June 2022
Featuring interviews with Laurie Anderson, Bernard Piffaretti, Kenny Scharf, and Tavares Strachan. Guest Critic Roger Conover: “Thirteen Ways of Looking at Dissappearance.”
The “June 2022” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on June 1, 2022.
Critics Page
Thirteen Ways of Looking at Disappearance
– By Roger ConoverThe Cancellation of Russia
– By Darra GoldsteinThe Disappeared Country
– By Mladen DolarWrite As If You're Dead
– By Andrei CodrescuBeauty is Difficult
– By Joseph GrigelyBas Jan Ader: Missing at Sea, Missing at Home
– By Mary Sue Andersen-AderNow You See It. Now You Don't.
– By Harry GeorgeThe Lake That Disappeared
– By Craig DworkinMissing in Havana
– By Rubén GalloWhich Europe Will Disappear?
– By Slavoj ŽižekWhat the Spectators See
– By Jonathan AllenLosing My Identity
– By Boris GroysDis
– By Ann LauterbachOnce mountain, now pit, pile, pipe:
– By Chris TaylorThirteen Other Ways of Looking at Disappearance
– By Roger Conover
Publisher's Message
Dear Friends and Readers,
– By Phong H. Bui
Art
Singing in Unison:
Artists Need to Create On the Same Scale That Society Has the Capacity to DestroyLaurie Anderson with Paul D. Miller
Bernard Piffaretti with Raphael Rubinstein
Kenny Scharf with Jason Rosenfeld
Cecilia Alemani with Natalia Gierowska
Tavares Strachan with Amanda Gluibizzi
Silvio Wolf with Lyle Rexer
Herbert W. Franke with Charlotte Kent
ArtSeen
Glenda León: Every Shape is a Shape of Time
– By Joyce BeckensteinEdith Schloss: Blue Italian Skies Above
– By Barbara A. MacAdamPeter van Agtmael: Look at the USA
– By Jake RommJ.V. Martin: Something is Rotten in the State of Everything Everywhere
– By Hunter BraithwaiteMarina Adams: What Are You Listening To?
– By Charles SchultzSam McKinniss: Mischief
– By Jacob BrooksKaren Kilimnik: Early Drawings 1976 – 1998
– By Nick Marsico-MoreaLiliane Tomasko: Evening Wind
– By Raphy SarkissianTurba Tol Hol-Hol Tol: The Chilean Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale
– By Monika FabijanskaUnnatural Nature: Post-Pop Landscapes
– By Alfred Mac AdamEbony G. Patterson: to kiss a flower goodbye
– By David EbonyIn All Innocence: Women, Children and Others at the Venice Biennale
– By Nancy PrincenthalBungalow
– By Bryan MartinKarla Knight: Road Trip
– By Ann McCoyNaudline Pierre: Enter the Realm
– By Amanda Millet-SorsaScott Kahn: The Walled City
– By Andrew L. SheaPerle Fine: A Retrospective
– By Tennae MakiMarguerite Louppe: Diagramming Space
– By Jonathan GoodmanMartin Wong: Dream Fungus: Early Works 1967-1978
– By Christian LiclairThe earth leaked red ochre
– By William CorwinRobert Motherwell: Lyric Suite
– By Robert C. MorganRichard Prince: Hoods
– By Tom McGlynnTomas Vu: The Man Who Fell to Earth 76/22
– By Jonathan GoodmanTomas Vu: The Man Who Fell to Earth 76|22
– By Amanda Millet-SorsaOscar Murillo: Ourself behind ourself concealed
– By Phyllis TuchmanEmilie Louise Gossiaux: Significant Otherness
– By Cassie PackardAlan Saret: Allies
– By Greg LindquistDeana Lawson
– By Zoë HopkinsAdam Higgins: Lonesome
– By Eileen Havant TownsendEbony G. Patterson: ...to kiss a flower goodbye...
