Dec/Jan 20–21
Featuring interviews with Jo Baer, Theaster Gates, Brad Kahlhamer, and Jim Melchert. Guest Critic Jasmine Wahi: “Notes from a Sunken Third Place.”
The “Dec/Jan 20–21” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on December 14, 2020.
Critics Page
Notes from a Sunken Third Place
– By Jasmine Wahi3 poems
– By K. Desireé MilwoodThe Project as Institution and Individual
– By Tiana Webb EvansFreedom Dreaming
– By Rujeko Hockley“We Are Our Own Monuments”: Dispatch from Philly
– By Paul M. FarberImpossible (2020)
– By Chantal Fischzang and Rebecca P. JampolLiar's Pie #3
– By Kambui Olujimi/Ten notes to decolonize vision
/Ten notes to my younger self
/Ten notes to a younger artist
/Ten notes to remember– By Jaret VaderaGo Forth
– By Kaneza SchaalIntersectional Nomad
– By Shoshanna WeinbergerJason Elizondo with David Antonio Cruz
Sutured Futures: Composite Bodies and Queer Futurity
– By Cat Dawson…and you called it entertainment. / Black Girl was shot.
– By Jasmine Mans
Publisher's Message
Dear Friends and Readers,
– By Phong H. Bui
ArtSeen
Freddy Rodríguez: Early Paintings 1970–1990
– By Susan BreyerAlienation ?
– By Robert C. MorganOtto Piene: Rasterbilder / Ceramics
– By Tom McGlynnCauleen Smith: Mutualities
– By Sasha PanaramMeg Lipke
– By Tom McGlynnMORE TIME LESS
– By Sophia MaART CLUB2000: Selected Works 1992–1999
– By Sam KormanLuther Hampton
– By Earnestine JenkinsTITAN
– By Bruna ShapiraHulda Guzmán: my flora, my fauna
– By Will FenstermakerWassef Boutros-Ghali: A Retrospective
– By Kaleem HawaJack Whitten: I AM THE OBJECT
– By Dan CameronFrank Auerbach: Selected Works, 1978–2016
– By Tom McGlynnRonnie Landfield: Concurrence
– By Tom McGlynnYuji Agematsu: Times Square Times (Kodak All-Stars)
– By Peter BrockJames Luna: Take a Picture with a Real Indian
– By Susan HarrisPhilip Mueller: Last Days of Soft Machine
– By Nadine KhalilJames Hyde: Public Sculpture
– By Hovey BrockGenesis Belanger: Through the Eye of a Needle
– By Holly BushmanMichelangelo Pistoletto
– By Ann C. CollinsAstrid Kajsa Nylander: minijobs
– By Ann C. CollinsJohn Edmonds: A Sidelong Glance
– By Jean DykstraJulie Mehretu: about the space of half an hour
– By William CorwinTom Sachs: Handmade Paintings
– By Jonathan GoodmanAriana Papademetropoulos: Unweave a Rainbow
– By Kathleen HeftySanford Biggers: Codeswitch
– By Adriana FurlongMary Mattingly: Pipelines and Permafrost
– By Charlotte KentThe Archive to Come
– By Charlotte KentJoseph Holtzman: Six Recent Paintings
– By Gilles Heno-CoeVivian Springford
– By Barbara A. MacAdamRosTA
– By Olivia GilmoreJonathan Lyndon Chase: Big Wash
– By Amber Jamilla MusserLuigi Ghirri: The Idea of Building
– By David RhodesLuisa Rabbia: From Mitosis to Rainbow
– By Jason RosenfeldTschabalala Self: Cotton Mouth
– By Osman Can YerebakanMark Mulroney and Soyeon Shin
– By Nina WolpowTheaster Gates: Black Vessel
– By Robert C. MorganAlexis Rockman: Lost Cargo: Watercolors
– By Alfred Mac AdamMichael Clark: Cosmic Dancer
– By Alex Bacon
Books
The Best of the Brooklyn Rail's Books in 2020
– By Joseph SalvatoreIn Conversation: SUSAN SHAPIRO with Stephanie Siu
– By Stephanie SiuScholastique Mukasonga’s Igifu
– By John DominiPANKAJ MISHRA with Pac Pobric
Vincent Van Gogh: A Life in Letters
– By Joshua SperlingJonathan Lethem’s The Arrest
– By Joseph PeschelWilhelm Reich’s The Mass Psychology of Fascism
– By William StroudKevin Carey's Murder in the Marsh
– By Carissa Chesanek
Music
Opera in Our New World
– By George GrellaListening In: The Art of Intuitive Engineering
– By Scott GuttermanThe Free Musketeers
– By Martin LongleyAnn O’Aro
– By Adolf Alzuphar
Dance
The Many Face(t)s of Michael Clark
– By Maximiliane LeuschnerLiving Through History: ABSCONDED #EjectionDay2020
– By Noa WeissJANESSA CLARK with Ivan Talijancic
Film
Destination Out: Cinematic Illumination, More Than Cinema and Japanese Expanded Cinema and Intermedia
– By Steve MacfarlaneModes of Resistance: Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival 2020
– By Marius HrdyCitizen Ghost: David Fincher's Mank
– By Madeleine Seidel
Theater
I Want You in My Zoom
– By Eliza BentThe Jerk Comes Full Circle: Reflections on Developing, Dramaturging, and Directing Fake Friends’ Cinematic and Theatrical Feat
– By Rory Pelsue, Cat Rodríguez, and Ariel SibertHow the Flea Become the Fled
– By Joey Sims
Fiction
Editor’s Note
– By Will Chancellorfrom Divorcing
– By Susan Taubesfrom The Boiled in Between
– By Helen Marten
Poetry
Lewis Warsh: Part of His History
– By Steve ClayBrooklyn 2020
– By Steven Taylorsix
– By Rae Armantrouttwo
– By Robert Hershonfrom The Songs of Raimbaut D’Aurenga
–seven
– By Pat Nolanfrom Except for This Unseen Thread
–from Tec Alliance
– By Roberto Harrison
Art Books
Ray Johnson and William S. Wilson: Frog Pond Splash
– By Mark BlochRenee Gladman’s One Long Black Sentence
– By Megan N. LibertyKarlheinz Weinberger’s Photographs: Together & Alone
– By Sarah MorozSon Ni’s The Well-Tempered Us
– By Jordan SpencerHANNAH WHITAKER with Naomi Elias
20 Best Art Books of 2020
ArTonic
Full Circle: The Holt/Smithson Foundation
– By Alan Gilbert
Field Notes
How Could It Get Worse?
– By John W. W. ZeiserThe American Crisis: A Trans-Atlantic View
– By Charles Reeve“Won’t somebody please think of the children?”
– By David Schmidt
The Miraculous
31. (27 Cooper Square)
– By Raphael Rubinstein32. (A six-story building on Cooper Square)
– By Raphael Rubinstein33. (10 Cooper Square, 5 Cooper Square)
– By Raphael Rubinstein34. (27 Cooper Square)
– By Raphael Rubinstein35. (48 Cooper Square)
– By Raphael Rubinstein