Dec/Jan 2024–25
Featuring interviews with Sara Cwynar, Mara de Luca, Lee Mary Manning, and Joel Sternfeld. Guest Critics Barbara A. Macadam and Lilly Wei: “For Love or Money: Surviving Criticism”
The “Dec/Jan 2024–25” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on December 10, 2024.
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– By Phong H. Bui
ArtSeen
David Smith: The Nature of Sculpture
– By Phong H. BuiMichael Asher
– By James WellingKai Althoff: di costole
– By Ginevra de BlasioJosé Parlá: Homecoming
– By Vittoria BenzineKate Shepherd: ABC and sometimes Y
– By Alfred Mac AdamPeter Young: “Stick” Paintings, 1970
– By Patricia L LewyBarrier
– By Andrew Paul WoolbrightPST ART: Art & Science Collide
– By Eana KimJack Goldstein
– By Lili ChinAlexandra Exter: The Stage Is a World
– By Joseph MasheckLee Mary Manning: Kiss of the Sun
– By Joanie CappettaIrving Penn: Centennial
– By Stephen FraileyCecily Brown: Themes and Variations
– By Madison FordHarmony and Dissonance: Orphism in Paris, 1910–1930
– By Ann McCoySean Scully: Broadway Shuffle
– By Rebecca AllanArt and Graphic Design of the European Avant-Gardes
– By Mary Ann CawsPark Seo-Bo: The Newspaper Ecritures, 2022–23
– By Farren Fei YuanEmil Alzamora: Dulce Compañía (Sweet Company)
– By Lyle RexerMedardo Rosso: Inventing Modern Sculpture
– By Steven PollockDavid Muenzer: Twin Study
– By Paul SietsemaMel Bochner: 48" Standards
– By Saul OstrowPast as Prologue: A Historical Acknowledgment, Part I
– By William CorwinAlice Baber: Colors of the Rainbow
– By Alex GrimleyLiza Lacroix: our arrangement our arrangement our arrangement
– By Ekin ErkanMing Smith: Wind Chime
– By Pia SinghSofía Gallisá Muriente: Unknown Unknowns
– By Clara Maria ApostolatosDorothea Rockburne: The Light Shines in the Darkness and the Darkness Has Not Understood It
– By Mark HudsonPIEROGI 30: Thirtieth Anniversary
– By Ekin ErkanPamela Sneed: Speaking Tongue
– By Jessica HolmesJavier Calleja: One true tree for…
– By Ekin ErkanPaul Sietsema
– By David MuenzerPeter McGough: Alphabet
– By Joseph AkelChuck Webster: The Completist
– By Tom McGlynnAlain Jacquet & James Rosenquist
– By Mary Ann CawsSiena: The Rise of Painting, 1300–1350
– By David CarrierJaeheon Lee: Ghosts in the Garden
– By William CorwinEdges of Ailey
– By Ekin ErkanPatterns in Abstraction
– By Leia GenisJordan Nassar: THERE
– By Robert Alan GrandJay DeFeo: Trees
– By Suzanne HudsonNour Mobarak: Dafne Phono
– By Eana KimYuli Yamagata: Ghosts Don’t Wear Watches
– By Alfred Mac AdamSoledad Sevilla: Ritmos, tramas, variables
– By Valerie MindlinMark Bradford: Keep Walking
– By Charles MooreAndré Griffo: Exploded View
– By Rômulo MoraesJesse Krimes: Corrections
– By Joanna SeifterLynne Drexler: Color Notes
– By David WhelanRosemarie Beck: Earthly Paradise
– By Leah Triplett HarringtonFrancesco Clemente: Summer Love in the Fall
– By Selena ParnonSean Scully: Duane Street, 1981–1983
– By Raphy SarkissianHenni Alftan: Stop Making Sense
– By Ann C. CollinsHap Tivey: Perception is the Medium
– By Benjamin CliffordWilliam Gropper: Artist of the People
– By Margot YaleSylvia Plimack Mangold: Tapes, Fields, and Trees, 1975–84
– By Rebecca Allan
Field Notes
Open Letter to NPR
– By Jared JosephWhat Happened?