– By Ksenia M. SobolevaSean Scully: The Shape of Ideas
– By Raphy SarkissianBernard Piffaretti: Pick Up
– By David RhodesBasel Abbas & Ruanne Abou-Rahme: May amnesia never kiss us on the mouth
– By Dina A. RamadanGuadalupe Maravilla: Tierra Blanca Joven
– By Mason Whitehorn PowellRichard Serra
– By Alfred Mac AdamSteeped in Spilled Milk pt.2
– By Dana NotineLinda Daniels: Splits
– By Terry R. MyersFrancis Bacon: Faces & Figures
– By Alfred Mac AdamFictions of Emancipation: Carpeaux Recast
– By Brandt JunceauJake Berthot: The Enamels
– By Phillip GriffithReally Free: The Radical Art of Nellie Mae Rowe
– By Daniel FullerWilliam Wegman: Writing by Artist
– By Ann C. CollinsGeorge Petrides: Hellenic Heads
– By S. DavidTobi Kahn: Formation: Images of the Body
– By Douglas DreishpoonRobert Rauschenberg
– By Charlotte KentBang Geul Han: If You Grind The Threshold of Three Other Houses
– By Amelia SaulRichard Nonas: As Light Through Fog
– By Lilly Wei
Books
Holly Black & A.G. Slatter
– By Yvonne C. GarrettSteve Yarbrough’s Stay Gone Days
– By Joseph PeschelMatthew Vollmer’s This World Is Not Your Home
– By Zach SchwabTerri Gordon-Zolov and Eric Zolov with Camilo Trumper
– By Camilo TrumperJerry Stahl with Adele Bertei
– By Adele BerteiJordan Castro: The Novelist
– By Scott CheshireEdie Meidav with Andrea Scrima
Tobias Carroll with Kurt Baumeister
– By Kurt BaumeisterCarl Einstein's A Mythology of Forms: Selected Writings on Art
– By Joseph MasheckSarah Rosenthal with Heidi Van Horn
– By Heidi Van Horn
Music
Coming Together: Long Play 2022
– By George GrellaValgeir Sigurðsson with Ondrej Veselý
– By Ondrej VeselýListen Festival, Brussels
– By Martin LongleyUkrainian Rhapsody
– By Scott Gutterman
Dance
Sorry/Please/No: A Dance for Survivors, Citizens, and Queens
– By Anna Jayne KimmelA Study of the Body
– By Candice ThompsonKilpatrick's Imaginative Costumes, Activated
– By Susan Yung
Film
Audrey Diwan’s Happening
– By Nolan KellyTom Gormican’s The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent
– By Payton McCarty-SimasMaureen Fazendeiro and Miguel Gomes’s The Tsugua Diaries
– By Caitlin QuinlanPayal Kapadia’s A Night of Knowing Nothing
– By Kamayani Sharma
Theater
How to Make Ambitious Theater on a Budget, According to Clubbed Thumb’s Maria Striar
– By Diep TranDeath of a Theater
– By Harrison Hill
Fiction
Ein Haus am Meer
– By Joy Castrofrom Neruda on the Park
– By Cleyvis Natera
Art Books
Meeka Walsh’s Malleable Forms: Selected Essays
– By Mary Ann CawsAccra Shepp’s Radical Justice: Lifting Every Voice
– By Lee Ann NormanCelia Paul’s Letters to Gwen John
– By Cynthia PayneGlenda Elizabeth Gilmore’s Romare Bearden in the Homeland of His Imagination: An Artist’s Reckoning with the South
– By TK SmithLisa Slominski’s Nonconformers: A New History of Self-Taught Artists
– By Jo Lawson-Tancred
ArTonic
Joan Mitchell Foundation
– By Amanda Millet-Sorsa
Field Notes
The End of Roe
– By Rob Hunter“Got a womb? Welcome to hell”
– By Agata Tumiłowicz-MazurRikers, what good do you think you do?
– By A.M. Gittlitz
The Miraculous
6. 1955, Los Angeles
– By Raphael Rubinstein7. January 7, 1955, the Metropolitan Opera House, New York
– By Raphael Rubinstein8. March 4, 1955, Broadway just above West 52nd Street
– By Raphael Rubinstein9. November and December, 1955, Paris
– By Raphael Rubinstein10. 1955, Paris; 2016, Bregenz, Austria
– By Raphael Rubinstein