March 2020
Featuring interviews with Candida Alvarez, Mark Bloch, Mitch Epstein, and Gladys Nilsson. Guest Critic Jessamine Batario: “Portage Trails and Language, Walking and Communication.”
The “March 2020” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on March 3, 2020.
Critics Page
Portage Trails and Language, Walking and Communication
– By Jessamine BatarioA circle made by walking
– By AB BrownWalking as Praxis
– By Julie Poitras SantosDesire in Walking and Language
– By Jenna CrowderHow to Draw a Dog
– By Katie AnaniaSewing Spaces / Needlework in Meek's Cutoff
– By Taylor BradleyUtopics in our time, or, How to walk in Di$neyland
– By Ariel Evans24 February 2015
– By Arisa WhiteTwo Poems
– By Joshua Gottlieb-MillerNo Boots Required
– By Kathryn BarushWalking: Foot as Conduit
– By Brooke WilliamsSargon's Invasion
– By Breton Langendorfer
Publisher's Message
Dear Friends and Readers,
– By Phong H. Bui
ArtSeen
Ja’Tovia Gary: flesh that needs to be loved
– By Taylor BradleyThe Moon Seemed Lost
– By Ksenia M. SobolevaTom McGlynn: At Present
– By Colin EdgingtonJoanna Pousette-Dart
– By Amanda GluibizziJack Whitten: Transitional Space, A Drawing Survey
– By Hearne PardeePhilip Pearlstein: Nudes and Other Landscapes
– By William CorwinSilke Otto-Knapp: In the waiting room
– By Robert R. ShaneJonah Bokaer: About An Arabesque
– By William CorwinShaun Leonardo: The Breath of Empty Space
– By Louis BlockEllen Lesperance: Velvet Fist
– By Elizabeth BuheKrzysztof Woidczko: A House Divided
– By Dan CameronSahel: Art and Empires on the Shores of the Sahara
– By David CarrierSchool Photos and their Afterlives
– By Mary K. CoffeyLaToya Ruby Frazier
– By Alex JenMarino Marini: Arcadian Nudes
– By Brandt JunceauStephen Kaltenbach: The Beginning and the End
– By Hannah Maier-KatkinCelebrating 25 Years of Project 59: Irina Danilova
– By Peter MaloneMichele Zalopany: Nānā i Ke Kumu ‘Pay Attention To The Source’
– By Ann McCoyGothic Spirit: Medieval Art from Europe
– By Susan YungAlfred Jarry: The Carnival of Being
– By Josephine ZarkovichDavid Flaugher: Weekends and Holidays
– By Peter BrockLarry Bell: Still Standing
– By Amanda GluibizziRachel Klinghoffer: Suspended in My Masquerade
– By Hovey BrockBob Witz: Milk Made
– By Robert C. MorganPurvis Young and Édouard Vuillard: Prophets and Angels
– By Louis BlockAlberto Giacometti, Herbert Matter, Matthew Monahan, Jonathan Silver
– By Jonathan GoodmanHarold Mendez: The years now
– By Robert R. ShaneRadical Figures: Painting in the New Millennium
– By Fraser Brough
Books
Jennifer Firestone's Story
– By Rachael Guynn WilsonOceanography
– By Weston CutterAnder Monson's I Will Take the Answer and The Gnome Stories
– By Emma McAleavyDeb Olin Unferth's Barn 8
– By Yvonne C. GarrettBohumil Hrabal's All My Cats
– By Zach DavidsonGirl, Woman, Other
– By John DominiMARTÍN ESPADA with Alex Dueben
Music
March Listings
– By George Grella and Brad CohanANDREW OUSLEY with George Grella
CHAYA CZERNOWIN with Ondrej Veselý
Bang on a Can
– By George GrellaThe Best Band You Never Heard Of: Vanishing Twin's Global Aesthetic
– By John AmenListening In
– By Scott GuttermanBrussels Jazz Festival
– By Martin Longley
Dance
OKWUI OKPOKWASILI with Tara Aisha Willis
West Side Story: Ill-fated Passion Burns Anew
– By Susan Yung“Catch Me, I'm Falling”
– By mj thompson
Film
MARIAH GARNETT with Shelby Shaw
Solitary Travels: International Film Festival Rotterdam 2020
– By Beatrice LoayzaBeyond Contested Memories
– By Donatien Grau
Theater
Power & Punk: New York's Avant-garde Lifers
Mac Wellman with Sara FarringtonHow to Live a Best Life, With Melisa Tien
– By Matthew Paul OlmosIs this the real life? Is this just fantasy?
OZET Lands at The Brick– By Adam R. BurnettLooking Back, and Forward, as Ma-Yi Celebrates 30 Years of Innovative Work
– By Billy McEntee
Fiction
Collecting the Body
– By Max ParkerBlack’s Gaslight Village
– By Suzanne McConnellThe Road to Golgonooza
– By T. Motley and Suko BruchardeiwitschinSerial: part fifteen
The Mysteries of Paris–DAVID MEANS with Alec Niedenthal
Poetry
Goodnight, Rimbaud
– By Kay Gabriel5 poems from Prevailing Conditions
– By MC Hylandfour
– By Kit Robinson5 poems from Summer
– By Johannes Göranssonthe 21st century
– By Connie Mae Olivertwo
– By Susan Briante
Art Books
Nancy Princenthal's Unspeakable Acts: Women, Art, and Sexual Violence in the 1970s
– By Elene PasuriRobin Richardson's Try Not to Get Too Attached
– By Megan N. Libertydispersed holdings’s Speed of Resin
– By Re'al ChristianKathy Acker (1971–1975)
– By Kathleen Langjahr
ArTonic
Printed Matter
– By Megan N. Liberty
In Memoriam
A Tribute to Beverly Pepper
– By Barbara Rose
Field Notes
Come Hell or High Water
– By Peter St. ClairTar Sands and Genocide
– By Darryl WhetterOnce More to the Breach
– By John W. W. ZeiserADAM RENSCH with John Collins