November 2020
Featuring interviews with Jeff Elrod, Catherine Gund, Leslie Hewitt, and Kent Monkman. Guest Critic Ralph Lemon: “The Prompt.”
The “November 2020” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on November 10, 2020.
Critics Page
The Prompt
– By Ralph LemonMr. Brown-Guy Falls To Leave
– By Pope.LNote on Surrender
– By Fred MotenEssayons
– By Will Rawls and Thomas LaxSome Thoughts on a Constellation of Things Seen and Felt
– By Adrienne EdwardsNegroes in their prime
– By Kevin BeasleyOceanic, porous, and monstrous thoughts
– By Diane Lima
Publisher's Message
Dear Friends and Readers,
– By Phong H. Bui
ArtSeen
Louise Fishman: Ballin’ the Jack
– By Ksenia M. SobolevaAbstraction in the Black Diaspora
– By Elizabeth BuheDonald Judd
– By Lyle RexerRafael Domenech: Bad infinities: laboratory of fragments
– By Yasi AlipourTanya Aguiñiga: Extraño
– By Jared QuintonGina Osterloh
– By Susan BreyerShahzia Sikander: Weeping Willows, Liquid Tongues
– By William CorwinTau Lewis: Triumphant Alliance of the Ubiquitous Blossoms of Incarnate Souls
– By Lillian O’Brien DavisShari Mendelson: Animals, Idols, and Us
– By Ann McCoyInteriors: hello from the living room
– By Alfred Mac AdamLeilah Babirye: Ebika Bya ba Kuchu mu Buganda (Kuchu Clans of Buganda)
– By Elizabeth BuheSari Carel: The Shape of Play
– By Naomi LevSusan Bee: Anywhere Out of the World: New Paintings, 2017–2020
– By Yínká ElújọbaCecily Brown
– By Jason RosenfeldTitus Kaphar: From a Tropical Space
– By Dan CameronCompanion Pieces: New Photography 2020
– By Graham W. BellMary Jones: Attachments
– By Hovey BrockSue Coe: It Can Happen Here
– By David CarrierDiversity Billboard Art Project
– By David CarrierLuca Giordano: The Triumph of the Neapolitan Painting
– By David CarrierAkeem Smith: No Gyal Can Test
– By Darla MiganTjebbe Beekman: Symbiosis
– By Mary Ann CawsBillie Zangewa: Wings of Change
– By Ann C. CollinsBruce Nauman
– By Amanda GluibizziAnna Horvath: precarious dazzle
– By Alex JenGenevieve Goffman: Here Forever
– By Alex A. JonesRodney McMillian: Body Politic
– By Yxta Maya MurrayBaris Gokturk: Public Secret
– By Bat-Ami RivlinWayne Thiebaud 100: Paintings, Prints, and Drawings
– By Hearne PardeeShuzo Azuchi Gulliver: Cinematic Illumination
– By Madeleine SeidelOrbits of Known and Unknown Objects: SFAI Histories / MATRIX 277
– By Sam KormanAmy Sillman: Twice Removed
– By Phyllis TuchmanTishan Hsu: Liquid Circuit
– By Simon WuPeggy Ahwesh: Heart_Land
– By Olivia GauthierTantra: Enlightenment to Revolution
– By Toby KampsAntoine Catala: alphabet
– By Nina Wolpow
Books
ANDREW ERVIN with Matthew Simmons
GREG MANIA with Melissa Faliveno
ROD KESSLER with Brooke Delp
RICARDO MONTEZ with Theodore Kerr
Rumaan Alam’s Leave the World Behind
– By Joseph PeschelDanielle Evans’s The Office of Historical Corrections
– By Joseph PeschelCharles Bernstein’s Near/Miss
– By Neeli CherkovskiTrump, the American Dream, and the Frontier
– By Joshua Sperber
Music
Home is Nowhere
– By George GrellaLucrecia Dalt
– By Martin LongleyListening In: Illuminating the Landscape
– By Scott GuttermanTHURSTON MOORE with Rob Duguay
Dance
Simulations: Living Sculptures on the Public Stage
– By George KanVahram Zaryan's Perf festival: Text, Gesture, and Translation
– By Christopher AtamianBILL SHANNON with Nicole Loeffler-Gladstone
Film
A Posthumous Palindrome: Raúl Ruiz & Valeria Sarmiento’s The Tango of the Widower and Its Distorting Mirror
– By Ethan SpiglandJoy in Spite of Everything: Steve McQueen’s Small Axe
– By Madeleine SeidelSelf-Making and the Travelogue: Courtney Stephens's Terra Femme
– By Caitlin Quinlan
Fiction
Igifu
–from Difficult Light
–Editor’s Note
– By Will Chancellor
Poetry
A Library Alone Is Not a Poets House
– By E.J. McAdamsHow to Breathe Underwater: The Pandemician’s Reprisal
– By Edwin Torres“Herewith the Prologue:”
– By Aditi MachadoMuwashshaḥa Qalandariyya
–Guide for the Discouraged
– By Albert Mobiliosix
– By Sara Larsennine
– By Maureen Owenthree
– By Michael RothenbergRiding Death
– By Joseph LeaseA Conversation Between Maggie Dubris & Bob Rosenthal
Art Books
Gordon Parks: The Atmosphere of Crime, 1957
– By Re'al ChristianWomen in Concrete Poetry 1959–1979
– By Megan N. LibertyFelix Gonzalez-Torres: Photostats
– By Lee Ann NormanBrick Press’s N.E. Thing Co.: Companies Act
– By Jennie WaldowDejan Lukić and Nik Kosieradzki’s The Oyster: Or, Radial Suppleness
– By Sahar Khraibani
Field Notes
Happy Days
– By Paul MattickA Past That Is Not Past
– By Frances CathrynWhite Fear and Safety in the Struggle for Housing Justice
– By Jerald IsseksJASON E. SMITH with Tony Smith
Andreas Malm's Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency
– By Max AjlJEAN-LOUIS COHEN with Ross Wolfe
Inflation. Government Policy, and Profits—an Exchange
The Miraculous
26. (The Museum of Modern Art, The Brooklyn Museum)
– By Raphael Rubinstein27. (Ridge Street, Attorney Street, South Bronx)
– By Raphael Rubinstein28. (A series of telephone booths in Midtown Manhattan, several addresses in the East Village and an unidentified location in the Bronx)
– By Raphael Rubinstein29. (Saint Marks Place)
– By Raphael Rubinstein30. (Harlem, Flushing Meadows)
– By Raphael Rubinstein