February 2025
Featuring interviews with Paolo Colombo, David Diao, Karen Brooks Hopkins, and Jacqueline Humphries. Guest Critic Eleanor Heartney: “The Return of the Goddess”
The “February 2025” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on January 28, 2025.
ArtSeen
Soundwalk Collective & Patti Smith: Correspondences
– By Joseph AkelChris Martin: An Arrival and Eternal Return of Painting
– By Phong H. BuiJoshua Rainer: Amo Ergo Sum
– By Katy KimBeyond the Frame: Abstraction Reconstructed
– By Ekin ErkanBarkley L. Hendricks: Space is the Place
– By Maggley VielotPaul Wallach: Lieu Non Lieu
– By Ann C. CollinsHarmony and Dissonance: Orphism in Paris, 1910–1930
– By Jason RosenfeldJilaine Jones: A Walk with D. Ann
– By Hearne PardeeNicholas Campbell: World-Honored One
– By Ekin ErkanEdward E. Boccia: Postwar American Expressionist
– By Natalie PrizelMake Way for Berthe Weill: Art Dealer of the Parisian Avant-Garde
– By Ekin ErkanJohn Divola: The Ghost In The Machine
– By James WellingNancy Goldring: Distillations
– By Jessica HolmesJanet Malcolm: Collages
– By Rebecca AllanSarah Rosalena: Star Rose, Rose Star
– By Elizabeth BuheMichael Abel: Mutt
– By William CorwinPaul Mpagi Sepuya: TRANCE
– By Selena ParnonMyron Stout: Charcoal Drawings
– By David RhodesAi Weiwei: What You See Is What You See and Child’s Play
– By William CorwinLuc Tuymans: The Past
– By Patricia L LewyVictoria Burge
– By Christopher AlessandriniAllan Wexler: Probably True
– By Joyce BeckensteinMark Lammert: REVOLUTIONS-SPLITTER
– By Jurriaan BenschopLivien Yin: Thirsty
– By Justin DuyaoSheila Fell: Cumberland on Canvas
– By Kate BrockSohrab Hura: Mother
– By Jean DykstraCatherine Howe: Mineral Spirits
– By David EbonyJasmine Gregory: Who Wants to Die for Glamour
– By Eana KimHans Josephsohn: Josephsohn vu par Albert Oehlen
– By Patricia L LewyErwin Pfrang:The Ghosts Ask
– By Alfred Mac AdamMaria Pinińska-Bereś
– By Valerie MindlinDawoud Bey: Stony the Road
– By Charles MooreAnicka Yi: There Exists Another Evolution, But In This One
– By Min ParkThe Living End: Painting and Other Technologies, 1970–2020
– By Terry R. MyersFlight into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt, 1876–Now
– By Dina A. RamadanAzza El Siddique: Echoes to Omega
– By Emilie TriceMaria Lai: A Journey to America
– By Benjamin PaulJesse Krimes: Corrections
– By Zach RitterLetizia Battaglia: Life, Love and Death in Sicily
– By Bartolomeo SalaGesche Würfel: The Absence and Presence of the Berlin Wall
– By Robert SlifkinAmy Sherald: American Sublime
– By Mark Van ProyenMark Leckey: 3 Songs from the Liver
– By Andrew Paul WoolbrightLubaina Himid: Make Do and Mend
– By Chloe StagamanJames Clark and Cordy Ryman: Light Constructs
– By Ekin ErkanFischersund: Faux Flora
– By Gregory VolkNick Cave: Amalgams and Graphts
– By Amanda Gluibizzi
Publisher's Message
Dear Friends and Readers
– By Phong H. Bui
Critics Page
The Return of the Goddess
– By Eleanor HeartneyGoddess Time
– By Charlene SpretnakShe Who Sees the Unknown: Huma
– By Morehshin AllahyariThe Witches Are Back
– By Angela FraleighGloria’s Call
– By Cheri GaulkeUnbraiding Feminisms
– By Cassandra LangerMary Queen of Heaven
– By Ann McCoyVenus Envy Chapter III: Cihuatlampa, the Place of the Giant Women (1997)
– By Amalia Mesa-BainsGoddesses and Empathic Universe
– By Saya Woolfalk and Alexandra SchwartzReturn to the Matriarchy of the Future
– By Lara PanNo God, No Goddess: De-Hierarchization of the Divine
– By Erika HarrschToward Freeing the Goddess from her Bodice
– By Rina Banerjee and Grace Yasumura
Dispatches
Dispatch 54. “You Don’t Have the Cards”
– By David Levi StraussDispatch 53. The Politics of Death Itself
– By David Levi StraussDispatch 52. The Paradise of Fools
– By David Levi StraussDispatch 51. Saving His Country?
