JUNE 2021 – The Brooklyn Rail

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Publisher's Message

Dear Friends and Readers,
– By Phong Bui

Editor's Message

What’s possible now?
– By Rodrigo Moura, Susanna V. Temkin, and Elia Alba

Art

ArtSeen

Juan Uslé: Horizontal Light
– By Hearne Pardee
Diana Sofia Lozano: Suspended in the Iris
– By Everett Narciso
Feedback
– By Tom McGlynn
Agnes Martin: The Distillation of Color
– By David Rhodes
Jorge Galindo & Julian Schnabel: Flower Paintings
– By Amanda Millet-Sorsa
Parallel Phenomena
– By Annabel Keenan
Terry Winters: Table of Contents
– By David Rhodes
Kenturah Davis: (a)Float, (a)Fall, (a)Dance, (a)Death
– By Charles Moore
Kemar Keanu Wynter: Portions
– By Louis Block
Ugo Rondinone: nuns + monks
– By William Corwin
Nina Katchadourian: Cumulus
– By Marcia E. Vetrocq
Jammie Holmes: Pieces of a Man
– By Matthew Biro
Monika Baer: loose change
– By Dan Cameron
John Wood and Paul Harrison: Bored
– By Lyle Rexer
The Phoenix and the Mountain: In-Centric Abstraction in the ’80s
– By Charles Schultz
Emily Ludwig Shaffer & Françoise Grossen
– By Madeleine Seidel
Fault Lines
– By Meghaa Ballakrishnen
Sydney Shen: Strange But True
– By Rachel Remick
Soutine/de Kooning: Conversations in Paint
– By Jonathan Fineberg
Soutine/de Kooning: Conversations in Paint
– By Ruth Fine
Willem de Kooning: Men and Women and Drawings
– By Benjamin Clifford
Huma Bhabha: Facing Giants
– By Susan Harris
Adriana Varejão: Talavera
– By Amanda Gluibizzi
“Pleasures and Possible Celebrations”: Rosemary Mayer’s Temporary Monuments, 1977–1981
– By Elizabeth Buhe
David Hammons: Day’s End
– By Robert Slifkin
Katherine Bradford: Philosophers’ Clambake
– By Jared Quinton
David Smith: Follow My Path
– By Phyllis Tuchman
Dawoud Bey: An American Project
– By Marcus Civin
The Bardo: Unpacking the (un)Real
– By Charlotte Kent
Joe Houston: RUINS
– By Jason Rosenfeld
Ali Banisadr: These Specks of Dust
– By Jessica Holmes
Don Voisine
– By Tom McGlynn
Kate McQuillen: Wave Amnesia
– By Robert R. Shane
Frank Bowling: London/New York
– By Zoë Hopkins
Catalina Chervin: Catharsis
– By Robert C. Morgan
Sands Murray-Wassink: In Good Company
– By Titus Nouwens
Projects: Gabrielle L’Hirondelle Hill
– By Ann C. Collins
Guy Goodwin: Mattress World
– By David Rhodes
Deborah Remington: Five Decades
– By Joe Bucciero
Shervone Neckles: BEACON
– By William Corwin
Jacob El Hanani: Recent Works on Canvas
– By Alfred Mac Adam

Critics Page

Books

Matt Bell with Joseph Scapellato
Waking From the Dream of Mark Leidner’s Poetry
– By Bianca Stone
Jim Shepard’s Phase Six
– By Joseph Peschel
Jonathan Santlofer with J.C. Hallman
The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison
– By Samuele F.S. Pardini
Joanna Fuhrman’s To A New Era
– By Liz Axelrod
Playing the Beautiful Game: David Hollander’s Anthropica
– By Dina Peone

Music

Daphne A. Brooks’s Liner Notes for the Revolution
– By George Grella
Shwabada
– By Adolf Alzuphar
Language Muddles Music: Sebastián Maria
– By S. David
Beans and the Avant-Garde in Hip Hop
– By Rob Duguay
Listening 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 Atamian
A Choreographed Return to Theaters
– By Noa Weiss
New Prayer For Now
– By Jen C. George
Formal / Nature
– By Susan Yung
Bill T. Jones Dancing Through Disease in Can You Bring It and Afterwardsness
– By Hallie Chametzky

Film

Blake Edwards’s Experiment in Terror
– By Harrison Blackman
Jia Zhangke: Three Films for the New Cold War
– By Daniel LoPilato
Raoul Peck’s Exterminate All the Brutes
– By Ella Turenne

Theater

I Forgot to Tell You
– by Sarah Einspanier, illustrations by Jana La Brasca

Fiction

from All the Water I’ve Seen Is Running
– By Elias Rodriques
Dog Story
– By Chris Arp

Poetry

Behavioral Therapy
– By Diana Hamilton
Requiem for Elementary Language Acquisition
– By Lauren Russell
three
– By Sarah Jean Grimm
The Big Fake Gentrification on the Hudson Public Art or Public Fart
– By Ama Birch
five
– By Vyt Bakaitis
seven from Active Reception
– By Noah Ross
three
– By PJ Lombardo

Art Books

N.H. Pritchard’s The Matrix and EECCHHOOEESS
– By Erica N. Cardwell
Maureen O’Leary’s Record
– By Anthony Huffman
Deanna Dikeman’s Leaving and Waving
– By Alex Merola
Interspecies Futures, Veiled Taxonomies, and Lights, Tunnels, Passages, and Shadows at Center for Book Arts
– By Amber Jamilla Musser
Frankie Alduino’s Vertical Village
– By Jonah Goldman Kay

In Memoriam

A Tribute to Aldo Tambellini
–

Special Report

The New York Health Act is Great for the Arts
– By Keith Gordon

Field Notes

Both Sides Now
– By Paul Mattick
The Future of Automation
– By Gary Roth
Did communism make us human?
– By Chris Knight
India’s Second COVID-19 Wave
– By Anandi Mishra

The Miraculous

56. (The West Side Highway)
– By Raphael Rubinstein
57. (The Bowery)
– By Raphael Rubinstein
58. (Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx)
– By Raphael Rubinstein
59. (Coney Island, 42nd Street, the Meatpacking District, among other locations)
– By Raphael Rubinstein
60. (Pier 34, Hudson River)
– By Raphael Rubinstein

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