April 2021
Featuring interviews with Allison Janae Hamilton, Paul McCarthy, Robert Polidori, and Rachel Eulena Williams. Guest Critic Mahogany L. Browne: “The Proximity of Violence & Our Black Woman Bodies.”
The “April 2021” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on April 7, 2021.
Critics Page
Proximity of Violence & Our Black Woman Bodies
– By Mahogany L. BrowneA Sketch about Genocide
– By Tongo Eisen-MartinSo What If I’m Not Ready To Leave Yet?
– By Adam FalknerUntitled
– By Joel L. DanielsFade In
– By Cathy Linh CheKeith Haring says every audience member is an artist because they create the meaning of a piece of art
– By Jon SandsNature’s survival Apparatus
– By Camryn BrunoIllustrations by Rico Frederick
– By Rico Fredericksex appeal
– By Caroline Rothsteinmiscarriage
– By Hala AlyanOn Loyalty
– By Suzi Q Smith
Publisher's Message
Dear Friends and Readers,
– By Phong H. Bui
ArtSeen
Broken Dishes
– By William CorwinTiffany Sia: Slippery When Wet
– By Maddie KlettAnn Craven: Animals Birds Flowers Moons
– By David RhodesMarina Xenofontos: I DON’T SLEEP, I DREAM
– By Chloe StavrouMarina Perez Simão: Tudo é e não é
– By Osman Can YerebakanRebecca Shore: Green Light
– By Jared QuintonClayton Patterson: Beauty Mark
– By Nicholas HeskesMan Ray & Picabia
– By Robert C. MorganTalia Levitt: My Moon
– By Joachim Pissarro and Dana Notinejc lenochan: UNDOING WHITE MESS
– By Billie AnaniaAdam Straus: Still Looking for the Promised Land
– By Joyce BeckensteinTomoko Amaki Abe: Respire
– By Jonathan GoodmanKenneth Tam: Silent Spikes
– By Helen GeorgasAuriea Harvey: Year Zero
– By Charlotte KentAdam Henry: God Speed Speed Demon
– By William CorwinStephanie Syjuco: Native Resolution
– By Ekalan HouPeter Kennard: On Hannah Arendt: ‘The Concept of History’
– By Bartolomeo SalaChloe Wise: Thank You For The Nice Fire
– By Susan HarrisRobert Grosvenor and David Novros
– By Amanda GluibizziChitra Ganesh: A city will share her secrets if you know how to ask
– By Amber Jamilla MusserLee Krasner: Collage Paintings 1938–1981
– By Mary Ann CawsOtis Houston Jr.
– By Zoë HopkinsWilliam Corwin: Green Ladder
– By Charlotte KentTad Beck: Eyes Of
– By Yxta Maya MurrayCordy Ryman: Constellations
– By David RhodesYou Are Not Wonderful Just Because You Are a Mother
– By Robert R. ShaneLost & Found
– By Hovey BrockBat-Ami Rivlin: No Can Do
– By Nicholas HeskesDavid Alekhuogie: Naïveté
– By Graham W. BellAlexander Calder: Modern from the Start
– By Brandt JunceauChloe Wise: Thank You For The Nice Fire
– By Alfred Mac AdamBoyle Family: Nothing is more radical than the facts
– By Mark BlochKyoung eun Kang: TRACES: 28 Days in Elizabeth Murray's Studio
– By Robert R. ShaneJustine Kurland: SCUMB Manifesto
– By Robert SlifkinKaron Davis: No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
– By Folasade OlogunduduGiuseppe Penone: Leaves of Grass
– By Phyllis TuchmanDegree Zero: Drawing at Mid Century
– By Barbara A. MacAdamOlafur Eliasson: Your ocular relief
– By Jason RosenfeldLiliane Tomasko: We Sleep Where We Fall
– By David Carrier
Books
You Are Where You Are: Sarah Robinson’s Architecture is a Verb
– By Taney RonigerBarry Windsor-Smith’s Monsters
– By Jason RosenfeldThe Chronicler of Obsession: Jaime Clarke’s Minor Characters
– By Laura van den BergViet Thanh Nguyen’s The Committed
– By John DominiJosiah Thompson’s Last Second in Dallas
– By M.C. ArmstrongA Real Slut in the Making: Melissa Febos’s Girlhood Through the Lens of Silvia Federici's Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women
– By Corinne ManningAlexandra Délano Alonso with Sandra Rozental
Maria Stepanova’s In Memory of Memory
– By Nolan KellyHaruki Murakami’s First Person Singular
– By Andrew ErvinJ. Nicole Jones’s Low Country: A Southern Memoir
– By Yvonne C. GarrettGina Frangello with Kathleen Rooney
Music
A Year With Swollen Appendices: Brian Eno’s Diary
– By George GrellaFrom Space to Environment, Fluxus to Furniture Music: The Women of Kankyō Ongaku
– By Sadie Rebecca StarnesLogan Richardson and The Jazz Forum Talents
– By Martin LongleyListening In: Jakob Bro, A Dream Reconstructed
– By Scott Gutterman
Theater
“We’re Always Skirting That Breaking Point”
– By Joey SimsOne Step Forward, Two Steps Back: Broadway’s Jagged Little Journey Toward Nonbinary Inclusion
– By Christian LewisThe Industry Standard is Producing a New Generation of Theater
– By Cynthia J. Tong
Fiction
from MONA
–An Ecstasy of Parting
– By Meryl Branch-McTiernan
Poetry
three
– By Daniel Borzutzkytwo
– By John Yauthree
– By Nada Gordonthree
– By James Fujinami Moorethree
– By Joyelle McSweeneyseven
– By Elaine EquiDeath Poems
– By Michael McClureHomage to Ferl, the Owner of the Building
– By Garrett Caples
Art Books
Ming Smith: An Aperture Monograph
– By Re'al ChristianMaryanne Amacher’s Selected Writings and Interviews
– By Nicole KaackNozomi Yamashita's Photo Zines
– By Megan N. LibertyBahia Shehab and Haytham Nawar’s A History of Arab Graphic Design
– By N.A. MansourAntonia Contro and Elizabeth Bradfield’s Theorem
– By Gabrielle Bates
ArTonic
CUE Art Foundation
– By Ann C. Collins
Field Notes
Reading Ridgewood
– By Rico CleffiThe Conspiracy Plot
– By Charles ReeveFake News and Real Conditions
– By Nick VosGoverning the Ungovernable
– By Pavlos Roufos
The Miraculous
46. (West 22nd Street)
– By Raphael Rubinstein47. (Madison Square Park)
– By Raphael Rubinstein48. (Houston Street and LaGuardia Place)
– By Raphael Rubinstein49. (Bedford-Stuyvesant)
– By Raphael Rubinstein50. (Central Park)
– By Raphael Rubinstein