June 2023
Featuring interviews with Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Mark Bradford, Fred Eversley, Gabriel Orozco, and Janne Sirén, and reflections on Philip Guston Now. Guest Critic Allison Glenn on "New Worlds."
The “June 2023” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on May 31, 2023.
Critics Page
New Worlds
– By Allison GlennGetting It Wrong
– By César García-AlvarezAn Immeasurable Melody
– By Nirbhai Singh SidhuDear Allison,
– By eunice bélidorAn Act of Futuring
– By James McAnallyIs our obsession with money a curse to humanity?
– By Phyllis HollisYou can't raise money in an environment of control
– By Melissa Cowley WolfThe Business of Art is the Business of People
– By Lise K. Ragbir and Julia V Hendrickson
Publisher's Message
Dear Friends and Readers
– By Phong H. Bui
ArtSeen
Alison Elizabeth Taylor
– By Jason RosenfeldEthan Ryman: New Work
– By Tom McGlynnIsaac Julien: What Freedom Is To Me
– By William CorwinHenry Gunderson: House Painting and Various Odd Jobs
– By Nicholas HeskesAnne Hicks Siberell: Concrete Journals
– By Megan N. LibertyJennifer Bolande: Persistence of Vision
– By Tim MaulChakaia Booker: Public Opinion
– By Alfred Mac AdamJim Dine: Three Ships
– By Alex GrimleyCourtney Childress: Fuzzy Logic
– By Elizabeth BuheThornton Dial: Handwriting on the Wall
– By Jane McFaddenBob Thompson
– By Katherine SiboniChosen Memories: Contemporary Latin American Art from the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Gift and Beyond
– By Clara Maria ApostolatosTessa Boffin: 1989—1993
– By Olivia McCallSarah Sze: Timelapse
– By Alfred Mac AdamMichael Ross: Time Repair
– By Rodrigo QuinteroHito Steyerl: Contemporary Cave Art
– By Matthew BiroGiovanni Bellini: Influences croisées
– By Joyce BeckensteinEmmanuel Louisnord Desir: Ashes of Zion
– By Andrew Paul WoolbrightLeon Xu: Empty Orchestra
– By Hindley WangTalia Levitt: Schmatta
– By Jason RosenfeldList Projects 26: Alison Nguyen
– By Tuong Linh DoStephen Deffet: Shadow Heir
– By Joanna SeifterHarmony Hammond: Accumulations
– By Ksenia M. SobolevaTom McGlynn: What Gives
– By Louis BlockJohn Walker: New Work
– By Amy RahnControlled Burnings: Hiller, Latham, Schneemann
– By Norman L KleeblattSamuel Ross: COARSE
– By Joel DanilewitzKim Young Won
– By Robert C. MorganClare Grill: At the Soft Stages
– By Elizabeth BuheMatthew Day Jackson: Against Nature
– By Andrew Paul WoolbrightPicasso Sculptor. Matter and Body
– By Phong H. BuiAndy Warhol: Thirty Are Better Than One
– By David EbonyFred Eversley: Cylindrical Lenses
– By Amanda GluibizziCarey Young: Appearance
– By Toby KampsPeter Halley: Paintings and Drawings, 1980–81
– By David WhelanOn-Site: Major Paintings by Rackstraw Downes & Stanley Lewis
– By Alfred Mac AdamKarin Davie: "To Boldly Go Where No Man's Gone Before"
– By Alfred Mac AdamChrysanne Stathacos: The Re-turn
– By Ann McCoyKehinde Wiley: HAVANA
– By Charles MooreChryssa: Chryssa & New York
– By David Charles ShufordDread Scott: Goddam
– By Ann C. CollinsFrank Stella: From the Studio
– By David CarrierAlexis Rockman: Melancolia
– By Jonathan GoodmanMark di Suvero: Steel Like Paper
– By Jessica HolmesDavid Henderson: Disturbances
– By Elizabeth JohnsonKay Sage and Yves Tanguy: Ring of Iron, Ring of Wool
– By Megan KincaidJosh Kline: Project for a New American Century
– By Saul OstrowKarl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty
– By Ruby RedstoneTim Brawner: Glad Tidings
– By Andrew Paul WoolbrightRF. Alvarez: Eros