– By Adam Theron-Lee RenschQuarter-Pounds of Flesh
– By Phil A. Neel
Architecture
Editors’ Notes
Load Bearing Words
– By Sofia AlbrigoThe Discipline Reveals its Dirty Laundry
– By Michael Abel and Ian EricksonDrawing Review
– By juliana yangArmature Globale Review
– By Ari Topelson
Art Books
AMOS PAUL KENNEDY, JR. with Naomi Elias
Celia Álvarez Muñoz: Breaking the Binding
– By Megan N. LibertyThe Best Art Books of 2024
Crafted Kinship: Inside the Creative Practices of Contemporary Black Caribbean Makers
– By Chenoa BakerLouise Siddons’s Good Pictures Are a Strong Weapon
– By Jackson DavidowGregory Crewdson
– By Jake RommHettie Judah’s Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood
– By Anna Souter
Books
Ann Napolitano’s Hello Beautiful
– By Samuele F.S. PardiniHow Emotions Are Made and Modernism, Art, Therapy
– By Jonathan FinebergLucía Hinojosa Gaxiola’s The Telaraña Circuit
– By Michael CavutoTYLER WETHERALL with Hannah Burns
JOHANNA HEDVA with Victoria Papa
Dubravka Ugresic’s A Muzzle for Witches
– By John DominiLyle Rexer’s The Book of Crow
– By Kurt BaumeisterChristine Rosen’s The Extinction of Experience
– By Sam FranziniRenee Gladman’s My Lesbian Novel
– By Ayaz O. MuratogluJeanette Winterson’s Night Side of the River
– By Yvonne C. GarrettJoshua D. Rogers’s Psychedelic Psalms
– By Phong H. Bui
Dance
The Sustenance of Desire
– By Tess MichaelsonReimagining Gaming as a Dance
– By Leo KimADRIENNE EDWARDS with Susan Yung
Netta Yerushalmy’s Movement
– By Karen Hildebrand
Music
Reignition
– By Erick BradshawEnjoy Jazz in Ludwigshafen & Mannheim
– By Martin LongleyBebop Basquiat
– By George GrellaSuite for a Broken World
– By Scott Gutterman
Film
The Greatest Films You’ll Never See, Volume III
Lovell Holder’s Lavender Men
– By Harrison BlackmanLuca Guadagnino’s Queer
– By Joanna Seifter
Theater
In Temporary Boyfriend, Permanent Lasting Power from Nile Harris and Malcolm-x Betts
– By Daniella BritoLight Snow Tea Tuna Bug Time Ash
–DeliaDelia! DelightsDelights at The Brick
– By Billy McEnteeRacecar Racecar Racecar Finds New Home Following Connelly Cancellation, While Artists Reflect On Historic Theater’s Loss
– By Joey Sims
Fiction
Her Blue Hat
– By Drew Ohringer
Poetry
undoing
– By Asiya WadudOn a Global Scale
– By Evie ShockleyThe Age of Projections
– By Major JacksonFall Open
– By Julie Ezelle PattonThe Politics of Heartbreak
– By Simone White
Railing Opinion
The End of Postmodernism
– By David CarrierCulture Trouble
– By Richard ShiffWe Have Never Been Postmodern
– By Stephen F. EisenmanComfortably Numb
– By Julia FriedmanThe Phenomenon and the Problem of Education
– By Paul RodgersPostmodernism Deports Monism
– By Darren Jones
Dispatches
Dispatch 47: Neurological Imperialism
– By David Levi StraussDispatch 46: Day One of the New Crypto-Populism
– By David Levi StraussDispatch 45: The Ongoing Adventure of MAGA v. DOGE
– By David Levi StraussDispatch 44: The Slow Painful Death of Free Speech and Free Expression Online as Tech Bros Swipe Right for Trump
– By David Levi StraussDispatch 43: American Carnage 2.0
– By David Levi StraussDispatch 42. MAGA v. DOGE
– By David Levi StraussDispatch 41: The Art and Religion of “Victory or Apocalypse”
– By David Levi StraussDispatch 40: Billionaires and Autocrats of the World, Unite!
– By David Levi StraussDispatch 39: The Fox in the Trumpomuskovia House
– By David Levi Strauss