September 2020
Featuring interviews with Michael Armitage, Dawoud Bey, Torkwase Dyson, Max Hollein, and Tony Oursler. Guest Critic Elizabeth Bishop “World on Fire.”
The “September 2020” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on September 8, 2020.
Critics Page
World on Fire
– By Elizabeth BishopPandemic Poetics: An Eulogy and Manifesto in an AntiBlack World
– By Gwendolyn Baxley and Yolanda Sealey-RuizBlack Joy Is Not Canceled
– By Damaris DunnOn Confinement
– By Nicole HamiltonOn Circular Economy
– By Regina AndersonAnti-Racism at the Borderlands of Whiteness
– By Nassim ZerriffiPeace by Understanding
– By Elizabeth Bishop and Carolyn EanesThe Real Virus
– By Henry Beltrán PérezFrom Beirut, Borikén, and Brooklyn with Love
– By Meghan McDermottThe Discord
– By Ioanna OpideeAm I Dying, Mister?
– By The Lost Child of Emma Goldman and Bernie Sanders
Publisher's Message
Dear Friends and Readers,
– By Phong H. Bui
ArtSeen
(Nothing but) Flowers
– By Alfred Mac AdamGeorge Ortman: Against Abstraction
– By David RhodesSummer McCorkle: des abends
– By Ann C. CollinsIsaac Aden: Vespers and Auroras
– By David Carriererotics: towards a poetics of the liminal
– By Lucia HinojosaOur World is Burning
– By Olivia GilmoreDon Voisine: Time Out
– By Robert C. MorganTorkwase Dyson: Studies for Bird and Lava
– By Jason RosenfeldJennie C. Jones: Passing Tones and Broken Chords
– By Adriana FurlongRute Merk: SS20
– By William CorwinHélio Oiticica: Dance in My Experience
– By Bruna ShapiraArtist Stories from the Pandemic
– By Joyce BeckensteinJeffrey Gibson: Because Once You Enter My House It Becomes Our House
– By Susan BreyerArtemisia
– By David CarrierBanksy: A Visual Protest
– By David CarrierAn Alternative Canon: Art Dealers Collecting Outsider Art
– By Jonathan GoodmanSusan Philipsz: Muffled Drums/The Unquiet Grave
– By Nicholas HeskesFrank Jones: 114591
– By Nicholas HeskesThe Institute of Queer Ecology: Metamorphosis
– By Alex A. JonesThe Game of Life - Emergence in Generative Art
– By Charlotte KentPhilip Guston: What Endures
– By Barbara A. MacAdamJorinde Voigt
– By Barbara A. MacAdamScott Benzel: Mindless Pleasures
– By Yxta Maya MurrayMaureen Catbagan
– By Amber Jamilla MusserBarkley L. Hendricks: In the Paint
– By Lee Ann NormanAshley Garrett: Aegis
– By Robert R. ShaneAri Marcopoulos: Fast Breaks
– By Robert SlifkinNancy Shaver, Max Goldfarb & Sterrett Smith: fastness, slowness and Monstrous Beauty
– By Simon WuClotilde Jiménez: The Contest
– By Simon WuAndrew Sendor: InstaCOVID Drawings
– By Osman Can YerebakanSusan Philipsz: Sleep Close and Fast
– By Patrick J. Reed
Books
Vincent Katz’s Broadway for Paul
– By Greg MastersButtercream & Symbiosis: Joon Oluchi Lee's Neotenica
– By June Daowen LeiEmily Hashimoto's A World Between
– By Yvonne C. GarrettSulaiman Addonia's Silence Is My Mother Tongue
– By John DominiTranscendent Kingdom
– By Joseph PeschelThe Bass Rock
– By Yvonne C. GarrettElena Ferrante's The Lying Life of Adults
– By John DominiRed Pill
– By Joseph PeschelTHERESIA ENZENSBERGER with Elvia Wilk
KATHLEEN ROONEY with Robert Puccinelli
– By Robert PuccinelliJESSICA GROSS with David Burr Gerrard
Statement of Record: A Conversation with StatORec Editors Andrea Scrima and David Winner in conversation with Rebecca Chace
Benjamin Taylor's Here We Are
– By David Burr GerrardSteven Belletto's The Beats: A Literary History
– By Regina WeinreichI Hold a Wolf by the Ears
– By Carissa ChesanekNeeli Cherkovski's Hang On To The Yangtze River
– By Iván Argüelles
Music
Zillions of Things Become One Thing: CATHERINE CHRISTER HENNIX with Marcus Boon
– By Marcus BoonCitadelic: Astridpark, Gent, Belgium, 18th July 2020
– By Martin LongleyElectro-vodou
– By Adolf AlzupharListening In: All the Way Live
– By Scott GuttermanAMBROSE AKINMUSIRE with George Grella
Dance
The Grand Union: Accidental Anarchists of Downtown Dance
– By Aileen DowlingFinding Dis/orientation in Alexa West’s Triple Expo
– By Tiffany Jaeyeon ShinCHARMAIN WARREN and NORA CHIPAUMIRE with Gillian Jakab
“It's Our Time Now”: The Aesthetics of Horror in Jordan Peele's Us
– By Luke Williams
Theater
NEW Black Mutual Aid Carves a Path for What Support Can Be in a Revolution
– By Marcus ScottBrick by Brick by Buchheister
– By Charles QuittnerAs the World Slowly Reopens, Theaters Remain Closed, Leaving Furloughed Employees Uncertain About Their Futures
– By Joey Sims
Fiction
Clearance
– By María José Navia and Lily MeyerBrother and Sister
– By Alix Hawley
Art Books
Andrei Monastyrski’s Elementary Poetry
– By Nolan KellyJonathan Lyndon Chase’s wild wild Wild West / Haunting of the Seahorse
– By Megan N. LibertyMoyra Davey’s Index Cards
– By David RichardsonLisa Hanawalt’s
I Want You– By Wyatt SarafinHundertwasser For Future
– By Lily Majteles
Field Notes
The Rent is Too Damn High
– By Nathan Eisenberg and Richard HunsingerCorona Crisis Governmentality
– By Bini AdamczakWhat's the Use of a University?
– By Samuel Feldblum and John SchmidtAgainst the Wall
– By Hovey BrockSave CUNY
– By Carol LangMy Rosenberg COVID-19 Mask
– By Eric Gabriel LehmanThe Spiral
– By Phil A. Neel
The Miraculous
16. (Tribeca)
– By Raphael Rubinstein17. (The East Village, the Subway)
– By Raphael Rubinstein18. (Chelsea)
– By Raphael Rubinstein19. (The East Village, Queens)
– By Raphael Rubinstein20. (Canal Street)
– By Raphael Rubinstein