February 2020
Featuring interviews with Christian Boltanski, Y.Z. Kami, Thomas Kovachevich, and Helen Pashgian. Guest Critic Alvin Hall: “The Death Issue.”
The “February 2020” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on February 5, 2020.
Publisher's Message
Dear Friends and Readers,
– By Phong H. Bui
Critics Page
The Death Issue
– By Alvin HallA Dying Fall
– By Fraser BroughRide or Die
– By Jonathan CalmEnd of the Line
– By Dan CameronPushing through a Public Memorial
– By Natasha BeckerPentimenti
– By Wardell Milan“I am as you shall be”
– By Stephen PerkinsonLa Petite Mort
– By Nico Wheadon
ArtSeen
Merlin Carpenter: Paint-it-Yourself
– By Barbara A. MacAdam9th St. Club
– By Chloe StavrouMelissa McGill
RED REGATTA: riflessi– By Mengna DaLucas Samaras: Me, Myself and …
– By Phillip GriffithSally J. Han: Foreplay
– By Everett NarcisoCatherine Telford Keogh: Nervous System
– By Blake OettingJoris-Karl Huysmans Art Critic
– By William CorwinNina Hartmann: FOGBANK
– By Nicholas HeskesJosephine Halvorson: On the Ground
– By Alfred Mac AdamAlma Allen
– By Jonathan GoodmanTeresa Margolles: El asesinato cambia el mundo / Assassination changes the world
– By Susan BreyerNoah Davis
– By Jessica HolmesHannah Levy: Pendulous Picnic
– By Nina WolpowRobert Grosvenor
– By William WhitneyTiffany Jaeyeon Shin: Microbial Speculations on Our Gut Feelings
– By Simon WuCONDO London 2020
– By Bartolomeo SalaDoreen Garner:The Remains
– By Amber Jamilla MusserDan Walsh
– By David RhodesAcquired on eBay (and from other surrogate sources)
– By David CarrierBecca Albee
– By Hồng-Ân TrươngMadeline Hollander: Heads/Tails
– By Madeleine SeidelLuis Camnitzer: Towards an Aesthetic of Imbalance
– By Lyle RexerJackie Saccoccio: Femme Brut
– By Barbara A. MacAdamMichael Rakowitz: The invisible enemy should not exist
– By Amanda GluibizziKen Grimes: Alien Variations
– By Lyle RexerJR: Chronicles
– By Hovey BrockMarlene McCarty: Into the Weeds
– By Marie CatalanoMax Ernst Collages
– By Mary Ann CawsA Wonder to Behold: Craftsmanship and the Creation of Babylon's Ishtar Gate
– By Ann McCoyFiona Tan: Archive / Ruins
– By Will FenstermakerDavid Reed: New Paintings
– By Charlotte KentKent Monkman: mistikôsiwak (Wooden Boat People)
– By Ann C. CollinsSpecific Forms
– By Mary Ann CawsTaking Shape: Abstraction from the Arab World, 1950s–1980s
– By Sahar KhraibaniZilia Sánchez
– By Tausif NoorLynda Benglis: In the Realm of the Senses
– By Daniel PatemanGraham Lambkin
– By Zeny May RecidoroSusan Rothenberg
– By Alfred Mac AdamPat Steir: Color Wheel
– By Susan HarrisThe Life and Times of Alvin Baltrop
– By Francesco GagliardiHock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds: Standing Rock Awakens the World
– By Susan HarrisCharles Burchfield: Solitude
– By Alfred Mac AdamArtist's Choice: Amy Sillman--The Shape of Shape
– By Cynthia CruzGeorge W. Bush: Portraits of Courage
– By Gaby Collins-FernandezJesse Chun and Tiffany Jaeyeon Shin: stain begins to absorb the material spilled on
– By Diana Seo Hyung LeeSouls Grown Diaspora
– By Ksenia M. Soboleva
Books
LEIGH CLAIRE LA BERGE with Andreas Petrossiants
Run Me To Earth
– By Joseph PeschelGendering Biography
– By Stephanie SiuAMBER SPARKS with Nancy Hightower
Soong's staging of pre-arrival: Near At, and the scene of the crash
– By Chris CampanioniCATHERINE BARNETT with Tony Leuzzi
Mona Eltahawy's The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls
– By Deena ElGenaidiLANCE OLSEN with Andrea Scrima
Cutting Edge: New Stories of Mystery and Crime by Women Writers
– By Yvonne C. GarrettThe Once and Future Queen: Amber Sparks's Weird Realism
– By Kurt BaumeisterJUDITH BAUMEL with Catherine Parnell
Music
February Listings
– By George Grella and Brad CohanLUCY DHEGRAE with Joanna McNaney Stein
Winter Jazzfest 2020:
My Kind of Marathon– By Scott GuttermanWinter Jazzfest 2020:
Groove is in the Heart– By George GrellaWinter Jazzfest 2020:
There's No Such Place as Away– By Matt ForkerAbandon Expectations:
Terry Riley Live at 85– By George GrellaJazz Jantar Klub Żak, Gdańsk
– By Martin Longley
Dance
Grace Notes: Pam Tanowitz and Simone Dinnerstein’s New Work for Goldberg Variations
– By Rachel StoneMELATI SURYODARMO with George Kan
Training Devices
– By Katy Dammers
Theater
Unraveling Realities with Christopher Chen
– By Jonathan SpectorIn Search of the Fandango
– By Daniel JáquezMotherhood in the Raw: Medea
Simon Stone with Ivan Talijancic– By Ivan Talijancic
Fiction
Seventh Letter to Uncle Sam
–A Civilized Cemetery
–Miss Tinman
–Miss Mala
–Comfort
–The Silent (Silenced) Gap: Reading the Urdu Gothic through Foucault
– By Matt ReeckAdeel’s Journey
–The Road to Golgonooza
– By T. Motley, Eno Emu, Art Schmart, and Sylvester FordyceinSerial: part fourteen
The Mysteries of Paris–
Poetry
two
– By Bob Holmanfive
– By Brandon Downingthree
– By Jennifer Rose Bonilla-Edgingtonfrom Story
– By Jennifer Firestonefive
– By Vincent Katzfive
– By Kathleen DelMar Millerfrom PERFORMANCE STUDIES (“TO BE TRANSFORMED”)
– By Lara Mimosa Montesfour
– By Raquel BalboniUntitled #x
– By Oliver Baer
Art Books
Tara McDowell’s The Householders: Robert Duncan and Jess
– By Phillip GriffithFrancis M. Naumann’s Mentors: The Making of an Art Historian
– By Robert R. ShanePublic Knowledge: Selected Writings by Michael Asher
– By Brianna LeatherburyCharles Fox’s Buried
– By Sarah Moroz
Field Notes
France: A Political Strike
– By Charles ReeveAll Jails Fit to Build
– By Jarrod Shanahan and Nadja Eisenberg-GuyotLetter from Federal Prison
– By Keith "Malik" WashingtonSave the Bay View!
– By Nube BrownBerlin Wall: An Afterlife
– By Etan Nechin"Here Be Dragons"
– By David Schmidt