June 2021
Featuring interviews with Julie Mehretu, KAWS, Michael Snow, and Adriana Varejão. Guest Critics Rodrigo Moura, Susanna V. Temkin, and Elia Alba: “What's Possible Now?”
The “June 2021” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on June 2, 2021.
Critics Page
What's possible now?
– By Rodrigo Moura, Susanna V. Temkin, and Elia AlbaBernardo Mosqueira
Carla Acevedo Yates and Isabel Casso
Alana Hernandez
Candida Alvarez
Carolina Caycedo
Dominique Duroseau
Francis Almendárez
Herb Tam
Josh T Franco
Juana Valdés
June Canedo
Lizania Cruz
Marcela Guerrero
Michael Menchaca
Olga Viso
Serubiri Moses
Publisher's Message
Dear Friends and Readers,
– By Phong H. Bui
ArtSeen
Feedback
– By Tom McGlynnAgnes Martin: The Distillation of Color
– By David RhodesJuan Uslé: Horizontal Light
– By Hearne PardeeDiana Sofia Lozano: Suspended in the Iris
– By Everett NarcisoJorge Galindo & Julian Schnabel: Flower Paintings
– By Amanda Millet-SorsaParallel Phenomena
– By Annabel KeenanTerry Winters: Table of Contents
– By David RhodesKenturah Davis: (a)Float, (a)Fall, (a)Dance, (a)Death
– By Charles MooreKemar Keanu Wynter: Portions
– By Louis BlockUgo Rondinone: nuns + monks
– By William CorwinNina Katchadourian: Cumulus
– By Marcia E. VetrocqJammie Holmes: Pieces of a Man
– By Matthew BiroMonika Baer: loose change
– By Dan CameronJohn Wood and Paul Harrison: Bored
– By Lyle RexerThe Phoenix and the Mountain: In-Centric Abstraction in the ’80s
– By Charles SchultzEmily Ludwig Shaffer & Françoise Grossen
– By Madeleine SeidelFault Lines
– By Meghaa Parvathy BallakrishnenSydney Shen: Strange But True
– By Rachel RemickSoutine/de Kooning: Conversations in Paint
– By Jonathan FinebergSoutine/de Kooning: Conversations in Paint
– By Ruth FineWillem de Kooning:
Men and Women
and Drawings– By Benjamin CliffordHuma Bhabha: Facing Giants
– By Susan HarrisAdriana Varejão: Talavera
– By Amanda Gluibizzi“Pleasures and Possible Celebrations”: Rosemary Mayer’s Temporary Monuments, 1977–1981
– By Elizabeth BuheDavid Hammons: Day’s End
– By Robert SlifkinKatherine Bradford: Philosophers’ Clambake
– By Jared QuintonDavid Smith: Follow My Path
– By Phyllis TuchmanDawoud Bey: An American Project
– By Marcus CivinThe Bardo: Unpacking the (un)Real
– By Charlotte KentJoe Houston: RUINS
– By Jason RosenfeldAli Banisadr: These Specks of Dust
– By Jessica HolmesDon Voisine
– By Tom McGlynnKate McQuillen: Wave Amnesia
– By Robert R. ShaneFrank Bowling: London/New York
– By Zoë HopkinsCatalina Chervin: Catharsis
– By Robert C. MorganSands Murray-Wassink: In Good Company
– By Titus NouwensProjects: Gabrielle L’Hirondelle Hill
– By Ann C. CollinsGuy Goodwin: Mattress World
– By David RhodesDeborah Remington: Five Decades
– By Joe BuccieroShervone Neckles: BEACON
– By William CorwinJacob El Hanani: Recent Works on Canvas
– By Alfred Mac Adam
Books
Matt Bell with Joseph Scapellato
Waking From the Dream of Mark Leidner's Poetry
– By Bianca StoneJim Shepard’s Phase Six
– By Joseph PeschelJonathan Santlofer with J.C. Hallman
The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison
– By Samuele F.S. PardiniJoanna Fuhrman’s To A New Era
– By Liz AxelrodPlaying the Beautiful Game: David Hollander’s Anthropica
– By Dina Peone
Music
Daphne A. Brooks's Liner Notes for the Revolution
– By George GrellaShwabada
– By Adolf AlzupharLanguage Muddles Music: Sebastián Maria
– By S. DavidBeans and the Avant-Garde in Hip Hop
– By Rob DuguayListening In: Keshav Batish, Both/And
– By Scott Gutterman
Dance
Playing with the Truth: Jonathan Jakubowicz’s Resistance and the Memory of Marcel Marceau
– By Christopher AtamianA Choreographed Return to Theaters
– By Noa WeissNew Prayer For Now
– By Jen C. GeorgeFormal / Nature
– By Susan YungBill T. Jones Dancing Through Disease in Can You Bring It and Afterwardsness
– By Hallie Chametzky
Film
Blake Edwards’s Experiment in Terror
– By Harrison BlackmanJia Zhangke: Three Films for the New Cold War
– By Daniel LoPilatoRaoul Peck’s Exterminate All the Brutes
– By Ella Turenne
Fiction
from All the Water I’ve Seen Is Running
– By Elias RodriquesDog Story
– By Chris Arp
Poetry
Behavioral Therapy
– By Diana HamiltonRequiem for Elementary Language Acquisition
– By Lauren Russellthree
– By Sarah Jean GrimmThe Big Fake Gentrification on the Hudson Public Art or Public Fart
– By Ama Birchfive
– By Vyt Bakaitisseven from Active Reception
– By Noah Rossthree
– By PJ Lombardo
Art Books
N.H. Pritchard's The Matrix and EECCHHOOEESS
– By Erica N. CardwellMaureen O'Leary's Record
– By Anthony HuffmanDeanna Dikeman's Leaving and Waving
– By Alessandro MerolaInterspecies Futures, Veiled Taxonomies, and Lights, Tunnels, Passages, and Shadows
at Center for Book Arts– By Amber Jamilla MusserFrankie Alduino's Vertical Village
– By Jonah Goldman Kay
Special Report
The New York Health Act is Great for the Arts
– By Keith Gordon
Field Notes
Both Sides Now
– By Paul MattickThe Future of Automation
– By Gary RothDid communism make us human?
– By Chris KnightIndia’s Second COVID-19 Wave
– By Anandi Mishra
The Miraculous
56. (The West Side Highway)
– By Raphael Rubinstein57. (The Bowery)
– By Raphael Rubinstein58. (Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx)
– By Raphael Rubinstein59. (Coney Island, 42nd Street, the Meatpacking District, among other locations)
– By Raphael Rubinstein60. (Pier 34, Hudson River)
– By Raphael Rubinstein