Dec/Jan 2023–24
Featuring interviews with Kay Rosen, Tony Bechara, Tracey Emin, and Rirkrit Tiravanija. Guest Critic Douglas Dreishpoon: “Still Striking: Art and Aging.”
The “Dec/Jan 2023–24” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on December 13, 2023.
Publisher's Message
Dear Friends and Readers
– By Phong H. Bui
Critics Page
Still Striking: Art and Aging
– By Douglas DreishpoonImages
– By Michael BrensonThe Miraculous Jonas Mekas
– By Phong H. BuiStill Here
– By Douglas Dreishpoon and William Tass JonesAt Last
– By Nancy PrincenthalOld Enough
– By Anna RaveratAgelessness
– By Richard ShiffPlaying it Out
– By Jeanne SilverthorneA Special Kind of Breathing
– By Douglas Dreishpoon and Bob StewartWeaving it all together the better to pull the threads again. . .
– By Douglas Dreishpoon and Robert StorrParallel Paths
– By Paul Hayes TuckerGolub's Catastrophes
– By David Levi Strauss
ArtSeen
The Best of Times and the Worst of Times
– By Jonathan FinebergRobert Ryman: 1961–1964
– By Suzanne HudsonJames Siena
– By Alfred Mac AdamCordy Ryman: Monkey Mind Symphony
– By Ekin ErkanMark Rothko
– By Phong H. BuiPicasso: A Cubist Commission in Brooklyn
– By Pepe KarmelA Foreigner Called Picasso
– By Mary Ann CawsPicasso in Fontainebleau
– By Rebecca SchiffmanIn Dialogue with Picasso
– By Phyllis Tuchman14 Sketchbooks
– By Saul OstrowThe Echo of Picasso
– By Amanda GluibizziGoing Dark: The Contemporary Figure at the Edge of Visibility
– By Zoë HopkinsMarilyn Lerner: Memory is a Fickle Thing
– By Mary JonesLola Montes: Cirica
– By Barbara A. MacAdamHans-Jörg Mayer
– By Jason RosenfeldAdrian Ghenie: The Brave New World
– By Charles MooreTales of Brave Ulysses
– By Andrew Paul WoolbrightBonnard's Worlds
– By Phyllis TuchmanRineke Dijkstra: Night Watching and Pictures from the Archive
– By Ann C. CollinsMarta Minujín: Arte! Arte! Arte!
– By Lyle RexerMark Grotjahn: Skulls 2016–2023
– By David RhodesPuppies Puppies (Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo): Nothing New
– By Cassie PackardAnish Kapoor
– By Raphy SarkissianMark Rothko
– By Natalia GierowskaMelvin Smith & Rose Smith: Recollections of Rondo
– By Annabel KeenanHenry Taylor: From Sugar to Shit
– By Bruna ShapiraLutz Bacher: AYE!
