The Brooklyn Rail

Table of Contents

Editor's Message

• On Edge(s)

  – By Amanda Gluibizzi

Publisher's Message

• Dear Friends and Readers,

  – By Phong Bui

Art

• GINA BEAVERS with EJ Hauser

• MICHAEL JOO with Amanda Gluibizzi

• ERIK LINDMAN with Louis Block

• ODILI DONALD ODITA with Tom McGlynn

• RICHARD SHIFF with Jessamine Batario

ArtSeen

• Between the Lines

  – By Bruna Shapira

• Gayleen Aiken: Interiors

  – By Lyle Rexer

• Andrew Lyght: Second Nature

  – By Barbara Rose

• Ficre Ghebreyesus: Gate to the Blue

  – By Tausif Noor

• Gedi Sibony: The Terrace Theatre

  – By Blake Oetting

• Adrián Villar Rojas: La fin de l’imagination

  – By Alexis Dahan

• Park Kyung Ryul: Tense

  – By Jonathan Goodman

• C.T. McClusky: Circus Surreal

  – By Josephine Zarkovich

• Harold Ancart: Traveling Light

  – By Susan Harris

• Julian Schnabel: The Sad Lament of the Brave, Let the Wind Speak and Other Paintings

  – By David Rhodes

• Melissa Vogley Woods

  – By Jo-ey Tang

• Taney Roniger: Never The Same River

  – By Mary Jones

• Peter Doig

  – By Terry R. Myers

• Toyin Ojih Odutola: Tell Me A Story, I Don’t Care If It’s True

  – By Amber Jamilla Musser

• Grayson Cox and Joan Waltemath: Apparatus

  – By Cigdem Asatekin

• An-My Lê: On Contested Terrain

  – By Louis Block

• Suzan Frecon & Patricia Treib

  – By Louis Block

• Luchita Hurtado: Together Forever

  – By Susan Breyer

• Lily Stockman: Seed, Stone, Mirror, Match

  – By Elizabeth Buhe

• Joan Snyder: The Summer Becomes a Room

  – By William Corwin

• Lauretta Vinciarelli: Intimate Distances

  – By William Corwin

• Duke Riley: Welcome Back to Wasteland Fishing

  – By Will Fenstermaker

• Léonie Guyer and Rebeca Bollinger: Threshold

  – By Hannah Maier-Katkin

• Claudia Hart: The Ruins

  – By Charlotte Kent

• Jesse Chun: SULLAE 술래

  – By Diana Seo Hyung Lee

• Suzan Frecon: oil paintings

  – By Alfred Mac Adam

• Joanna Pousette-Dart: Floating World

  – By Tom McGlynn

• Ferrari Sheppard: Heroines of Innocence

  – By Yxta Maya Murray

• Alvin Armstrong: This Place Looks Different

  – By Amber Officer-Narvasa

• Joiri Minaya: I’m here to entertain you, but only during my shift

  – By Rachel Remick

• Jim Shaw: Dad’s Drawings

  – By Lyle Rexer

• Will Ryman: Dinner III

  – By David Rhodes

• Andy Goldsworthy: Red Flags

  – By Jason Rosenfeld

• David Shrigley: DO NOT TOUCH THE WORMS

  – By Claire Phillips

• Berlin Biennial 11: The Crack Begins Within

  – By Gillian Sneed

• Silky Shoemaker: Billboard Project

  – By Ksenia Soboleva

• Josh Smith: Spectre

  – By Phyllis Tuchman

• Erik Lindman: Fal/Parsi

  – By Barbara A. MacAdam

• Julia Phillips: New Album

  – By Jared Quinton

• Vantage Points

  – By Hovey Brock

• Christo: Show Cases, Show Windows & Store Fronts, 1963-1966

  – By Joseph Nechvatal

• Gabriel Orozco

  – By Jonathan Goodman

Critics Page

• Edges/Limits. Edges/Tableau

  – By Laura Lisbon

• Painted Sides: Bringing Visual and Emotional Energies Together

  – By Maija Miettinen

• Painting without Edge

  – By Suzanne Silver

• SQUEAK CARNWATH with Amanda Gluibizzi

• Embarrassment of Edges

  – By Aimee Ng

• The frame that suffocates the image

  – By Amy Knight Powell

