October 2023
Featuring interviews with Edmund de Waal, María Magdalena Campos-Pons, Helen Marten, and Rose Wylie. Guest Critic Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe: “Always (?).”
The “October 2023” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on October 4, 2023.
Critics Page
Always (?)
– By Jeremy Gilbert-RolfeHistoricized Philosophy
– By Robert B. PippinDiagnosis is a Good Start…
– By Joseph NorthHistory's Blouse
– By Don Mee ChoiThere's No Alternative to Historicism (except when you do politics)
– By Todd CronanAlways Anachronize
– By W. J. T. MitchellShoring up Silence.
(Embodied Truth and Earthly Being).– By Penny FlorenceChocolate Box
– By Lilly WeiTrigger Mechanisms
– By John C. WelchmanAlways Historicize, But…
– By Rex ButlerNew Possibilities--“The Greek Alphabet Paintings” of Jack Whitten
– By David ReedNhật Minh meets Vinfast
– By Joe FyfeHistoricism's Cognitive Discord
– By Saul Ostrow
Publisher's Message
Dear Friends and Readers
– By Phong H. Bui
ArtSeen
Sahana Ramakrishnan: An Ocean of Time
– By Alex A. JonesNorman Lewis: Give Me Wings to Fly
– By Norman L KleeblattHenry Mandell: Superunknown
– By Charles SchultzLeopold Strobl: Views
– By Louis BlockUgo Rondinone: bright light shining
– By Charles SchultzDeborah Buck: Into the Wild: To Crash is Divine
– By Andrew Paul WoolbrightRuth Miller's Enduring View
– By Barbara A. MacAdamShaunté Gates: In Light of the Hunt
– By William CorwinBarkley L. Hendricks: Portraits at the Frick
– By Jason RosenfeldEd Ruscha/Now Then
– By Tom McGlynnJay DeFeo: Inventing Objects
– By Mary Ann CawsMichael Rakowitz: The Monument, The Monster, and The Maquette
– By Joyce BeckensteinStacy Lynn Waddell: light takes time to reach us
– By Ann C. CollinsEnrique Martínez Celaya: The Sea Memory (Found)
– By Alex GrimleyHumane Ecology: Eight Positions
– By William CorwinJane Dickson: Promised Land
– By David EbonyRob Wynne: AFTERGLOW
– By William CorwinHans Josephsohn
– By Brandt JunceauExemplary Modern: Sophie Taeuber-Arp with Contemporary Artists
– By Amanda GluibizziJim Nutt: Shouldn't We Be More Careful?
– By Patricia L LewyJoe Fig: Contemplating Compositions
– By Barbara A. MacAdamPeter Zimmermann: Virtual Paradigms
– By Richard VineJulian Schnabel: Bouquet of Mistakes
– By Alfred Mac AdamJohn Lees: Krazy Paradise
– By Alfred Mac AdamRuth Asawa Through Line
– By Barbara A. MacAdamWilliam Kentridge: Oh To Believe in Another World
– By Ann McCoyWolfgang Tillmans: Fold Me
– By Tim MaulDewey Crumpler: Post Atlantic
– By Cassie PackardNjideka Akunyili Crosby: Coming Back to See Through, Again
– By Jason RosenfeldJohn Zurier: On the Back of a Mirror
– By Raphy SarkissianJane South: Halfway Off
– By Andrew Paul WoolbrightTR Ericsson's Letters from Home
– By Nicholas HeskesEmanoel Araújo
– By Emann OdufuKaari Upson: Body as Landscape
– By Katherine SiboniKeiran Brennan Hinton: A Break in the Clouds
– By Annabel KeenanJane Wilson: Atmospheres
– By Alex GrimleyCharline von Heyl
– By Ekin ErkanMichael Rakowitz: The Monument, The Monster, and The Maquette
– By Clara Maria ApostolatosSasha Fishman's Implosion Paradigm Incoming
– By Qingyuan DengSusan Te Kahurangi King & Philip Emde: Playdate
– By Amanda Millet-SorsaEberhard Havekost's Paintings 1998–2016
– By Andrew Paul Woolbright
Books
& Give It Everything
– By Tyhe CooperMargo Steines with Rachel León
Nicole Sealey with Mandana Chaffa
Zadie Smith's The Fraud
– By John DominiGeoffrey O'Brien's Arabian Nights of 1934
– By Nolan KellyW. Scott Poole's Dark Carnivals: Modern Horror and the Origins of American Empire
– By Yvonne C. GarrettAthena Dixon's The Loneliness Files
– By Sara PolskyBert Meyers: On the Life and Work of an American Master
– By Tony LeuzziJhumpa Lahiri's Roman Stories
– By Vika MujumdarJean-Yves Frétigné's To Live Is To Resist. The Life of Antonio Gramsci.
– By Samuele F.S. PardiniA Heart-stopping Quantum Epic Poem
– By David RosenbergJennifer Bartlett’s Sustaining Air: The Life of Larry Eigner
– By Norman Fischer
Music
Play of the Waves
– By Sadie Rebecca StarnesBolom Chon
– By Adolf AlzupharMarc Masters's High Bias: The Distorted History of the Cassette Tape
– By George GrellaGreat Souls
– By Scott Gutterman
Dance
Snug Harbor Dance Festival
– By Hallie ChametzkyFilling Station Rebooted
– By Susan YungTouch the Beating Heart
– By Amit NoyTransgender in the Clinic
– By George KanTypical Enigmas
– By Anya Bernstein
Film
Dispatches from TIFF 2023
– By Edward FrumkinAlexis Neophytides and Andres "Jay" Molina's Fire Through Dry Grass
– By Farah AbdessamadSoda Jerk's Hello Dankness
– By Frank FalisiAristotle Torres's Story Ave
– By Edward MendezBrian Vincent's Make Me Famous
– By Laura Valenza
Art Books
Rebecca Bengal's Strange Hours
– By Alyse BurnsideNicole Cecilia Delgado's adjacent islands
– By Renee HudsonLarry Niehues's Mississippi Dream
– By Taylor MichaelRalph Ellison: Photographer
– By Kate SchreiberJussi Parikka's Operational Images
– By Bryan Norton
ArTonic
Socrates Sculpture Park
– By Beryl Gilothwest
In Memoriam
Origin Stories
– By David RossNina Sobell
Irv Tepper
Mel Chin
Julian Schnabel
Marilyn Minter
Remembering James Harithas
– By Paul SchimmelYoko Ono
Ron English
Terry Allen
Delilah Montoya
Tex Kerschen
Henry Sanchez
John Alexander
Frank Gillette
– By Frank GilletteClark V. Fox
Prince Thomas
Keijiro Suzuki
James Surls
George Gittoes
Davidson Gigliotti
Field Notes
Editor's Note: Fighting on Two Fronts
– By Paul MattickLeftist Confederates and Other Fans of History
– By Hal Olson“Hope”
– By Mark Roller
The Miraculous
46. 1965, Helena, Arkansas
– By Raphael Rubinstein47. 1963, Fort Worth, Texas
– By Raphael Rubinstein48. 1972-19, Valencia, California; New York City
– By Raphael Rubinstein49. 1968-1970, Paris; Norvenich, Germany
– By Raphael Rubinstein50. 1975, the Pacific Ocean
– By Raphael Rubinstein
Art and Technology
We Have Tried to Warn You: From Climate to AI
– By Charlotte Kent