– By David Levi StraussDispatch 50: Time After Time
– By David Levi StraussDispatch 49: Fork in the Road
– By David Levi StraussDispatch 48: Overcoming Our Dictator Phobia
– By David Levi Strauss
Art and Technology
Thirty-six Views on Nostalgia, Technostalgia, and Retrofuturism
– By Charlotte Kent
Field Notes
EWGENIY KASAKOW with Felix Baum
After the Gentrification Economy
– By Luis BrennanQuarter-Pounds of Flesh: Part II
– By Phil A. Neel
Art Books
Nydia Blas’s Love, You Came from Greatness
– By Sarah MorozXavier Robles de Medina’s Pengel
– By Beryl GilothwestDance History(s): Imagination as a Form of Study
– By Macaella Gray and Zoe RodenThe Collected Poems of Mary Ellen Solt
– By Nicole KaackMagali Duzant’s La vie is like that
– By Daniella Sanader
Books
ARIA ABER with Mandana Chaffa
MARIA BAMFORD with Claire Philips
Tove Jansson’s Sun City
– By Vanessa Lily ChungOmar Khalifah’s Sand-Catcher
– By John DominiMargaret Ross’s Saturday
– By Benjamin PaulSHAYNE TERRY with Rachel León
Dance
DOUGLAS DUNN & ANNE WALDMAN with Caedra Scott-Flaherty
Ballet Beyond Binaries
– By Sofía Ruvira-FernándezOKWUI OKPOKWASILI & KATHERINE PROFETA with Nell Breyer
Out-FRONT! Festival 2025
– By Karen HildebrandThe Sculptor Turned Filmmaker Using Bodies Like Clay
– By Phoebe RobertsFlesh and Bones
– By Susan Yung
Music
THURSTON MOORE with George Grella
The Guitar Essayist
– By Rômulo MoraesDon Kapot
– By Martin LongleyBrooklyn Connection
– By Scott Gutterman
Film
CRYSTAL MOSELLE & DERRICK B. HARDEN with Weiting Liu
Christopher Jason Bell and Mitch Blummer’s Failed State
– By Frank FalisiHannah Peterson’s The Graduates
– By Alexandra Jhamb BurnsCatherine Gund’s Paint Me a Road Out of Here
– By Akané Okoshi
Theater
On Digital Naturalism: In Broadway Video Designs, Will Image Overpower Imagination?
– By Billy McEnteeEnglish’s Ava Lalezarzadeh Comes Into Her Own
– By Diba MohtashamThree New Plays Explore Thrilling, Elusive Hunts for a Shared Language
– By Billy McEnteeJERRY LIEBLICH & PAUL LAZAR with Kyle Turner
BESS WOHL with Brian Scott Lipton
Fiction
from The Lives and Deaths of Véronique Bangoura
–from No Country for Love
– By Yaroslav Trofimov
Poetry
Bark, archive, splinter
– By Jay Gaosix poems
– By YanyiFathers and Daughters
– By Diana Khoi Nguyen
Architecture
ART SCREEN ART: A Review of Luna Luna at the Shed
– By Michaela FriedbergEcho Chamber
– By Florian Idenburg