October 2021
Featuring interviews with Ghada Amer, Tacita Dean, Tomashi Jackson, and Jorge Pardo. Guest Critic RoseLee Goldberg: “Performa 2021.”
The “October 2021” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on October 6, 2021.
Publisher's Message
Dear Friends and Readers,
– By Phong H. Bui
Critics Page
Performa 2021
– By RoseLee GoldbergLive from New York
– By Charles AubinThe Real World
– By Kathy NobleAmazon (Proxy)
– By Danielle DeanStalk
– By Ericka BeckmanThe Stage
– By Tschabalala Selfnotes towards becoming a spill
– By ShikeithReview
– By Madeline HollanderDown at the Arcade
– By Sara CwynarBeing Silica
– By Andrés JaqueThe Sound of Morning
– By Kathy Noble
ArtSeen
Kon Trubkovich: The Antepenultimate End
– By David CarrierTamara Gonzales: Horrible Beauty
– By Amanda Millet-SorsaLouise Lawler: LIGHTS OFF, AFTER HOURS, IN THE DARK
– By Hannah Sage KayLeonardo Drew
– By Jillian RussoKon Trubkovich: The Antepenultimate End
– By Nicholas HeskesNicky Nodjoumi: We the Witnesses
– By Andrew Paul WoolbrightO-I-L Paint
(for Albert Ryder)– By Bill JensenA Wild Note of Longing: Albert Pinkham Ryder and a Century of American Art
– By Peter AchesonA Wild Note of Longing: Albert Pinkham Ryder and a Century of American Art
– By Amanda Millet-SorsaJennie C. Jones: New Compositions
– By Ann C. CollinsHemali Bhuta: and the epic did not happen!
– By Barbara A. MacAdamStacy Lynn Waddell: Mettle
– By Darla MiganEmilie Stark-Menneg: Strawberry Moon
– By Alfred Mac AdamNicole Storm
– By Bryan MartinRon Gorchov: Spice of Life
– By Tom McGlynnConvergent Evolutions: The Conscious Body of Work
– By Charlotte KentKatelyn Eichwald: Never
– By Elizabeth BuheAlex Callender: All Her Loves and All Her Disappointments
– By Marcus CivinJoanna Borkowska & Sandi Slone: Material/Immaterial
– By Robert C. MorganMatvey Levenstein
– By Andrew L. SheaPhilip Guston: 1969–1979
– By David RhodesLois Dodd
– By Hearne PardeeJohn Currin: Memorial
– By Alfred Mac AdamAlison Elizabeth Taylor: Future Promise
– By Susan HarrisDaniel Johnston: I Live My Broken Dreams
– By Barbara PurcellThomas Nozkowski: The Last Paintings
– By Tom McGlynnLiz Ahn: unobservable scavenger
– By Pamela SneedWallace Berman: Off the Grid
– By Ann McCoyJulian Schnabel: Self-Portraits of Others
– By David EbonyBernar Venet: 1961 & 1963: les origins
– By Joseph NechvatalMartha Tuttle: Wild irises grow in the mountains
– By Louis BlockElizabeth Murray: Back in Town
– By Douglas DreishpoonMcArthur Binion: Modern:
Ancient: Brown – By Amanda Millet-SorsaKamala Sankaram: The Last Stand
– By Julie ReissWardell Milan: Amerika. God Bless You If It’s Good To You
– By Cat DawsonBRUCE CONNER & JAY DEFEO:
(“we are not what we seem”)– By Jessica HolmesLisa Yuskavage: New Paintings
– By Jason RosenfeldRaquel Rabinovich: Portals
– By Jonathan Goodman
Books
Aimee Parkison’s Sister Séance
– By Jacquelyn Marie GalloDeborah Levy’s Real Estate
– By Elizabeth BlockKhadija Abdalla Bajaber & Jonathan Franzen
– By Yvonne C. GarrettShukri Mabkhout’s The Italian
– By John DominiA Woman's Worth
– By Carissa ChesanekRevolutionary Letters: 50th Anniversary Edition
– By Patrick James DunaganJohn Banville’s April in Spain
– By Joseph PeschelClare Chambers's Small Pleasures
– By Carissa ChesanekLincoln Michel's The Body Scout
– By Rone ShaversMartha Cooley with Catherine Parnell
Late Humans and Other Animals
– By Jason Morris
Music
Possessed by the Moon
– By Adolf AlzupharInto the Blue
– By Scott GuttermanOstrava Days, Ostrava, Czech Republic, August 20–21, 2021
– By Martin Longley“A Totally Integrated Club Scene”: New York, New Music: 1980–1986 at the Museum of the City of New York
– By Matthew Pessar JosephTime, Lost and Regained
– By George Grella
Dance
Light and Desire: Illuminating Anger and Transformation
– By Jen C. GeorgeTaylor Returns—But What Holds the Future?
– By Susan YungHow Do We Stage a World?
– By George Kan
Film
Angelo Madsen Minax’s North By Current
– By Anna CahnEmma Dante’s The Macaluso Sisters
– By Laura Valenza
Fiction
Miss Weinburger
– By Alec NiedenthalCoda: Waiting by the Shore
– By Kate McIntyre
Poetry
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– By I.S. Jonesthree
– By Charles TheoniaThe Autobiography of Jean Foos
– By Jessica Grim and Melanie NeilsonMoon with David
– By Ed Steckthree
– By Kendra Sullivan
Art Books
Sara Cwynar’s Glass Life
– By Karen GuKristin Bedford’s Cruise Night
– By Nicole KaackDesigning Motherhood: Things That Make and Break Our Births
– By Ksenia NourilEdith Young’s Color Scheme
– By Alana PockrosDerek Sullivan’s Evidence of the Avant Garde Ex-Library
– By Megan N. LibertyRichard Tuttle’s The Role of the Story Teller
– By Louis Block
ArTonic
The Foundation for Contemporary Arts
– By Charlotte Kent
Field Notes
Occupied
– By Paul MattickBuying Time: Evictions and Tenant Organizing at the Pandemic Slow End
– By Nathan Eisenberg and Daniel TuttThe Present and Future of Engineers
– By Nick Chavez
The Miraculous
71. (The Studio Museum in Harlem)
– By Raphael Rubinstein72. (Various walls around the city)
– By Raphael Rubinstein73. (Various museums and galleries)
– By Raphael Rubinstein74. (402, 404 & 414 East 14th Street)
– By Raphael Rubinstein75. (Pier 18, Hudson River)
– By Raphael Rubinstein