March 2021
Featuring interviews with Sanford Biggers, Enrique Martínez Celaya, Hilary Harnischfeger, and Tschabalala Self. Guest Critic: Will Fenstermaker: “To Declare a New World.”
The “March 2021” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on March 10, 2021.
Publisher's Message
Dear Friends and Readers,
– By Phong H. Bui
Critics Page
To Declare a New World
– By Will FenstermakerRadical Care
– By Sarah Cowan9 Primers
– By Emmanuel IdumaSomething in the Air
– By Kaitlyn A. KramerThe Revolution Is the Trial
– By Pac PobricA Guide to Eating and Walking
– By José Peña LoyolaSeeds, Sharing, Manifestos
– By Amelia RinaWhat We Cannot Speak About We Must Pass Over in Silence
– By Noah DillonNew England Bauhaus
– By Christopher Alessandrini
ArtSeen
Paul Anthony Smith: Tradewinds
– By William CorwinDona Nelson: Stretchers Strung Out On Space
– By Hearne PardeeCaitlin Keogh: Waxing Year
– By Patrick J. ReedNicole Eisenman and Keith Boadwee
– By Maddie KlettAlastair MacKinven: Dlnrg [oeeey]
– By Louis BlockFrançois Morellet: In-Coherent
– By Tom McGlynnDmitri Hertz: Crabapple
– By Peter BrockElia Alba, Baseera Khan, Sola Olulode, and Maya Varadaraj: Home Body
– By Barbara CalderónMark McKnight: Hunger for the Absolute
– By Zach RitterTR Ericsson: Pale Fires
– By Emily ChunThe Symbolists: Les Fleurs du mal
– By Elizabeth BuheEzra Tessler: An angle to the place I live in
– By Joel ParsonsThe Frick Madison
– By Jason RosenfeldGoya’s Graphic Imagination
– By Joseph MasheckEngineer, Agitator, Constructor: The Artist Reinvented
– By Sam KormanMortality: A Survey of Contemporary Death Art
– By Robert R. ShaneDavid Hammons: Body Prints, 1968–1979
– By Zoë HopkinsLucas Blalock: Florida, 1989
– By Avram C. AlpertEsteban Cabeza de Baca: Nepantla
– By Amanda GluibizziPaul McCarthy: A&E Sessions–Drawing and Painting
– By David RhodesMarking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration
– By Darla MiganShirin Neshat: Land of Dreams
– By Sahar KhraibaniMariana Castillo Deball: Between making and knowing something
– By Vanilla AnandamAlbers and Morandi: Never Finished
– By Tom McGlynnMildred Thompson: Throughlines, Assemblages and Works on Paper from the 1960s to the 1990s
– By Susan HarrisLaura Aguilar: Show and Tell
– By Rachel RemickMarking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration
– By Adriana FurlongRon Athey: Queer Communion
– By Ksenia M. SobolevaLjiljana Blazevska
– By Nicholas HeskesEngineer, Agitator, Constructor: The Artist Reinvented, 1918–1939
– By Charlotte KentSun You: This Two
– By Jonathan GoodmanGoya’s Graphic Imagination
– By Alfred Mac AdamCarl Craig: Party/After-party
– By Simon WuLawrence Weiner
– By Robert C. MorganGeorg Baselitz: Pivotal Turn
– By Phyllis TuchmanSouvenirs: Cornell Duchamp Johns Rauschenberg
– By Amanda GluibizziPeter Sacks: Republic
– By Jonathan GoodmanGrief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America
– By David Carrier
Books
ROSS BENES with Christopher Heine
Fluid Selves: Legacy Russell’s Glitch Feminism
– By Olivier BerggruenPaul Mendez’s Rainbow Milk
– By Tony LeuzziDARRYL PINCKNEY with William Corwin
