October 2024
Featuring interviews with Leilah Babirye, Robert Longo, Pepón Osorio, and Walter Price, and a tribute to Richard Serra. Guest Critic Ara H. Merjian: “Surrealism’s Centenary: Revolutionary Politics Beyond Painting and Poetry.”
The “October 2024” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on October 2, 2024.
Publisher's Message
Dear Friends and Readers
– By Phong H. Bui
Critics Page
Surrealism’s Centenary: Revolutionary Politics Beyond Painting and Poetry
– By Ara H. MerjianA New Pair of Glasses
– By Ali BanisadrThe Shit in the Shuttered Chateau
– By T.J. ClarkJoined at the Hip
– By Jonathan P. EburneSurrealism’s Polymorphous Afterlives
– By Chitra GaneshRevolutionary Energy
– By Greil MarcusAfrosurrealism Is Dead (And it’s about damn time)
– By D. Scot MillerAnother “Us”
– By María Elena OrtizImpatient Gravediggers
– By Joanna PawlikNo Laughing Matters
– By Mark PolizzottiThe Image and the Fury
– By Breixo ViejoThe Shock of the Old
– By Jensen SutherA Poetry Made By All
– By McKenzie WarkSurrealism’s Bright Future
– By Tavia Nyong’oParents, Tell Your Kids Your Dreams
– By Alyce Mahon
ArtSeen
Ad Reinhardt: Print—Painting—Maquette
– By Tom McGlynnAlbert Oehlen: Schweinekubismus
– By Pamela KortSara Siestreem (Hanis Coos): milk and honey
– By Farren Fei YuanPhilip Guston: Room, Sea & Sky
– By Barbara A. MacAdamDoug Safranek: Conduit
– By William CorwinSusan Bee: Eye of the Storm, Selected Works, 1981–2023
– By Pat KearnsJane Dickson: Are We There Yet?
– By Will FenstermakerLee Bae: Between
– By Jonathan GoodmanChristian de Boschnek: Essays on Fragility
– By Ekin ErkanAnne Duk Hee Jordan: Snailing (Slippy slimy slug slut)
– By Joyce Beckensteinvanessa german: At the end of this reality there is a bridge—
– By Pia SinghChinyee: Enraptured by Color
– By Hindley WangRobert Rauschenberg: Arcanums
– By Rebecca SchiffmanJoel Shapiro: Out of the Blue
– By David RhodesKristin Walsh: The working end
– By Selena ParnonJon Serl: No straight lines
– By Ekin ErkanJules Olitski: The Mitt Paintings 1988–1993
– By Alex GrimleyZéh Palito: Cars, Pools & Melanin
– By Priya GandhiChitra Ganesh: Tiger in the Looking Glass
– By Danica SachsMitch Epstein: Old Growth
– By James WellingSuzanne Jackson: light and paper
– By Beryl GilothwestRico Gatson: Above and Below
– By David EbonyEncyclopedia: The Late Collages of Dorothea Tanning
– By Mary Ann CawsOren Pinhassi: Losing Face
– By Osman Can YerebakanTuriya Magadlela: In Our Barren Womb Boys Weep
– By Charles MooreBrie Ruais: Bone Dice
– By Barbara A. MacAdamR. Jamin: Temperance
– By Nolan KellyAnthony Cudahy: Fool’s gold and Fool’s errand
– By Joseph AkelJames Esber, Jane Fine, J. Fiber, Tracey Goodman, Jim Lee
– By Hovey BrockOther Beings: Four Painters Bringing Roughly 20 Unique Faces
– By Hovey BrockTim Kent: Edges Off A Model
– By William CorwinPaul Anthony Smith: Antillean
– By William CorwinLaurie Simmons: DEEP PHOTOS / IN THE BEGINNING
– By Ekin ErkanDoug Wheeler: Day Night Day
– By Amanda GluibizziMatvey Levenstein: Zone
– By Alex GrimleyTobi Kahn: Memory and Inheritance
– By Susan HarrisBernice Bing: BINGO
– By Jessica HolmesRichard Tuttle: A Distance From This
– By Alfred Mac AdamJacob El Hanani: Drawing on Canvas
– By Alfred Mac AdamIbrahim Mahama: A SPELL OF GOOD THINGS
