JUL-AUG 2021 – The Brooklyn Rail

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Editor's Message

Are All Artists Mystics? The Case of Leonardo da Vinci
– By Christian Kleinbub

Publisher's Message

Dear Friends and Readers,
– By Phong Bui

Art

ArtSeen

100 Sculptures – NYC
– By William Corwin
Erick Johnson: Double Take
– By Hovey Brock
Wu Tsang: Anthem
– By Barbara London
Sophie Friedman-Pappas: Transfer Station
– By Rudy Natanzon
Tales of Manhattan
– By Jonathan Goodman
Joshua Marsh: Seven Cascades
– By Hearne Pardee
Joyce Kozloff: Uncivil Wars
– By Hovey Brock
Robert Smithson: Abstract Cartography
– By Ann McCoy
Madeline Hollander: Flatwing
– By Hannah Sage Kay
Joe Light and Chris Martin: Be Natural
– By Daniel Fuller
Andrew Cranston: Waiting for the Bell
– By Cal McKeever
Julien Nguyen: Pictures of the Floating World
– By Emily Chun
Cici Wu: Lantern Strike (Strong Loneliness)
– By Marcus Civin
Rosy Keyser & Joseph Montgomery: Wrecked Angle
– By Amanda Millet-Sorsa
fetch fiddle fidget: Adriana Farmiga, Daphne Fitzpatrick, Rune Olsen
– By Madeleine Seidel
Saul Chernick: Enlightened Objects
– By Cigdem Asatekin
Wangechi Mutu
– By Jess Chen
Rindon Johnson: Law of Large Numbers
– By Ann C. Collins
Made in L.A. 2020: a version
– By Olivia Gauthier
No W here: Alice Hope, Bastienne Schmidt, Toni Ross
– By Amanda Gluibizzi
William Eric Brown: ColorStatic
– By Jonathan Goodman
Chloë Bass: The Parts
– By Phillip Griffith
Daniel Gibson: Ocotillo Song
– By Nicholas Heskes
You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby: The Sapphire Show
– By Zoë Hopkins
Louise Bourgeois, Freud’s Daughter
– By Brandt Junceau
Elisabeth Kley: Minutes of Sand
– By William Corwin
Mary Mattingly: Public Water
– By Julie Reiss
Ruth Hardinger: Transcending Fields
– By Robert C. Morgan
Gregg Bordowitz: I Wanna Be Well
– By Charlotte Kent
Lisa Brice
– By Claire Phillips
John Dilg: Flight Path
– By Louis Block
Maren Hassinger
– By Sally Eaves Hughes
Sal Salandra: Iron Halo
– By Osman Can Yerebakan
Border Crossings
– By David Carrier and Paul Gladston
Every Wall is a Door
– By Steven Pestana
Onyedika Chuke: The Forever Museum Archive_Circa 6000BCE
– By Folasade Ologundudu
Wood Works: Raw, Cut, Carved, Covered
– By Alfred Mac Adam
Kirill Alexandrov: Asymmetry & Vladimir Martirosov: Docile Bodies
– By Valerie Mindlin

Critics Page

Blind Faith
– By Holly Flora
Pious Disfiguration
– By Megan Holmes
The Painter & The Preacher: Botticelli’s Mystic Nativity and Savonarola’s Sermons
– By Jennifer Sliwka
Scrapping the Sacred
– By Aimee Ng
What Happened When Renaissance Artists Prayed While Painting?
– By Andrew R. Casper
Mysticism to Wear
– By Byron Ellsworth Hamann
Non-anthropocentric extension into an abstract infinite sphere
– By Thomas Crow
On Being Sane
– By Suzanne Hudson

Books

Susan Conley’s Landslide
– By Elizabeth Pimentel
Kenan Trebinčević with Zachary Ginsburg
Joshua Henkin’s Morningside Heights
– By Joseph Peschel
Citizenship, Persona, and Testimony: Hafizah Geter’s Un-American
– By Madeleine Cravens
Nawaaz Ahmed’s Radiant Fugitives
– By Wayne Catan
Essays, a Memoir, and a Work of New Fiction
– By Yvonne C. Garrett
Jonathan Lee’s The Great Mistake
– By Carissa Chesanek
Susan Bernofsky’s Clairvoyant of the Small: The Life of Robert Walser
– By Cigdem Asatekin
An Epic Poem for Queens, NY: Carolyn Ferrell’s Dear Miss Metropolitan
– By J. C. Hallman
The Sound of America: Jeanne Thornton’s Summer Fun
– By Corinne Manning
David Leo Rice with Gabriel Frye-Behar
Kevin Prufer’s The Art of Fiction
– By Tony Leuzzi

Music

Reaching For Transcendence
– By Dave Cantor
Natik Awayez and His Songbook Of Melancholy
– By Martin Longley
Canadian Cowboy: The Unfolding Story of Darcy Windover
– By Geoffrey Clarfield
Jessica 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 Leuschner
Stretching Time in River to River’s 20th Season
– By Noa Weiss

Film

Shariff Korver’s Do Not Hesitate (2021)
– By Harrison Blackman
Bill Duke’s Deep Cover
– By Edward Mendez
Jia Zhang-Ke with Anthony Hawley

Theater

A Roundtable Conversation: Alicia Ramírez talks to Dr. Alisa Hurwitz and Jesús Dávila as Empty Theaters Breed Mental Health Concerns
– By Alicia Ramírez
What To Do When You Grow Tired of Words
– By Jeesun Choi

Fiction

The Duel
– By Alison B. Hart

Poetry

one
– By Celina Su and Sarah Riggs
three
– By Misael Osorio-Conde
five
– By E.J. McAdams
six
– By Neeli Cherkovski
three
– By Rodrigo Toscano
four from field recordings of mind in morning
– By Hank Lazer
seven
– By Laura Henriksen

Art Books

Weng Pixin’s Let’s Not Talk Anymore
– By Wyatt Sarafin
Erik Kessels and Thomas Sauvin’s Talk Soon
– By Aida Amoako
Pacifico Silano’s I Wish I Never Saw the Sunshine
– By Lee Ann Norman
Debi 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 Mattick
The American Revolution: The George Floyd Rebellion, One Year Out
– By Jason E. Smith
Lifting the Ban
– By Jacob Blumenfeld

The Miraculous

61. (SoHo, Lower East Side)
– By Raphael Rubinstein
62. (Midtown)
– By Raphael Rubinstein
63. (Various locations)
– By Raphael Rubinstein
64. (Fulton Street, Chinatown, West Broadway, Eldridge Street)
– By Raphael Rubinstein
65. (SoHo)
– By Raphael Rubinstein

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