September 2024
Featuring interviews with Georges Adéagbo, Matt Dillon, Alexandre Lenoir, and Charles Ross. Guest Critic Phyllis Tuchman: “Abstraction Now.”
The “September 2024” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on August 28, 2024.
Publisher's Message
Dear Friends and Readers
– By Phong H. Bui
ArtSeen
Frank Stella at Jeffrey Deitch, Yares Art, And Nowhere
– By Richard ShiffLaToya Ruby Frazier: Monuments of Solidarity
– By Kamora MonroeMarcus Jahmal: Higher Animals
– By Amanda Millet-SorsaDonald Moffett: Nature Cult, Seeded
– By Chris CrosmanWalton Ford: Birds and Beasts of the Studio
– By Joseph AkelDisplacement
– By Hovey BrockCrafting the Ballets Russes
– By William CorwinTeresita Fernández & Robert Smithson
– By Matthew EricksonJoel Shapiro: Gouaches and Reliefs 1978–83
– By Ekin ErkanElfie Semotan and Nina Hollein: Inspiration Comes from Everyday Life
– By Ekin ErkanSean Scully: Procession
– By Natalia GierowskaFlora Yukhnovich and François Boucher: The Language of the Rococo
– By Amanda GluibizziAntikstübchen Nachwort
– By Pamela KortSixties Synchronicities
– By Catherine MonroyDavid-Jeremiah: I Drive Thee
– By Amber Jamilla MusserAndrew Cranston: One day this will be a long time ago
– By Terry R. MyersGalli: See How You Get On
– By Benjamin PaulPaula Modersohn-Becker: Ich Bin Ich / I Am Me
– By Cynthia PayneAllison Katz: In the House of the Trembling Eye
– By Suzanne HudsonGraciela Iturbide: Shadowlines
– By Bartolomeo SalaAl Held: About Space
– By Alex BaconCarla Accardi
– By Lyle RexerErnest Cole: House of Bondage
– By Bartolomeo SalaAlice Maher and Rachel Fallon: The Map
– By Rebecca SchiffmanKathia St. Hilaire: Invisible Empires
– By David CarrierJames Casebere: Shou Sugi Ban Sculptures
– By Hearne PardeeMourning Becomes Electric: Christina Quarles in Copenhagen
– By Patricia L LewyGina Beavers: Divine Consumer
– By Jessica HolmesEllen Siebers: Bouquet
– By Elizabeth BuheJoseph Brock: Every Asterism
– By Andrew Paul WoolbrightJeff Way: Then & Now: 1970–2024
– By Lyle RexerDavis Arney and Aparna Sarkar: Into The Fold
– By Jacob BrooksStephen Dean: Crescendo
– By Joe Fyfe
Books
CHARLOTTE SHANE with Annie Lou Martin
Danez Smith’s Bluff
– By Henry Hicks IVWei Tchou’s Little Seed
– By Madison FordGarth Greenwell’s Small Rain
– By Daniel Allen CoxRichard King’s Travels Over Feeling: Arthur Russell, A Life
– By Reuben Gelley NewmanAnanda Lima’s Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil
– By Rachel RobbinsChigozie Obioma’s The Road to the Country
– By John DominiSiân Hughes’s Pearl
– By Yvonne C. GarrettMichael Coffey’s Beckett’s Children: A Literary Memoir
– By David RhodesOn the Movies, or Becoming One: Spoilers by Marie Buck and Matthew Walker
– By Chris Campanioni
Music
Brendan Greaves’s Truckload of Art: The Life and Work of Terry Allen
– By George GrellaCost and Value
– By Walker MimmsFrom a Scream To a Whisper: Anahata
– By Andrey HenkinReawakenings
– By Scott Gutterman
Dance
Is Imitation a Form of Flattery?
– By Robbie Saenz de ViteriAin’t Done Bad
– By Jen C. GeorgePillow Dispatch
– By Susan Yung
Film
Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance
– By Payton McCarty-SimasKelly Anderson and Jay Arthur Sterrenberg’s Emergent City
– By Jim McDermottTony Bui’s Three Seasons and the 23rd New York Asian Film Festival
– By Laura ValenzaClaire Read’s Penn F—ing Station
– By Michael Shorris
Fiction
The Audacity
– By Ryan ChapmanMisinterpretation
– By Ledia Xhoga
Poetry
SAY
– By Alexa Smiththree poems
– By Rae Armantrouttwo poems
– By Sawako Nakayasu
Art Books
Jamaica Kincaid and Kara Walker’s An Encyclopedia of Gardening for Colored Children
– By Taylor MichaelGlenn Ligon’s Distinguishing Piss from Rain: Writings and Interviews
– By Erica N. CardwellJonny Trunk’s Audio Erotica
– By Colette GaiterAki Sasamoto’s Point Reflection
– By Nate MickelsonThe Fluxus Newspaper
– By Jennie WaldowTeresa Eckmann’s Julio Galán: The Art of Performative Transgression
– By Raphael Rubinstein
Field Notes
Fascism Late, Early; Fascists Now, Then
– By Jasper BernesEducation for Subjection: Authoritarian Socialism and Fascisms
– By Charles ReeveMake Capitalism Great Again?
– By Paul Mattick
Architecture
ELIZABETH DILLER & RICARDO SCOFIDIO with Michael Abel & Nile Greenberg
270 Park Ave and the Condition of Total Contradiction
– By Reese LewisConstructing Hope: Ukraine
– By Emily ConklinSurrealistic Architecture
– By Edgar Rodriguez
Railing Opinion
Montage Curation and the Geography of Becoming
– By Andrew Paul WoolbrightA Model
– By Fox HysenRolling Up the Map: Contemporary Art in Country
– By Tom McGlynnThe Campus
– By Carter Ratcliff
Dispatches
Dispatch 21: They’re Eating the Cats
– By David Levi StraussDispatch 20: “If You Have Something to Say to Me, Say It to My Face”
– By David Levi StraussDispatch 19: The Rift
– By David Levi StraussDispatch 18: “I Shouted Out, ‘Who Killed the Kennedys?’ When After All, It Was You and Me”1
– By David Levi Strauss
Art and Technology
Generative Film’s Potential: Eno
– By Charlotte Kent