April 2019
Featuring interviews with Pierre Buraglio, Mira Schor, Justin Brice Guariglia, and Brett Wallace. Guest Critic Kyle Dacuyan: “Are You There? Are We?”
The “April 2019” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on April 3, 2019.
Publisher's Message
Dear Friends and Readers,
– By Phong H. Bui
Critics Page
Are You There? Are We?
– By Kyle Dacuyan“POETRY AS FORCES” AFTER Cecilia Vicuña
– By Andrea Abi-KaramResponse
– By Joey De JesusIX. What Is Plagiarism?
– By Roberto MontesDiversity or Blaxsploitation
– By Pamela SneedWho Is the You
– By Eloisa AmezcuaThe Purloined Lyric
– By Kay GabrielLooking through Both Ends of the Telescope
– By Ariel FranciscoAddressable Thou
– By Chase BerggrunFour Sonnets on Audience
– By Francisco MárquezEntries
– By Aldrin Valdezwrit | рыт
– By Gala MukomolovaOn Beyond
– By Shelley MarlowThey Don’t Want Us to Feel
– By Marwa HelalOBRIGADO (FOR/FROM/AND/WITH)
– By Sara Jane Stoner
ArtSeen
Sarah Trigg: Territorial Expansion of the Innermost Continent
– By Hovey BrockAria Dean: (meta)models or how i got my groove back
– By Alan GilbertSaul Steinberg: Untitled
– By Barbara A. MacAdamMetaphysical Masterpieces 1916—1920: Morandi, Sironi and Carra
– By Hearne PardeePaul Fägerskiöld: Flatlands
– By W TaoKour Pour: Manzareh/
Keshiki/ Landscape – By Hadley SuterJulia Rommel: Candy Jail
– By Nina WolpowJia Aili: Combustion
– By Graham W. BellAlec Soth: I Know How Furiously Your Heart is Beating
– By Colin EdgingtonFrida Orupabo & Arthur Jafa: Medicine for a Nightmare
– By Jessica LynneDerrick Adams: New Icons
– By Jan AvgikosChristina Forrer
– By Ann C. CollinsMimi Gross: Art as Social Entanglement
– By Johanna DruckerSanford Wurmfeld: Variations
– By Robert C. MorganJoe Andoe: Jubilee City
– By Eleanor HeartneyRefiguring Binaries
– By Charlene K. LauDon McCullin
– By Bartolomeo SalaHockney-Van Gogh: The Joy of Nature
– By Joyce BeckensteinGünther Förg: Works from 1986 – 2007
– By Phillip GriffithFrida Kahlo: Appearances Can Be Deceiving
– By William WhitneyStrategic Vandalism: The Legacy of Asger Jorn's Modification Paintings
– By Tom McGlynnAmerican Artist: I'm Blue (If I Was █████ I Would Die)
– By Vijay MasharaniDorothea Tanning
– By Daniel PatemanKaty Moran: I want to live in the afternoon of that day
– By Tom McGlynnArakawa: Diagrams for the Imagination
– By Mary Ann CawsYARITJI YOUNG + TJALA ARTS: APY LANDS
– By Jonathan GoodmanMerrill Wagner: Works from the ’80s
– By Robert C. MorganJeffrey Cheung
– By J CLinnea Kniaz: Running Bond
– By Melinda LangDon Dudley: Early Work
– By Melinda LangJasper Johns: Recent Paintings & Works on Paper
– By Alfred Mac Adam
1×1
Jennifer Packer: M. Heller
– By Amber Jamilla Musser
Books
DAVID RIVARD with Tony Leuzzi
LYNNE TILLMAN with Elizabeth Block
CHRISTOPHER X. SHADE with Beverly Donofrio
Ian Frisch's Magic is Dead
– By Joseph PeschelDUNCAN B. BARLOW with Tobias Carroll
Asiya Wadud's Crosslight for Youngbird
– By Chris CampanioniGENNAROSE NETHERCOTT with Kathleen Rooney
Duanwad Pimwana and Mui Poopoksakul with Andrea Scrima
Shira Dentz's how do i net thee
– By William Lessard
Music
Sons d'hiver, Maison Des Arts
– By Martin LongleyNothing’s Bad Luck
– By George GrellaOuttakes
– By Steve DalachinskyPharoah Sanders: Spirit Ascending
– By Scott GuttermanCLINTON HEYLIN with Raymond Foye
April Listings
– By George Grella and Brad Cohan
Dance
Merce's Way
– By Nancy DalvaVertigo Dance Company: One. One & One
– By Jen GeorgeSomatic Brutality
– By Doug LeCoursCrystal Pite's hypertextual mindscapes
– By Ivan TalijancicLincoln Kirstein's Multi-Platform Brand, Dissected
– By Susan Yung
Film
Rhymes with Bitches: Resurrecting Nelly Kaplan
– By Beatrice LoayzaFrank Beauvais's Just Don't Think I'll Scream
– By Steve EricksonSpeaking and Recording and Broadcasting Their Truths
– By Esmé HogeveenThe Drift Back: Margaret Tait at 100
– By Jesse CummingBI GAN with Ethan Spigland
I Forgot Myself
– By Jessica Dunn Rovinelli
Theater
Crossing Barriers, Bridging Cultures
– By Natasha LarderaIn Pursuit of the Urgently Inexplicable
– By Billy McEnteeNICKY PARAISO with Kathleen Warnock
Fiction
Good Shadow
–A Dream of Sand
–A Little Love
–inSerial: part seven
The Mysteries of Paris–“…”
– By Wayne ContiThe Sleuthing Proctologist
– By Tom Motley
Poetry
four
– By Simon Schuchatfrom The History of Modern Sculpture
– By Jean-Paul Pecqueurthree
– By Louis Buryfrom The Lake
– By Natalie Eilberttwo
– By Nikki Wallschlaeger
Art Books
Editor’s Note
– By Megan N. LibertyThe Art Happens Here: Net Art Anthology
– By Madeline WeisburgRoy DeCarava and Langston Hughes's The Sweet Flypaper of Life
– By Dani IsslerAldrin Valdez’s ESL or You Weren’t Here
– By Lee Ann NormanPenny Slinger's 50% the Visible Woman and Inside Out
– By Megan N. Liberty
ArTonic
The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation
– By Jessica Holmes
Field Notes
Facing The Heat
– By Peter St. ClairBDS and Utopia
– By Oded NirThis Street Is Ours. We Are This Street.
– By Georges Rivière