October 2020
Featuring interviews with Gina Beavers, Michael Joo, Erik Lindman, Odili Donald Odita, and Richard Shiff. Guest Critic Amanda Gluibizzi: “On Edge(s).”
The “October 2020” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on October 6, 2020.
Critics Page
On Edge(s)
– By Amanda GluibizziEdges/Limits. Edges/Tableau
– By Laura LisbonPainted Sides: Bringing Visual and Emotional Energies Together
– By Maija MiettinenPainting without Edge
– By Suzanne SilverSQUEAK CARNWATH with Amanda Gluibizzi
Embarrassment of Edges
– By Aimee NgThe frame that suffocates the image
– By Amy Knight PowellSide Issues
– By George RushThe Ec-centric Gaze
– By César Paternosto
Publisher's Message
Dear Friends and Readers,
– By Phong H. Bui
ArtSeen
Andrew LaMar Hopkins: Créolité
– By Will FenstermakerBahar Sabzevari: Gaze and Glance
– By Jonathan GoodmanLeeza Meksin: Turret Tops
– By Lizzy De VitaBeverly Fishman: I Dream of Sleep
– By William CorwinBetween the Lines
– By Bruna ShapiraGayleen Aiken: Interiors
– By Lyle RexerAndrew Lyght: Second Nature
– By Barbara RoseFicre Ghebreyesus: Gate to the Blue
– By Tausif NoorGedi Sibony: The Terrace Theater
– By Blake OettingAdrián Villar Rojas: La fin de l’imagination
– By Alexis DahanPark Kyung Ryul: Tense
– By Jonathan GoodmanC.T. McClusky: Circus Surreal
– By Josephine ZarkovichHarold Ancart: Traveling Light
– By Susan HarrisJulian Schnabel: The Sad Lament of the Brave, Let the Wind Speak and Other Paintings
– By David RhodesMelissa Vogley Woods
– By Jo-ey TangTaney Roniger: Never The Same River
– By Mary JonesPeter Doig
– By Terry R. MyersToyin Ojih Odutola: Tell Me A Story, I Don’t Care If It’s True
– By Amber Jamilla MusserGrayson Cox and Joan Waltemath: Apparatus
– By Cigdem AsatekinAn-My Lê: On Contested Terrain
– By Louis BlockSuzan Frecon & Patricia Treib
– By Louis BlockLuchita Hurtado: Together Forever
– By Susan BreyerLily Stockman: Seed, Stone, Mirror, Match
– By Elizabeth BuheJoan Snyder: The Summer Becomes a Room
– By William CorwinLauretta Vinciarelli: Intimate Distances
– By William CorwinDuke Riley: Welcome Back to Wasteland Fishing
– By Will FenstermakerLéonie Guyer and Rebeca Bollinger: Threshold
– By Hannah Maier-KatkinClaudia Hart: The Ruins
– By Charlotte KentJesse Chun: SULLAE 술래
– By Diana Seo Hyung LeeSuzan Frecon: oil paintings
– By Alfred Mac AdamJoanna Pousette-Dart: Floating World
– By Tom McGlynnFerrari Sheppard: Heroines of Innocence
– By Yxta Maya MurrayAlvin Armstrong: This Place Looks Different
– By Amber Officer-NarvasaJoiri Minaya: I'm here to entertain you, but only during my shift
– By Rachel RemickJim Shaw: Dad’s Drawings
– By Lyle RexerWill Ryman: Dinner III
– By David RhodesAndy Goldsworthy: Red Flags
– By Jason RosenfeldDavid Shrigley: DO NOT TOUCH THE WORMS
– By Claire PhillipsBerlin Biennial 11: The Crack Begins Within
– By Gillian SneedSilky Shoemaker: Billboard Project
– By Ksenia M. SobolevaJosh Smith: Spectre
– By Phyllis TuchmanErik Lindman: Fal/Parsi
– By Barbara A. MacAdamJulia Phillips: New Album
