May 2020
Featuring interviews with Audrey Flack, Guillermo Kuitca, James Prosek, and Xaviera Simmons. Guest Critic Daisy Desrosiers: “Inquiry in Times of Isolation.”
The “May 2020” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on May 6, 2020.
Critics Page
Made of linguistic forms and failures: inquiry in times of isolation
– By Daisy DesrosiersCatachresis
– By Ambera WellmannThe losses we carry across: an afternoon with Azza El Siddique and Sahar Te
Thinking about you, thinking about translation
– By Frances LoefflerPoetic Intention:
Correspondence in isolation between Daisy Desrosiers and Jesse Chun.KHAAREJ NO.3 (2019)
– By Sahar TeWhat Sound Does The Blk Atlantic Make?—on translation in the work of artist Alberta Whittle
– By Mother TongueMarble benches, Anatolian weavers, and Madonnas: Shannon Bool and Daisy Desrosiers
Babble
– By Kathleen RitterThe Twofold Room
– By Marie-Michelle Deschamps
Publisher's Message
Dear Friends and Readers,
– By Phong H. Bui
ArtSeen
Rashid Johnson: Untitled Anxious Red Drawings
– By David CarrierOff the Wall
– By Alfred Mac AdamBharti Kher: The Unexpected Freedom of Chaos
– By David RhodesSarah Charlesworth: Image Language
– By Robert C. MorganGerhard Richter: Painting After All
– By Jessica HolmesIda Kohlmeyer: Cloistered
– By William CorwinHernan Bas: Developing TiME LiFE
– By Charlotte KentAgnes Pelton: Desert Transcendentalist
– By Ann McCoyMohammed Kazem: Infinite Angles
– By Ruba Al-SweelFeliciano Centurión: Abrigo
– By Susan BreyerAdrian Morris
– By Brian T. LeahyRochelle Goldberg: Psychomachia
– By Peter BrockPeter Saul
– By David CarrierHell is a Place on Earth. Heaven is a Place in Your Head.
– By Kathleen LangjahrJean-Jacques Lequeu: Visionary Architect
– By Brandt JunceauSara Erenthal’s Art of the Street and Screen
– By Megan N. LibertyThings on Walls
– By Darla MiganHadi Falapishi and Phoebe Derlee: What a Fuck and What the Fuck
– By Ketter WeissmanKate Shepherd: Surveillance
– By Susan HarrisCurtis Talwst Santiago: Can't I Alter
– By Magdalyn AsimakisMasculinities: Liberation Through Photography
– By Daniel PatemanPetra Cortright: borderline aurora borealis
– By Barbara A. MacAdamLeap of Color
– By Tom McGlynnLouise Fishman: An Hour is a Sea
– By Hearne PardeeNick Raffel: plenum
– By Alex JenMatt Mullican: Universal Perspective
– By William Whitney
Books
Blowin’ in the Wind
– By Bailey TrelaTracy O’Neill’s Quotients
– By Yvonne C. GarrettDown Away from the Sun You'll Burrow
Chelsea Bieker's Godshot
– By Deena ElGenaidiMark Nowak's Social Poetics
– By John DominiFires Burning, Windows Breaking
JUDITHA DOWD with Ruth Foley
Dance
Editor’s Note
– By Gillian JakabDancing Paula Abdul in my Living Room
– By Rennie McDougallTrading Velvet Seats for Couch Viewing
– By Hannah FosterUnSequenced: A Podcast About the Choreographic Process
– By Sima BelmarTouch Without Touching
– By George Kan
Film
KLEBER MENDONÇA FILHO and JULIANO DORNELLES with Anthony Hawley
Imprisonment of the Pregnant Body
– By Ilana HerzigPhysical Outcomes: True/False 2020
– By Gina Telaroli
Theater
Morgan Gould and Ren Dara Santiago with Kate Cortesi about the untimely closing of their plays due to you know what
– By Kate CortesiPower & Punk: New York's Avant-Garde Lifers: Richard Foreman with Sara Farrington
– By Sara FarringtonTrickling Up: The Theater Community Uplifts its Own
– By Billy McEntee
Fiction
Dreamstamps
– By Wah-Ming ChangA Protective Archipelago: A Covid-19 Correspondence
– By Celina Su and Wah-Ming ChangThree Asian Hair Stories
– By Lisa ChenIn the Beginning, Sometimes I Left Messages in the Street
– By Lisa ChenDegrees of Retreat
– By Carina KohnThe Road to Golgonooza
– By T. Motley, Mariko Sanchez, and Dorothy and Dashiell MorseinSerial: part seventeen
The Mysteries of Paris–
Poetry
five from Unemployment Insurance
– By Brendan Joycefour
– By Jameson Fitzpatrickthree
– By Tishani DoshiBut I Have Always Been the Same
– By Matt Longabuccotwo
– By Andrei CodrescuTrue Account of Talking to the 7 in Sunnyside
– By Paolo Javierfrom Alisoun Sings
– By Caroline BergvallInformants
– By Anna Gurton-Wachter
Art Books
André Breton's Nadja: fac-similé du manuscrit de 1927
– By Mary Ann CawsJoseph Jarman's Black Case Volume I & II: Return From Exile
– By George GrellaDavid Wojnarowicz's In the Shadow of Forward Motion
– By Megan N. LibertyEsopus's Modern Artifacts
– By Jennie Waldow
ArTonic
Studio in a School
– By Lilly Wei
Special Report
Outdoor Sculpture: Virtual Edition
– By Martha Tuttle
Field Notes
The Plague and the Wrath
– By Charles ReeveNew Pandemic, Old Story
– By Ana V. Diez RouxTheir Money or Your Life
– By Paul MattickThe Numbers Must Have Context
– By Natalie BakerA Disaster Foretold
– By Pavlos RoufosViral Biopolitics
– By Rachel Nelson
The Miraculous
1. [Greenwich Village, SoHo, Harlem]
– By Raphael Rubinstein2. [NoHo, SoHo, Queens, Hudson River Piers]
– By Raphael Rubinstein3. [Battery Park City]
– By Raphael Rubinstein4. [Washington Heights]
– By Raphael Rubinstein5. [SoHo, Broadway, and various other points]
– By Raphael Rubinstein