July/August 2023
Featuring interviews with Frank Bowling, Virginia Jaramillo, Sung Tieu, and Oscar yi Hou, and reflections on Philip Guston Now. Guest Critic Paul Ha: "Let's Keep in Touch."
The “July/August 2023” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on July 5, 2023.
Critics Page
Let’s Keep in Touch
– By Paul C. HaLet's Keep in Touch
Publisher's Message
Dear Friends and Readers,
– By Phong H. Bui
ArtSeen
Darrel Ellis: Regeneration
– By Ksenia M. SobolevaGiorgio de Chirico: Horses: The Death of a Rider
– By Ron HorningGego: Lines in Space
– By Irene Lyla LeeGary Simmons: Public Enemy
– By Hannah Sage KayEdvard Munch: Trembling Earth
– By David CarrierJennifer Marman & Daniel Borins: Balancing Act
– By Clare GemimaJonas Mekas, Open Archives
– By Caitlin AnklamA Greater Beauty: The Drawings of Kahlil Gibran
– By Ann McCoyManuel Alejandro Rodríguez-Delgado: Porvenir/Portátil
– By Hannah Sage KayChristina Quarles: Come In From An Endless Place
– By Patricia L LewySe Yoon Park: Roots and Wings
– By Leah Triplett HarringtonNjideka Akunyili Crosby: Coming Back to See Through, Again
– By Terry R. MyersRachel Stern: One Should Not Look at Anything
– By Olivia McCallA Dweller on Two Planets
– By Ann McCoyTorkwase Dyson: Closer (Bird and Lava)
– By Hearne PardeeKang Seok Ho: Deep is the rising sun, far is the falling one
– By Emily ChunPersiana Americana
– By David RhodesBeach
– By Jason RosenfeldSas Colby: Stamp Collecting
– By Megan N. LibertyCarlos Amorales: Words of Mouth and Hands
– By Alfred Mac AdamJonas Wood: Drawings 2003–2023
– By Ekin ErkanGuim Tió: Roots
– By Andrew Paul WoolbrightPeople of the Otherworld: Ken Kiff in Dialogue
– By Alfred Mac AdamMina Loy: Strangeness is Inevitable
– By Suzanne ZelazoElise Ansel: Sea Change
– By Alfred Mac AdamAlejandro Contreras: In Work We Trust ¡Chamo, ¿qué hiciste con el carro?!
– By Caitlin AnklamLavinia Fontana: Trailblazer, Rule Breaker
– By William DavieSong Dong: Round
– By Barbara LondonRachel Wolf: My My My Tintals and Fishscales
– By Andrew Paul WoolbrightDownbeat
– By Jonathan GoodmanPhilip Guston Now—A Personal Meditation
– By Phong H. BuiPhilip Guston Now
– By Barry SchwabskyRobert Motherwell: Pure Painting
– By Catherine CraftBoris Lurie & Wolf Vostell: Art After the Shoah
– By William CorwinAliza Nisenbaum: Queens Lindo y Querido
– By Jennifer FieldAmy Sillman: Temporary Object
– By Amanda GluibizziLuciano Fabro
– By Joseph MasheckCao Fei: Duotopia
– By Jane McFaddenSchema: World as Diagram
– By Cassie PackardMina Loy: Strangeness is Inevitable
– By Amy RahnJoel Kuennen: Planets are Slow Animals
– By Pia SinghGermaine Richier
– By Richard KalinaRoni Horn: A dream dreamt in a dreaming world is not really a dream ...but a dream not dreamt is.
