April 2022
Featuring interviews with Jennie C. Jones, Faith Ringgold, Meg Webster, Koho Yamamoto, and Eugenio Viola. Guest Critic Luigi Ballerini: “Radical Poets of Different Feathers.”
The “April 2022” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on April 6, 2022.
Publisher's Message
Dear Friends and Readers
– By Phong H. Bui
Critics Page
Radical Poets of Different Feathers
– By Luigi Ballerinifrom Floodgate of Wind
–From Scraps
–The Trip
– By Mary Jo Bangthree
– By Charles BernsteinMandy
– By Anselm BerriganNest, Hospice, Prison Camp
– By Susan Briante(°) – seed
–from Every Five Strokes
–from Excesses (on a little flight)
–Romanticism
– By Peter GizziGap and Erasure
– By John LattaDreamlike
(Homo Bulla)–Porta Westfalica
–from Acavity of an Odyssey (Unfinished Mandala)
–three
– By Rosmarie Waldrop
ArtSeen
Mia Westerlund Roosen: Aftermath
– By Lilly WeiBridget Mullen: Quitters
– By William CorwinEleen Lin and Tammie Rubin: Mythodical
– By Madison FordDuane Michals: Kaleidoscope
– By Jonathan GoodmanYi To: Where the pebble hits the water
– By Nina WolpowRichard Hawkins: The Forrest Bess Variations
– By Christian LiclairRobert Irwin: New Work
– By James WellingRose Nestler: too bad for heaven, too good for hell
– By Elizabeth BuheMaggi Hambling: Real time
– By Jason RosenfeldAdam McEwen: Execute
– By Amanda GluibizziSiobhan Liddell and Linda Matalon: Fragments
– By William CorwinElbert Joseph Perez: Just Living the Dream
– By Clare GemimaSeether: Alexandra Hammond, Jackie Slanley, Virginia L. Montgomery (VLM)
– By Hovey BrockFrida Orupabo: Closed Up Like a Fist
– By Margarita Lila RosaLeonardo Drew
– By Toby KampsVik Muniz: Scraps
– By Lyle RexerDewey Crumpler: Painting Is an Act of Spiritual Aggression
– By Jonathan GoodmanMichael Rado: Show Your Work
– By Charles SchultzDwight Cassin: Oronsay
– By S. DavidJordan Belson: Landscapes
– By Alfred Mac AdamElaine Reichek: Material Girl
– By Norman L KleeblattJim Osman: Walnut: Second Series
– By Tom McGlynnJarrett Key: from the ground, up
– By Andrew Paul WoolbrightJacques-Louis David & Charles Ray
– By Jason RosenfeldFrom Forces to Forms
– By William CorwinRona Pondick
– By Susan HarrisThe Project of Independence
– By Maddie KlettSimone Fattal: Finding a Way
– By Maximiliane LeuschnerTadaaki Kuwayama
– By Alfred Mac AdamClaude Rutault & Peter Nadin
– By Chris MurthaJule Korneffel: Here comes the night
– By Andrew L. SheaTabboo!: Cityscapes
– By Jonathan GoodmanMel Bochner: I STILL DON'T GET IT
– By Tom McGlynnMichael Heizer
– By Robert C. MorganGeorge Widener: COUNT DOWN
– By David RhodesYashua Klos: Our Labour
– By Jillian RussoLeidy Churchman: New You
– By Ksenia M. SobolevaThomas Struth
– By James WellingSascha Braunig: Lay Figure
– By Osman Can YerebakanStephanie Dinkins: On Love and Data
– By Marcus CivinWater, Wind, Breath: Southwest Native Art in Community
– By Jonathan FinebergBarnett Newman & Brice Marden
– By Jessica HolmesCelebrating the City
– By Annabel KeenanJoe Bradley: Bhoga Marga
– By Charles SchultzFrédéric Bruly Bouabré: World Unbound
– By David CarrierItziar Barrio:THE PERILS OF OBEDIENCE (PREMIERE)
– By Jillian McManeminJonathan Baldock: Grave Goods
– By Helena Haimes
Books
Emily St. John Mandel’s Sea of Tranquility
– By Yvonne C. GarrettJennifer Egan’s The Candy House
– By Tom DeignanAndrew Farkas with Kathleen Rooney
Dana Levin with Tony Leuzzi
Zachary Lazar with David Winner
Betsy Prioleau with J.C. Hallman
Lit de Marcel
– By Francis M. NaumannMark Pawlak with Michael Basinski
Music
Diary of a Mad Composer
– By George GrellaMoondog Music in Coventry Cathedral
– By Martin LongleyDrums Talk
– By S. DavidThis About That
– By Scott Gutterman
Dance
Kyle Marshall with Candice Thompson
Duet with Void
– By Theo ArmstrongJamar Roberts’s Balletic Foray
– By Susan Yung
Film
A24’s Folk Horror Boom and Bust
– By Payton McCarty-SimasKhadar Ayderus Ahmed’s The Gravedigger’s Wife
– By Farah AbdessamadOliver Randall’s Tunnel-verse
– By Anaïs DerSimonian
Fiction
The Book of Crow
– By Lyle RexerCooler Heads
– By Julian Tepper
Art Books
Godzilla: Asian American Arts Network 1990-2001
– By Lucy LippardAnn Marks’s Vivian Maier Developed: The Untold Story of the Photographer Nanny
– By Karen ChernickCarmen Winant’s Instructional Photography: Learning How to Live Now
– By Sarah MorozTransmissions from the Pleroma and Stephen Housewright’s Partners
– By Eli WinterCandor Arts: The Chicago-Based Press Reenvisioning Equity in Arts Publishing
– By Leah Gallant
Field Notes
Waking Up from Anesthesia: Decline and Violence in France
– By Alexis MoraitisLetter from Warsaw
– By Agata Tumiłowicz-MazurTwo Friends
– By Freddy GomezIntellectuals and Activism
– By Sudip Bhattacharya
The Miraculous
96. A second-floor gallery on Mercer and Prince Street, a studio in a former synagogue on Hester Street
– By Raphael Rubinstein97. Greenpoint
– By Raphael Rubinstein98. The Lower East Side (mostly)
– By Raphael Rubinstein99. Various locations around Manhattan; the Hudson River
– By Raphael Rubinstein100. East 19th Street near Union Square
– By Raphael Rubinstein