June 2020
Featuring interviews with Penny Arcade, Lauren Bon, Lyle Ashton Harris, and Minjung Kim, and a conversation between John Elderfield and Terry Winters on Cézanne's rock and quarry paintings. Guest Critic Tom McGlynn: “The Mirror Displaced: Artists Writing on Art.”
The “June 2020” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on June 5, 2020.
Critics Page
The Mirror Displaced: Artists Writing on Art
– By Tom McGlynnOn the Make
– By Mark BlochWriting on Art and Muscle Memory
– By Louis BlockA Real Connection
– By Hovey BrockPlaying Solitaire
– By William CorwinWhat Lives in the Work
– By Colin EdgingtonDouble Helix
– By Alex A. JonesArtists and Writers
– By Brandt JunceauWhen We Are Given a Voice
– By Ann McCoyMilling Stone
– By Mira DayalA Correspondence With Motherwell
– By Robert C. MorganOf Masonry and Shadows
– By Steven PestanaAn Artist Writing
– By David RhodesI Run My Hand Over the Race
– By Taney RonigerUntitled (On amber, archers, cinnamon, horses and birds)
– By Sadie Rebecca StarnesTransmission\Translation
– By Joan WaltemathWriting about art is like talking about feelings
– By Gaby Collins-Fernandez
Publisher's Message
Dear Comrades, Friends, and Readers,
– By Phong H. Bui
ArtSeen
News From Prescient Yesterdays
– By Esmé HogeveenQuaranzine
– By Debra Riley ParrCome to Your Census: Who Counts in America?
– By Osman Can YerebakanPamela Jorden: Reflector
– By David RhodesPainting the Essential
– By Alfred Mac AdamNari Ward and Robin Rhode: Power Wall
– By Barbara A. MacAdamReza Shafahi: Pomegranate Garden
– By Charles SchultzPublic Images
– By Bartolomeo SalaKarla Knight: Notes from the Lightship
– By Jonathan GoodmanAP: Assembled Personalities
– By Kathleen LangjahrThe Art of Daily Living
– By Tausif NoorAna Mendieta & Carolee Schneemann: Irrigation Veins
– By Josephine ZarkovichAllan McCollum: Early Works
– By William CorwinSaul Steinberg: Imagined Interiors
– By Barbara A. MacAdamRashid Johnson: Untitled Anxious Red Drawings
– By Amber Jamilla MusserAlberto Alejandro Rodríguez: Destruktion
– By Robert R. ShaneSam Lavigne and Tega Brain: New York Apartment
– By Simon WuBrandon Ndife: MY ZONE
– By Avram C. AlpertAlice Momm: The Gleaner’s Song
– By Susan BreyerBrandon Ndife: MY ZONE
– By Peter BrockStephen Kaltenbach: The Beginning and The End
– By Patrick J. ReedTheresa Bloise and George Boorujy: Messenger
– By Robert R. ShaneFlânerie in the Time of Corona
– By Ksenia M. SobolevaThe Dream Had Me
– By Ann C. CollinsWith Pleasure: Pattern and Decoration in American Art, 1972–1985
– By Olivia GauthierHow Can We Think of Art at a Time Like This?
– By Sahar KhraibaniCandice Breitz: Too Long, Didn't Read
– By Jason RosenfeldMichael Williams: Opening
– By Phyllis TuchmanSindy Lutz: Seascapes
– By William CorwinCortney Andrews: I See You
– By Helen Georgas
Books
What it Contains, What it Obscures
– By Ben TanzerCLIFFORD THOMPSON with David Winner
Joyelle McSweeney’s Toxicon and Arachne and Rachel Eliza Griffiths’s Seeing the Body: Poems
– By John DominiJASON SCHNEIDERMAN with Tony Leuzzi
Lily Tuck’s Heathcliff Redux: A Novella and Stories
– By Joseph PeschelKathy Valentine’s All I Ever Wanted
– By Yvonne C. GarrettCamille A. Collins: The Exene Chronicles
– By Yvonne C. GarrettEmily Nemens’s The Cactus League and Luke Geddes’s Heart of Junk
– By Weston CutterActivations: NICK FLYNN with Boo Trundle
Music
On its 100th Anniversary, the World's First Electronic Instrument Continues to Awe
– By Nick GallagherKEITH ROWE with Todd B. Gruel
MARK DRESSER with Martin Longley
Horse Lords, The Common Task
– By Jude ThomasListening in: Vision and Revision
– By Scott GuttermanBeautiful, Goodbye
– By George Grella
Dance
We Will Dance Again: The Dance Community Responds Part 1
– By Katy DammersANNIE-B PARSON with Ivan Talijancic
PAM TANOWITZ with Susan Yung
Dancing Alone
– By George Kan
Film
Challenging Assumptions: Images Festival's in support of sex work Program
– By Katherine ConnellPhilosophy For Living
– By Matt TurnerZIA ANGER with Mike Tully
Fiction
Allentown, Saturday
– By Gabriel BumpBeyond the Sea
– By Paul LynchDrifts
– By Kate ZambrenoQuotients
– By Tracy O’Neill
Poetry
Stepping Back
– By Anne Waldmannine
– By John Colettifour
– By Rachelle RahméThe Decree
– By Alamgir HashmiMcClure
– By Bob Holmanfour
– By Alice BurdickThe Scatterer
– By Jordan Davisseven
– By Joseph DonahueLunar letters
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Art Books
The Outwardness of Art: Selected Writings of Adrian Stokes
– By Jonah Goldman KayDayanita Singh's Zakir Hussain Maquette
– By Megan N. LibertyJoel Sternfeld's American Prospects
– By Greta RainbowExcerpts from the 1971 Journal of Rosemary Mayer
– By Kate Silzer
Field Notes
Editor's Note: This is What History Looks Like
– By Paul MattickNormality is Death
– By Jacob BlumenfeldWhere Is She?
– By Soledad Álvarez VelascoPrison in the Virus Time
– By Keith "Malik" WashingtonHigher Education and the Remaking of the Working Class
– By Gary RothThe Pandemics of Interpretation
– By John W. W. ZeiserPropaganda and Mutual Aid in the time of COVID-19
– By Andreas PetrossiantsClass Power on Zero-Hours
– By Jarrod Shanahan
The Miraculous
6. [Downtown, West 57th Street]
– By Raphael Rubinstein7. [Lower Broadway]
– By Raphael Rubinstein8. [Chelsea]
– By Raphael Rubinstein9. [Lower East Side]
– By Raphael Rubinstein10. [Brooklyn Heights]
– By Raphael Rubinstein