November 2023
Featuring interviews with Tony Cokes, Liz Deschenes, Joel Meyerowitz, and Daniel Richter. Guest Critic Pamela M. Lee: “Martial Intimacies: The Gun and Everyday Militarism.”
The “November 2023” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on November 1, 2023.
Critics Page
Martial Intimacies: The Gun and Everyday Militarism
– By Pamela M. LeeTwo Observations on Early Origins of the Western: Pressure Studies
– By Lucy RavenStray Bullets
– By Tuan Andrew NguyenFortune and Fear: Samuel Colt's Revolver and Cyclical Violence
– By Joseph Mizhakii ZordanThe Armed Individual, Black Life, and the Race for New Social Worlds
– By Joshua Aiken¡WELCOME TO AMERICA!
– By Mary Ellen CarrollWHO IM FINNA TEACH WITH THEORY HOW NOT TO KILL ME?!
– By Tiona Nekkia McCloddenVisual Ballistics
– By Joan Kee
Publisher's Message
Dear Friends and Readers
– By Phong H. Bui
ArtSeen
Sean Scully: LA Deep
– By Terry R. MyersVaughn Spann: Trilogy
– By Alfred Mac AdamThe Taos Abstract Artist Collective
– By Jeremy ZilarDistortions: Moscow Conceptualists Working Today
– By David CarrierLaura Anderson Barbata: Singing Leaf
– By Ekin ErkanMarcus Jahmal: Interiors
– By Phong H. BuiFrans Hals
– By William DavieAnnesta Le: Eternal Current
– By David EbonyAllison Miller: World
– By D. Dominick LombardiAaron Curry
– By Jonathan GoodmanKaty Moran: How to paint like an athlete
– By Alfred Mac AdamCharles Traub: Skid Row
– By Saul OstrowDavid Novros: Wall Paintings
– By Alfred Mac AdamHeather Dewey-Hagborg: Hybrid: an Interspecies Opera
– By Laurel V. McLaughlinJessica Segall: Human Energy
– By Hearne PardeeTiziano 1508. Agli esordi di una luminosa carriera
– By David CarrierAli Banisadr: The Changing Past
– By Maximiliane LeuschnerDala Nasser: Adonis River
– By Elliot Josephine Leila ReichertAdriana Furlong: Hundreds Do Things
– By Qingyuan DengDon Eddy
– By Riad MiahMartyn Cross: All Shall Be Well
– By Ekin ErkanWave Pattern
– By Andrew Paul WoolbrightDavid Kettner: Selected Works, 1968-2023
– By Joe FyfeMatthias Weischer: Sequence
– By David EbonyGail Thacker: Midnight Call
– By Ksenia M. SobolevaMarie Laurencin: Sapphic Paris
– By Jonathan FinebergCildo Meireles: One and Some Chairs / Camouflages
– By Barbara A. MacAdamOsaretin Ugiagbe: A View from Amman
– By Alfred Mac AdamMarisol: A Retrospective
– By Jessica HolmesManet/Degas
– By David CarrierRichard McDonough: House Full of Time
– By Ann C. CollinsYonia Fain: Modern-ish: Yonia Fain and the Art History of Yiddishland
– By Nicholas HeskesChristian Walker: The Profane and the Poignant
– By William CorwinBarkley L. Hendricks: Portraits at the Frick
– By Zoë HopkinsDana James: Pearls & Potions
– By Annabel KeenanValerie Jaudon: Parameters
– By Alfred Mac AdamConnected Diaspora: U.S. Central American Visuality in the Age of Social Media
– By Beatriz Yanes MartinezHarry Smith: Fragments of a Faith Forgotten
– By Ann McCoyOut of Bounds: Japanese Women Artists in Fluxus
– By Jenny WuManet/Degas
– By Phyllis TuchmanEzra Tessler: Where the Stress Falls
– By Louis BlockRemedios Varo: Science Fictions
– By Debra Riley ParrTrude Viken: Night Crawlers
– By Charles SchultzRoy Lichtenstein: Bauhaus Stairway Mural
