February 2024
Featuring interviews with Christopher Rothko, Paul Pfeiffer, Kyungmi Shin, and James Welling. Guest Critic Ksenia M. Soboleva: “Captives of Heartbr(ache).”
The “February 2024” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on January 31, 2024.
Publisher's Message
Dear Friends and Readers
– By Phong H. Bui
Critics Page
Captives of Heartbr(ache)
– By Ksenia M. SobolevaBorderlands
– By Andrea GeyerKnotted Lives
– By Cassie PackardUntitled (M4U: The Eulogists)
– By Elliott Jerome Brown Jr.Wasn’t there always a war?
– By Gala MukomolovaDear Lina,
– By Jill H. CasidThat body of (a reflection of the sky)
– By Le’Andra LeSeurSlow Abandon
– By Mev LunaInsufficient Memory
– By Sean FaderA White Rose in a Mirror of Silver
– By Rachel SternNancy Brooks Brody
– By fierce pussyThe ant
– By Timmy StrawComplicity #1
– By Wendy Lotterman
ArtSeen
James Welling: Thought Objects
– By Michael ShorrisGeorge Rickey: Wall Reliefs
and Mark Yang: Birth– By Mary Ann CawsTamara Gonzales: Amplifiers
– By Charles SchultzFaith Ringgold: American People
– By Chenoa BakerDaniel Guzmán: the man who should be dead: notes on the dead house, the fire and the tale
– By Nicholas HeskesRaphaela Vogel: In The Expanded Penalty Box: Did You Happen to See the Most Beautiful Fox?
– By Cassie PackardSarah Rosalena: In All Directions
– By Lindsay CaplanJohn Hoyland: Thresholds: Paintings 1965-1970
– By Alex GrimleyRichard Artschwager: Boxed In
Celebrating the Artist’s Centennial– By Alfred Mac AdamChicago Architectural Biennial 5: This is a Rehearsal
– By Pia SinghAstrid Klein
– By Amanda GluibizziMary Lucier: Leaving Earth
– By Hearne PardeeHana Yilma Godine: A Brush in the Universe
– By Annabel KeenanBonnie Lucas: Small Worlds
– By Vittoria BenzineSimon Hantaï: Unfolding
– By Tom McGlynnTouch Nature
– By Ekin ErkanMarking Resilience: Indigenous North American Prints
– By Davida Fernández-BarkanEdward Hopper as Puritan
– By Alex GrimleyTania Ximena: Río de Niebla, Río de Adobe, Río de Sangre
– By fernanda ramos menaEddie Martinez: Wavelengths
– By Barbara A. MacAdamSimon Hantaï: Unfolding
– By David RhodesFort Marion and Beyond: Native American Ledger Drawings, 1865-1900
– By Susan HarrisEJ Hauser: Grow Room
– By Charles SchultzLouis Osmosis: Queues
– By Tom McGlynnJoão Maria Gusmão: Animal Farm
– By Ginevra de BlasioJoão Maria Gusmão: Animal Farm
– By Laura ValenzaEd Ruscha: Works on Paper
– By Ekin ErkanStephen Antonakos: Neon and Geometry
– By Vincent KatzTrespassers: James Prosek and the Texas Prairie
– By Andrew Paul WoolbrightMark Rothko: Paintings on Paper
– By Amanda Millet-SorsaAmy Butowicz: Rapture in the Fold
– By Elizabeth BuheLois Dodd: Outside In
– By Louis BlockAbstract Flash: Unseen Andrew Wyeth
– By James WellingSaul Leiter: Centennial
– By Michael ShorrisSandra Cinto: May I Know How to be the Sun on Cloudy Days
– By Annabel KeenanSuneil Sanzgiri: Here the Earth Grows Gold
– By Dina A. RamadanAsh Arder: Flesh Tones
– By Steve PantonEileen Agar: Flowering of a Wing, Works: 1936–1989
– By Ann C. CollinsCarey Young: Appearance
– By William CorwinJulian Charrière: Buried Sunshine
– By Ekin ErkanThis Isn’t Who It Would Be, If It Wasn’t Who It Is
– By Alfred Mac AdamYoonhee Ryoony Suh: Memory Gap
– By Jessica HolmesLeon Polk Smith: 1940–1961
– By Tom McGlynnRobert Grosvenor
– By William CorwinDavid Rhodes: Aletheia
– By Saul OstrowJohn O’Connor: Man Bites Dog Bites Man
– By Andrew Paul WoolbrightStanley Whitney: Dear Paris
– By Jacob Bromberg
Books
Tyriek White with Elizabeth Lothian and Joseph Salvatore
Maria Hummel’s Goldenseal: A Novel
– By Yvonne C. GarrettTony Leuzzi’s Fog Notes: Poems
– By Lytton SmithMike McCormack with Tadhg Hoey
Nina MacLaughlin’s Winter Solstice
– By Olivia Kate CerroneRichard Shiff’s Jack Whitten: Cosmic Soul
– By Tom McGlynnİnci Atrek with Amy Omar
Megan Nolan’s Ordinary Human Failings
– By Meghan RacklinSheila Heti’s Alphabetical Diaries
– By Loré YessuffKaveh Akbar’s Martyr! A Novel
– By Mandana ChaffaShoji Morimoto’s Rental Person Who Does Nothing
– By Naomi EliasFourteen Days: A Collaborative Novel
– By Yvonne C. GarrettIsabel Waidner’s Corey Fah Does Social Mobility
– By John DominiMegan Nolan’s Ordinary Human Failings
– By Tom DeignanAnne Carson’s Wrong Norma
– By Amber SparksEileen Myles’s a “Working Life”
– By Camille RoyJeffrey Grunthaner with Ben Tripp
Music
The Notebooks of Sonny Rollins
– By George GrellaSoundtrack To Disasters
– By Andrey HenkinTraces
– By Adolf AlzupharShimmers in the Void
– By Scott Gutterman
Dance
Monsters Under the Bed
– By Karen HildebrandDebating French Dance
– By Nell Breyer and Emily CoatesAiley’s Future Leans Retro
– By Susan YungLigia Lewis with Amit Noy
Film
Mohamed Kordofani’s Goodbye Julia
– By Farah AbdessamadJustine Triet’s Anatomy of a Fall
– By Nat HartmanInter-Gulf War American Cinema
– By Anders J. LeeBlake Williams’s Laberint Sequences
– By Frank Falisi
Fiction
from We Are a Haunting
– By Tyriek Rashawn Whitefrom The House Of Plain Truth
– By Donna Hemans
Art Books
Always Reaching: The Selected Writings of Anne Truitt
– By Beryl GilothwestJay DeFeo: Photographic Work
– By Nate MickelsonCyrilla Mozenter and Philip Perkis’s ar
– By Nancy Romines WaltersStuff: Instead of a Memoir
– By Megan N. LibertyEthan Philbrick’s Group Works
– By Macaella Gray and Zoe Roden
Special Report
New Art Center CAHH opens in Valencia
– By Jurriaan BenschopA LETTER FROM VENICE
– By Kathy Brew
Field Notes
What is to be done?
– By Jared JosephThe dictatorship of the bosses
– By Omar HernandezUnderstanding Inflation: Paul Mattick with Friends of the Classless Society