March 2025
Featuring interviews with Catherine Goodman, Tuan Andrew Nguyen, Lucio Pozzi, and Sin Wai Kin. Guest Critic Omar Kholeif: “Pictures, Windows, Portals, Lives: An Assembly of Critical Feelings”
The “March 2025” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on March 4, 2025.
Publisher's Message
Dear Friends and Readers
– By Phong H. Bui
Critics Page
Pictures, Windows, Portals, Lives
– By Omar KholeifSoft Power
– By Alex Da CorteIn Feeling
– By Alison HearstDreaming between Suriname, the Netherlands and the United States
– By Miko VeldkampMixed Feelings: For Omar Kholeif
– By W. J. T. MitchellCelia Hempton with Omar Kholeif
Mentoring in Cycles/Intergenerational Learning
– By Zoe ButtSpeaking Truth to Silence
– By Michael Rakowitz and Ossian WardAnuar Khalifi and Sunny Rahbar with Omar Kholeif
Introducing: Why a Queer Arab Glossary
– By Marwan KaabourSome Notes on the Subject of Lost (and Found) Queer Worlds
– By Ian MasseyLiliane Tomasko
June Drops, Wind Falls
– By Hrair SarkissianSean Scully on Rabat Blue
Collecting Abstraction
– By Sultan Sooud Al QassemiUnicorn Philosophy
– By Zachary CahillThe Count
– By Otobong NkangaA Biography of a Sort
– By Omar Kholeif and Sonia BalassanianVian Sora with Omar Kholeif
F for Feeling
– By Sofia Victorino
ArtSeen
Carolin Eidner: Daddy Dying Sun
– By Ekin ErkanEn Iwamura: Mask
– By Charles MooreDavid Kennedy Cutler: Second Nature
– By Susan HarrisKianja Strobert: Pennies from Heaven
– By William CorwinThomas Scheibitz: Argos Eyes
– By Barbara A. MacAdamClaire Sherman: Petrichor
– By Alex GrimleyDaniel Turner: Compresseur
– By Pamela KortBarbara Friedman: All Rude and Lumpy Matter
– By Elizabeth JohnsonAnd All That Is In Between
– By Natalia GierowskaJeff Koons and Pablo Picasso: Reflections
– By Natalia GierowskaAmy Sillman: Oh, Clock!
– By Astrid DickAlfie Caine: The Chalk Carver’s House
– By Jessica HolmesRaven Chacon and Wadada Leo Smith
– By Caitlin AnklamBruce Nauman: Pasadena Years
– By Terry R. MyersBrasil! Brasil! The Birth of Modernism
– By Bartolomeo SalaHaegue Yang: Lost Lands and Sunken Fields
– By Madison FordRobert Grosvenor
– By Alfred Mac AdamEva Beresin: Offstage
– By Steven PollockRaoul De Keyser: Touch Game
– By Tom McGlynnEtel Adnan
– By Ann McCoyCarl Cheng: Nature Never Loses
– By Chenoa BakerCaspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature
– By Suzaan BoettgerNathalia Edenmont: Out of Body
– By Jonathan GoodmanAnastasia Samoylova & Walker Evans: Floridas
– By Eleonor BotomanDimensions Indefinitely Variable: Sui Jianguo 1974–2024
– By David A BrubakerTodd Gray: While Angels Gaze
– By Allison CareyHélène de Beauvoir: The Woman Destroyed
– By Mary Ann CawsJim Condron: Collected Things
– By William CorwinJan Baracz: twilight mechanics
– By Ekin ErkanMaria Lai: A Journey to America
– By Ekin ErkanFuture Fossils
– By Annabel KeenanCy Twombly
– By Alfred Mac AdamFranz Kafka
– By Elina AlterSalah Elmur: The Land of the Sun
– By Charles MooreJulius Eastman & Glenn Ligon: Evil Nigger
– By Charles MooreRalph Lemon: Ceremonies Out of the Air
– By Lee Ann NormanBut Live Here? No Thanks: Surrealism and Anti-fascism
– By Jonathan OddenDraw Them In, Paint Them Out: Trenton Doyle Hancock Confronts Philip Guston
– By Emann OdufuAlbert Oehlen & Kim Gordon
– By Debra Riley ParrThe 80s: Photographing Britain
– By Bartolomeo SalaIndigenous Identities: Here, Now & Always
– By Joanna SeifterLeonora Carrington: Mythopoesis
– By Mark Van ProyenEmil Lukas: Infinite Edge
– By Farren Fei YuanDavid Humphrey: PorTraits
– By Ekin ErkanGary Kuehn: In Situ
– By Joe Fyfe
Dispatches
Dispatch 59: The Rule of Law, Academic Freedom, and Social Security Are All a Bit Like Health
– By David Levi StraussDispatch 58: Signalgate and the Rate of Illusion
– By David Levi StraussDispatch 57. Fight the Oligarchy or Obey in Advance
– By David Levi StraussDispatch 56: War on the Institute of Peace
– By David Levi StraussDispatch 55: Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly
– By David Levi Strauss
Field Notes
Public Health Under Trump
– By Ana V. Diez RouxPalestine: People or Class?
