September 2021
Featuring interviews with McArthur Binion, John Currin, Avery Singer, and Mickalene Thomas. Guest Critic Francesca Pietropaolo: “How Long Is Now?”
The “September 2021” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on September 1, 2021.
Critics Page
How Long Is Now?
– By Francesca PietropaoloFrom March to May
– By Tatiana TrouvéSuspended Time
– By Andrea SegreOut of (This) Time — Brief Notes from “Astrodoubt and the Quarantine Chronicles”
– By Luca BuvoliTempo e Relazione (Time and Relation)*
– By Paolo FresuThe Expanded Moment of Being
– By Farzia FallahPatience
– By Arjun AppaduraiIn a Perpetual Now
– By Rosa BarbaLUDOVICO EINAUDI with Francesca Pietropaolo
– By Ludovico EinaudiHistories of Place, Architecture, and Underrepresented Communities: For a Complete City
– By Elisa SilvaA Time of One's Own: The Struggle Against One-sided Narratives of History
– By Malala AndrialavidrazanaThe Museum as Multi-dimensional Compass in Time and Geography
– By Gus Casely-Hayford
Publisher's Message
Dear Friends and Readers,
– By Phong H. Bui
ArtSeen
Cross Pollination: Heade, Cole, Church, and Our Contemporary Moment
– By Jason RosenfeldWong Ping: Your Silent Neighbor
– By Louis BlockRobert Rauschenberg: Channel Surfing
– By Kate LiebmanMatvey Levenstein
– By Christian KleinbubPaul Thek: Interior / Landscape
– By Katy Diamond HamerMartine Syms: Loot Sweets
– By Madeleine SeidelMike Goodlett: Desire Itself
– By Alexandra DrexeliusTacita Dean: The Dante Project • One Hundred and Fifty Years of Painting • Pan Amicus • Significant Form • Monet Hates Me
– By Alfred Mac AdamWandamba yalungka.../Winds change direction...
– By Jillian RussoGina Werfel: In Context
– By Jonathan GoodmanGet Lifted! The Art of the Ecstatic
– By Maureen Catbagan and Amber Jamilla MusserDonna Moylan: Take Shelter
– By Lenore MalenFritz Vogt Drawings: A Sense of Place
– By Lyle RexerEstefania Velez Rodriguez: Time’s Passage is probably an Illusion
– By Robert R. ShaneJennifer Wen Ma: An Inward Sea
– By William CorwinFotoclubismo: Brazilian Modernist Photography, 1946–1964
– By Benjamin CliffordCai Guo-Qiang: Odyssey and Homecoming
– By Jacob DreyerThe New Woman Behind the Camera
– By Lyle RexerThe Medici: Portraits and Politics, 1512–1570
– By Christian KleinbubHuguette Caland: Tête-à-Tête
– By Elizabeth BuheA Wild Note of Longing: Albert Pinkham Ryder and a Century of American Art
– By Choghakate KazarianPrélude
– By Joel KuennenLouise Bourgeois: Freud’s Daughter
– By Natasha KurchanovaSean Scully: The Shape of Ideas
– By Robert C. MorganCézanne Drawing
– By David RhodesEamon DeFabbia-Kane: ABERRATION
– By Bat-Ami RivlinIbrahim Ahmed: It Will Always Come Back to You
– By Osman Can YerebakanShahzia Sikander: Extraordinary Realities
– By Pepe KarmelPaula Rego
– By William DavieCarrie Moyer & Sheila Pepe: Tabernacles for Trying Times
– By Margaret EwingFehras Publishing Practices: Borrowed Faces: Future Recall
– By Maximiliane LeuschnerDawn Clements: Living Large: A Survey
– By Tom McGlynnSamantha Nye: My Heart’s in a Whirl
– By Ksenia M. SobolevaCerith Wyn Evans: Aspen Drift
– By Louis BlockLynn Hershman Leeson: Twisted
– By Hannah Sage Kay
Books
The Feeling and Fear of Inevitability
– By Jordan A. RothackerDiane Seuss with Tony Leuzzi
Megan Milks and Sally Rooney
– By Yvonne C. GarrettMaggie Nelson’s On Freedom
– By Lauren StrohLauren Groff’s Matrix
– By Joseph PeschelHeather McGhee’s The Sum of Us
– By Harry FederPaul Vangelisti’s Liquid Prisoner
– By Neeli CherkovskiRichard Powers’s Bewilderment
– By John DominiSarah Matthes’s Town Crier
– By Kate LiebmanAnthony Veasna So’s Afterparties
– By James W. Fuerst
Music
Year of Demoon (My Life Inside 2020)
– By Darius JonesMusic, Reemerging
– By Martin LongleySound and Vision
– By Scott GuttermanWhere Are We?
– By George Grella
Film
Janicza Bravo’s Zola
– By Ayanna DozierCannes 2021: Tomorrow Now and Then
– By James LattimerChristine Sloan Stoddard with Regina Beach
Lizzie Borden with Steve Erickson
Theater
“We’ll Be Emerging Until We’re Fifty”
– By Francisco MendozaTheater is Refreshing With The Watering Hole
– By Judith C. Lovell
Fiction
from Waiting for the Waters to Rise
–from Sensation Machines
– By Adam Wilson
Poetry
An Unbecoming
– By Andrea Abi-Karamsix
– By John Lattathree
– By Tongo Eisen-Martin
Art Books
A Joe Brainard Show in a Book
– By Megan N. LibertyAlex Majoli's Opera Aperta
– By Sarah MorozNour Bishouty's 1--130: Selected Works Ghassan Bishouty b. 1941 Safad, Palestine -- d. 2004 Amman, Jordan
– By Daniella SanaderWei Weng’s Eat A Chili/吃辣椒
– By Claire VoonAlex Katz
– By Tom McGlynnMotor City Underground: Leni Sinclair Photographs 1963–1978
– By Nolan Kelly
Field Notes
Stirred Up
– By Paul MattickThe State of the Plague
Elizabeth Hinton’s America on Fire
– By Jarrod Shanahan and Zhandarka Kurti
The Miraculous
66. (Brownsville, Midtown Manhattan, Tribeca)
– By Raphael Rubinstein67. (Harrison Street, Tribeca)
– By Raphael Rubinstein68. (60 Hudson Street, Tribeca)
– By Raphael Rubinstein69. (Lower West Side)
– By Raphael Rubinstein70. (Corner Lispenard & Church Streets, North Tower of the World Trade Center)
– By Raphael Rubinstein