November 2021
Featuring interviews with Dewey Crumpler, Gillian Laub, Glenn Ligon, and Dread Scott. Guest Critic Yasi Alipour: “Hold my hand; the ocean is marching.”
The “November 2021” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on November 3, 2021.
Critics Page
Hold my hand; the ocean is marching
– By Yasi AlipourThis Strange Thing, the Word*
– By Trinh T. Minh-haThe Art of Eliminating a Nation
– By Shir Mohammad KarimiSheila Pepe with Rina AC Dweck
– By Sheila Pepe and Rina AC DweckJulie Mehretu with Yasi Alipour
Dorothea Rockburne with Yasi Alipour
Rirkrit Tiravanija & Tomas Vu with Yasi Alipour
Alteronce Gumby with Carrie Moyer
– By Carrie MoyerVisions of Anticolonial Futures from Worlds of the Past
– By Shaunna Rodrigueswhen they take what is—As If
– By m. nourbeSe philipTectonic plates meeting
– By WemeCan you dig it?
– By Hunter Blu and Krista GayLanguage Can't Solve Our Problems
– By Hunter Blu and Krista Gay
Publisher's Message
Dear Friends and Readers,
– By Phong H. Bui
ArtSeen
Lumin Wakoa: In Time
– By Elizabeth BuheEric Holzman: Thinning the Veil
– By Louis BlockGenieve Figgis: Immortal Reflection
– By Alfred Mac AdamCinga Samson: Iyabanda Intsimbi / The metal is cold
– By Jonathan GoodmanBetsy Damon: Passages: Rites and Rituals
– By Alex A. JonesAlan Sonfist: American Earth Landscape
– By Norman L KleeblattPicasso: Seven Decades of Drawing
– By David RhodesSusan Rothenberg: On Both Sides of My Line
– By Alfred Mac AdamRenée Stout
– By Jonathan GoodmanPolina Barskaya: Still
– By Andrew L. SheaGlobal Mode > Omnivores
– By Hovey BrockUnderground Modernist: E. McKnight Kauffer
– By Mary Ann CawsThomas Demand: Mirror Without Memory
– By Valerie MindlinJoseph Rodriguez: Taxi: Journey Through My Windows 1977–1987
– By Michael ShorrisSteffani Jemison: Broken Fall
– By David Charles ShufordEtel Adnan: Light’s New Measure
– By Dina A. RamadanShannon Cartier Lucy: The Loo Table
– By Jason RosenfeldJohn Kelsey: The Pea Stakers
– By Emma PordigeSuzanne Valadon: Model, Painter, Rebel
– By Jonathan FinebergElizabeth Murray & Jessi Reaves: Wild Life
– By David CarrierTom Doyle in Germany 1964–65
– By William CorwinTakako Yamaguchi: 7 + 7
– By Mary JonesDewey Crumpler: The Complete Hoodie Works, 1993–Present
– By Maddie KlettAfter the summer of smoke and fire
– By Enos NyamorBarbara Hammer: Tell me there is a lesbian forever…
– By Ksenia M. SobolevaMyron Stout and Cycladic Art
– By Tom McGlynnDoron Langberg: Give Me Love
– By Claire PhillipsBeauford Delaney: Be Your Wonderful Self
– By Zoë HopkinsLabyrinth of Forms: Women and Abstraction, 1930–1950
– By Nina WolpowPipilotti Rist: Big Heartedness, Be My Neighbor
– By Olivia GauthierDiane Severin Nguyen: If Revolution Is a Sickness
– By Rachel RemickTitian: Women, Myth, and Power
– By Christian KleinbubMichael Gitlin: Compressions
– By Robert C. MorganPeter Bradley
– By David RhodesRosemary Mayer: Ways of Attaching
– By Candice ChuJohn Ferren: From Paris to Springs
– By David EbonyJeff Koons. Shine
– By Natalia GierowskaJulian Schnabel: Self Portraits of Others
– By Phong H. BuiThe Beauty of Friends Being Together
– By Phong H. BuiPatricia Miranda: Punto in Aria
– By Gaby Collins-Fernandez
Books
Natashia Deón’s The Perishing & Louise Erdrich’s The Sentence
– By Yvonne C. GarrettLogan Berry with Kathleen Rooney
– By Kathleen RooneyJoshua Cohen’s The Netanyahus
– By Greg CwikMarcus Pactor’s Begat Who Begat Who Begat & Marc Anthony Richardson’s Messiahs
– By John DominiJay Caspian Kang's The Loneliest Americans
– By Rhoda FengPhillip Lopate with Samuele F.S. Pardini
Stephanie Gangi’s Carry the Dog
– By Carissa Chesanek
Music
Maurice Louca and His Texture-Distressed Microtonal Comprovisations
– By Martin LongleyRhythmic Conclave
– By Scott GuttermanDiary of a Mad Composer
– By George Grella
Dance
Puffballs, Storm Clouds, and Goodbyes
– By Susan YungSubtle Moments on the Roof
– By Noa WeissPour; When the ice melts, will we drink water?; and Unrelated
– By Didier Morelli
Film
The 59th New York Film Festival
– By Laura ValenzaThe Endless Hunger of Shiva Baby
– By Anandi MishraLaura Dern,
“A Woman in Trouble”– By Harrison Blackman
Fiction
Market Basket
– By Tassity Johnson
Poetry
SHOE
–five
– By Charles Northfive
– By Carolyn Ferruccifrom Revolutionary Letters
– By Diane di Primatwo
– By Ryan Murphyfive
– By Matt Reeckfrom O.B.B.
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Art Books
Sirkhane Darkroom’s i saw the air fly
– By Maymanah FarhatAllen Frame’s Fever
– By Megan N. LibertyNigel Poor’s The San Quentin Project
– By Sarah MorozJim Jarmusch’s Some Collages
– By Jennie WaldowClifton Meador’s Control Mechanism
– By Lily Majteles
Field Notes
Capitalism and the Climate Apocalypse
– By Peter St. ClairCan the Pandemic Really Change our World?
– By Ana V. Diez RouxCOVID, Arts Funding, and the Gig Economy
– By Gordon Beeferman and David FriendWhy Are All Cops Bastards?
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The Miraculous
76. (The Brooklyn Museum)
– By Raphael Rubinstein77. (249 Lafayette Street, 57th Street)
– By Raphael Rubinstein78. (416 East 55th Street)
– By Raphael Rubinstein79. (Brooklyn Navy Yard, Columbia County)
80. (Brighton Beach; Plainfield, New Jersey; 11 West 53rd Street)
– By Raphael Rubinstein