ALEX GENDLER with Adam Hanieh
Art Books
Cynthia Hawkins’s Art Notes, Art
– By Megan N. LibertyMARY MARGARET ALVARADO, CORIE J. COLE, & AARON COHICK with Sommer Browning
Arielle Bobb-Willis: Keep the Kid Alive
– By Sarah MorozH.G. Olds: Espejos de Plata / Silver Mirrors
– By Lyle RexerTR Ericsson’s Nicotine
– By Zach Ritter
Books
MAGGIE ARMSTRONG with Tadhg Hoey
– By Tadhg HoeyWILLA CARROLL with Tony Leuzzi
Natasha Brown’s Universality
– By Kate PreziosiMai Ishizawa’s The Place of Shells
– By Dante SilvaJACLYN YOUHANA GARVER with Kathleen Rooney
Jamieson Webster’s On Breathing: Care in a Time of Catastrophe
– By Meghan RacklinFernando A. Flores’s Brother Brontë
– By Madison FordRémy Ngamije’s Only Stars Know the Meaning of Space: A Literary Mixtape
– By John DominiAli Smith’s Gliff
– By Yvonne C. GarrettRon Padgett’s Dick: A Memoir of Dick Gallup
– By Bradley King
Music
Music Made by Walking
– By Andrew WeathersDark Music Days
– By Martin LongleyApollo and Daphne
– By Adolf AlzupharThe Sound of Philadelphia
– By Scott Gutterman
Film
Another Spell of Light: Unstable Rocks + Sanctuary Station
– By Hannah BonnerCatherine Gund’s Meanwhile
– By Brittany TurnerTunde Kelani’s Saworoide
– By Michael Kolawole
Theater
Self-Control and Self-Content: Two Premieres Address Cultures of Constant Surveillance
– By Billy McEnteeKrymov Lab NYC Puts on a Shit Show
– By Oliver EggerCHAD KAYDO with Theresa Buchheister
To The Bone: Grave Robbing Black Bodies in Nia Akilah Robinson’s The Great Privation
– By Catherine Sawoski
Architecture
TONY FRETTON with Nile Greenberg
The Museum and Architecture’s Current State
– By Reese LewisBotanic Entropy of Ruins
– By Jessica MartinA Brick Monster
– By Ted Baab
Poetry
from Refuge Whimsy: Portraits
– By Ronaldo V. WilsonTHOT
– By Chanté L. ReidIncongruous Pantries: On Listening to DJ Nice’s Bill Withers Set
– By Tonya M. FosterWinter with Ovid
– By Bhion Achimba
Art and Technology
Notes Towards Situating “AI”: Seven Critiques & Seven Problems
– By Charlotte Kent
Railing Opinion
Art Criticism and Art History Writing: What’s Happening?
– By David CarrierArtwriting: A Response
– By Ivan GaskellToday and Forever
– By Svetlana AlpersOpen the Box of the Artwork and Seek to Understand
– By Karen Lang