– By Annabel Keenan
Books
J.C. Hallman with Lydia Moland
Domenico Starnone’s The House on Via Gemito
– By John DominiLorrie Moore’s I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home
– By Yvonne C. GarrettEmma Cline’s The Guest
– By Madeleine CrumGiada Scodellaro with Julia Brown
Brandon Taylor’s The Late Americans
– By Henry Hicks IVTembe Denton-Hurst with Naomi Elias
Greg Marshall’s Leg: The Story of a Limb and the Boy Who Grew from It
– By Sara PolskyHenry Hoke’s Open Throat
– By Meg WhitefordMark Wish and Elizabeth Coffey with D.Z. Stone
Dorothy Tse's Owlish
– By Andrew ErvinSophia Giovannitti's Working Girl: On Selling Art and Selling Sex
– By Cassie PackardHelen Schulman with Alexandra Kleeman
Donatien Grau’s De Civitate Angelorum
– By Jeffrey SpierStephanie McCarter with Tony Leuzzi
Adam Shatz with Pac Pobric
Lauren Rankin’s Bodies on the Line
– By Yvonne C. GarrettDale Herd’s Dreamland Court
– By Dale Martin SmithInterdiasporic Frequencies: Divya Victor & Ariel Resnikoff
Music
Henry Threadgill and Brent Hayes Edwards’s Easily Slip Into Another World: A Life in Music
– By George GrellaCastrator with Andrey Henkin
BRDCST
– By Martin LongleyJust Folk
– By Scott Gutterman
Dance
Voicing Together
– By Hallie ChametzkyChris Masters and Eva Yaa Asantewaa with Karen Hildebrand
I was sitting in my seat when I saw a sensation
– By Amit NoyIntimacy from a Distance
– By Susan YungSydnie Mosley with Siobhan Burke
Film
Youssef Chebbi’s Ashkal
– By Farah AbdessamadAmanda Kim’s Nam June Paik: Moon is the Oldest TV
– By Maya HanCristian Mungiu’s R.M.N.
– By Nolan Kelly“Anna” in Literature and Film
– By Ana VidalAri Aster’s Beau Is Afraid
– By Payton McCarty-SimasGiacomo Abbruzzese’s Disco Boy
– By Anthony Hawley
Theater
dots is Everywhere: Meet the Design Triumvirate Devising a New Model
– By Joey SimsBrittain Ashford with Charles Quittner
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's The Comeuppance Goes Where Only Fools Dare: The High School Reunion
– By Paul David YoungAt Paper Mill, Rent Honors a Lost Generation and City
– By Billy McEnteeCheck into Grief Hotel: Wading through Woe with Liza Birkenmeier’s Latest
– By Billy McEntee
Fiction
Notifications
– By Lincoln Michelfrom The God of Good Looks
– By Breanne Mc Ivor
Poetry
ARTUR SCHNABEL AND JOSEPH SZIGETI PLAY MOZART AT THE FRICK COLLECTION (APRIL 4, 1948)
– By Lloyd Schwartzthree
– By Ariel Yelensix
– By Will StanierAlphabet as letters
– By Rachel Blau DuPlessisThe Rate At Which
– By Jaylen StrongTrans Genital Mutilation
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SRS in Five Easy Steps– By Dahlia Damoisellefive
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Art Books
Claire Dederer's Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
– By Cynthia PayneHelen Cammock's I Will Keep My Soul
– By Briana Ellis-GibbsLucy Lippard's I See / You Mean
– By Rhiannon VoglSteve Lawrence's Newspaper
– By Noa WesleyHidden in Plain Sight: Selected Writings of Karin Higa
– By Yuki HigashinoSusanna Heller's Beyond Pain, The Last Drawings
– By Mira Schor
In Memoriam
Bernice Berend Rose
– By Eileen Costello
ArTonic
Artist as Thinker: The Camargo Foundation
– By Amanda Millet-Sorsa
Field Notes
The Angel and the Mole: On the Struggle for the Atlanta Forest
– By Darien AceroDeeds and Propaganda
– By Jasper BernesThe New ‘Old’ Unionism: The Strike Campaign at Rutgers University
– By Gary RothNudging toward Bethlehem
– By Akshay Pendyal