May 2022
Featuring interviews with Charles Ray, Esteban Cabeza de Baca, Gary Simmons, and Louis Osmosis. Guest Critic Christine Kuan: “Wildness In Art: Freedom, Risk-Taking, and Artistic Expression.”
The “May 2022” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on May 4, 2022.
Publisher's Message
Dear Friends and Readers,
– By Phong H. Bui
ArtSeen
Michaël Borremans: The Acrobat
– By William CorwinJudith Linhares: Banshee Sunrise
– By Andrew Paul WoolbrightLucy Mullican: Sensed As Well As Seen
– By Clare GemimaClaire Sherman: Intuor
– By Barbara A. MacAdamThornton Willis: A Painting Survey, Six Decades:
1967–2017 – By Tom McGlynnNancy Evans: Moonshadow
– By Mary JonesOuattara Watts: Paintings
– By Andrew Paul WoolbrightJohn Divola: Swimming Drunk
– By Zach RitterMilano Chow: Prima Facie
– By Annabel KeenanJane Dickson: 99¢ Dreams
– By Brendan BurdzinskiWhitney Biennial 2022: Quiet as It's Kept
– By Charles SchultzLarry Day & Me
– By Joe FyfeBrad Kahlhamer: Swap Meet
– By Susan HarrisNora Turato: govern me harder
– By Maddie HamptonJonas Mekas: The Camera Was Always Running
– By Bryan MartinRemaking the Exceptional: Tea, Torture, & Reparations | Chicago to Guantánamo
– By Luke A. FidlerPompeii in Color: The Life of Roman Painting
– By Ann McCoyWillie Birch: Chronicling Our Lives: 1987–2021
– By Amanda Millet-SorsaJoan Mitchell
– By Barry NemettJamel Shabazz: Eyes on the Street
– By Michael ShorrisMarcia Resnick: As It Is or Could Be
– By Ksenia M. SobolevaGarmenting: Costume as Contemporary Art
– By Kathy BattistaWarren Rohrer
– By David CarrierRussell Maltz: Painted / Stacked / Site
– By William CorwinThomas Woodruff: Resurrection
– By David EbonyCameron Martin: Parts to Whole
– By Greg LindquistRobert Irwin: New Work
– By Robert C. MorganCarrie Moyer: Morphologies
– By Andrew L. SheaHow to Get Free of the Rectangle
– By Louis BlockHale Woodruff: The Amistad Murals
– By Daniel FullerHana Yilma Godine: Substance in Ethiopia
– By Charles MooreNancy Graves: Synecdoche II
– By Elizabeth Johnson
Critics Page
Rewildings
– By Vijay IyerInterspecies Efforts at Close Reading
– By Kameelah Janan RasheedJordan Weber with Christine Kuan
Carmelita Tropicana with Ela Troyano
Viva Ruiz with Aliza Shvarts
I WANT TO BE AN UGLY AMERICAN*
– By Kristina WongCultivating Wildness: Supporting the Creativity of Artists
– By Yayoi ShionoiriArt as Public Service
– By Bayeté Ross SmithThree
– By Laurie Sheck
Books
Debra Bricker Balken’s Harold Rosenberg: A Critic’s Life
– By David CarrierDaniel H. Turtel's Greetings from Asbury Park
– By Jon UdelsonIan MacAllen's Red Sauce
– By Sanya KhuranaIda Jessen’s A Postcard for Annie
– By Carissa ChesanekClaire Kohda’s Woman, Eating
– By Yvonne C. GarrettMegan Mayhew Bergman’s How Strange a Season: Fiction
– By Joseph PeschelMike Davis with Pac Pobric
– By Pac PobricJordan A. Rothacker with Tobias Carroll
Aaron Angello’s The Fact of Memory
Sasha Stiles’s Technelegy
– By Charlotte KentThe Biography of a Great Poetry
– By Ron HorningGregory Corso’s The Golden Dot: Last Poems, 1997–2000
– By Charles SteinAda Limón’s The Hurting Kind
– By Forrest GanderFrom the City of Angels to the City of Poets
– By Neeli Cherkovski
Music
John Zorn, Elbphilharmonie
– By Martin LongleyA Percussion Orgy in Tennessee
– By Walker MimmsDiary of a Mad Composer
– By George GrellaWorlds Collide
– By Scott Gutterman
Dance
May You Pay Attention
– By Hallie ChametzkyEndurance and Duality
– By Jen C. GeorgeYour Attention Please
– By Noa WeissEchoes of Lebanese Dance
– By Christopher Atamian
Film
Rhayne Vermette’s Ste. Anne
– By Pac PobricKinuyo Tanaka Retrospective
– By Ethan SpiglandThe Brooklyn Presence at SXSW
– By Nicky YeagerTayo Giwa’s The Sun Rises in the East
– By Akané OkoshiBerlinale Diary
– By Anthony Hawley
Fiction
A Midcentury Man
– By Barbara MillerFrom Salka Valka
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Poetry
four
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– By Diana Rickardthree
– By Ama Birchfrom Translation of Lillies
– By Laynie BrowneEnemy
–seven
– By Graham FoustA Selection of Drain Poems
– By Ken L. Walker
Art Books
Jordan Stein’s Rip Tales: Jay DeFeo’s Estocada & Other Pieces
– By Maymanah FarhatChloe Sells’s Hot Damn!
– By Sarah MorozZoe Leonard’s Al río / To the River
– By Jennie WaldowWolf Tones
– By Ann C. Collins
Field Notes
Between a Rock and a Hard Place
– By Rona LorimerWar, Nationalism, and the Collective
– By Charles ReeveWhither the American Pastoral?
– By Joe LombardoFutures past
– By Ross Wolfe
The Miraculous
1. Munich, 1970
– By Raphael Rubinstein2. Los Angeles, 1969
– By Raphael Rubinstein3. New York, 2002
– By Raphael Rubinstein4. Provincetown, 1966
– By Raphael Rubinstein5. Weybridge, England 1968
– By Raphael Rubinstein