November 2024
Featuring interviews with Mel Bochner, Laurent Le Bon, Sonia Boyce, Bruce Nauman, and Haim Steinbach. Guest Critic Natalie Prizel: “EARLY/MODERN/ITALY”.
The “November 2024” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on October 29, 2024.
Publisher's Message
Dear Friends and Readers
– By Phong H. Bui
Art
Breaking the Fourth Wall: On Aliza Nisenbaum’s Paintings at the Met Opera
– By Erin YerbyPaula Modersohn-Becker: Ich bin Ich / I Am Me
– By Stephanie BuhmannBRUCE NAUMAN with Michael Auping
HAIM STEINBACH with Francesca Pietropaolo
SONIA BOYCE with Mark Hudson
MEL BOCHNER with Charles M. Schultz
LAURENT LE BON with Jennifer Stockman & Joachim Pissarro
Following Franne Davids
– By Lyle Rexer
Critics Page
EARLY / MODERN / ITALY
– By Natalie PrizelHistory, Making, Repetition
– By Ayesha RamachandranA Mosaic of Cultures: The Portrait of an Unknown Sailor in the Harbor of Cefalù
– By Giorgio MotisiDon Giovanni and Italian comedy
– By Karen T. RaizenForm, Forge, Forget Italy (Or Flip It)
– By Alessandro GiammeiStranieri italiani
– By Roberto C. FerrariBlind Fixedness of Thought
– By Justin A. SiderMona Lisa’s Throat
– By David Young KimRenato Miracco with Natalie Prizel
ArtSeen
Scott Burton: Shape Shift
– By Amanda GluibizziCarl Cheng: Nature Never Loses
– By Hannah Sage KayJimi Kabela: Amalgamation
– By David EbonyBeyond the Line: From Finite to Infinite, From Physics to Metaphysics
– By Maximiliane LeuschnerLoretta Dunkelman: Engrossed in the Shell (the Sky and the Circle)
– By Elizabeth BuheFrancis Alÿs: The Gibraltar Projects
– By Amanda GluibizziAnne Wilson: The MAD Drawing Room and Errant Behaviors
– By Buzz SpectorAda Friedman and Helen Adam: Ballads
– By Elizabeth BuheDenzil Forrester: Two Islands, One World
– By Mark BlochJudy Glantzman and Stephen Lack: Over Decades
– By Taliesin ThomasFox Hysen and Molly Zuckerman-Hartung: schips
– By Hannah BeermanChakaia Booker: Empty Seat
– By Farren Fei YuanLinnéa Gad: Return of the Mollusk
– By Natalie GinsbergErin O’Keefe: I saw the man with a telescope
– By Hearne PardeeJames Holl: Indeterminate Landscapes
– By Taliesin ThomasRonnie Landfield: Recent Works
– By Ara OsterweilRichard Serra at Gemini G.E.L.: Five Decades of Printmaking
– By Ekin ErkanOlafur Eliasson: Your psychoacoustic light ensemble
– By Ann McCoyTerry Adkins: Works on Paper
– By Alfred Mac AdamOscar yi Hou: The beat of life
– By Joseph AkelMotohiro Takeda: Something To Remember You By
– By Gao YuanCady Noland
– By Saul OstrowWarren Rohrer: Return to Land
– By Alex GrimleyElliott Puckette: Unfolding
– By Ekin ErkanLorenzo Amos: No Regrets Because You’re My Sunshine
– By Ginevra de BlasioKeith Jackson: The Provocateurs
– By Annabel KeenanCynthia Carlson: EDGES INSIDEOUT
– By Joe FyfeNicole Eisenman: Fixed Crane
– By Jason RosenfeldLiliane Tomasko: Twofold
– By Declan LongGiorgio Morandi: Time Suspended, part II
– By Lyle RexerCameron Rowland: Properties
– By Reese LewisFrancine Tint: In Dialogue With Helen Frankenthaler
– By Alex GrimleyRafael Domenech: Prologue: Residual Images in Italics
– By Laurie RojasMiquel Barceló: Vida y Muerte
– By Jurriaan BenschopPeter Wayne Lewis: Monk
– By William CorwinSara Cwynar: Baby Blue Benzo
– By Jason DrillJordan Weber: New Forest, Ancient Thrones
– By Justin DuyaoTristan Duke: Glacial Optics
– By Jordan EddyElizabeth Catlett: A Black Revolutionary Artist and All That It Implies
– By Jessica HolmesGala Porras-Kim: The motion of an alluvial record
– By Annabel KeenanCrossing Over: Art and Science at Caltech, 1920–2020
– By Adam LudwigPanmodern! The Mark Bloch / Postal Art Network Archive
– By Tom McGlynnThe Appearance: Art of the Asian Diaspora in Latin America & the Caribbean
