cinematic Illumination, More Than Cinema and Japanese Expanded Cinema and Intermedia
– By Steve Macfarlane
Modes of Resistance: Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival 2020
– By Marius Hrdy
Citizen Ghost: David Fincher's Mank
– By Madeleine Seidel

Theater

I Want You in My Zoom
– By Eliza Bent
The Jerk Comes Full Circle: Reflections on Developing, Dramaturging, and Directing Fake Friends’ Cinematic and Theatrical Feat
– By Rory Pelsue, Cat Rodríguez, and Ariel Sibert
How the Flea Become the Fled
– By Joey Sims

Fiction

Editor’s Note
– By Will Chancellor
from Divorcing
– By Susan Taubes
from The Boiled in Between
– By Helen Marten

Poetry

Lewis Warsh: Part of His History
– By Steve Clay
Brooklyn 2020
– By Steven Taylor
five
– By Jennifer Soong
six
– By Rae Armantrout
two
– By Robert Hershon
from The Songs of Raimbaut D’Aurenga
– by Raimbaut D’Aurenga, translated from the Occitan by Brandon Brown
seven
– By Pat Nolan
from Except for This Unseen Thread
– by Ra’ad Abdulqadir, translated from the Arabic by Mona Kareem
from Tec Alliance
– By Roberto Harrison

Art Books

Ray Johnson and William S. Wilson: Frog Pond Splash
– By Mark Bloch
Renee Gladman’s One Long Black Sentence
– By Megan N. Liberty
Karlheinz Weinberger’s Photographs: Together & Alone
– By Sarah Moroz
Son Ni’s The Well-Tempered Us
– By Jordan Spencer
HANNAH WHITAKER with Naomi Elias
20 Best Art Books of 2020
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ArTonic

Full Circle: The Holt/Smithson Foundation
– By Alan Gilbert

Field Notes

How Could It Get Worse?
– By John W. W. Zeiser
The American Crisis: A Trans-Atlantic View
– By Charles Reeve
“Won’t somebody please think of the children?”
– By David Schmidt

The Miraculous

31. (27 Cooper Square)
– By Raphael Rubinstein
32. (A six-story building on Cooper Square)
– By Raphael Rubinstein
33. (10 Cooper Square, 5 Cooper Square)
– By Raphael Rubinstein
34. (27 Cooper Square)
– By Raphael Rubinstein
35. (48 Cooper Square)
– By Raphael Rubinstein

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