Hoda Barakat’s Voices of the Lost
– By John DominiKazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun
– By Andrew ErvinJamie Figueroa’s Brother, Sister, Mother, Explorer
– By Carissa ChesanekJackie Wang’s The Sunflower Cast a Spell to Save Us From the Void
– By Amanda AuerbachLucy Ives’s Cosmogony
– By Cigdem AsatekinWilliam Boyd’s TRIO
– By Joseph Peschel
Music
Jen Shyu and the Music of Loss
– By George GrellaDEFORREST BROWN, JR. with S. David
Raúl Monsalve y Los Forajidos
– By Adolf AlzupharLuke Stewart Calls Two Places Home
– By Rob DuguayListening In: Cat Toren, Inside the Sound
– By Scott Gutterman
Dance
Ralph Lemon Takes The Fall
– By Luise MörkeThinking with the Body: Dance and Performance at the 13th Gwangju Biennale
– By Emily MayDarkness Manifest, Onstage and Off
– By Susan Yung
Film
A Moveable Feast: International Film Festival Rotterdam 2021
– By Marius HrdyThe Immeasurable Unseen: All Light, Everywhere
– By Tyler WilsonRubbing Elbows: The Criterion Collection’s “World of Wong Kar Wai”
– By Anthony Hawley
Theater
In Search of Shared Goals
– By Dylan PickusAll the World’s A Couch
– By Lauren Emily WhalenBRYN HERDRICH with Jeesun Choi
Fiction
Editor’s Note
Antonio
–To the Sea
– By Sharon Adarlo
Poetry
Lewis Warsh: Part of His History
– By Steve Claythree from Elixir
– By Lewis WarshLosing Lewis
– By Barbara HenningL.W. I.M.
– By Simon PettetFor Lewis
– By Peter BushyeagerDad you are this cloud I am looking at above the San Francisco Bay
– By Sophia Warshtwo
– By John GodfreyClouds
– By Daniel OwenLewis’s Sound
– By Daniel KaneLET GO /
– By Anne WaldmanHe Stood There (For Lewis)
– By Uche NdukaThey Oughta Name a Shoe After You
– By KB NemcoskyBig Lew
– By Giuseppe InfanteSixty Lines for Lewis on His Sixtieth Birthday
– By Gloria Frym“Everyone you’ve ever been with for a moment”
– By Gary LenhartPoem
– By Ron PadgettYes?
– By Lydia CortésDays of the Week
– By Sarah Anne Wallentwo
– By Dennis MoritzFragments for Lewis Warsh
– By Valérie DéusTribute
– By Tony IantoscaRemembering Lewis Warsh, a Planter of Poets
– By Don YortyFalling into Conversation with Lewis
– By Ed FriedmanPillow Talk
– By Lisa JarnotMarcella Durand
For Lewis
– By Vincent KatzFrom an ongoing untitled poem for Lewis Warsh
– By Anselm Berrigan
Art Books
Mårten Lange’s Ghost Witness
– By Edmée LepercqUlises Carrión's Sonnet(s)
– By Megan N. LibertyFrançois Halard’s 56 Days In Arles
– By Sarah MorozRated RX: Sheree Rose with and after Bob Flanagan
– By Eli WinterHal Foster’s Brutal Aesthetics: Dubuffet, Bataille, Jorn, Paolozzi, Oldenburg
– By Joseph Nechvatal
Field Notes
Trouble in Paradise
– By Matthew ByrneMy Beautiful City
– By Thomas HeiseCommunity Policing Is Not The Solution To Racist Police Violence
– By Oliver HindsCorona is the virus, Capitalism is the pandemic, what do we do next?
– By Philip RIZK
The Miraculous
41. (322 Seventh Avenue)
– By Raphael Rubinstein42. (5 West 21st Street)
– By Raphael Rubinstein43. (407 Greenwich Street, 105 Hudson Street, 260 Elizabeth Street)
– By Raphael Rubinstein44. (Washington Market, Lower East Side)
– By Raphael Rubinstein45. (568 Broadway, Hoboken)
– By Raphael Rubinstein