• Side Issues

  – By George Rush

• The Ec-centric Gaze

  – By César Paternosto

Books

• David Levi Strauss’s Co-Illusion: Dispatches from the End of Communication

  – By Hovey Brock

• Don DeLillo’s The Silence

  – By M.C. Armstrong

• Vote Now or Forever Hold Your Peace

  – By Harry Feder

• Rone Shavers’s Silverfish

  – By James W. Fuerst

• TYREE DAYE with Tony Leuzzi

• Cristina Rivera Garza’s Grieving: Dispatches from a Wounded Country

  – By Yvonne C. Garrett

• Sayaka Murata’s Earthlings: A Novel

  – By Yvonne C. Garrett

• Stories by Chloe N. Clark & Jen Fawkes

  – By John Domini

• Aoko Matsuda’s Where The Wild Ladies Are

  – By Elizabeth Block

• Daddies and Divas: MICHAEL MONTLACK with Soraya Shalforoosh

• Sarah Sala’s Devil’s Lake

  – By Kiran Bhat

Music

• BRENDON RANDALL-MYERS with Vanessa Ague

• Tallinn Music Week

  – By Martin Longley

• The 83rd, Figure of Noise

  – By S. David

• CATHERINE CHRISTER HENNIX with Marcus Boon, Part 2

  – By Marcus Boon

• Listening In: Olivier Conan, The Soul of Barbès

  – By Scott Gutterman

Dance

• SHAMEL PITTS & ITAI ZWECKER with Jonah Goldman Kay

• On Black Death and Fundraising

  – By Sydnie L. Mosley

• “I have the desire to fight”

  – By Emily May

Film

• FIDMarseille 2020: A Living Archive

  – By Matt Turner

• 190 Seconds in Lockdown: Usama Alshaibi & Adam Sekuler’s Cinema-19

  – By Madeleine Seidel

• Documentary as Holistic Activism: Deia Schlosberg's The Story of Plastic

  – By Nick Bennett

Theater

• “I Could Understand a Person, If That Person Was a…”

  – By Kyle Turner

• Rehearsing a Self: David Adjmi on Lot Six, A New Memoir and An Outsider's Anthem

  – By Sarah Lunnie

• “Instead of call-out culture, we’re calling them in”

  – By Diep Tran

Fiction

• SWAJ

  – By Christopher Bollen

Poetry

• four

  – By Anthony Robinson

• Six From My Daily Actions, or The Meteorites

  – By S. Brook Corfman

• five

  – By Tessa Bolsover

• from Creve Coeur

  – By Robert Fitterman

Art Books

• Julia Christensen’s Upgrade Available

  – By Hall W. Rockefeller

• Ryan Debolski’s LIKE

  – By Sarah Moroz

• Nele Wynants’s When Fact Is Fiction: Documentary Art in the Post-Truth Era

  – By Tiernan Morgan

• Sol LeWitt: Not to Be Sold for More Than $100 and Sol LeWitt: Folds & Rips

  – By Megan N. Liberty

ArTonic

• The Enduring Spark: The Work and Legacy of The Gordon Parks Foundation

  – By Yínká Elújọba

Special Report

• Virtual Architecture: Art, Pandemic, Protest

  – By Alan Gilbert

Field Notes

• Money Magic

  – By Paul Mattick

• Health Self-Defense in a São Paulo Favela

  – by Erick Corrêa, translated by Janet Koenig.

• RAQUEL DE ANDA with Ethel Palacios Shipton

• Politics with Normal Characteristics

  – By Adam Theron-Lee Rensch

• Beyond “Racial Capitalism”

  – By Charlie Post

• The Dangerous Seduction of Reform

  – By Jarrod Shanahan and Zhandarka Kurti

The Miraculous

• 21. (Downtown)

  – By Raphael Rubinstein

• 22. (The East Village and Points Beyond)

  – By Raphael Rubinstein

• 23. (Midtown, Times Square, Washington Square Park, Madison Square Garden)

  – By Raphael Rubinstein

• 24. (Park Avenue)

  – By Raphael Rubinstein

• 25. (SoHo)

  – By Raphael Rubinstein