November 2019
Featuring interviews with Rachel Feinstein, Donald Moffett, Carol Szymanski, and Melvin Edwards. Guest Critic Nico Wheadon: “Experiments in Freedom.”
The “November 2019” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on November 6, 2019.
Critics Page
Experiments in Freedom
– By Nico WheadonReflections on Free
– By Malik LewisLiving Without Gravity
– By Aruna D'SouzaOn Being a Pest
– By Karla Cornejo Villavicenciodesert creature
– By korde arrington tuttleWhere Does My Heart Reside?
– By Natasha BeckerAn Archive of Proximity
– By LeRonn P. BrooksA Literary Collective of Care
– By Jessica LynneSurvival and Dying
– By Reginald Dwayne Betts and Titus Kaphar
Publisher's Message
Dear Friends and Readers,
– By Phong H. Bui
ArtSeen
Howardena Pindell: Autobiography
– By Susan HarrisTiona Nekkia McClodden: Hold on, let me take the safety off
– By Madeleine SeidelPostwar Women
– By Jonathan GoodmanModernisms: Iranian, Turkish, and Indian Highlights from NYU's Abby Grey Collection
– By Vivian LiKim Tschang-Yeul: New York to Paris
– By Robert C. MorganTetsuya Ishida: Self-Portrait of Other
– By Jared QuintonBetye Saar: The Legend of Black Girl’s Window
– By Ann C. CollinsJulia Bland: The Half That Ties, the Half that Breaks
– By Claire VoonAlex Sewell: When I Wanted Everything
– By Hovey BrockRachelle Dang: Uncertain Haven
– By Valentina Di LisciaHope Gangloff
– By Kathleen HeftyAgnes Denes: Absolutes & Intermediates
– By Marcia E. VetrocqHelen Frankenthaler and Robert Motherwell: The Art of Marriage
– By Alfred Mac AdamWayne Thiebaud: Mountains 1965–2019
– By Alfred Mac AdamSuzanne Bocanegra: Wardrobe Test
– By Amanda GluibizziPat Passlof: The Brush is the Finger of the Brain
– By Eleanor HeartneyOkayama Art Summit 2019: If the Snake
– By Osman Can YerebakanSanam Khatibi: An hour before the Devil fell
– By Elizabeth BuheMichael Eade: past is present is future
– By Jonathan GoodmanMark Leckey: O’ Magic Power of Bleakness
– By Toby KampsWhose Reality?
– By Mengna DaJanine Antoni: I am fertile ground
– By Nolan KellyCaroline Coon: The Great Offender
– By William DavieRon Gorchov: At the Cusp of the 80s, Paintings 1979–1983
– By David CarrierBrendan Fernandes: Contract and Release
– By Avram C. AlpertHadi Fallahpisheh: Almost Alone
– By Simon WuVija Celmins: To Fix the Image in Memory
– By Cynthia CruzBojana Ginn: Phygital Muse
– By Rebecca BrantleyMarco Maggi: Initialism (From Obscurantism to Enlightenment)
– By Alfred Mac AdamAndrea del Verrocchio: Sculptor and Painter of Renaissance Florence
– By Christian KleinbubTamar Hirschfeld: Neuland
– By Naomi LevSandra Brewster: Blur
– By Magdalyn AsimakisAntony Gormley
– By Daniel PatemanAlbert Oehlen: Fn Paintings
– By Tom McGlynnAlbert Oehlen
– By David RhodesTorkwase Dyson: 1919: Blackwater
– By Nina WolpowFrancesca DiMattio: Statues
– By Robert R. ShaneThe Heart is a Lonely Hunter
– By Charlotte KentTerry Fox: Resonance
– By Hannah Maier-KatkinDavid Hartt: The Histories (Le Mancenillier)
– By Alex JenRajni Perera: Traveller
– By Esmé HogeveenA Letter from Tbilisi
– By Greg Lindquist
1×1
Nancy Holt: Sun Tunnels
– By Helen Georgas
Books
The Collected Poems of Bob Kaufman
– By Tony LeuzziNight Boat to Tangier
– By Weston CutterSHEILA O'CONNOR with Brache James
Nothing to See Here
– By Deena ElGenaidiFiona Alison Duncan’s Exquisite Mariposa
– By Elizabeth BlockRachel Rabbit White with Sophia Giovannitti
– By Sophia GiovannittiChronology
– By Erica N. CardwellCAN'T QUIT YOU, BABY
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Music
Joshua Abrams & Natural Information Society at Union Pool
– By Dan JosephMusic: A Subversive History
– By George GrellaMusic of Harry Partch, Vol. 3: Sonata Dementia, Bridge Records (2019)
– By Jude ThomasArtonov, Brussels, Belgium, 7th-13th October 2019
– By Martin LongleyBRYAN A. CRUMPLER with Jean Huets
Goldberg Variations
– By Scott GuttermanHighly Selective Listings
– By George Grella and Brad Cohan
Dance
JOANNA FUTRAL with Doug LeCours
DIMITRIS PAPAIOANNOU with Ivan Talijancic
A Study of Form and Individuality
– By Jen C. GeorgeCrossing the Line: Germaine Acogny's Somewhere at the Beginning
– By Rennie McDougallCrossing the Line: Jérôme Bel's Isadora Duncan
– By George KanCrossing the Line: Stefanie Batten Bland's Look Who's Coming to Dinner
– By Gillian Jakab
Film
The Eyes of Another: “Tokyo Stories” at the Japan Society
– By Jaime GrijalbaKAZIK RADWANSKI AND DERAGH CAMPBELL with Tyler Wilson
Replete and Incomplete Portraits: Documentaries at TIFF 2019
– By Esmé HogeveenNotes on Berwick: “Why this passion for pictures, why this passion for darkness?”
– By Marius HrdyPlease Glauber Don't Hurt 'Em: Glauber Rocha's On Cinema
– By Steve Macfarlane
Theater
Mediterranean Migration Monologues
–Édouard Louis Comes to Brooklyn: The History of Violence and The End of Eddy
– By Emma GrilloFear Becomes Exhilaration: BrandoCapote
The Regime is Female
– By Alexis SpiegelThe Final Frontier of Liza Birkenmeier
– By Trish Harnetiaux
Fiction
Shaggy Dog
– By Eugene LimAn excerpt from SPEECH
– By Jill MagiThe Road to Golgonooza
– By T. Motley, Medea Starkers, and Motte & BaileyinSerial: part twelve
The Mysteries of Paris– By Eugène Sue and Robert BononnoGolthar, Terror of the Deep
– By Nathan Place
Poetry
Peace
– By Tom SavageFor Steve Dalachinsky
– By Ted Reichmanfrom Mostly Clearing
– By Michael GottliebFive Poems from Pavilion
– By Gabriel Palaciostwo
– By Elena Alexanderthree
– By David Millsseven
– By jen fisherthree
– By Carley Moore
Art Books
Conversations About Sculpture
– By Phillip GriffithAlive Still: Nell Blaine, American Painter
– By Karen ChernickWe are in Open Circuits: Writings by Nam June Paik
– By Isabella BoormanSteven Leiber Catalogs
– By Megan N. Liberty
Field Notes
Squat Calabria
– By Bill WeinbergThe Central American Death Cult
– By Eric VázquezClass Act: Warren's Triangulation
– By Adam Theron-Lee RenschSocialism, Capitalism, and Democracy
– By Steve Fraser