February 2021
Featuring interviews with Etel Adnan, Sarah Crowner, Tishan Hsu, and Jenny Saville. Guest Critics Tiago Gualberto and Sara Roffino: “Only Anthropophagy Unites Us?”
The “February 2021” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on February 3, 2021.
Publisher's Message
Dear Friends and Readers,
– By Phong H. Bui
Critics Page
Only Anthropophagy Unites Us?
–Note from the Translator
– By Ramón J. SternWe are Borg!
– By Renato Araújo da Silvaa country of anonymous pain no more
– By rafael amorimKa'aguy Porã
–The Almost-Brazilians
–Anthropophagous Manifesto from the Periphery
– By Sergio VazReAnthropophagy
– By Denilson BaniwaClaudia Andujar: anthropophagie?, fényképezés, yanõmami!
–Attacking the Biennial
–At Any Time, Hard Meat
– By Caetano DiasPlas Ayiti (Neon Project)
– By Milla JungAntonio Dias and the Kidnapping of Pop Art
– By Luiz Renato MartinsSons of the Nation
– By María Iñigo ClavoThe Originality of the Herd of Cannibals
– By Thays BerbeI Continue My “Auto-phagy” and Winds Gust Over My Own Ashes
– By Caetano DiasCotton Candy in Grandma's Hair
– By Viviane A. Pistache
ArtSeen
Joyce Pensato
– By Nick BennettMonir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian: Mirror-works and Drawings (2004–2016)
– By William CorwinEddie Martinez: Inside Thoughts
– By Barbara A. MacAdamPHOTO | BRUT
– By Lyle RexerTara Donovan: Intermediaries
– By Jason RosenfeldCanal Street Research Association: Shanzhai Lyric
– By Anna HarsanyiDeborah Roberts: I'm
– By Barbara PurcellEric Fischl: Meditations on Melancholia
– By Phyllis TuchmanLindy Lee: Moon in a Dewdrop
– By Paul GladstonJane Freilicher: Parts of a World
– By Jonathan GoodmanKrištof Kintera: THE END OF FUN!
– By Daniel PatemanJulia Rooney: @SomeHighTide
– By Cigdem AsatekinMartha Diamond: 1980-1989
– By David RhodesVida Americana and the Promise of “America”
– By Cathryn JijónMike Ballou: The word of Bird is Cured
– By William CorwinFernanda Laguna: As Everybody
– By Maddie KlettEmily Mason: Chelsea Paintings
– By Elizabeth BuheSamara Golden: Upstairs at Steve’s
– By Elizabeth BuhePatchwork
– By Barbara CalderónRachel Eulena Williams: Tracing Memory
– By Dan CameronThe Asia Society Triennial
– By David Carrier, Yung-Wen (Mag) Yao, and Paul GladstonRembrandt's Orient
– By David CarrierAleksandar Duravcevic: Empire
– By William CorwinWolf Kahn & Emily Mason
– By David EbonyFelipe Baeza: Through the Flesh to Elsewhere
– By Olivia GauthierHiwa K: Do you remember what you are burning?
– By Ruba Al-SweelThis Longing Vessel
– By Zoë HopkinsCross-cuts
– By Alfred Mac AdamElizabeth Schwaiger: From the Dark Sea
– By Barbara A. MacAdamSalman Toor: How Will I Know
– By Peter MurphyGEST
– By Yxta Maya MurrayJennifer Packer: The Eye Is Not Satisfied With Seeing
– By Claire PhillipsJack Tworkov: Towards Nirvana / Works from the 70s
– By David RhodesLynette Yiadom-Boakye: Fly in League With the Night
– By Bartolomeo SalaHaim Steinbach: 1991 – 1993
– By Katherine Siboni11:11
– By Angela StaritaMartha Diamond: 1980-1989
– By Nina WolpowHelmut Federle: Basics on Composition
– By David RhodesJustin Matherly: Compost
– By Ann McCoy
Books
ALBERT MOBILIO with Tony Leuzzi
Randa Jarrar’s Love Is an Ex-Country
– By Yvonne C. GarrettRose Szabo’s What Big Teeth
– By Jacquelyn Marie GalloLauren Oyler’s Fake Accounts
– By Yvonne C. GarrettERICA BUIST with J.C. Hallman
BRANDON HOBSON with Andrew Ervin
Matthew Salesses’s Craft in the Real World
– By Yvonne C. GarrettSigrid Nunez’s What Are You Going Through
– By John KazanjianLAURA CRONK with Justin Sherwood
Music
Universal Tonality: The Life and Music of William Parker
– By George GrellaAzu Tiwaline and Her Saharan Electro-Dub Pulse
– By Martin LongleyHanging On with Don Giovanni Records
– By Rob DuguayHindsight
– By Scott Gutterman
Dance
ANH VO with J. Alex Mathews
Continuation and the Break: Notes on Black Lives and Tap Dance
– By Orlando HernándezRetreat from the Divided States of America
– By Ivan Talijancic
Film
“They’re Not Normal People”: Azazel Jacobs’s French Exit
– By Madeline WhittleFERNANDA VALADEZ and ASTRID RONDERO with Caitlin Quinlan
Rebel Against Reality: The Spheres of Henri Plaat
– By Marius HrdyThe People's Demands Are Lawful: Jill Li's Lost Course
– By Matt TurnerCommunion and Expression: “21st Century Japan: Films from 2001–2020” at Japan Society
– By Jaime Grijalba
Fiction
Editor’s Note
– By Will ChancellorSymbology
– By Betsy M. Narváezfrom The President Shop
– By Vesna Maric
Poetry
“The beauty of this world knocked me off my feet”:
The Poetry of Dick Gallup– By Nick Sturmfrom the she said dialogues: flesh memory
– By Akilah OliverLaDavid
– By Gabrielle Danielsfrom Except for This Unseen Thread
–from City Dwellers/After Brecht
– By Owen Hillthree
– By Katie Fowleyfive
– By Trevor Ketnerfrom Petrarchan Ditties
– By Adam StraussFriend: A Tribute to Jean Valentine
– By Jaime Shearn Coan
Art Books
Designing a New Tradition: Loïs Mailou Jones and the Aesthetics of Blackness
– By Karen ChernickLuis Camnitzer's One Number is Worth One Word
– By Leah GallantMartine Syms's Shame Space
– By Megan N. LibertyWorld War 3 Illustrated’s Shameless Feminists
– By Lucy LippardAby Warburg's Bilderatlas Mnemosyne
– By David Carrier
Special Report
Praising the Port Authority Terminal
– By Blake GopnikBenjamin & Bernie Meme: Against Aestheticization
– By Ekalan Hou
Field Notes
The Coup That Wasn't
– By Paul MattickFault Line of the American Civil War
– By Sandro MoisoThe Longue Durée of Racialized Capitalism
– By Satnam VirdeeA Response to Satnam Virdee's The Longue Durée of Racialized Capitalism
– By Charlie PostCurating Ridgewood
– By Max MoorheadA Response to Max Moorhead's Curating Ridgewood
– By Christina WilkinsonA Response to Christina Wilkinson
– By Max MoorheadThe Money Theory of the State
– By Jamie Merchant
The Miraculous
36. (West 43rd Street)
– By Raphael Rubinstein37. (West 8th Street)
– By Raphael Rubinstein38. (Williamsburg, Pier 88)
– By Raphael Rubinstein39. (Times Square, Columbus Circle, Union Square)
– By Raphael Rubinstein40. (330 West 42nd Street)
– By Raphael Rubinstein