Dec/Jan 21–22
Featuring interviews with Radcliffe Bailey, Debra Bricker Balken, Mary Ann Caws, Neil Jenney, Jennifer Packer, and Cinga Samson, + a panel on Jasper Johns. Guest Critic W. J. T. Mitchell: “Sounding the Idols.”
The “Dec/Jan 21–22” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on December 8, 2021.
Critics Page
Sounding the Idols
– By W. J. T. MitchellIdolizing Systems: That Doesn't Sound Right
– By Mieke BalResistant Noise
– By Janice Misurell-MitchellDenounce, Resist, Change, Struggle
– By Charles BernsteinOh, Say Can you Sing?
– By Hannah B HigginsMuse-ecology: on birds and other tuning forks
– By John Paul RiccoEar Witness
– By Lawrence Abu HamdanUntitled
– By Marjorie PerloffNarcissus in Black, Brown and White
– By Omar KholeifBetter a Good Ear than a Good Law
– By Peter GoodrichAnd They Dimmed the Sun
– By Tanya Jayani FernandoThe Birth of Music out of the Spirit of Critical Idolatry?
– By Seth BrodskyThe Idol of White, a CANTO (after EP)
– By Jon BordoIconophobia or idolatry
– By Luca Del Baldo
Publisher's Message
Dear Friends and Readers,
– By Phong H. Bui
Art
On Larry Day
– By Phong H. Bui, Sid Sachs, Ruth Fine, Bill Valerio, and Richard TorchiaRadcliffe Bailey with Ksenia M. Soboleva
Debra Bricker Balken with David Levi Strauss
Mary Ann Caws with Jared Daniel Fagen
On Jasper Johns
– By Scott Rothkopf, Carlos Basualdo, and Richard ShiffCinga Samson with Amanda Gluibizzi
Neil Jenney with Jason Rosenfeld
Jennifer Packer with Amber Jamilla Musser
ArtSeen
Ethan Ryman: Series: Still Lives and Dioramas
– By Phong H. BuiBruce Nauman: His Mark
– By Charles SchultzMadeleine Bialke: Long Summer
– By Elina AlterMichael Krebber: New Work
– By Louis BlockDonald Judd: Paintings 1959-1961
– By Phyllis TuchmanWhitfield Lovell: Le Rouge et Le Noir
– By Hovey BrockNoah Landfield's Ephemeral Cities
– By William CorwinJitish Kallat:Tmesis
– By William CorwinDorothea Rockburne: Giotto's Angels & Knots
– By Joseph MasheckRaqs Media Collective: HUNGRY FOR TIME
– By Klaus SpeidelFacts of Light
– By Tim MaulJasper Johns: Mind/Mirror
– By Sid SachsJasper Johns: Mind/Mirror
– By Amanda GluibizziAlex Katz
– By Jonathan GoodmanKara Walker: Prince McVeigh and the Turner Blasphemies & The Book of Hours
– By Susan HarrisRobert Gober: “Shut up.” “No. You shut up.”
– By Brandt JunceauCatherine Murphy: Recent Work
– By Barbara A. MacAdamTishan Hsu: skin-screen-grass
– By Cassie PackardStephen Westfall: Persephone
– By Tom McGlynnJeff Wall
– By David CarrierGerald Jackson
– By Ksenia M. SobolevaPhilip Pearlstein: I Love Mud
– By Jessica HolmesLarry Day
– By Conor LauesenDomingo Guccione: Spiritual Geometry
– By Jonathan GoodmanRakuko Naito & Sono Kuwayama
– By Robert C. MorganRoots/Anchors
– By Lilly WeiStanley Whitney: TwentyTwenty
– By Amanda Millet-SorsaWinfred Rembert: 1945–2021
– By Dan CameronWinfred Rembert: 1945–2021
– By Ann C. CollinsKAWS: SPOKE TOO SOON
– By Jason RosenfeldRoxy Paine: Normal Fault
– By Gregory VolkRoxy Paine: Normal Fault
– By Jillian RussoPablo Bronstein: Hell in its Heyday
– By Maximiliane LeuschnerMetabolic Rift
– By Joel KuennenMyron Stout and Cycladic Art
– By Brandt JunceauSacred Spaces
– By Mary Ann CawsWilliam McKeown
– By Bryan MartinAlex Griffin: Passages
– By Jennifer Rose Bonilla-EdgingtonGeorge Rickey: Monumental Sculpture on Park Avenue
– By Irene Lyla LeeKandis Williams: A Line
– By Charlene K. LauMyeongsoo Kim and Cy Morgan: Classical Mechanics
– By Amanda Millet-SorsaDorothea Rockburne: Giotto’s Angels and Knots
