March 2024
Featuring interviews with Simon Denny, Spencer Finch, Delcy Morelos, and Ouattara Watts. Guest Critics Suzanne Hudson and Tanya Sheehan: “Looking, After.”
The “March 2024” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on March 6, 2024.
Critics Page
Looking, After
– By Suzanne Hudson and Tanya SheehanArt History and the Pandemic
–Architectural Containment and Human Evasion
– By Robin ThomasArt in Sisyphean Times
– By Robin Alex McDonaldCreative Community for Survivance
– By Amelia JonesAristoteles’s Story About Being Detained by ICE Retablo
– By Guadalupe MaravillaA Genealogy of Resistance
– By Jade MontserratCrenshaw Dairy Mart: Ancestry, Abolition, and Healing
Collaging Letter-Voices: Sick Women Correspondents, 2020–ongoing
– By Alice Butler and Gemma BlackshawA Cut Reopened
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Touching Ambivalence– By Fatema AbdoolcarimCare-full / Care-fall
– By Allison MoreheadBeyond Care
– By Victoria Papa, Levi Prombaum, and Laura Dickstein Thompson
Publisher's Message
Dear Friends and Readers
– By Phong H. Bui
ArtSeen
Ran Hwang: Breathwave
– By Robert C. MorganRobert Zandvliet: Florilegium: Overview 1998 – 2023
– By Robert C. MorganGerhard Richter: Engadin
– By Patricia L LewyNo One Thing. David Smith, Late Sculptures
– By Brandt JunceauLucía Hinojosa Gaxiola: Sonando el Suelo / Sounding the Ground
– By Edwin TorresBernd & Hilla Becher
– By James WellingLook Again: European Paintings 1300–1800
– By David CarrierElene Chantladze
– By Jonathan GoodmanHovey Brock, Daniella Dooling, Valerie Hegarty
– By Alexandra HammondChristopher Astley: Terrain
– By Ekin ErkanBill Jensen: Wandering Boundless & Free
– By Raphael RubinsteinLee Krasner: The Edge of Color, Geometric Abstractions 1948–53
– By Tom McGlynnPhil Frost: Interstitial Stint
– By Darren JonesEllsworth Kelly at 100
– By Louis BlockSeth Becker: A Boy’s Head
– By William CorwinClockwise
– By Qingyuan DengHe Said/She Said: Contemporary Women Artists Interject
– By Madison Ford(re)FOCUS: Then and Now
– By Eleanor HeartneyMarie Watt: Storywork: The Prints of Marie Watt, from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation
– By Annabel KeenanSarah Grilo: The New York Years, 1962–70
– By Alfred Mac AdamCauleen Smith: The Wanda Coleman Songbook
– By Charles MooreJaime Lauriano: Why Don’t You Know About Western Remains?
– By Lee Ann NormanHannelore Baron
– By Lyle RexerAn-My Lê: Between Two Rivers/Giữa hai giòng sông/Entre deux rivières
– By Lyle RexerDavid Smith: No One Thing
– By David RhodesEmilija Škarnulytė: Æqualia
– By Rebecca SchiffmanCindy Sherman
– By Charles SchultzSarah Sze
– By Phyllis TuchmanThordis Adalsteinsdottir: Some of It May Have Started at the River
– By Xintian WangHenry Curchod: Oh Fortuna!
– By Andrew Paul WoolbrightLorenza Longhi: World of Yum Yum
– By Jenny WuPaul Cadmus: The Male Nude
– By Joseph AkelBosco Sodi: Origen
– By Charles Moorewilliam cordova: can’t stop, won’t stop (geometria sagrada)
– By Ekin ErkanRoy Dowell
– By Hearne PardeeUnHomeless NYC
– By Joseph Masheck
Books
Flash of Remembrance: The Multiplicities of Ed Park
– By Alisyn AmantBonnie Jo Campbell with Melissa Fraterrigo
Kathleen Rooney with Rachel Robbins
charles theonia’s Gay Heaven Is a Dance Floor but I Can’t Relax
– By Josh AschermanÉdouard Louis’s Change
– By Madeleine CrumAnne de Marcken’s It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over
– By John DominiEliza Barry Callahan’s The Hearing Test
– By Yvonne C. GarrettMartin MacInnes’s In Ascension
– By Dan KubisRita Bullwinkel’s Headshot
– By Kate PreziosiKelly Link’s The Book of Love
– By Yvonne C. GarrettA Comprehensive Music: Peter Gizzi with Ariana Reines
– By Ariana ReinesEd Steck’s A Place Beyond Shame
– By Courtney BushJames Sherry’s Selfie: Poetry, Social Change and Ecological Connection
– By E.J. McAdams
Music
The Secret of Striped Light
– By Ben GambuzzaAll Ears
– By Martin LongleyThe Road to Nowhere
– By George GrellaImmigrant Song
– By Scott Gutterman
Dance
Mark Morris with Caedra Scott-Flaherty
Liberation in the Subterranean
– By Elinor KrichmarThe Work-in-Progress
– By Tess MichaelsonA Night For SOPHIE, and For All of Us
– By Noa Rui-Piin Weiss
Film
The Greatest Films You’ll Never See, Volume II
– By Edward Mendez and Laura ValenzaZaynê Akyol’s Rojek
– By Nolan KellyJane Schoenbrun’s I Saw the TV Glow
– By Payton McCarty-SimasJonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest
– By Joanna SeifterRaúl Ruiz and The Eternal Memory
– By Jaime GrijalbaDispatches from True/False
– By Edward Frumkin
Theater
The Sheer Idiocy, and Urgent Necessity, of Oh, Mary!
– By Joey SimsIn 1-800-3592-113592, A New Jersey Mall Incarnate
– By Billy McEntee
Fiction
“A Cold, Naked Point”
– By Scott Cheshire
Art Books
Bern Porter’s Now It Can Be--Why Did It Fail Before?
– By Mark BlochHelen Khal: Gallery One and Beirut in the 1960s
– By Maymanah FarhatJean-Marie Donat’s Ne m’oublie pas
– By Michael ShorrisHélio Oiticica’s Secret Poetics
– By Elizabeth ZubaWinogrand Color
– By Lyle Rexer
ArTonic
Gray Area Stays With the Trouble
– By Emilie Trice
Field Notes
The House That Finance Built
– By Adam Theron-Lee RenschThe Art and Craft of War
– By Alexis Clements
Art and Technology
Art, Media, and Two Centuries of Avant-Garde Efforts, In 2 Parts
– By Charlotte Kent
Architecture
Andrés Jaque with Nile Greenberg
Architecture’s Collapse
– By Nile GreenbergMemorializing the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire: Then and Now
– By Dan RocheThe Primordial In-Between
– By Ayesha S. Ghosh