July/August 2024
Featuring interviews with Alvaro Barrington, Isaac Julien, David Ostrowski, and Maja Ruznic. Guest Critic Pepe Karmel: “SPECULUM MUNDI: For an Iconography of the Present.”
The “July/August 2024” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on July 3, 2024.
ArtSeen
Tulips
– By Izzy EinsteinLynda Benglis: Knots & Videotapes 1972–1976
– By Alex BaconJonathan Monk: SL
– By Ginevra de BlasioMary Heilmann: Daydream Nation
– By Benjamin CliffordMichelangelo: The Last Decades
– By Christian K. KleinbubMatisse & Renoir: New Encounters at the Barnes
– By Jonathan FinebergAnselm Kiefer: Angeli caduti
– By JoAnna NovakEnio Arroyo Gomez: From Argentina and Costa Rica to the Streets of Tribeca
– By Ekin ErkanFrancesc Tosquelles: Avant-Garde Psychiatry and the Birth of Art Brut
– By Kent Mitchell MinturnFondation Beyeler’s Summer Exhibition
– By Charles MooreAmalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory
– By Joanna SeifterEverything Precious Is Fragile
– By Charles MooreRita Ackermann: Manna Rain
– By François Xavier Saint PierreCalder
– By David RhodesAlexandra Bachzetsis: Notebook
– By Joseph AkelBetty Tompkins: Just a Pretty Face
– By Annabel KeenanRobert Cottingham’s Americana (Works from 1965 to 2018)
– By Ekin ErkanPaul Chan: Breathers
– By Pia SinghJames Casebere: Seeds of Time
– By Lyle RexerSpirit Sink
– By Andrew Paul WoolbrightImani Jacqueline Brown:
Gulf– By Zoë HopkinsHuong Dodinh: TRANSCENDENCE
– By Terry NguyenMichael Wang: Yellow Earth
– By Xintian WangMolly Zuckerman-Hartung: Menopause Recalls Puberty (M.R.P.)
– By Maisie MolotWillem de Kooning and Italy
– By Phong H. BuiFernando Palma Rodríguez: Āmantēcayōtl: And When it Disappears, it is Said, the Moon has Died (Auh inihcuac huel ompoliuh, mitoa, ommic in meztli)
– By Eleonor BotomanJulian Schnabel: Paintings from 1978—1987
– By David CarrierHugh Hayden: Hughmans
– By William CorwinDeborah Buck: Witches Bridge
– By Amanda Millet-SorsaEmilie Stark-Menneg: Thread of Her Scent
– By Chris CrosmanRita Ackermann: Splits
– By Ekin ErkanHaas Brothers: Moonlight
– By Madison FordNancy Elizabeth Prophet: I Will Not Bend an Inch
– By Jane FreimanSimon Dybbroe Møller: Thick & Thin
– By Alice GodwinJonas N.T. Becker: A Hole is not a Void
– By Robert Alan GrandVera Molnár: Parler à l’oeil
– By Richard KalinaMalcolm Morley: Painting as Model
– By Alfred Mac AdamAmalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory
– By Ann McCoyTiff Massey: 7 Mile + Livernois
– By Charles MooreEd Ruscha: NOW THEN
– By Terry R. MyersKAWS + Warhol
– By Emann OdufuJutta Koether: 1982, 1983, 1984
– By Selena ParnonArab Presences: Modern Art and Decolonisation Paris, 1908-1988
– By Dina A. RamadanPetrit Halilaj: Abetare
– By Chloe StagamanJordan Loeppky-Kolesnik: Diurnal
– By Dominika TylczCal Siegel: Whose Folk
– By David WhelanReimagine: Himalayan Art Now
– By Jessica HolmesEva Hesse: Five Sculptures
– By William CorwinLászló Moholy-Nagy: Radiant Exposure
– By Lyle RexerEli Bornowsky: 3.3671984954 × 106391
– By Spencer EverettMachine Dazzle: Ouroboros
– By Davida Fernández-BarkanAngel Otero: That First Rain in May