– By Charles SchultzJohn Coplans: La Vie des Formes
– By Alessandro MerolaAmbrose Rhapsody Murray: Within Listening Distance of the Sea…
– By Charles MooreMother and Child
– By Ekalan HouDifference Machines: Technology and Identity in Contemporary Art
– By Charlotte KentBaseera Khan: I Am an Archive
– By Adriana FurlongIn Support
– By Susan HarrisIsaac Julien: Lina Bo Bardi — Marvellous Entanglement
– By Osman Can YerebakanMike Shultis: Animal Crackers
– By Andrew Paul Woolbright
Books
Sequoia Nagamatsu with Kurt Baumeister
Kelly Grovier's On the Line: Conversations with Sean Scully
– By Charles SchultzAbdulrazak Gurnah’s Afterlives
– By John DominiHiromi Kawakami’s People From My Neighborhood and Sequoia Nagamatsu's How High We Go in the Dark
– By Yvonne C. GarrettRicky Tucker with Justin Sherwood
Shannon K. Winston ’s The Girl Who Talked to Paintings
– By Amanda AuerbachSarah Schulman with Pac Pobric
Bob Keyes’s The Isolation Artist
– By Roger ConoverHoa Nguyen’s A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure
– By Alan GilbertRicardo Wilson’s An Apparent Horizon and Other Stories
– By Andrew GoriEmily Rapp Black with Claire Phillips
– By Claire PhillipsDonna Schaper’s Remove the Pews
– By Rochelle StackhouseSunnylyn Thibodeaux’s The World Exactly
– By Neeli CherkovskiCliff Fyman’s Taxi Night
– By Jim Cohn“A running leap at the song”
– By Michael CavutoReturning: Hank Lazer’s field recordings of mind in morning
– By Joel Chace
Music
Sex, Night
– By Adolf AlzupharLea Bertucci, Christuskirche, Cologne
– By Martin Longley“Trust The Funk”
– By George GrellaGone Global
– By Scott Gutterman
Dance
The Fascist Turn and Dance
– By Tanya Jayani FernandoSo You Think You Can’t Dance?
– By Christopher AtamianRousing the Beast
– By Mike Stinavage
Film
Mohammad Reza Aslani with Forrest Cardamenis
All Too Hip, Not Too Jewish: Jake Kasdan’s The TV Set at 15 Years
– By Annie BerkeThe 16th Cyprus International Film Festival
– By Harrison BlackmanWes Anderson’s The French Dispatch
– By Edward MendezIbrahim Mursal’s The Art of Sin
– By Farah Abdessamad
Theater
SIOBHANS’ WHEEL WORLD
– By Erin Markey
Fiction
from A Dream Life
– By Claire Messudfrom God of Mercy
– By Okezie Nwọka
Art Books
20 Best Art Books of 2021
On Edward Hicks
– By Brandt JunceauBruce Nauman's Spatial Encounters
– By Charles SchultzDara Birnbaum’s Note(s): Work(ing) Process(es) Re: Concerns (That Take On/Deal With)
– By Jennie WaldowRichard Kraft’s It Is What It Is: All the Cards Issued to Donald Trump, January 2017 - January 2021
– By Leah OllmanPope.L, My Kingdom for a Title
– By Erica N. CardwellPaolo Javier’s O.B.B. a.k.a. The Original Brown Boy
– By Megan N. LibertyGregg Bordowitz’s Some Styles of Masculinity
– By Nick Bennett
ArTonic
The Dedalus Foundation
– By Phyllis Tuchman
In Memoriam
Bob Thompson
– By Jonathan Fineberg
Special Report
Beyond Blame: An Essay/Prayer for Alec Baldwin
– By Rev. Dr. Donna Schaper
Field Notes
Manifesto: No Evictions!
– By Brooklyn Eviction Defense“Striketober”: Hopes and Realities
– By Marianne Garneau“Striketober” and Labor’s Long Downturn
– By Jason E. SmithCapitalism, Rationality, and Steven Pinker
– By Omar HernandezAt the Origins of Treason to the White Race
– By Ferruccio Gambino
The Miraculous
81. Queens
– By Raphael Rubinstein82. Fifth Avenue
– By Raphael Rubinstein83. 40 Wooster Street
– By Raphael Rubinstein84. Bond Street
– By Raphael Rubinstein85. A Rooftop in SoHo
– By Raphael Rubinstein