– By Maximiliane LeuschnerKapwani Kiwanga: Remediation
– By Tak Pham50 Paintings
– By Saul OstrowCharles LeDray: Shiner
– By Louis BuryFrank Morrison: Brilliance Behind the Line and Wonder World
– By Charles MooreNicholas Galanin: In every language there is Land / En cada lengua hay una Tierra
– By Davida Fernández-BarkanHannah Beerman: Paintings
– By Ksenia M. SobolevaTecla Tofano: This Body of Mine
– By Clara Maria ApostolatosDiana Al-Hadid: Women, Bronze, and Dangerous Things
– By Elizabeth BuheCopy Machine Manifestos: Artists Who Make Zines
– By Cassie PackardHyong Nam Ahn: Absolute Space (No Longer in Time)
– By Robert C. MorganGeorg Baselitz: The Painter in His Bed
– By Alfred Mac AdamHanna Hur: Two Angels
– By Suzanne HudsonShilpa Gupta: I did not tell you what I saw, but only what I dreamt
– By Priya GandhiDana Schutz: Jupiter's Lottery
– By William CorwinTadaaki Kuwayama: 1932-2023
– By William CorwinAd Reinhardt
– By David RhodesPaul Pfeiffer: Prologue to the Story of the Birth of Freedom
– By Terry R. MyersEric N. Mack
– By David WhelanKatherine Bradford: Arms and the Sea
– By Jason DrillEiko Otake: I Invited Myself, Vol. III: Duets
– By Jacinda S. TranSpineless: A Glass Menagerie of Blaschka Marine Invertebrates
– By Annabel KeenanWoven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction
– By Suzanne HudsonAnne Patterson: Divine Pathways
– By Amanda Millet-SorsaSkilled Labor: Black Realism in Detroit
– By Charles MooreLife Cycles: The Materials of Contemporary Design
– By Joanna SeifterMood of the moment: Gaby Aghion and the house of Chloé
– By Ruby RedstoneJoanna Pousette-Dart: Line Moving Through Light
– By David RhodesAnn Craven: Night
– By Charles SchultzMaría Magdalena Campos-Pons: Behold
– By Ann McCoy
Books
Joseph Masheck’s Faith in Art: Religion, Aesthetics, and Early Abstraction
– By Donato LoiaRust and Rot: 50 Years of State of Grace
– By Vincent ScarpaBen Fama with Elizabeth Lothian
Kate Briggs's The Long Form
– By Mána TaylorMattilda Bernstein Sycamore's Touching the Art
– By Daniel Allen CoxMeg Pokrass and Aimee Parkison's Disappearing Debutantes
– By John DominiTony Ardizzone's In Bruno's Shadow
– By Samuele F.S. PardiniMarie-Helene Bertino's Beautyland
– By Madison FordSuzanne Braun Levine with Frank Pizzoli
Kimberly Alidio with Irene Hsu
Carlos Soto Román’s 11
– By Judah Rubin“rage & love”: on Patricia Spears Jones’s The Beloved Community
– By Rona CranTrying to Find a Place to Live: A Two-Way Interview Conversation by Alexander Dickow and Jay Besemer
Eleni Sikelianos with Rosa Alcalá
Music
You Got to Have Kef: New York's Balkan Music Scene
– By Josh KlascoBALKAN:MOST
– By Martin LongleyDeath at the Opera
– By George GrellaDays of Our Lives
– By Scott Gutterman
Dance
Playing the Instrument of the Body
– By Luna Beller-TadiarThe Labor of Grief
– By Candice ThompsonDancing Along an Unlikely Path
– By Susan Yung
Film
Yorgos Lanthimos’s Poor Things
– By Payton McCarty-SimasFrancesco Casetti's Screening Fears: On Protective Media
– By Ewan WallaceMaryam Keshavarz's The Persian Version
– By Mandy TaheriWim Wenders's Perfect Days
– By Nolan KellyThe 20th Noir City Film Festival
– By Harrison Blackman
Theater
Conversations I Want People to Have After Seeing How to Dance in Ohio
– By Dave OsmundsenThirty-Five
–In cryptochrome, a New Way of Seeing
– By Billy McEntee
Fiction
E v i d e n c e
– By Chin-Sun Leefrom Wings of Red
– By James W. Jennings
Art Books
The Best Art Books of 2023
Louise Nevelson's Sculpture
– By Jennie WaldowBindi Vora's Mountain of Salt
– By Renee HudsonQueer Networks: Ray Johnson's Correspondence Art
– By Phillip GriffithAn Indigenous Present
– By Maymanah Farhat
ArTonic
Franklin Furnace
– By Megan N. Liberty
In Memoriam
Margarete Roeder
– By Barbara A. MacAdam
Special Report
Field Notes from a Press Preview at the Met
– By Oliver Katz
The Miraculous
56. Late 19th-Early 20th Centuries, Aleppo
– By Raphael Rubinstein57. 20th century, Cairo
– By Raphael Rubinstein58. 1933, New York City
– By Raphael Rubinstein59. 1999 (and later), Weimar, Germany
– By Raphael Rubinstein60. November 13, 2015, Paris
– By Raphael Rubinstein