– By Terry R. MyersTransformations: American Photographs From the 1970s
– By Collin Sundt
Books
Joy Williams’s Concerning the Future of Souls
– By Vincent ScarpaColm Tóibín’s Long Island
– By Yvonne C. GarrettMorgan Talty’s Fire Exit
– By John DominiThéo Casciani with Donatien Grau
We the People
– By Chris CampanioniKevin Barry’s The Heart in Winter
– By Yvonne C. GarrettYoko Tawada’s Paul Celan and the Trans-Tibetan Angel
– By John DominiKevin Barry with Tadhg Hoey
Lena Valencia with Jessie Ren Marshall
Ayşegül Savaş’s The Anthropologists
– By Loré YessuffSable Yong’s Die Hot With a Vengeance
– By Anson Tong
Music
Son Rompe Pera: Triple Fusion
– By Dan CameronMusic in Twelve Parts
– By George GrellaFOCUS Wales
– By Martin LongleyMining the Ambiguities
– By Scott Gutterman
Dance
Pushing Toward Extremes
– By Nicole Loeffler-GladstoneMalik Nashad Sharpe with George Kan
Humans as Prosthetics
– By Maximiliane Leuschner"How Long, Baby How Long?"
– By Karen Hildebrand
Film
The Architecture and Design Film Festival
– By Harrison BlackmanDCTV’s Lynne Sachs: From the Outside In
– By Hannah BonnerCatherine Breillat’s Last Summer
– By Natalia KeoganAnnie Baker’s Janet Planet
– By Joanna SeifterReturn to Reason: Four Films by Man Ray
– By Laura ValenzaYorgos Lanthimos’s Kinds of Kindness
– By Carlos ValladaresBarry Jenkins with Edward Mendez
Jeff Nichols’s The Bikeriders
– By Payton McCarty-Simas
Fiction
from Love, Leda
– By Mark Hyattfrom Fictions
– By Ashley Honeysett
Art Books
Bridget Quinn with Karen Chernick
Charles Simonds: About Time
– By Phong H. BuiBody Language: The Queer Staged Photographs of George Platt Lynes and PaJaMa
– By Phillip GriffithPia Camil’s Friendly Fires
– By Nicole KaackCecilia Vicuña’s Deer Book
– By Re'al ChristianBarbara T. Smith: Proof
– By Megan N. Liberty
In Memoriam
A Tribute to Jim Long
Martica Sawin
– By Francis M. NaumannJimmy DeSana
– By Mary Simpson
Dispatches
This Is Not a Just Image
– By David Levi StraussOn the Political Conventions
– By David Levi Strauss
Field Notes
Population and Economy: A Comment
– By Jasper BernesAfter the Wave, Winter: Demographic Decline and the "Production of Men" in the Twenty-First Century
– By Jason E. SmithWelcome to the Anderscene
– By Jacob Blumenfeld
Critics Page
SPECULUM MUNDI: For an Iconography of the Present
– By Pepe KarmelPioneering Environmental Art: The Poetics of Khoisan Painting
– By Alisa LaGammaBlack and Blue Images: Sondra Perry’s IT’S IN THE GAME ’17
– By Erich Kessel, Jr.Baaraan Ijlal: Hostile Witness
– By Gayatri SinhaWords as Images
– By María MineraThe Unfactorable Factor
– By Richard KalinaMEME: The Simplified Head
– By Tony GodfreyThe Big Bummer
– By Vasif KortunEyes and Flesh
– By Xin WangThe Emotional Foundations of Everyday Life
– By Youyou Wang
Architecture
The Antiformalists
– By Nile GreenbergPainting / Sculpture / Architecture
– By Edgar RodriguezTree As Architectural Metaphor
– By Jessica MartinSleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion
– By Phillip Denny
Publisher's Message
Dear Friends and Readers
– By Phong H. Bui