SEPT 2023 – The Brooklyn Rail

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Editor's Message

Art Law & Art and the Law: A Dialogue Across Disciplines
– By Yayoi Shionoiri

Publisher's Message

Dear Friends and Readers
– By Phong Bui

Art

ArtSeen

Ed Clark: The Big Sweep
– By Charles Moore
To Bend the Ear of the Outer World: Conversations on contemporary abstract painting
– By Raphy Sarkissian
Melike Kara: Emine’s Garden
– By William Corwin
Precious Okoyomon: the sun eats her children
– By Osman Can Yerebakan
Ay-Ō’s Happy Rainbow Hell
– By Mark Bloch
Cecilia Vicuña: Sonoran Quipu
– By Matthew Erickson
Jeff Weber: Image Storage Containers
– By Hannah Sage Kay
Gary Gissler: there there
– By Hovey Brock
Anousha Payne: Tender Mooring
– By Chloe Stagaman
Siri Berg: The Kabbalah Paintings from the 1980s
– By David Rhodes
Guillermo Garcia Cruz: SCREEN I
– By Charles Moore
Blythe Bohnen: Process is Life
– By Irene Lyla Lee
Light from Water: Heidi Howard & Esteban Cabeza de Baca, with Liz Phillips
– By Elizabeth Buhe
Daniel Ramos: Eres Muy Hermosa
– By Davida Fernández-Barkan
Judy Fox: Harvest
– By Jonathan Goodman
Noël Dolla: Tulle/Dye, 1969-2023
– By Saul Ostrow
Elle Pérez: guabancex
– By Zach Ritter
Jane Wilson: Atmospheres
– By Joanna Seifter
Robert Motherwell: Pure Painting
– By Phong Bui
Barbara Friedman: The Hysterical Sublime
– By Louis Block
Doris Salcedo
– By William Corwin
Ryan Patrick Krueger: Documents from the Closet
– By Joel Danilewitz
Frances Brady: Much More Together
– By Qingyuan Deng
Maureen Dougherty: Borrowed Time
– By Ekin Erkan
Many Wests: Artists Shape an American Idea
– By Davida Fernández-Barkan
Projects: Dineo Seshee Bopape
– By Stefanie Qaba Jason
Julie DeVries: Survival Moments
– By Alex Grimley
Kathy Ruttenberg: Twilight in the Garden of Hope
– By Alex A. Jones
Raven Halfmoon: Flags of Our Mothers
– By Annabel Keenan
Musical Thinking: New Video Art and Sonic Strategies
– By Charlotte Kent
James Brooks: A Painting Is a Real Thing
– By Barbara A. MacAdam
Francine Tint:The Sky is a Mirror
– By Robert C. Morgan
Joseph Grigely: In What Way Wham? (White Noise and Other Works, 1996–2023)
– By Saul Ostrow
Into the Brightness: Artists from Creativity Explored, Creative Growth and NIAD
– By Pepper Stetler
Bridget Riley Drawings: From the Artist’s Studio
– By Saul Ostrow
Oneness: Nature & Connectivity in Chinese Art
– By Hindley Wang
Bridget Riley Drawings: From the Artist’s Studio
– By David Rhodes
Songs of the Horizon: David Smith, Music and Dance
– By Anne Thompson
Ceija Stojka: What Should I be Afraid of?
– By Rebecca Schiffman
Cyle Warner: Weh Dem? De Sparrow Catcher?
– By Vittoria Benzine

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Meeka Walsh on Mel Bochner

Critics Page

The Seduction of Systems: A Conversation with Jill Magid
Public Art as Political Bargaining Chip: When Site-Specificity is Both Potent and Powerless
– By Megan Noh
Empowering Creative Uses of Nonprofit Legal Structures
– By Melissa Passman
Singapore and the Region: State of Art Law or Art Law of the State?
– By Ryan Su
Slowed Citizens
– By Alchemyverse
Artist Worlds and Indigenous Cultures: How Expanding Notions of Intellectual Property are Changing the Game
– By Alana Kushnir
Passive Acceptance and Our (Dis)Consent
– By Roopa Vasudevan
Establishing New Paradigms Through Contract
– By Sarah Conley Odenkirk
Jonas Lund