– By Charles MooreKemar Keanu Wynter: Rücken-
– By Amber Jamilla MusserAdriana Farmiga: Index
– By Clyde NicholsJason Rhoades: Drive II
– By Saul OstrowMark Armijo McKnight: Decreation
– By Zach RitterStan Douglas: The Enemy of All Mankind
– By Jason RosenfeldJosh Kline: Social Media
– By Madeleine SeidelSoumya Netrabile: Holding Current
– By Andrew L. SheaJoanna Pousette-Dart: Centering
– By Lilly WeiStanislao Lepri: High School
– By Jason RosenfeldDavid Rabinowitch: Works from 1962–2018
– By David CarrierFUTURA 2000: Breaking Out
– By David CarrierSpencer Sweeney: The Painted Bride
– By Alfred Mac AdamHelène Aylon: Undercurrent
– By Ann McCoyRon Gorchov: Exploring the Near/Far Painterly Horizons of Modern Space
– By Ekin Erkan
ArTonic
Visual AIDS
– By Ann C. Collins
Art and Technology
Novel Protocols for Networks and Agency
– By Charlotte Kent
Art History Meditations
Visionary Spaces: Walter Pichler meets Frederick Kiesler
– By Steven Pollock
Field Notes
JAMIE MERCHANT with John Clegg
Lola Miesseroff’s Fag Hag
– By Jean-Claude Leroy
Art Books
Inventing the Modern: Untold Stories of the Women Who Shaped The Museum of Modern Art
– By Sarah MorozFreddy Carrasco’s GLEEM
– By Naomi EliasOrlando Whitfield’s All That Glitters
– By James CahillAndrew James Paterson’s Never Enough Night
– By Daniella SanaderPenny Slinger’s An Exorcism: A Photo Romance
– By Jenny Wu
Books
Francine Prose’s 1974: A Personal History
– By Yvonne C. GarrettNATE LIPPENS with Chris Campanioni
TONY TULATHIMUTTE with James Yu
Ostap Slyvynsky’s Winter King
– By Tony LeuzziJuliet Grames’s The Lost Boy of Santa Chionia
– By Karissa ChenCody Delistraty’s The Grief Cure
– By Camille Sojit PejchaJoan Wickersham’s No Ship Sets Out to be a Shipwreck
– By Tania MalikSam Sax’s Yr Dead
– By Henry Hicks IVOlga Tokarczuk’s The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story
– By Emma R. Cohen
Music
AWADAGIN PRATT with Ben Gambuzza
Syto Cavé
– By Adolf AlzupharPhilip Freeman’s In the Brewing Luminous: The Life and Music of Cecil Taylor
– By George GrellaGive the Drummer Some
– By Scott Gutterman
Dance
CLARE CROFT with Candice Thompson
R.O.S.E.
– By Chava Pearl LanskyAn Unlikely Inheritance
– By Jessie L. MorrisMessage in a Bottle
– By Karen Hildebrand
Film
Basma al-Sharif’s Deep Sleep
– By Rebecca TurnerKazik Radwanski’s Matt and Mara
– By Laura ValenzaFrancis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis
– By Payton McCarty-Simas
Fiction
Years and Years
– By Bijan StephenRoom
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Poetry
The Hanging Girls
– By Jennifer Firestonefrom apparitions (nines)
– By Nat Raha
Dispatches
Dispatch 29: Bund und Circumstance
– By David Levi StraussDispatch 28: Democracy vs. The Price of Eggs
– By David Levi StraussDispatch 27: Vote Your Conscience
– By David Levi StraussDispatch 26: The Enemy Within, Fascist to the Core
– By David Levi StraussDispatch 25: The Silent Half
– By David Levi StraussDispatch 24: Beliefs & the Polls
– By David Levi StraussDispatch 23: Dark MAGA: Will It All End Here?
– By David Levi StraussDispatch 22: “This Has Got to Stop”
– By David Levi Strauss
Railing Opinion
Public Caviardage
– By Andrew Paul WoolbrightBeheading a Conversation: Invisible Censors
– By Melissa Joseph