April 2020
Featuring interviews with Susan Bee, Graciela Iturbide, Merlin James, and Craig Kalpackjian. Guest Critic Norma Cole: “From the Threshing Floor.”
The “April 2020” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on April 7, 2020.
Critics Page
From the Threshing Floor
– By Norma ColeGoodbye Pork Pie Hat
– By David MarriottThresh:
– By Cole SwensenNotes on The New Threshing Floor
– By Cedar SigoThe Trajectory of a Bullet Never Shot
– By Susan Briantefrom Another Sky
– By Dale Martin SmithMirage As Errata
– By Will AlexanderResolved
– By Laura MoriartyA chessboard drawn by the child Kuba
– By Erín Moure[Exemplary Title in the Theme of “From the Threshing Floor ”] [?]
– By Carlos LaraThree Threshing Floors
– By Susan GevirtzShake
– By Aaron Shurinfrom A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure
– By Hoa NguyenVideo Tryouts for an American Grammar Book
– By Farid MatukThe Prayers of the Saints
– By Steven Seidenberg
Publisher's Message
Dear Friends and Readers,
– By Phong H. Bui
ArtSeen
Landscapes of the South
– By Susan BreyerRichard Long
– By Robert C. MorganArlene Shechet: Skirts
– By David RhodesJoanna Pousette-Dart
– By Barbara A. MacAdamGeorges de La Tour: L'Europa della Luce
– By Bartolomeo SalaAngela Fraleigh: Sound the Deep Waters
– By Ann C. CollinsJutta Koether: 4 the Team
– By Alfred Mac AdamJulian Schnabel: The Patch of Blue the Prisoner Calls the Sky
– By Alfred Mac AdamRita Ackermann: Mama '19
– By Charlotte KentJordan Casteel: Within Reach
– By Nina WolpowJana Euler: Unform
– By Katherine SiboniJennifer West: Future Forgetting
– By Olivia GauthierKelly Akashi: Mood Organ
– By Ann C. CollinsNicole Eisenman: Sturm und Drang
– By Phyllis TuchmanZsófia Keresztes: Glossy Inviolability
– By Veronika MolnarJennifer Bolande: The Composition of Decomposition
– By Sahar KhraibaniChristopher Wilmarth: Sculpture and Drawings from the 1970s
– By Jan AvgikosAlison Rossiter: Substance of Density, 1918-1948
– By Zach RitterTotally Dedicated: Leonard Contino, 1940-2016
– By Robert R. ShaneDonald Judd: Maker, Baker
– By Elizabeth BuheAgainst, Again: Art Under Attack in Brazil
– By Sumeja TulicA Delian Mode: Dear Delia
– By Israel LundRobert Frank: After The Americans
– By Lyle Rexer
Books
Shokoofeh Azar’s The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree
– By John DominiJOHN GALLAHER with Tony Leuzzi
ELAINE KAHN with Rachel Rabbit White
Emily St. John Mandel’s The Glass Hotel
– By Yvonne C. GarrettMARIE MUTSUKI MOCKETT with Eric Farwell
Samuele F.S. Pardini’s In The Name of The Mother
– By Fiore SireciTalking to My Sons about Varoufakis—and the Economy
– By William StroudMary South’s You Will Never Be Forgotten
– By Yvonne C. Garrett
Music
Quarantine Hall
– By George GrellaDance Punks Punk Dance
– By Steve EricksonOutline: A Festival for All Seasons
– By Scott GuttermanOpus Jazz Club
– By Martin Longley
Dance
A Dancer's View: Pavel Zuštiak's Hebel
– By Doug LeCoursTales of Hopper: The Additive Adaptation from Painting to Dance
– By Hannah FosterOXANA CHI and LAYLA ZAMI
with Gillian Jakab– By Gillian Jakab
Theater
Let Constraints Set You Free
– By Billy McEnteeDAVE HARRIS with Kimber Lee
Building an Invisible Theater
– By Karen ThorlaA selection of virtual theater spaces to gather in
– By Karen Thorla
Poetry
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– By Leopoldine Corefour
– By Nikki Wallschlaegerfour
– By Edwin Torresthree
– By Benjamin Friedlanderfrom Water & Power
– By Alli Warrentwo
– By Tony TowleLove Mountain
– By Emmalea Russo
Art Books
Rosanna Mclaughlin's Double-Tracking: Studies in Duplicity
– By Esmé HogeveenThe Saddest Thing Is That I Have Had to Use Words: A Madeline Gins Reader
– By Megan N. LibertyGustav Metzger's Writings
– By Joseph NechvatalPatrick de Vries's Alberto Giacometti and the Perception of Reality
– By Isabella Boorman
In Memoriam
S/HE IS (STILL) HER/E
– By Jarrett EarnestLia Gangitano
Carl Abrahamsson
Edley ODowd
William Breeze
Roxy Farman
Clarity Haynes
Akiko Hada
Leigha Mason
Alan Russell
Ron Athey
Jarrett Earnest
Meena Ysanne
Benjamin Tischer
Jane Ursula Harris
Michael Fox
Douglas Rushkoff
Enok Ripley
James Birch
Jordi Valls
Marie Losier
Paul Bee Hampshire
Robert Wilson
Susana Vico Valero
Genesis Breyer P-Orridge on he/r art
Field Notes
Editor's Note: End Times Politics
– By Paul MattickFear is more powerful than facts
– By Natalie BakerLife Comes At You Fast
– By Jason E. SmithA Day without Women
– By David SchmidtDiary from a Genocide in the Making
– By Margaret M. Seiler