February 2019
Featuring interviews with Kevin Beasley, Ian Cheng, Charles Stein, and Julie Mehretu. Guest Critic Daniel S. Palmer: “Downturn New York.”
The “February 2019” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on February 5, 2019.
Critics Page
Downturn New York
– By Daniel S. PalmerLoose Spaces
– By Wilson SherwinInternet Bulldozing: Gentrification and The Rise of Cyberharassment, BRUJAS Calls for Coalition, Again!
–Finding Up
– By Akwetey Orraca-TettehNo Condition Is Permanent
– By Lisa CooleyIn Search of a Darkroom
– By Remy AmezcuaEndangered Species: An Artist’s Loft
– By John NewmanThe Lover’s War
– By Siyona Ravi
Publisher's Message
Dear Friends and Readers,
– By Phong H. Bui
ArtSeen
Magic Realism: Art in Weimar Germany 1919 – 1933
– By Daniel PatemanWest By Midwest
– By Elliot Josephine Leila ReichertElla Kruglyanskaya: Fenix
– By Alex A. JonesCameron Rowland: D37
– By Alex JenRaha Raissnia: Galvanization
– By Benjamin CliffordImagined Communities: Photographs by Mila Teshaieva
– By Vivian LiThe Lure of the Dark: Contemporary Painters Conjure the Night
– By Alex JenEnrique Martínez Celaya: The Boy: Witness and Marker 2003 – 2018
– By Lilly WeiErik Parker: New Soul
– By Robert C. MorganGordon Parks: The New Tide, Early Work 1940-1950
– By Nico WheadonBerthe Morisot: Woman Impressionist
– By A.V. RyanGaylen Gerber
– By Lori WaxmanViktor Timofeev: God Room
– By Rudy NatanzonViktor Timofeev: God Room
– By Alex A. JonesRichard Artschwager: Primary Sources and Self-Portraits and the American Southwest
– By Robert C. MorganJeanne Silverthorne: From Darkness
– By William CorwinArchie Rand: Misfits
– By Ann McCoyTorey Thornton: Sustenance Traversing Foundational Urgencies (STFU [some])(Re-Faux Outing)
– By Vijay MasharaniGod Made My Face: A Collective Portrait of James Baldwin
– By Amber Jamilla MusserKathy Acker: Get Rid of Meaning
– By McKenzie WarkVenceremos: Resisting the Rise of the Far-right in Brazil
– By Tatiane Santa RosaPierre Huyghe: UUmwelt
– By Will FenstermakerForest Law
– By Lisa E. Bloom, Iris Morrell, and Ariel HoageFrancesco Clemente: Works 1978-2018
– By Alan GilbertBruce Nauman: Disappearing Acts
– By Swagato ChakravortyDana Schutz: Imagine Me and You
– By Alfred Mac AdamNancy Holt
– By Ann McCoyJames Siena: Painting
– By Tom McGlynnEpic Abstraction: Pollock to Herrera
– By Benjamin CliffordMaya Lin: A River Is a Drawing
– By Taney RonigerMax Kozloff: The Atmospherics of Interruption: Paintings 1966-2018
– By Hovey BrockDavid Rabinowitch: Périgord Construction of Vision Drawings
– By Marcia E. VetrocqEJ Hauser: Barn Spirits
– By Louis BlockRochelle Feinstein: Image of an Image
– By David CarrierMaria Antelman: Disassembler
– By Ann C. CollinsRobert Janitz: Uptown Campus / College Robert Janitz
– By David RhodesCaroline Larsen: Kaleidoscopic & Mathew Zefeldt: Customizable Realities
– By Nina WolpowLyle Ashton Harris: Flash of the Spirit
– By Jan AvgikosMax Neumann: Specter
– By Will FenstermakerUnder Erasure
– By William Corwin
1×1
Barbara Takenaga and Patricio Guzmán: telescopes and other visions
– By Joan Waltemath
Books
Aimee Parkison and Carol Guess’s Girl Zoo
– By Melanie OdelleSophie Mackintosh's The Water Cure
– By Yvonne C. GarrettHow to Be Human: Some Beheadings by Aditi Machado
– By Julie CarrRuth Prawer Jhabvala's At the End of the Century
– By Rachel AydtJAMES CHARLESWORTH with Kathleen Rooney
Ross Barkan’s Demolition Night
– By Joseph PeschelA Life Not Fit to Form: The Restoration of Unnamable Joy
– By Chris CampanioniJOSIP NOVAKOVICH with Joseph Salvatore
R.O. Kwon’s The Incendiaries
– By Deena ElGenaidiJEFF JACKSON with Nicholas Rys
DAVID PEAK with Joseph Scapellato
Music
The Known and the Unknown: Winter Jazzfest marathon, January 11-12, 2019
– By George GrellaAndy Statman: Practical Mystic
– By Scott GuttermanOuttakes
– By Steve DalachinskyAkio Suzuki and Aki Onda: ke i te ki
– By Daniel WilsonFebruary Listings
– By George Grella and Brad Cohan
Dance
BOBBI JENE SMITH with Sima Belmar
Miguel Gutierrez’s This Bridge Called My Ass
– By George KanDear Chaos
– By Erica GettoMake 'Em Laugh
– By Madison Mainwaring
Film
True to Form: International Documentary Festival Amsterdam 2018
– By Leo GoldsmithRoutine Pleasures: Termite Art and the Paintings of Manny Farber
– By Sean NamDouble Vision: On Ryūsuke Hamaguchi’s Asako I & II
– By Kazu WatanabeLove Screams: Valentine’s Day Massacre at Anthology Film Archives
– By Hillary WestonRear Windows: International Film Festival Rotterdam 2019
– By Giovanni Marchini Camia
Fiction
Two Excerpts from a Novel in Progress
– By Pamela RyderGone Runt
– By Erica KentLSD Halloween
– By Erica KentMelody Plays a Tune
– By Erica KentExcerpt of Carne de Dios
–Highlights from the Life of Raymond Roussel #11: The Punchline
– By Tom MotleyinSerial: part five
The Mysteries of Paris–Day Trip to Durmitor
–Golthar, Terror of the Deep
– By Nathan Place
Poetry
Little Dog at the End of the Rainbow
– By Sharon MesmerNUDE GDUDE (SCRATCH AND SNIFF) (MY RIDES)
– By Farnoosh FathiA User’s Guide to the Miracle
– By Dave Morsethree
– By Tenaya Nasser-Frederickfour
– By Ana Božičevićthree
– By Jeffrey Grunthanerthree
– By Merritt Waldon
Art Books
Remedios Varo's Letters, Dreams & Other Writings
– By Zack HatfieldTavia Nyong’o's Afro-Fabulations: The Queer Drama of Black Life
– By Peter MurphyJudson Dance Theater: The Work is Never Done
– By Nicole MeilyStéphane Mallarmé's The Book and Un Coup de dés jamais n’abolira le Hasard
– By Mary Ann Caws