May 2021
Featuring interviews with EJ Hauser, Alex Hay, Ebecho Muslimova, and Federico Solmi. Guest Critic McKenzie Wark: “trans | fem | endurance.”
The “May 2021” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on May 5, 2021.
Publisher's Message
Dear Friends and Readers,
– By Phong H. Bui
Critics Page
On trans | fem | endurance
– By McKenzie WarkLet Us Live
– By Jordana LeSesneUtopian Disappointments
– By Tamsin KimotoBlack Carnelian Grotto
– By Shola von ReinholdTrans-Gendered, or How to Disappear
– By Sessi Kuwabara BlanchardSomething as Ordinary as a Smile
– By Vanessa ClarkUntitled/Unlabeled
– By Linda LaThe Sapphire Sea
– By Jackie EssI Hate Zoom
– By Zarina CThe Type of Power Our World Needs
– By Davia Spainuntitled
– By Joss Barton
ArtSeen
David Smith: Follow My Path
– By Jonathan GoodmanFrank Bowling: London/New York
– By David RhodesCristina BanBan: Del Llanto
– By Alfred Mac AdamAssuming Distance
– By Valerie MindlinPolyplatonics
(For Keltie Ferris)– By Phong H. BuiThomas Holton: The Lams of Ludlow Street
– By Lisa Yin ZhangEamon Ore-Girón: The Symmetry of Tears
– By Barbara CalderónGabriel Rico: Of Beauty and Consolation
– By Madeleine SeidelKoho Yamamoto: Under a Dark Moon
– By Amanda Millet-SorsaCarol Rhodes
– By William DavieMarilyn Lerner: Walking Backward Running Forward—Again
– By David RhodesRemy Jungerman: Brilliant Corners
– By William CorwinDaiga Grantina: Temples
– By Alex BennettJohn Giorno
– By Barbara A. MacAdamHermann Nitsch: Bayreuth Stories
– By Alfred Mac AdamJ Stoner Blackwell & Masamitsu Shigeta
– By Darla MiganKatie DeGroot: Boscage
– By Robert R. ShaneThe National 2021: New Australian Art
– By Paul GladstonHypnose
– By Joseph NechvatalAlice Neel: People Come First
– By Ann C. CollinsLiu Xiaodong: Borders
– By Vivian LiRebecca Warren: V
– By Louis BlockEstamos Bien: La Trienal 20/21
– By Alfred Mac AdamKennedy Yanko: Postcapitalist Desire
– By Folasade OlogunduduKate Millett: Terminal Piece
– By Ksenia M. SobolevaMatthew Schrader: M. Obultra 3
– By Peter BrockMonique Mouton: Inner Chapters
– By Louis BlockWilhelm Sasnal: New Paintings and One Film
– By Amanda GluibizziKim Juwon: The night, the past recalls the past
– By Jonathan GoodmanNour Mobarak: Logistique Elastique
– By Benjamin CliffordTariku Shiferaw: It’s a love thang, it’s a joy thang
– By Charles MooreDavid Row
– By Colin EdgingtonAlessandro Pessoli: Carousel
– By Charles SchultzJulie Mehretu
– By David RhodesJo Messer: Knees to Navel
– By Reilly DavidsonRose Salane: C21OWO
– By Adriana FurlongStill/Live
– By Charlotte Kent
Books
Lilly Dancyger’s Negative Space
– By Jacquelyn Marie GalloMihaela Moscaliuc’s Cemetery Ink
– By Tony LeuzziJohn Domini’s The Archeology of a Good Ragù
– By Jacob M. AppelCaleb Azumah Nelson's Open Water
– By Joseph PeschelRachel Cusk's Second Place
– By Joseph PeschelMatt Bell’s Appleseed
– By Kurt BaumeisterDavid Winner with Joan Marcus
Hanif Abdurraqib with Eric Farwell
Nicole Krauss's To Be a Man
– By Carissa ChesanekCaitlin Horrocks with Joseph Scapellato
– By Joseph ScapellatoAdele Bertei with Luc Sante
Music
From Space to Environment, Fluxus to Furniture Music: The Women of Kankyō Ongaku (Part II)
– By Sadie Rebecca StarnesDealing With the Human Condition: Lisa Bella Donna
– By Vanessa AgueMaryanne Amacher: Selected Writings and Interviews
– By George GrellaDuma and their Doom-Overload Nairobi-Kampala Electro-Metal Maelstrom
– By Martin LongleyListening In: Leni Stern, High-Flying Bird
– By Scott Gutterman
Dance
Aliyah Dunn-Salahuddin with Luke Williams
Bubbling Over with Joy
– By Susan YungMoving Through Grief and Transition: devynn emory’s deadbird
– By Noa Weiss
Film
Alexandre Koberidze’s What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?
– By Tyler WilsonAmalia Ulman’s El Planeta
– By Caitlin Quinlan
Theater
We See You, White American Theater
– By Brittani Samuel
Fiction
Crown Heights, 2020
– By Amber JosephMardon’s Night
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Poetry
My Own Version of You
– By Evan Kennedyfrom mahogany
– By erica lewisfive
– By Daniel Bouchardfrom Days
– By Simone Kearneynine
– By Anne Tardosfive
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– By Bill Earle
Art Books
Jessica Vaughn’s Depreciating Assets
– By Megan N. LibertySchnabel
– By William CorwinElliott Erwitt’s Found Not Lost
– By Sarah MorozOn Scale
– By Alexander NagelCarolee Schneemann’s Parts of a Body House Book
– By Kate SilzerEmma Amos: Color Odyssey
– By Karen Chernick
Field Notes
The Pandemic and the Economy: An Uncertain Prospect
– By José A. TapiaPity the Poor Police: New Laws to Back the Blue
– By Rona LorimerBack to the Future?
– By Paul MattickPalantir’s Picture of Michel Foucault, or How to “Discipline and Punish”
– By Julian Castronovo
The Miraculous
51. (Both Banks of the Hudson River)
– By Raphael Rubinstein52. (New York’s Waterways)
– By Raphael Rubinstein53. (The Shoreline of the South Bronx)
– By Raphael Rubinstein54. (The East River)
– By Raphael Rubinstein55. (Gansevoort Peninsula)
– By Raphael Rubinstein