September 2023
Featuring interviews with Sheila Pepe, Jack Pierson, Tariku Shiferaw, and Henry Threadgill. Guest Critic Yayoi Shionoiri: "Art Law & Art and the Law."
The “September 2023” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on August 30, 2023.
Critics Page
Art Law & Art and the Law: A Dialogue Across Disciplines
– By Yayoi ShionoiriThe Seduction of Systems: A Conversation with Jill Magid
Public Art as Political Bargaining Chip: When Site-Specificity is Both Potent and Powerless
– By Megan NohEmpowering Creative Uses of Nonprofit Legal Structures
– By Melissa PassmanSingapore and the Region: State of Art Law or Art Law of the State?
– By Ryan SuSlowed Citizens
– By AlchemyverseArtist Worlds and Indigenous Cultures: How Expanding Notions of Intellectual Property are Changing the Game
– By Alana KushnirPassive Acceptance and Our (Dis)Consent
– By Roopa VasudevanEstablishing New Paradigms Through Contract
– By Sarah Conley OdenkirkJonas Lund
Publisher's Message
Dear Friends and Readers
– By Phong H. Bui
ArtSeen
Precious Okoyomon: the sun eats her children
– By Osman Can YerebakanTo Bend the Ear of the Outer World: Conversations on contemporary abstract painting
– By Raphy SarkissianAy-Ō’s Happy Rainbow Hell
– By Mark BlochEd Clark: The Big Sweep
– By Charles MooreMelike Kara: Emine’s Garden
– By William CorwinCecilia Vicuña: Sonoran Quipu
– By Matthew EricksonJeff Weber: Image Storage Containers
– By Hannah Sage KayGary Gissler: there there
– By Hovey BrockAnousha Payne: Tender Mooring
– By Chloe StagamanSiri Berg: The Kabbalah Paintings from the 1980s
– By David RhodesGuillermo Garcia Cruz: SCREEN I
– By Charles MooreBlythe Bohnen: Process is Life
– By Irene Lyla LeeLight from Water: Heidi Howard & Esteban Cabeza de Baca, with Liz Phillips
– By Elizabeth BuheDaniel Ramos: Eres Muy Hermosa
– By Davida Fernández-BarkanJudy Fox: Harvest
– By Jonathan GoodmanNoël Dolla: Tulle/Dye, 1969-2023
– By Saul OstrowElle Pérez: guabancex
– By Zach RitterJane Wilson: Atmospheres
– By Joanna SeifterConverge 45 Biennial: Social Forms: Art as Global Citizenship
– By Tess BilhartzRobert Motherwell: Pure Painting
– By Phong H. BuiBarbara Friedman: The Hysterical Sublime
– By Louis BlockDoris Salcedo
– By William CorwinRyan Patrick Krueger: Documents from the Closet
– By Joel DanilewitzFrances Brady: Much More Together
– By Qingyuan DengMaureen Dougherty: Borrowed Time
– By Ekin ErkanMany Wests: Artists Shape an American Idea
– By Davida Fernández-BarkanProjects: Dineo Seshee Bopape
– By Stefanie Qaba JasonJulie DeVries: Survival Moments
– By Alex GrimleyKathy Ruttenberg: Twilight in the Garden of Hope
– By Alex A. JonesRaven Halfmoon: Flags of Our Mothers
– By Annabel KeenanMusical Thinking: New Video Art and Sonic Strategies
– By Charlotte KentJames Brooks: A Painting Is a Real Thing
– By Barbara A. MacAdamFrancine Tint:The Sky is a Mirror
– By Robert C. MorganJoseph Grigely: In What Way Wham? (White Noise and Other Works, 1996–2023)
– By Saul OstrowInto the Brightness: Artists from Creativity Explored, Creative Growth and NIAD
– By Pepper StetlerBridget Riley Drawings: From the Artist's Studio
– By Saul OstrowOneness: Nature & Connectivity in Chinese Art
– By Hindley WangBridget Riley Drawings: From the Artist's Studio
– By David RhodesSongs of the Horizon:
David Smith, Music and Dance– By Anne ThompsonCeija Stojka: What Should I be Afraid of?