– By Charles SchultzJaune Quick-to-See Smith: Memory Maps
– By Joanna SeifterVan Gogh’s Cypresses
– By Phyllis TuchmanCathy Josefowitz: Forever Young
– By Amanda Millet-SorsaDenzil Hurley: To be pained is to have lived through feeling
– By David RhodesDjamel Tatah: Solitary Figures
– By Robert C. MorganWorks on Paper: 100 Years
– By Alfred Mac AdamDaniel Lind-Ramos: El Viejo Griot—Una historia de todos nosotros
– By Zoë HopkinsDarrel Ellis: Regeneration
– By Megan N. LibertyLisa Yuskavage: Rendez-vous
– By Amanda GluibizziArthur Cohen: Ripped Terre Verte
– By Raphy SarkissianAnna-Eva Bergman: Voyage vers l'interieur
– By Rebecca SchiffmanRobert Hawkins: Dream Mine
– By Jessica Holmes
1×1
On Wendy Red Star
Peelatchiwaaxpáash/Medicine Crow (Raven), 2014
– By Sheilah ReStackPeelatchiwaaxpáash/Medicine Crow (Raven), 2014
– By Gina OsterlohMy Home is Where My Tipi Sits (Rez Cars), 2011
– By Rebecca BengalThe Last Thanks, 2006
– By Tiffany MidgeThe Indian Congress, 2021
– By Karen ChernickSweat Lodge, 2019
– By Eva DíazMonsters, 2019
– By Erica Levin“My Home is Where My Tipi Sits” (2011)
– By Christopher GreenPortrait of Perits-Har-Sts (Old Crow) and with His Wife, Ish-Ip-Chi-Wak-Pa-I-Chis (Good or Pretty Medicine Pipe), 2017
– By Susan HarrisAlaxchiiaahush/Many War Achievements/Plenty Coups, 2014
– By Zoë Hopkins
Books
Thomas Melle’s The World at My Back
– By Michael ShorrisAdam Shatz’s Writers and Missionaries
– By Michael ShorrisTessa Hadley's After the Funeral
– By Yvonne C. GarrettBeth Nguyen's Owner of a Lonely Heart
– By Mai TranKate Zambreno's The Light Room
– By Meghan RacklinJeff Dolven's * A New English Grammar
– By Peter SchmidtSarah Rose Etter's Ripe
– By Brianna Di MondaRodrigo Rey Rosa with Tobias Carroll
Ruth Madievsky’s All-Night Pharmacy
– By Madison FordShahd Alshammari's Head Above Water
– By Yvonne C. GarrettNicole Flattery's Nothing Special
– By Tom DeignanMaya Binyam's Hangman
– By Sarah An MyersJ.C. Hallman's Say Anarcha
– By John DominiEd O'Shea with Tony Leuzzi
Brandon Shimoda’s Hydra Medusa
– By Sean McCoy
Music
Xochiquetzal's Feast
– By Adolf AlzupharOluzayo: African Music Futures
– By Martin LongleyAlex Pappademas & Joan LeMay's Quantum Criminals
– By George GrellaFollow the Sun
– By Scott Gutterman
Dance
Yoshiko Chuma's Shockwave Delay
– By Karen HildebrandThe Potent Alchemy of Food
– By Susan YungIshmael Houston-Jones with Elinor Krichmar
Film
Eiichi Yamamoto’s Belladonna of Sadness
– By Payton McCarty-SimasShirin Neshat's Land of Dreams
– By Laura ValenzaDocumentary Feedback
– By Finn LeMaitreDjibril Diop Mambéty's Touki Bouki
– By Michael KolawoleCannes Roundup
– By Nolan Kelly
Theater
311, HOW MAY I ASSIST YOU?
– By Aya AzizJoseph Medeiros's Odyssey of the Self
– By Billy McEnteeThe Embrace at Faurschou
– By Billy McEntee
Fiction
from Pure Cosmos Club
– By Matthew Binderfrom Underjungle
– By James Sturz
Poetry
Executive summary [Satellite Flower Delivery - PollenStar XIV]
– By Judith Goldmanfive
– By Amanda Deutchfive
– By Charles NorthThree Cities
– By Oliver Raytwo
– By Susana Plotts-Pinedasix
– By Hannah Treasurethree
– By T.J. ClarkPierre Joris’s Interglacial Narrows and, with Florent Toniello, Always the Many, Never the One
– By Jason Weiss
Art Books
Derek Jarman's Blue
– By Nick BennettAlex Da Corte: Chicken
– By Jennie WaldowSun Ho Lee's
Is This a Typo?– By Karen GuZulfikar Ali Bhutto's ABJD and Tomorrow We Inherit the Earth
Christina Sharpe's Ordinary Notes
– By Erica N. Cardwell
Field Notes
Editor's Note
– By Paul MattickThe Economic Consequences of Neo-Keynesianism
– By Jamie Merchant
Art and Technology
Art and the State of Water
– By Charlotte Kent