February 2023
Featuring interviews with Y.Z. Kami, Christian Marclay, R.H. Quaytman, and Didier William. Guest Critic Katy Rogers: “Robert Motherwell: The Drawings of a Painter.”
The “February 2023” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on February 1, 2023.
Critics Page
Robert Motherwell: The Drawings of a Painter
– By Katy RogersRobert Motherwell and David Smith: Paper Trails
– By Jennifer FieldWho and What Are Drawing Thus?
– By Kenneth BrummelMotherwell, Drawing Between Painting and Print
– By Jennifer CohenRobert Motherwell’s Opens and Elegies: Drawing as a Living Art
– By Mary Ann CawsMotherwell’s Early Drawings and Pragmatist Perception
– By Gregory GilbertRobert Motherwell: Blood-Stained Papers
– By Susan DavidsonMotherwell: Abstraction and Rebellion
– By Tim CliffordRobert Motherwell Illustrating Poetry
– By Heidi Colsman-FreybergerThe Artist and the Poet
– By Edouard KoppEncounters with the Unknown in a Catalogue Raisonné Project
– By Maria QuinataThoughts on Drawing, 1970
– By Robert Motherwell
Publisher's Message
Dear Friends and Readers,
– By Phong H. Bui
ArtSeen
Shahzia Sikander: Havah…to breathe, air, life
– By Lilly WeiBruno Dunley: Clouds
– By Amanda Millet-SorsaKimono Style: The John C. Weber Collection
– By Hovey BrockVictor Burgin: Photopath
– By Hearne PardeeNeil Welliver
– By Alex GrimleyJonathan Santoro: In Praise of Folly
– By Mark Thomas GibsonGilbert Lewis: Portraits 1979 – 2002
– By Curtis EckleyVictor Boullet: WERKK.WERKK.LIVERPOOL.PAINTING.
– By Alfred Mac AdamRenee Gladman: Narratives of Magnitude
– By Cassie PackardPaul Pagk
– By Emireth Herrera Valdésless: minimalism in the 1960s
– By Alfred Mac AdamRavi Jackson: Hardcore
– By Osman Can YerebakanIn Search of the Miraculous
– By Barbara A. MacAdamBody Memory
– By Emireth Herrera ValdésAndrea Fraser
– By Clara Maria ApostolatosShirin Neshat: The Fury
– By Amelia SaulAneta Bartos: Monotropa Terrain
– By Alex A. JonesAlvaro Barrington
– By Alfred Mac AdamMarlon Mullen
– By Jacob BrooksHalima Afi Cassells and Shanna Merola: Swan Song
– By Steve PantonHans Hartung: Revenge
– By Robert C. MorganDavid Deutsch: Hurly-Burly
– By Saul OstrowJoan Brown
– By Hearne PardeeRitual and Memory: The Ancient Balkans and Beyond
– By Ann McCoyRoma/New York, 1953–1964
– By David RhodesPhyllis Stephens: The Movement of Material
– By Charles MooreJulia Jo: Riptide
– By Annabel KeenanWet Conceptualism
– By William CorwinJan Baracz: Mutiny's Darling
– By Andrew Paul WoolbrightJuan Francisco Elso: Por América
– By Jonathan GoodmanChroma: Ancient Sculpture in Color
– By Brandt JunceauTed Gahl: Le Goon
– By Andrew Paul WoolbrightWalter Sickert: Painting and Transgressing
– By Joe FyfeBenoît Platéus: Other Percolators
– By Ann C. CollinsLuca Pancrazzi: FLASH LIGHT
– By Jason RosenfeldAdebunmi Gbadebo: Remains
– By Elizabeth BuheSusan Philipsz: Separated Strings
– By David RhodesThierry Mugler: Couturissime
– By Maia SiegelJudy Ledgerwood: Sunny
– By Mána TaylorModigliani Up Close
– By Phyllis TuchmanEve Fowler: New Work
– By Ksenia M. SobolevaFelix Gonzalez-Torres
– By Maddie HamptonCy Twombly
– By Alfred Mac AdamDon Doe: I’ll Have What They’re Having
– By Elizabeth JohnsonDavid Hockney: 20 Flowers and Some Bigger Pictures
– By Charles MooreEsteban Jefferson: May 25, 2020
– By Rebecca Schiffman
1×1
On Katherine Bradford
– By Anselm Berrigan
Books
Manijeh Moradian with Golnar Adili
John Keene with Akil Kumarasamy
Asja Bakić's Sweetlust
– By Yvonne C. GarrettYerra Sugarman with Tony Leuzzi
Steven Powell with Jill Dearman
Yevgenia Belorusets's War Diary
– By John DominiNadia Uddin’s Edison in the Hood
– By Zach SchwabBarbara Chase-Riboud’s I Always Knew: A Memoir
– By Donatien GrauLexically Sugared Circuits of R/elation: A Conversation with Adeena Karasick
– By Chris Stroffolino and Adeena Karasick
Music
Charles Lloyd: Freedom, and Wonder
– By Adolf AlzupharJazztopad, Wrocław, Poland
– By Martin LongleyBlood Brothers
– By Andrey HenkinOdyssey for Violin
– By Scott Gutterman
Dance
Taking Root, and Taking Flight
– By Susan YungThe Slowest Wave – Dancing for Data
– By Dillon Heyck
Film
Lukas Dhont's Close
– By Jasmine LiuAshley McKenzie with Joseph Pomp
Sierra Pettengill's Riotsville, U.S.A.
– By Matene Toure
Theater
Revive Odets!
– By Sam KahnOn Theater and Theurgy: A Les Waters Compendium Illuminates the Director’s Craft
– By Joey Sims
Fiction
from City of Blows
– By Tim Blake Nelson
Poetry
Hand Me the Limits
– By Ted ReesMetta
– By Jessica Grimthree from Now, Here, This: Half-Sonnets
– By Ron Sillimanfrom Soft Apocalypse
– By Leah Nieboerfour
– By Edwin TorresLemons
– By Kyle Seamus Brosnihanfive from Provocations
– By mónica teresa ortiz
Art Books
The Unseen Saul Leiter
– By Paul G. MaziarDick Higgins’s A Something Else Reader
– By Jennie WaldowAmy Ching-Yan Lam’s Looty Goes to Heaven
– By Daniella SanaderPhil Jung’s Windscreen
– By Zach RitterMartine Syms and Rocket Caleshu’s The African Desperate
– By Erica N. Cardwell
In Memoriam
PRAISE! ALL PRAISE! JOHN SIMS PRAISE POEM!
– By Bob Holman
Field Notes
On Adam Tooze: A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy
– By Omar HernandezThe Internationalist Anti-Colonialism of the Situationists
– By Erick Corrêa
The Miraculous
36. The 1960s, Brooklyn
– By Raphael Rubinstein37. 1964 and Later, London
– By Raphael Rubinstein38. 1962, Oklahoma
– By Raphael Rubinstein39. 1978, Manchester
– By Raphael Rubinstein40. 1937-1973, Egypt
– By Raphael Rubinstein