February 2022
Featuring interviews with Ahmed Alsoudani, Ashley Bickerton, Baseera Khan, and Jeff Wall. Guest Critic Ruth Fine: “Printmaking: Intentions and Aspirations.”
The “February 2022” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on February 2, 2022.
Publisher's Message
Dear Friends and Readers,
– By Phong H. Bui
Critics Page
Printmaking: Intentions and Aspirations
– By Ruth FineOn Caledonia Curry
– By Miranda MetcalfPrinting in the desert and listening to radio preachers
– By Martha TuttleFrottage, Takuhon, and the Gyotaku Methods
– By Marie LorenzPlanar Vessels
– By Kenturah DavisGrowth Rings: Exploring the Natural World Through Print
– By Gustavo GarciaThe Proof in the Print
– By Brie RuaisIt is all an Adventure
– By Cicely CarewThe Print Matrix Has You
– By Michael MenchacaThe need to combine
– By Sandra C. Fernandez
ArtSeen
Simon Hantaï: Les blancs de la couleur, la couleur du blanc
– By Louis BlockTess Bilhartz: Follow Me Down
– By Clare GemimaLooking Back / The 12th White Columns Annual
– By Ksenia M. SobolevaShawanda Corbett: To the Fields of Lilac
– By Elizabeth Buheno one is tall to heaven
no one is large to the land– By Jacob BrombergDominic Chambers: Soft Shadows
– By Folasade OlogunduduChris Martin
– By Charles SchultzSnow Day
– By David WhelanSurrealist Collaboration: Poetry, Art, Literature, Ingenuity and Life Itself
– By Mary Ann CawsBeverly Semmes: POT PEEK
– By Susan HarrisJasper Johns: Painted Bronze
– By Paul Hayes TuckerArt of the Cuban Revolution
– By Billie AnaniaMartín Ramírez: Memory Portals
– By Jonathan GoodmanAlec Soth: A Pound of Pictures
– By Jean DykstraBill Jensen: Stillness/
Flowing – By David RhodesHaroon Mirza: For a Dyson Sphere
– By David RhodesRackstraw Downes: Drawings
– By Alfred Mac AdamLiz Larner: Don't put it back like it was
– By Bryan MartinJoseph E. Yoakum: What I Saw
– By George KanVan Eyck to Mondrian: 300 Years of Collecting in Dresden
– By Robert C. MorganCamille Pissarro: The Studio of Modernism
– By Natalia GierowskaJeff Koons: Lost in America
– By Phyllis TuchmanThe Hare with Amber Eyes
– By Jason RosenfeldSophie Taeuber-Arp: Living Abstraction
– By Robert C. MorganHelène Aylon & Colette Lumiere
– By Norman L KleeblattAngela Davis: Seize the Time
– By Jillian RussoWild Horses
– By Claire PhillipsBernard Frize: Come to Me Again
– By David RhodesJoseph E. Yoakum: What I Saw
– By Lyle RexerHolly Coulis: Eyes and Yous
– By Alfred Mac AdamLands End
– By Constance LewallenNo Tears: In Conversation with Horace Pippin
– By Amanda GluibizziWitch Hunt
– By Olivia GauthierJane Freilicher & Thomas Nozkowski: True Fictions
– By David CarrierDarren Bader: The American Express Holiday Show
– By Hunter BraithwaiteJohn Willenbecher: Works from the 1960s
– By Mark BlochCarl Andre
– By Alfred Mac AdamAdam Pendleton: Who is Queen?
– By Folasade OlogunduduRaymond Saunders
– By Andrew Paul WoolbrightChris Martin
– By William CorwinMarcus Jahmal: Mining
– By Jessica HolmesGeorg Baselitz: Drawings
– By Jonathan GoodmanShikō Munakata: A Way of Seeing
– By David CarrierRagnar Kjartansson
– By Valerie MindlinMaria Nordman: At the Start
– By Ann McCoy
Books
Marlon James with John Domini
Natalia Ginzburg’s Voices in the Evening
– By Zach DavidsonClaudia Durastanti’s Strangers I Know
– By Joseph PeschelBen Okri & Mónica Ojeda
– By Yvonne C. GarrettJohn McWhorter’s Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America
– By Rod KesslerWayne Koestenbaum with Tony Leuzzi
Ned Denny’s B (After Dante)
– By John McEwenMarino Magliani's A Window to Zeewijk
– By John DominiJami Attenberg's I Came All This Way to Meet You: Writing Myself Home
– By Carissa ChesanekRachel Rear with Ian MacAllen
– By Ian MacAllen
Music
Once, We Had a King
– By Melvin GibbsWe Jazz Records and its Many-Headed Helsinki Hydras
– By Martin LongleyKevin C. Karnes’s Sounds Beyond: Arvo Pärt and the 1970s Soviet Underground
– By Parker AllenPolymathic Possibilities
– By Scott Gutterman
Dance
How to Commune
– By Candice Thompsonm i c c a and the Landscape of Grief
– By Hallie Chametzky
Film
bell hooks’s Heartbreak Church
– By Ayanna DozierSean Baker’s Red Rocket
– By Mark LabowskieAaron Baker’s The Baseball Film
– By Laura ValenzaAnti-Banality Union with Andreas Petrossiants
Theater
Georg Büchner and the Missing Language
– By Sam KahnPlacenta in my Freezer: A New Mother’s Unexpected Case for Craft
– By Emily Kitchens
Fiction
Kids
– By Tassity Johnsonfrom Last Resort
– By Andrew Lipstein
Poetry
Love Simulator / Scam Likely
– By Jim Behrlefive
– By Guillermo Filice Castrofour
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– By Jan FreemanWound-first Into the Future,1 part I
– By Jeremy Hoevenaar
Art Books
Hoda Afshar’s Speak The Wind
– By Maymanah FarhatMartha Wilson’s Journals
– By Francesca ValentiniAenne Biermann: Up Close and Personal
– By Karen ChernickTroy Montes-Michie’s Rock of Eye
– By Megan N. LibertyArthur Jafa: Revue Cahiers d'Art
– By Sarah Moroz
Field Notes
Sticker Shock
– By Paul MattickBeen Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me
– By Jasper BernesLand Grab
– By Michaela KeilNo Evictions! Not Now, Not Ever
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The Miraculous
86. The South Bronx
– By Raphael Rubinstein87. East Village, SoHo, Midtown
– By Raphael Rubinstein88. A Hotel (now demolished) at Fifth Avenue and Eighth Street
– By Raphael Rubinstein89. 2 Fifth Avenue
– By Raphael Rubinstein90. 2 Fifth Avenue, 131 West 15th Street, 200 and 220 West 21st Street
– By Raphael Rubinstein