– By Jared QuintonVantage Points
– By Hovey BrockChristo: Show Cases, Show Windows & Store Fronts, 1963-1966
– By Joseph NechvatalGabriel Orozco
– By Jonathan Goodman
Books
LINCOLN MICHEL, SAM J. MILLER, MONIQUE LABAN, ESHANI SURYA, and KEVIN NGUYEN with Carissa Chesanek
David Levi Strauss's
Co-Illusion: Dispatches from the End of Communication– By Hovey BrockDon DeLillo’s The Silence
– By M.C. ArmstrongVote Now or Forever Hold Your Peace
– By Harry FederRone Shavers’s Silverfish
– By James W. FuerstTYREE DAYE with Tony Leuzzi
Cristina Rivera Garza’s Grieving: Dispatches from a Wounded Country
– By Yvonne C. GarrettSayaka Murata's Earthlings: A Novel
– By Yvonne C. GarrettStories by Chloe N. Clark & Jen Fawkes
– By John DominiAoko Matsuda’s Where The Wild Ladies Are
– By Elizabeth BlockDaddies and Divas: MICHAEL MONTLACK with Soraya Shalforoosh
Sarah Sala’s Devil’s Lake
– By Kiran Bhat
Music
BRENDON RANDALL-MYERS with Vanessa Ague
Tallinn Music Week
– By Martin LongleyThe 83rd, Figure of Noise
– By S. DavidCATHERINE CHRISTER HENNIX with Marcus Boon, Part 2
– By Marcus BoonListening In: Olivier Conan, The Soul of Barbès
– By Scott Gutterman
Dance
SHAMEL PITTS & ITAI ZWECKER with Jonah Goldman Kay
On Black Death and Fundraising
– By Sydnie L. Mosley“I have the desire to fight”
– By Emily May
Film
FIDMarseille 2020: A Living Archive
– By Matt Turner190 Seconds in Lockdown: Usama Alshaibi & Adam Sekuler’s Cinema-19
– By Madeleine SeidelDocumentary as Holistic Activism: Deia Schlosberg's The Story of Plastic
– By Nick Bennett
Theater
“I Could Understand a Person, If That Person Was a…”
– By Kyle TurnerRehearsing a Self: David Adjmi on Lot Six, A New Memoir and An Outsider's Anthem
– By Sarah Lunnie“Instead of call-out culture, we’re calling them in”
– By Diep Tran
Poetry
four
– By Anthony RobinsonSix From My Daily Actions, or The Meteorites
– By S. Brook Corfmanfive
– By Tessa Bolsoverfrom Creve Coeur
– By Robert Fitterman
Art Books
Julia Christensen’s Upgrade Available
– By Hall W. RockefellerRyan Debolski’s LIKE
– By Sarah MorozNele Wynants’s When Fact Is Fiction: Documentary Art in the Post-Truth Era
– By Tiernan MorganSol LeWitt: Not to Be Sold for More Than $100 and Sol LeWitt: Folds & Rips
– By Megan N. Liberty
ArTonic
The Enduring Spark: The Work and Legacy of The Gordon Parks Foundation
– By Yínká Elújọba
Special Report
Virtual Architecture: Art, Pandemic, Protest
– By Alan Gilbert
Field Notes
Money Magic
– By Paul MattickHealth Self-Defense in a São Paulo Favela
–RAQUEL DE ANDA with Ethel Palacios Shipton
Politics with Normal Characteristics
– By Adam Theron-Lee RenschBeyond “Racial Capitalism”
– By Charlie PostThe Dangerous Seduction of Reform
– By Jarrod Shanahan and Zhandarka Kurti
The Miraculous
21. (Downtown)
– By Raphael Rubinstein22. (The East Village and Points Beyond)
– By Raphael Rubinstein23. (Midtown, Times Square, Washington Square Park, Madison Square Garden)
– By Raphael Rubinstein24. (Park Avenue)
– By Raphael Rubinstein25. (SoHo)
– By Raphael Rubinstein