– By David WhelanDeborah Buck: Into the Wild: To Crash is Divine
– By Andrew Paul WoolbrightClimate Futurism
– By Alec TurnbullI See No Difference Between a Handshake and a Poem
– By Bruna ShapiraMan Ray: Other Objects
– By Charles StuckeyChloe Chiasson: Keep Left at the Fork
– By Madison FordMyrtle Williams: Spirit of the Sisterhood
– By Amanda GluibizziManet/Degas
– By Jason RosenfeldSam Gilliam: The Last Five Years
– By Alfred Mac AdamAndrew Ross: Bucket of Truth
– By William CorwinSean Scully: Jack the Wolf
– By Joachim Pissarro
Books
Our Strange World
– By Mandana ChaffaLouis Bury's The Way Things Go
– By Raphael RubinsteinJeremy T. Wilson with Christine Sneed
Shannon Sanders with Shannon Perri
Natasha Stagg with Joel Danilewitz
– By Joel DanilewitzMeg Kissinger's While You Were Out
– By Anson TongBeing and Loving: Talking about Life, Art, and Writing with Jarrett Earnest
– By Thyrza Nichols GoodeveNaomi Alderman's The Future
– By Yvonne C. GarrettJustin Torres's Blackouts
– By John DominiSigrid Nunez's The Vulnerables
– By Yvonne C. GarrettJames Kennedy with Kathleen Rooney
Yvonne Rainer's Parts of Some Sextets, 1965/2019
– By Cassie PackardNICE BOOK: On NICE NOSE by Buck Downs & The Poetry of Ephemera
– By Zack Pieper
Music
Ben Manley: Digital Thoreau
– By Ben GambuzzaBent Duo: Embodying Queer Sonics
– By John HastingsPhilip Ewell's On Music Theory, and Making Music More Welcoming for Everyone
– By George GrellaCrossing the Distance
– By Scott Gutterman
Dance
Queering a Canon
– By Candice ThompsonOnce the dust settles, flowers bloom
– By Nell BreyerOctober 11, 1948/2023
– By Caedra Scott-Flaherty
Film
Ana Mendieta and Cuban Cinema
– By Carly MattoxThien An Pham's Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell
– By Farah AbdessamadSebastián Silva's Rotting in the Sun
– By Joanna SeifterAlice Rohrwacher's La Chimera
– By Laura Valenza
Theater
At Soho Rep., a Jokey Vagina, Chatty Penis, and Future Beyond Both
– By Billy McEnteeStereophonic with Lily Goldberg
Listening to the Play: Arin Arbus on Directing Waiting for Godot
– By Paul David Young
Fiction
Sponger Money
– By Ethan KnowlesJungle Siren
– By Jade Leatham
Art Books
Matarile Ediciones with Zach Ritter
Joel Meyerowitz and Lorenzo Braca's The Pleasure of Seeing
– By Aaron M. CohenThe River Imp and the Stinky Jewel and Other Tales: Monster Comics from Edo Japan
– By Sara CenturyBringing Worlds Together: A Rethinking Residencies Reader
– By Jenny WuSurreal Spaces: The Life and Art of Leonora Carrington
– By Alice Godwin
Field Notes
Editor's Note
– By Paul MattickGermany at War
– By The Friends of the Classless Society“When We Win, We Lose:” The Story of a Run-Away Shop
– By Elizabeth HensonPhil Neel with Komite
The Miraculous
51. Early 20th Century, Tucumán, Argentina
– By Raphael Rubinstein52. 1950s, before and after; Tryon, North Carolina; Philadelphia; New York City; Carry-le-Rouet, France
– By Raphael Rubinstein53. 1960s and later, Panama City, New York City
– By Raphael Rubinstein54. 1957, Liverpool, England
– By Raphael Rubinstein55. 1966-1979, Houston, Texas; New York City; London; Leeds
– By Raphael Rubinstein
Art and Technology
Crisis, A Critical Imaginary
– By Charlotte Kent