– By Amanda Millet-SorsaTimothy Yanick Hunter: Noise / Grain
– By Rômulo MoraesChie Fueki: Petal Storm Memory
– By Hearne PardeeThe Experimental films of Dick Higgins
– By Mark BlochRobert Longo
– By Steven PollockMichelle V. Agins: Storyteller
– By Jillian RussoPeter Kennard: Archive of Dissent
– By Bartolomeo SalaTurner Prize 2024
– By Bartolomeo SalaJenna Bliss: Basic Cable
– By Joanna SeifterRobert Frank: Life Dances On, Robert Frank in Dialogue
– By James WellingRirkrit Tiravanija: DAS GLÜCK IST NICHT IMMER LUSTIG (Happiness is not always fun)
– By Toby Kamps
Field Notes
Editor’s Note
– By Paul MattickOn Demographic Decline, World Population, and World Prospects for the Twenty-First Century
– By José A. TapiaPopulation and Economy: A Comment
– By Jasper BernesBrief Responses
– By Jason E. SmithRe-Reading Capital
– By Paul Mattick
Art Books
Carol Kino’s Double Click: Twin Photographers in the Golden Age of Magazines
– By Christopher AtamianEvan Robert Neely’s Political Economy, Race, and the Image of Nature in the United States, 1825–1878
– By Greg LindquistAruna D’Souza’s Imperfect Solidarities
– By Nate MickelsonI’m So Happy You Are Here: Japanese Women Photographers from the 1950s to Now
– By Zach RitterNo Land and Anne Waldman’s The Velvet Wire
– By Bradley KingMasterpieces from the William Rubin Collection: Dialogue of the Tribal and the Modern and its Heritage
– By Darren Jones
Books
Revisiting Claudia Rankine’s Don’t Let Me Be Lonely, Twenty Years Later
– By Mandana ChaffaJennifer Martelli’s Psychic Party Under the Bottle Tree
– By Olivia Kate CerroneLászló Krasznahorkai’s Herscht 07769
– By John DominiRachel Kushner’s Creation Lake
– By A.M. GittlitzJessie van Eerden’s Yoke & Feather
– By Melissa Holbrook PiersonKathryn Davis’s Versailles
– By Kate PreziosiEmmanuel Carrère’s V13
– By Michael Shorris
Music
Paths of Sound
– By John HastingsForever New
– By Max KellerCologne Jazzweek
– By Martin LongleyBack to Soweto
– By Scott Gutterman
Dance
ALEXA WEST with Dylan Sherman
When the Artists Write the History Books
– By Kyle McCarthyAlethea Pace’s Counter-archival Choreographies
– By Urayoán NoelEverything You Have Is Yours
– By Candice Thompson
Film
Mati Diop’s Dahomey
– By Edward FrumkinNew York Counter Film Festival: “Shovel or Spade”
– By Nick KouhiLANA WILSON with Weiting Liu
Vito A. Rowlands’s Ovid, New York
– By Frank FalisiJacques Demy’s The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
– By Carlos ValladaresChaos and Order: The Way of Johnnie To
– By Jackson Pacheco
Theater
The Robots Are Singing. What Do They Want Us to Hear?
– By Billy McEnteeDOMINIQUE MORISSEAU with Brian Scott Lipton
The Unholy Trolling of Marla Mindelle
– By Dan RubinsJim Parsons and the Non-Practicing Homosexual
– By Billy McEntee
Fiction
Picking Crabs in Negril
– By Diana McCaulayThe Trouble with The Dog
– By Stefan Bindley-Taylor
Poetry
from FLAG
– By Imani Elizabeth JacksonMichael Gottlieb
Railing Opinion
Worldbuilding: A Criteria and a History
– By Andrew Paul WoolbrightAll Aboard!
– By Mary Ann CawsWorldbuilding 101
– By mosie river
Dispatches
Dispatch 38: The Bias Meter
– By David Levi StraussDispatch 37: Admirable Fortitude in Soul
– By David Levi StraussDispatch 36: The Second Coming, Again
– By David Levi StraussDispatch 35: One Hundred Sixty-One Years and Counting
– By David Levi StraussDispatch 33: The Obsequious Instruments of His Pleasure
– By David Levi StraussDispatch 32: The Clown at the End of the World
– By David Levi StraussDispatch 31: Riven: Yes or No?
– By David Levi StraussDispatch 30: Artificial, General, and Zero Intelligence
– By David Levi StraussDispatch 34: The Real vs. The Fake
– By David Levi Strauss