April 2023
Featuring interviews with Julian Charrière, Aria Dean, Matt Mullican, Liliane Tomasko, and Sumayya Vally & Aya Al-Bakree. Guest Critic Chime Lama: Four Straight Hours of Joy.
The “April 2023” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on March 29, 2023.
Critics Page
Four Straight Hours of Joy
– By Chime LamaEphemeral/Ever-Present
– By Tsering Yangzom LamaLhamo
– By YESH and YanlingMillefleurs
– By Madeline GilmoreRejoicing in Reciprocity
– By Tashi Dekyid MonetDesire, Joy, and Sadness in Spinoza’s P18
– By S. YarberrySympathetic joy
– By Tsering Wangmo DhompaRhizomatic
– By Anastasia ClarkeRide Home
– By Yehui ZhaoInstructions: How to Find Joy When Lost
– By Cynthia Manickunpretentious things
– By Shelly Bhoilstep right up
– By Sheila MaldonadoLhasa City Series
– By Droma YangzomReflections on Gratitude
– By Karma Lekshe Tsomo
Publisher's Message
Dear Friends and Readers
– By Phong H. Bui
ArtSeen
Red, White, Yellow, and Black: 1972–73
– By Cassie PackardMarie Watt: Singing Everything
– By Vittoria BenzineJosephine Halvorson: Unforgotten
– By Ksenia M. SobolevaJohn Tursi: New Works
– By Andrew Paul WoolbrightRobert Swain: The Perception of Color
– By Alfred Mac AdamMichael Queenland: Rudy’s Ramp of Remainders Redux
– By Toby KampsComparative Hell: Arts of Asian Underworlds
– By Ann McCoyUta Barth
– By Jessica HolmesGabriela Vainsencher: Epic, Heroic, Ordinary
– By Christopher T. RichardsMona Hatoum: all of a quiver
– By Jake RommTed Thirlby: Regeneration
– By Joyce BeckensteinSusan Bee: Apocalypses, Fables, and Reveries: New Paintings
– By Irene Lyla LeeJR: Les Enfants d'Ouranos
– By Jonathan GoodmanPat Adams: Large Paintings
– By Alfred Mac AdamLesia Khomenko: Full Scale
– By Annabel KeenanAngela Heisch: Low Speed Highs
– By Tennae MakiC. C. Wang: Lines of Abstraction
– By Leo YuanKenneth Noland: Stripes/Plaids/
Shapes– By Alex GrimleyMary Jones:
Les Problémes du Confort– By Tom McGlynnWill Bruno: Midnight River
– By Nicholas HeskesAnna Uddenberg: Continental Breakfast
– By Hannah Sage KayThérèse Mulgrew: Room 126
– By Madison FordRichard Tuttle: 18x24
– By Susan HarrisChih-Chien Wang: A Bright Circle
– By Marc MayerLoriel Beltrán: Calor y Color
– By Clara Maria ApostolatosVermeer
– By Joyce BeckensteinBispo do Rosário: All Existing Materials on Earth
– By Clara Maria ApostolatosBody and Territory
– By David CarrierSean Scully: The Passenger
– By David CarrierPhotography Then
– By Clyde NicholsLarry Poons: The Outerlands
– By David EbonyNo existe un mundo poshuracán
– By Davida Fernández-BarkanLyle Ashton Harris: Our first and last love
– By Leah Triplett HarringtonMike Nelson: Extinction Beckons
– By Toby KampsAnn Craven: Twelve Moons
– By Greg LindquistSignals: How Video Transformed the World
– By Barbara LondonMartin Kippenberger: Paintings 1984–1996
– By Alfred Mac AdamJane Freilicher: Abstractions
– By Alfred Mac AdamFresh, Fly, and Fabulous: Fifty Years of Hip Hop Style
– By AJ MorrisPaul Mogensen: Paintings: 1965-2022
– By David RhodesDario Escobar: Encrypted Messages
– By Rebecca Schiffmanpeter campus: meditations
– By Rebecca SchiffmanTony Cragg: Sculptures and Works on Paper
– By Phyllis TuchmanSophia Narrett: Carried by Wonder
– By Andrew Paul WoolbrightMinerva Cuevas: In Gods We Trust
– By Hovey BrockChris Burden: Cross Communication
– By Cal McKeeverKP Brehmer: World in Mind
– By Saul Ostrowpeter campus: meditations
– By Hearne Pardee
1×1
On Gentile da Fabriano
– By Jorja Rae Willis
Books
Kelly Link's White Cat, Black Dog
– By Yvonne C. GarrettSoraya Palmer's The Human Origins of Beatrice Porter, and Other Essential Ghosts
– By John DominiIstvan Kantor's Hero in Art: The Vanished Traces of Richard Hambleton
– By Ed HamiltonJohn Cotter with Kathleen Rooney
Suzaan Boettger's Inside the Spiral
– By Joseph MasheckAnn Lauterbach's Door
– By Charles SchultzHarry Smith: American Magus
– By Tamas Panitz
Music
Life on the Contingency Plan
– By George GrellaLa Tène And Their Relentlessly Cyclic Drone-Folk Repetitions
– By Martin LongleyAmbient Awareness
– By Scott Gutterman
Dance
WORKSession in Four Walls
– By Karen HildebrandDisorientation in Água
– By Elinor KrichmarBlackbare in the Basement
– By Tess MichaelsonRube G.—The Consequence of Action
– By Hallie ChametzkyJudo and Balance and Imbalance
– By Jen C. George
Film
Fox Maxy’s Gush and Maat
– By Edward FrumkinDaniel Antebi’s God’s Time
– By Nolan KellyCauleen Smith with akané okoshi
Dziga Vertov and the Kino-Eye
– By Jake Romm
Poetry
Facts of Winter
– By Eugene Ostashevskytwo
– By Zachary LaMalfasix
– By John Yaunine
– By Michael Kellehertwo
– By Farnoosh Fathisix
– By Suzanne Goldenbergthree
– By Sahar Romanifrom The Ones Who Listen (Book One of the Cywanu Trilogy)
– By Whit Griffin
Art Books
Kimowan Metchewais: A Kind of Prayer
– By Maymanah FarhatElisabeth Smolarz's The Encyclopedia of Things
– By Sarah MorozMindy Seu's Cyberfeminism Index
– By Jenny WuBarbara T. Smith's The Way to Be
– By Megan N. LibertyBrian Dillon's Affinities: On Art and Fascination
– By Mary Ann Caws
In Memoriam
A Tribute to William Graham Anthony
– By Dore Bowen
Field Notes
Letter From Paris
–Under the Mask of Philanthropy: Michael Barker with Jarrod Shanahan
– By Jarrod ShanahanWho’s Counting? How McKinsey Hyped California’s Housing Crisis
– By Zelda BronsteinCommitted to the Flames
– By Joe Lombardo
Art and Technology
Art’s Intelligence: AI and Human Systems
– By Charlotte Kent