– By Rebecca SchiffmanCyle Warner: Weh Dem? De Sparrow Catcher?
– By Vittoria Benzine
Books
Khaled Khalifa's No One Prayed Over Their Graves
– By John DominiCharacter and Influence: The Artist and the Writer behind Junior Miles and the Junkman
– By Heather WrightKevin Carey's Junior Miles and the Junkman
– By Carissa ChesanekA.V. Marraccini's We the Parasites
– By Chris CampanioniJosé Olivarez's Promises of Gold/Promesas de oro
– By Chris CampanioniBrendan Shay Basham with J.C. Hallman
James Reich with D. Harlan Wilson
Anne Serre's A Leopard-Skin Hat
– By Meghan RacklinJenn Shapland's Thin Skin
– By Emma R. CohenCaleb Azumah Nelson's Small Worlds
– By Dan KubisOlga Ravn's My Work
– By Amber SparksSheena Patel's
I'm a Fan– By Melissa Holbrook PiersonRichard Hell's What Just Happened
– By Raphael RubinsteinSilvia Moreno-Garcia's Silver Nitrate and Brenda Lozano's Witches
– By Yvonne C. Garrett
Music
Jazz em Agosto
– By Martin LongleyGenerations
– By George GrellaForged In Heaven
– By Andrey HenkinSound Inheritance
– By Scott Gutterman
Dance
In The Room
– By Nora Raine ThompsonMarina Harss with Susan Yung
Film
TV220
– By Jane FreimanCarlos Conceição’s Tommy Guns
– By Edward FrumkinFifty Years Later—Chilean Cinema Before the Coup
– By Jaime GrijalbaMichael Snow: A Life Survey (1955–2020)
– By Troy ShermanK.D. Davison’s Fragments of Paradise
– By Jasmine Liu
Fiction
The Year of the Self
– By CortezMatulai, the South Wind
–June Notebook
– By Daniel Poppick
Poetry
five
– By Brian Tearefive
– By Rae ArmantroutTHREE POEMS
– By Simon Pettetthree
– By Elena Alexanderthree
– By Ron Horningfrom Aquarius
– By Sophia Terazawanine
– By John Godfreyfrom Fresh Pond Road
– By Ama BirchMetaphor
– By James Sherry4+7 Tecs
– By Roberto Harrison
Art Books
Francesca Woodman's The Artist's Books
– By Karen ChernickTrinh T. Minh-ha's The Twofold Commitment
– By Re'al ChristianFrancis Picabia: Catalogue Raisonné Volume IV
– By Parker FieldOliver Husain and Kerstin Schroedinger's DNCB–A History of Irritation
– By Daniella SanaderMina Loy: Strangeness Is Inevitable
– By Kate SilzerRemedios Varo: Science Fictions
– By Mary Ann Caws
Special Report
Time Gravity–2023 Chengdu Biennale
– By Natalia GierowskaSaturday Around Sara D. Roosevelt
– By Oliver Katz
Field Notes
France: A Movement Ends, An Explosion of Rage
– By Charles ReeveWhy a Recession Might Not be Such a Bad Thing: Considerations on a “Hard Landing”
– By Jose A. TapiaLegacy Admissions and The Myth of Social Mobility
– By Adam Theron-Lee RenschOptical Collusion: The Underpolitics of the Alien
– By Scott W. Schwartz
The Miraculous
41. 1972–74, Akron, Ohio; London
– By Raphael Rubinstein42. Sometime in the 1980s, London
– By Raphael Rubinstein43. 1960, Los Angeles
– By Raphael Rubinstein44. 1960, Bad Nauheim, Germany; New York City
– By Raphael Rubinstein45. 1897–98, Naples, Italy
– By Raphael Rubinstein
Art and Technology
The Play’s the Thing
– By Charlotte Kent and Nancy Baker Cahill