March 2022
Featuring interviews with Jean Dykstra, Takesada Matsutani, Joan Semmel, and a panel with Joseph Yoakum. Guest Critic Paul Gladston: “Hong Kong’s Contemporary Cultural Scene.”
The “March 2022” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on March 9, 2022.
Critics Page
Hong Kong’s Contemporary Cultural Scene—public protests and beyond
– By Paul GladstonAn Open letter to Hong Kong
– By Wen YauFragments of
the Untimeliness inthe New Hong Kong– By Phoebe WongA Few Stories about Art in Hong Kong during 2021
– By Frank VigneronDoes Art Point the Way in a Polarized Hong Kong?
– By Enid TsuiOn Drawing Life
– By Zheng Bo
Publisher's Message
Dear Friends and Readers,
– By Phong H. Bui
ArtSeen
Holbein: Capturing Character
– By Maxwell PaparellaKathy Ruttenberg: Sunshine at Midnight
– By Mary Ann CawsAirbnb Experience™
as a Work of Art– By Dani IsslerOlafur Eliasson: Your light spectrum and presence
– By AmadourJoe Minter: We Lost Our Spears
– By William CorwinAntonia Kuo: Mercury and Salt
– By James WellingTroy Montes Michie: Dishwater Holds No Images
– By Christian LiclairThe Morozov Collection: Icons of Modern Art
– By Natalia GierowskaHildigunnur Birgisdóttir's Peace
– By Gregory VolkLivien Yin: Ka‑la‑fo‑ne‑a
– By Ekalan HouMarcia Hafif: An Extended Gray Scale
– By Jane McFaddenHawkins Bolden: Seated
– By Daniel FullerEdgar Jerins: Monumental Drawings
– By Joyce BeckensteinHans Holbein: Capturing Character
– By Christian KleinbubKarla Knight: Navigator
– By Kathy BattistaBronx Calling: The Fifth AIM Biennial
– By William CorwinH. R. Giger: HRGNYC
– By Nicholas HeskesPaul Fägerskiöld: 2100
– By Jess ChenEsther Kläs: Come Again
– By Barbara A. MacAdamRoy Dowell
– By D. Dominick LombardiBill Jensen: Stillness/Flowing
– By Amanda Millet-SorsaAbby Lloyd: Goodbye Dolly
– By Andrew L. SheaThe African Origin of Civilization
– By David CarrierThe New Bend
– By Charles MooreJudith Braun: My Pleasure
– By Robert R. ShaneDanica Lundy: Three Hole Punch
– By Andrew Paul WoolbrightRuby Sky Stiler: New Patterns
– By Jared QuintonAndrea Belag: Under the Pergola
– By William CorwinNuestra Casa: Rediscovering the Treasures of The Hispanic Society Museum & Library
– By David CarrierOcultismo y barro
– By Barbara CalderónFaith Ringgold: American People
– By Ann C. CollinsLuca Buvoli: Astrodoubt and the Quarantine Chronicles (An Introduction)
– By Robert C. MorganRachel Feinstein: Mirror
– By Toby KampsThe Yes Men
– By Cassie PackardAndrea McGinty: Clint Eastwood
– By Zach RitterSahra Motalebi: This Phenomenal Overlay
– By Dina A. RamadanAlina Tenser: A Particular Kind of Embrace
– By Helena Haimes
Books
Margaret Atwood’s Burning Questions
– By Yvonne C. GarrettMark Haber with Andrew Ervin
Steven Van Zandt with Samuele F.S. Pardini
Are the Arts Essential?
– By Mary Ann CawsChristopher Prendergast’s Living and Dying with Marcel Proust
– By Mary Ann CawsWolfgang Hilbig’s The Interim
– By Nolan KellyColette Brooks'sTrapped in the Present Tense: Meditations on American Memory
– By Rhoda FengMike DeCapite with Drew Hubner
Olga Ravn's Employees
– By John DominiThe Most Dangerous Branch?
– By Harry FederEmme Lund's The Boy with a Bird in His Chest
– By Zach Schwab
Music
The Voice of America
– By George GrellaWade in the Water
– By Scott GuttermanThe Future of Classical Music? Contemporary Music? New Music?
– By Petr KotikThe Strength, Suppleness, and Beauty of a Body
– By Adolf Alzuphar
Dance
Sankofa Danzafro: Accommodating Lie
– By Mariana FernándezOgemdi Ude with Lauren Wingenroth
David Gordon with Nancy Dalva
– By Nancy Dalva
Film
Pablo Larraín’s Spencer
– By Brianna Di MondaAdam McKay’s Don’t Look Up
– By Jerrine TanThe Academy Museum
– By Edward MendezIuli Gerbase’s The Pink Cloud
– By Nolan Kelly
Theater
To Daniel K. Isaac, The Chinese Lady Is About the History of Asians in America
– By Diep TranWhat Are White People So Afraid Of? Claudia Rankine’s Help
– By Alexis Clements
Fiction
I, You, He
–In Judy’s Room
– By Ben Goldstein
Art Books
JJJJJerome Ellis's The Clearing
– By Erica N. CardwellAndrés Hernández's we used to move through the city like doves in the wind
– By Maymanah FarhatThe Wayland Rudd Collection
– By Jonah Goldman KayEirik Johnson's Road to Nowhere
– By Erin LangnerAbigail Susik's Surrealist Sabotage and the War on Work
– By Joseph Nechvatal
ArTonic
A.I.R. Gallery
– By Lee Ann Norman
Special Report
Railing Opinion
– By Phong H. Bui
Field Notes
Ukraine: The Economic Consequences of the War
– By Michael RobertsThe Anti-Viral Struggle and the Social Question
–Endgame: Finance and the Close of the Market System
– By Jamie MerchantNo Ship Will Come to Save Us
– By The Friends of the Classless Society
The Miraculous
91. SoHo
– By Raphael Rubinstein92. Fort Greene
– By Raphael Rubinstein93. 404 East 14th Street
– By Raphael Rubinstein94. West 53rd Street
– By Raphael Rubinstein95. 24 University Place, A Restaurant in Chinatown
– By Raphael Rubinstein