June 2024
Featuring interviews with Karimah Ashadu, Miquel Barceló, Antony Gormley, Hugo McCloud, and Richard Armstrong. Guest Critic Geoffrey Batchen: “PICTURE KILL.”
The “June 2024” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on May 29, 2024.
Critics Page
PICTURE KILL
– By Geoffrey BatchenTruth and Propaganda
– By Charmaine TohVilém Flusser: On Fiction, Truth, and Envisioning
– By Martha SchwendenerComing Out of the Dark: A New Regime of Truth
– By Joan FontcubertaA View from Somewhere True: Rula Halawani’s Photomontages
– By Kirsty BakerALL OUR EYES HAVE SEEN THE MOON
– By Allison MooreBEING TRUTHFUL
– By Justine VargaImage Atlas: Naked
– By Taryn Simontruth is, or is not
– By Martha RoslerPatrick Pound
Publisher's Message
Dear Friends and Readers
– By Phong H. Bui
ArtSeen
A Visionary Line: Remedios Varo Drawings
– By Irini ZervasSedrick Chisom: …And 108 Prayers of Evil
– By Jason RosenfeldTARWUK: Good night, Ernst Toller!
– By Tom McGlynnJoanne Greenbaum: Scaffold
– By Saul OstrowTeresita Fernández: Soil Horizon
– By Barbara A. MacAdamLes Lalanne: Zoophites
– By Mary Ann CawsEnrico Baj: Alter Ego and Other Hypotheses
– By Mary Ann CawsRonny Quevedo: Composite Portals
– By Selena ParnonLoft Law: Photographs by Joshua Charow
– By Buzz SpectorMatisse and the Sea
– By Phyllis TuchmanNational Pavilions: Jeffrey Gibson and Manal AlDowayan
– By Amanda Millet-SorsaVenice on the Run
– By Barbara LondonAbdullah Al Saadi: Sites of Memory, Sites of Amnesia
– By Lilly WeiFlorencia Escudero: Phygitalia
– By Elizabeth BuheAgnes Questionmark’s Cyber-Teratology Operation
– By Ginevra de BlasioMano a mana: Morgan O’Hara in Venice
– By Joan WaltemathJean Cocteau: The Juggler’s Revenge
– By Norman L KleeblattA Story-Teller’s View of the Venice Biennale
– By Marianne MaloneFederico Solmi: Ship Of Fools
– By Jonathan FinebergIván Argote: The Burden of the Invisible
– By Tyhe CooperCarlos Martiel: Cuerpo
– By Clara Maria ApostolatosLucas Arruda: Assum Preto
– By Alex GrimleyBy the Love of Those Unloved
– By Phong H. BuiWayne Thiebaud: Summer Days
– By Ekin ErkanMel Bochner: ALL SALES FINAL!
– By Jeffrey GrunthanerLarry Poons: One for Baby
– By Robert C. MorganRichard Diebenkorn: Figures and Faces
– By Ekin ErkanAnna Kunz: Paintings to the Full Flower Moon
– By Patrick HillJoana Choumali: I am not lost, just wandering
– By Amelia SaulLiliane Tomasko: Shifting Shapes
– By Raphy SarkissianAlice Adams
– By William CorwinJennifer Coates: Edge Effects
– By Alfred Mac AdamGiuseppe Penone: Hands - Earth - Light - Colors
– By Hearne PardeeMonsieur Zohore: Get Well Soon
– By Joel DanilewitzIsca Greenfield-Sanders: Wildflower Path
– By Raphy SarkissianToshiko Takaezu: Worlds Within
– By Caitlin AnklamAmy Sillman: To Be Other-Wise
– By Louis BlockElizabeth Murray: Drawings (1974–2006)
– By Dan CameronEva Hesse: Five Sculptures
– By Amanda GluibizziNina Beier: Parts
– By Alice GodwinTara Donovan: Stratagems
– By Susan HarrisJordan Belson: Hidden Formations
– By Gilles Heno-CoeFrançoise Gilot
– By Megan KincaidAlan Saret: The Rest of Me
– By Alfred Mac AdamIdris Khan: Repeat After Me
– By Tom McGlynnDanielle McKinney: Fly on the Wall
– By Charles MooreAdam Pendleton: An Abstraction
– By Charles MooreChristopher Wool: See Stop Run
– By Richard HellHank Willis Thomas: LOVERULES
– By Amelia SaulDay Jobs
– By Rebecca SchiffmanNicole Eisenman: What Happened
– By Barry SchwabskyKäthe Kollwitz
– By Joanna SeifterRaquel Rabinovich: Avatars
– By Mary SmithMaurizio Cattelan: Sunday
– By Andrew Paul WoolbrightIn Practice: Covey Gong
– By Jenny WuLi Linlin
– By David A Brubaker
Books
Katie Manning with Tony Leuzzi
Craig Clevenger with Claire Phillips
Jonathan Goodman’s The Sleep of Reason
– By William CorwinJustin Taylor with Taylor Lewandowski
Diego Gerard Morrison’s Pages of Mourning
– By Sean McCoyKendra Sullivan’s Reps
– By Chris CampanioniTarek El-Ariss’s Water on Fire
– By Sharon BeriroDubravka Ugrešić’s The Culture of Lies
– By John DominiTyrone Williams’s Stilettos in a Rifle Range
– By Chris Tysh
Music
Eve Risser and Her Prepared Piano Unpreparedness
– By Martin LongleySpeech After the Removal of the Larynx
– By Max KellerRobert Ashley’s Foreign Experiences
– By George GrellaWords on Music
– By Scott Gutterman
Dance
Technical Fireworks
– By Susan YungOona Doherty with Candice Thompson
A Dance for the Sky
– By Hannah Chang FosterA Walk in the Park
– By Karen Hildebrand
Film
Charlie Shackleton’s Lateral
– By Frank FalisiPrismatic Ground 2024
– By Edward FrumkinJiajun "Oscar" Zhang’s All, or Nothing at All
– By Nolan KellyAshley Sabin and David Redmon’s Kim’s Video
– By Laura ValenzaA Day’s Dispatch from Third Horizon Film Festival 2024
– By Zenzelé Soa-Clarke
Theater
In Coach Coach, the Ouroboros of Self-Improvement
– By Billy McEnteeSean Abley with Lauren Emily Whalen
Theatertreffen 2024
– By Paul David Young
Fiction
“The Class,” an excerpt adapted from The Sisters K
– By Maureen Sun
Art Books
Ulises Carrión: Bookworks and Beyond
– By Megan N. LibertyMadeline Gins’s LLUVIA DE PALABRAS
– By Mónica de la TorreMaya Man’s FAKE IT TILL YOU MAKE IT
– By Kat KitayEugene Richards’s Remembrance Garden
– By Greta RainbowPeter Schjeldahl’s The Art of Dying
– By Jenny Wu
Field Notes
Class Protests
– By Gary RothWhat Was To Be Done? Protest and Revolution in the 2010s
– By Jasper BernesThose Poor Whites
– By Adam Theron-Lee Rensch
Art and Technology
SCREENS: On Sabotage and Refusal in Latin American Art
– By Doreen A. Rios