May 2023
Featuring interviews with Sara VanDerBeek, Lui Xiaodong, Uman, and Senga Nengudi. Guest critic Charlotte Kent: "A Word or Two on Art and Technology."
The “May 2023” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on May 3, 2023.
Critics Page
A Word or Two on Art and Technology
– By Charlotte KentNeutral
– By Magda SawonAesthetics
– By Dr. Tina Rivers RyanTouch
– By Yayoi Shionoiri, Sarah Conley Odenkirk, and Megan NohDisplay
– By Merel van HelsdingenAncestral
– By Mashinka Firunts HakopianMetaverse
– By Margaret WertheimWorldbuilding
– By Clara Che Wei PehIncubators
– By Bilyana Palankasova and Sarah CookInnovation
– By Ruth Catlow and Penny RaffertyPublic
– By Kay WatsonCommunity
– By KanonComplex
– By Doreen A. Ríos
Publisher's Message
Dear Friends and Readers
– By Phong H. Bui
ArtSeen
Eva Lundsager: Ovation
– By Hovey BrockWardell Milan: Bluets & 2 Years of Magical Thinking
– By Joel DanilewitzAlexandra Metcalf: Vol.18
– By Barry SchwabskyArthur Dove: Sensations of Light
– By Irene Lyla LeeLydia Dona
– By William CorwinJan-Ole Schiemann: New Paintings
– By Andrew Paul WoolbrightYayoi Kusama: I Spend Each Day Embracing Flowers
– By Charles MooreAndrea Marie Breiling: Swallowtail
– By Amanda Millet-SorsaLisa Corinne Davis: You Are Here?
– By Barbara A. MacAdamLeah Ke Yi Zheng
– By Hindley WangBeverly Fishman: Something For the Pain
– By Jason StopaPhilip Guston Now—A Personal Meditation
– By Phong H. BuiThe Curatorial Imagination of Walter Hopps
– By Sandra ZalmanKyle Dunn: Night Pictures
– By Amber Jamilla MusserKing Cobra: White Meat
– By Amber Jamilla MusserMan Ray’s Paris Portraits: 1921–1939
– By Mary Ann CawsMelissa Brown: Windows and Bars
– By Riad MiahExposé·es
– By Norman L KleeblattAura Rosenberg: What is Psychedelic
– By Joanna SeifterGeorge Condo: Humanoids
– By Charles MooreT. Venkanna: Looking for Peace
– By Pia SinghErnst Caramelle: actual size
– By David RhodesIlya Fedotov-Fedorov: Snake Changing Skin
– By Ksenia M. SobolevaMurray Hochman: New Dimensions
– By Robert C. MorganMark Bradford: You Don't Have to Tell Me Twice
– By Jason DrillSung Tieu: Infra-Specter
– By Helena Haimesالفكرة ذكرى / A thought is a memory
– By Sahar KhraibaniAngela China: Girl on the Grass
– By Jessica HolmesLouise Bonnet and Adam Silverman: Entanglements
– By Suzanne HudsonRoxa Smith: No Vacancy
– By D. Dominick LombardiElisabeth Kley: A Seat in the Boat of the Sun
– By Barbara A. MacAdamTHE ÖMEN: Albert Oehlen paintings and Paul McCarthy sculptures
– By Andrew Paul WoolbrightR.I.P. Germain: Jesus Died for Us, We Will Die for Dudus!
– By Alicia GladstonOf Mythic Worlds
– By Cassie PackardMichael Madrigali: Big City Nights
– By Barbarita PolsterPierre Bonnard: The Experience of Seeing
– By David RhodesGeorgia O’Keeffe: To See Takes Time
– By Rebecca SchiffmanCecily Brown: Death and the Maid
– By Phyllis TuchmanLois Dodd: Natural Order
– By David WhelanGego: Measuring Infinity
– By Jenny WuFicre Ghebreyesus: I Believe We Are Lost
– By Ann C. CollinsJuan de Pareja, Afro-Hispanic Painter
– By Christian K. KleinbubAnselm Reyle: Rainbow in the Dark
– By William CorwinWangechi Mutu: Intertwined
– By Megan N. LibertyDan Graham
– By Marc MayerSimone Leigh
– By Saul OstrowEnrique Chagoya: Borderless
– By Hearne PardeeKern Samuel: Paining
– By Louis BlockAmy Lincoln: Radiant Spectrum
– By Bryan Martin
1×1
On Harriet Feigenbaum
– By Alex A. Jones
Books
Chloe N. Clark with Allison Wyss
Daniel Allen Cox with Greg Marshall
Tezer Özlü's Cold Nights of Childhood
– By Bekah WaalkesHan Kang's Greek Lessons
– By Cat WoodsCamille T. Dungy's Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden
– By Victoria RichardsOlympus on Earth: Daniel H. Turtel's The Family Morfawitz
– By Jordan A. RothackerMario Fortunato's South
– By John DominiMatthew Cheney's The Last Vanishing Man: And Other Stories
– By Yvonne C. GarrettTom Lin with Blake Sanz
Sophie Mackintosh's Cursed Bread
– By Yvonne C. GarrettMichael Magee's Close to Home
– By Tom DeignanRaphael Rubinstein's The Turn To Provisionality in Contemporary Art: Negative Work
– By Tom McGlynn
Music
Amarcord Hal
– By Scott GuttermanCharles Curtis, Alan Licht, and Dean Roberts
– By Martin LongleyCaterina Barbieri and Eli Keszler
– By Vanessa AgueKerry O’Brien and William Robin’s
On Minimalism– By George Grella
Dance
Alone, Yet Inseparable
– By Susan YungWe Are in Catastrophe
– By Candice ThompsonThe Forced Abundance of Justin Peck
– By Eve BrombergThe Depths to Which She is Capable
– By Rennie McDougall
Film
Digital Recall: The New Cinema of Memory
– By Alex Bliziotis and Sasha KarsavinaHow to Blow Up a Pipeline
– By Forrest CardamenisSu Friedrich’s Today
– By Jasmine LiuRites of Passage: The Films of Shinji Somai
– By Bingham Bryant
Theater
Diane Exavier with Shamira Ibrahim
Monsoon Wedding Makes Its Way to Brooklyn
– By Allison ConsidineIndieSpace Gives the New York Theater Scene Exactly What It Needs
– By Lauren Emily WhalenEmbracing Mist: The Questions, Not Answers, Grey House Proposes
– By Billy McEntee
Poetry
They Go Down to the Field
– By Joel Newbergerthree
– By Emily Lee LuanTwelve Poems Beginning with A, B, C
– By Charles Bernsteinfrom “All this is a continuation of the lie, but . . . if I remain consistent, it comes close to the truth”
– By Alina Stefanescuseven
– By LaTasha N. Nevada DiggsHER SHORT FILM WITH VAN GOGH’S EAR
– By Emmalea RussoThree Ballads
–four
–six
–I. and I
– By Rodger Kamenetz
Art Books
Kevin Beasley’s A View of a Landscape
– By John HastingsTamar Ettun’s Texts from Lilit
– By Nick BennettPatrick D. Pagnano’s Empire Roller Disco
– By Naomi EliasMorgan Ashcom’s Open
– By Sarah MorozHannah Godfrey’s Critical Fictions
– By Emily Doucet
Field Notes
The Jina Rebellion
– By Assareh AssaA Weaponized Immigrant: Yasha Levine with Will McDonald
No Politics But Class Politics: A Review
– By Adam Theron-Lee Rensch
Art and Technology
A Language Cairn: Artists on Their Practice
– By Charlotte Kent