July/August 2021
Featuring interviews with Lynn Hershman Leeson, Dave McKenzie, Giuseppe Penone, Lucy Raven, John Sims, and Arazel Thalez. Guest Critic Christian Kleinbub: “Mysticism in Art.”
The “July/August 2021” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on July 14, 2021.
Critics Page
Are All Artists Mystics?
The Case of Leonardo da Vinci– By Christian KleinbubBlind Faith
– By Holly FloraPious Disfiguration
– By Megan HolmesThe Painter & The Preacher: Botticelli’s Mystic Nativity and Savonarola’s Sermons
– By Jennifer SliwkaScrapping the Sacred
– By Aimee NgWhat Happened When Renaissance Artists Prayed While Painting?
– By Andrew R. CasperMysticism to Wear
– By Byron Ellsworth HamannNon-anthropocentric extension into an abstract infinite sphere
– By Thomas CrowOn Being Sane
– By Suzanne Hudson
Publisher's Message
Dear Friends and Readers,
– By Phong H. Bui
ArtSeen
100 Sculptures – NYC
– By William CorwinErick Johnson: Double Take
– By Hovey BrockWu Tsang: Anthem
– By Barbara LondonSophie Friedman-Pappas: Transfer Station
– By Rudy NatanzonTales of Manhattan
– By Jonathan GoodmanJoshua Marsh: Seven Cascades
– By Hearne PardeeJoyce Kozloff: Uncivil Wars
– By Hovey BrockRobert Smithson: Abstract Cartography
– By Ann McCoyMadeline Hollander: Flatwing
– By Hannah Sage KayJoe Light and Chris Martin: Be Natural
– By Daniel FullerAndrew Cranston: Waiting for the Bell
– By Cal McKeeverJulien Nguyen: Pictures of the Floating World
– By Emily ChunCici Wu: Lantern Strike (Strong Loneliness)
– By Marcus CivinRosy Keyser & Joseph Montgomery: Wrecked Angle
– By Amanda Millet-Sorsafetch fiddle fidget: Adriana Farmiga, Daphne Fitzpatrick, Rune Olsen
– By Madeleine SeidelSaul Chernick: Enlightened Objects
– By Cigdem AsatekinWangechi Mutu
– By Jess ChenRindon Johnson: Law of Large Numbers
– By Ann C. CollinsMade in L.A. 2020: a version
– By Olivia GauthierNo W here: Alice Hope, Bastienne Schmidt, Toni Ross
– By Amanda GluibizziWilliam Eric Brown: ColorStatic
– By Jonathan GoodmanChloë Bass: The Parts
– By Phillip GriffithDaniel Gibson: Ocotillo Song
– By Nicholas HeskesYou’ve Come a Long Way, Baby: The Sapphire Show
– By Zoë HopkinsLouise Bourgeois, Freud’s Daughter
– By Brandt JunceauElisabeth Kley: Minutes of Sand
– By William CorwinMary Mattingly: Public Water
– By Julie ReissRuth Hardinger: Transcending Fields
– By Robert C. MorganGregg Bordowitz: I Wanna Be Well
– By Charlotte KentLisa Brice
– By Claire PhillipsJohn Dilg: Flight Path
– By Louis BlockMaren Hassinger
– By Sally Eaves HughesSal Salandra: Iron Halo
– By Osman Can YerebakanBorder Crossings
– By David Carrier and Paul GladstonEvery Wall is a Door
– By Steven PestanaOnyedika Chuke: The Forever Museum Archive_Circa 6000BCE
– By Folasade OlogunduduWood Works: Raw, Cut, Carved, Covered
– By Alfred Mac AdamKirill Alexandrov: Asymmetry & Vladimir Martirosov: Docile Bodies
– By Valerie Mindlin
Books
Susan Conley's Landslide
– By Elizabeth PimentelKenan Trebinčević with Zachary Ginsburg
Joshua Henkin’s Morningside Heights
– By Joseph PeschelCitizenship, Persona, and Testimony: Hafizah Geter’s Un-American
– By Madeleine CravensNawaaz Ahmed’s Radiant Fugitives
– By Wayne CatanEssays, a Memoir, and a Work of New Fiction
– By Yvonne C. GarrettJonathan Lee’s The Great Mistake
– By Carissa ChesanekSusan Bernofsky’s Clairvoyant of the Small: The Life of Robert Walser
– By Cigdem AsatekinAn Epic Poem for Queens, NY: Carolyn Ferrell’s Dear Miss Metropolitan
– By J. C. HallmanThe Sound of America: Jeanne Thornton’s Summer Fun
– By Corinne ManningDavid Leo Rice with Gabriel Frye-Behar
Kevin Prufer’s The Art of Fiction
– By Tony Leuzzi
Music
Reaching For Transcendence
– By Dave CantorNatik Awayez and His Songbook Of Melancholy
– By Martin LongleyCanadian Cowboy: The Unfolding Story of Darcy Windover
– By Geoffrey ClarfieldJessica Hopper’s The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic
– By George Grella
Dance
Melanie George & Ali Rosas-Salas with Thomas Ford
Eight Commandments of Choreography
– By Maximiliane LeuschnerStretching Time in River to River’s 20th Season
– By Noa Weiss
Film
Shariff Korver’s Do Not Hesitate (2021)
– By Harrison BlackmanBill Duke’s Deep Cover
– By Edward MendezJia Zhang-Ke with Anthony Hawley
Art Books
Weng Pixin’s Let’s Not Talk Anymore
– By Wyatt SarafinErik Kessels and Thomas Sauvin’s Talk Soon
– By Aida AmoakoPacifico Silano’s I Wish I Never Saw the Sunshine
– By Lee Ann NormanDebi Cornwall’s Necessary Fictions
– By Jean Dykstra
ArTonic
Fountain House Gallery
– By Amber Jamilla Musser
Special Report
An Urgent Letter in Support of Artist Tania Bruguera in Cuba
– By Ernesto Pujol
Field Notes
You Never Know
– By Paul MattickThe American Revolution: The George Floyd Rebellion, One Year Out
– By Jason E. SmithLifting the Ban
– By Jacob Blumenfeld
The Miraculous
61. (SoHo, Lower East Side)
– By Raphael Rubinstein62. (Midtown)
– By Raphael Rubinstein63. (Various locations)
– By Raphael Rubinstein64. (Fulton Street, Chinatown, West Broadway, Eldridge Street)
– By Raphael Rubinstein65. (SoHo)
– By Raphael Rubinstein