April 2025
Featuring interviews with Lisa Alvarado, Ed Bowes, Madeleine Grynsztejn, Tyler Mitchell, and Amanda Williams. Guest Critic Pamela Sneed: “Poetry is Not a Luxury”
The “April 2025” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on April 1, 2025.
Publisher's Message
Dear Friends and Readers
– By Phong H. Bui
Critics Page
Poetry is Not a Luxury
– By Pamela Sneedfour poems
– By Josiah McElhenytwo poems
– By YAHow Audre Lorde Helped Me See the Light
– By Samuel FormoThoracic Wall
– By Emilio RojasThe White Women Problem
– By Justine Kurlandtwo poems
– By Joseph LiatelaBalance
– By JP HowardThe Slow Burn: On Poetry in our Now
– By Tavia Nyong’oRecess
– By Keisha Scarvilletwo poems
– By Karen FinleyMusic for a small group of people
– By Kyle Dacuyantwo poems
– By Gregg BordowitzCHERYL BOYCE TAYLOR with Alexis Pauline Gumbs
ArtSeen
Beauty is a Blast: for Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe
– By Joe FyfeElectric Dreams
– By Amanda GluibizziBlanche Lazzell: Becoming an American Modernist
– By Benjamin CliffordDiana Horowitz: Light is a Place
– By David WhelanSusan Bee: Days of Awe
– By Lilly WeiCelia Paul: Colony of Ghosts
– By Cynthia PayneJulio Galán
– By Lyle RexerLANDLINE
– By Collin SundtJanice Redman: Rough Alchemy
– By Patricia L LewyTim Stoner: Negative Space
– By Sam CornishTaryn Simon
– By Alfred Mac AdamJoan Jonas: Empty Rooms
– By Natalie PrizelTavares Strachan: Starless Midnight
– By William CorwinMichael Alexander Campbell: Sovereign Lapse
– By Nicholas HeskesZorawar Sidhu and Rob Swainston: Flash Point
– By Jillian RussoCatherine Murphy: Recent Work
– By Barbara A. MacAdamJudith Murray: Paradise Paradox
– By Rachel FedermanClifford Ross: What Remains…
– By Ekin ErkanGeorge Condo: Pastels
– By Joseph AkelKrishna Reddy: Heaven in a Wildflower
– By Zoe AriyamaThomas Scheibitz: Argos Eyes
– By Hovey BrockKeisha Scarville: Passports 2012–2025
– By Stephen FraileyRobert Feintuch and Saul Steinberg: Sunset Emergency
– By Susan HarrisAmy Ruhl: We shall not miss it
– By Nicole KaackMirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori
– By Richard KalinaAi, Rebel: The Art and Activism of Ai Weiwei
– By Eana KimWarp and Weft: Technologies within Textiles
– By Katy KimEnzo Shalom
– By Megan KincaidDieter Roth: Islandscapes
– By Alfred Mac AdamRachel Feinstein: The Miami Years
– By Yvonne OwensFabio Miguez: Ichnographies
– By David RhodesJoe Overstreet: Taking Flight
– By David RhodesVladimir Tatlin: Kyiv
– By Ara H. MerjianAndreas Gursky: Inherited Images
– By Benjamin PaulLisa Yuskavage
– By Rebecca SchiffmanMarta Thoma Hall: To See with Eyes Closed
– By Mark Van ProyenIda Applebroog: You what?
– By Lilly WeiIslamic Arts Biennale 2025: And All That Is In Between
– By Natalia GierowskaMerlin James: Hobby Horse
– By Ann C. Collins
Dispatches
Dispatch 63: It’s the Data, Stupid
– By David Levi StraussDispatch 62. “The Homegrowns Are Next”
– By David Levi StraussDispatch 61. Signs and Symbols
– By David Levi StraussDispatch 60: Senator Booker’s Stand
– By David Levi Strauss
Field Notes
Editor’s Note: Hora hominem facit
– By Paul MattickThe Overshoot Scam
– By Peter St. ClairPalestine: People or Class?
Milei, Trump, and the Lumpenbourgeoisie
–
Art Books
Carolee Schneemann’s Digitized Diaries
– By Megan N. LibertyJonathan Hollingsworth’s Call Me Timothée
– By Nick DaoustJosé Sarmento Matos’s JAMAIKA
– By Nicole KaackIrene V. Small’s The Organic Line
– By Thomas WallerTeddy Sandoval and The Butch Gardens School of Art
– By Zoe Roden
Books
Nora Treatbaby’s Our Air
– By Joseph AlbernazKURT BAUMEISTER with Christine Sneed
Kurt Baumeister’s Twilight of the Gods
– By James W. FuerstYou Had to Be There (And Can Be!)
– By Jaime ClarkeHaley Mlotek’s No Fault: A Memoir of Romance and Divorce
– By Madeleine CrumKatie Kitamura’s Audition
– By Kate PreziosiLynne Tillman’s Thrilled to Death
– By Meghan RacklinSeán Hewitt’s Open, Heaven
– By Henry Hicks IVNajwan Darwish’s No One Will Know You Tomorrow: Selected Poems 2014–2024
– By Tony LeuzziJessica Sequeira’s Jazz of the Affections
– By John Domini
Music
The Art of the Fail
– By George GrellaRemembering Herb Robertson
– By Nate WooleyStage4Beverley’s Winter Festival
– By Martin LongleyDreaming in Color
– By Scott Gutterman
Dance
ANDRÉ ZACHERY & AYINDE JEAN-BAPTISTE with Sydnie L. Mosley
Notes on Tenderness and Time
– By Hannah LipmanMidlife Misha and the Law of Conservation of Energy
– By Emily Coates
Film
Orpheus Looks Back
– By Nolan KellyLong Live Film Restoration
– By Jadie StillwellJames Bidgood’s Pink Narcissus
– By Payton McCarty-Simas
Theater
Surrender to Language Dense but Frisky: On Letter of Intent and Donald Barthelme Humors You
– By Billy McEnteeDAVID GREENSPAN & MONA PIRNOT with Douglas Corzine
Caryl Churchill Returns to The Public with Four Scintillating Works
– By Paul David YoungADIL MANSOOR & SHAYOK MISHA CHOWDHURY with Gerard Raymond
EMMA HORWITZ & BAILEY WILLIAMS with MJ Kaufman
LEEGRID STEVENS with Lily Goldberg
Fiction
The Ecstasy of Sam Malone
– By Marie-Helene Bertino
Poetry
three poems
– By Rickey LaurentiisOcular Truth and the Irreparable [Veil]
– By Charles Bernsteinthree poems
– By Dawn Lundy Martinthree poem collages
– By Rachel Blau DuPlessisthree poems
– By Harryette Mullen
Art and Technology
Processes of Memory in the Age of Information
– By Charlotte Kent
Special Report
Art in Public
– By Jonathan Fineberg