Books

A.V. Marraccini’s We the Parasites
– By Chris Campanioni
Kevin Carey’s Junior Miles and the Junkman
– By Heather Wright
José Olivarez’s Promises of Gold/Promesas de oro
– By Chris Campanioni
Kevin Carey’s Junior Miles and the Junkman
– By Carissa Chesanek
Khaled Khalifa’s No One Prayed Over Their Graves
– By John Domini
Brendan Shay Basham with J.C. Hallman
James Reich with D. Harlan Wilson
Anne Serre’s A Leopard-Skin Hat
– By Meghan Racklin
Jenn Shapland’s Thin Skin
– By Emma R. Cohen
Caleb Azumah Nelson’s Small Worlds
– By Dan Kubis
Olga Ravn’s My Work
– By Amber Sparks
Sheena Patel’s I’m a Fan
– By Melissa Holbrook Pierson
Richard Hell’s What Just Happened
– By Raphael Rubinstein
Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s Silver Nitrate and Brenda Lozano’s Witches
– By Yvonne C. Garrett

Music

Jazz em Agosto
– By Martin Longley
Generations
– By George Grella
Forged In Heaven
– By Andrey Henkin
Sound Inheritance
– By Scott Gutterman

Dance

In The Room
– By Nora Raine Thompson
Marina Harss with Susan Yung

Film

TV220
– By Jane Freiman
Carlos Conceição’s Tommy Guns
– By Edward Frumkin
Fifty Years Later—Chilean Cinema Before the Coup
– By Jaime Grijalba
Michael Snow: A Life Survey (1955–2020)
– By Troy Sherman
K.D. Davison’s Fragments of Paradise
– By Jasmine Liu

Theater

9 Kinds of Silence Targets the Omnipresent Hum of Nationalism
– By Billy McEntee
Josiah Davis with Emma Horwitz
Worlds Apart on a Shared Stage: The Lost Connections in Hansol Jung’s Plays
– By Kally Patz
Victoria Detres and Helen Park with Marcus Scott

Fiction

The Year of the Self
– By Cortez
Matulai, the South Wind
– By José Eduardo Agualusa, trans. by Daniel Hahn
June Notebook
– By Daniel Poppick

Poetry

five
– By Brian Teare
five
– By Rae Armantrout
THREE POEMS
– By Simon Pettet
three
– By Elena Alexander
three
– By Ron Horning
from Aquarius
– By Sophia Terazawa
nine
– By John Godfrey
from Fresh Pond Road
– By Ama Birch
Metaphor
– By James Sherry
4+7 Tecs
– By Roberto Harrison

Art Books

Francesca Woodman’s The Artist’s Books
– By Karen Chernick
Trinh T. Minh-ha’s The Twofold Commitment
– By Re'al Christian
Francis Picabia: Catalogue Raisonné Volume IV
– By Parker Field
Oliver Husain and Kerstin Schroedinger’s DNCB–A History of Irritation
– By Daniella Sanader
Mina Loy: Strangeness Is Inevitable
– By Kate Silzer
Remedios Varo: Science Fictions
– By Mary Ann Caws

Special Report

Time Gravity–2023 Chengdu Biennale
– By Natalia Gierowska
Saturday Around Sara D. Roosevelt
– By Oliver Katz

Field Notes

France: A Movement Ends, An Explosion of Rage
– By Charles Reeve
Why a Recession Might Not be Such a Bad Thing: Considerations on a “Hard Landing”
– By Jose A. Tapia
Legacy Admissions and The Myth of Social Mobility
– By Adam Theron-Lee Rensch
Optical Collusion: The Underpolitics of the Alien
– By Scott W. Schwartz

The Miraculous

41. 1972–74, Akron, Ohio; London
– By Raphael Rubinstein
42. Sometime in the 1980s, London
– By Raphael Rubinstein
43. 1960, Los Angeles
– By Raphael Rubinstein
44. 1960, Bad Nauheim, Germany; New York City
– By Raphael Rubinstein
45. 1897–98, Naples, Italy
– By Raphael Rubinstein

Art and Technology

The Play’s the Thing
– By Charlotte Kent and Nancy Baker Cahill

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