May 2025
Featuring interviews with Enzo Cucchi, Renée Green, Veronica Ryan, and Christine Sun Kim. Guest Critic Emily Braun: “Keeping Time with Christian Marclay’s The Clock”
The “May 2025” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on April 29, 2025.
Publisher's Message
Dear Friends and Readers
– By Phong H. Bui
Critics Page
Keeping Time with Christian Marclay’s The Clock
– By Emily Braun8:00–9:00 a.m.
– By Claire Gilman9:00–10:00 a.m.
– By Joseph LeDoux10:00–11:00 a.m.
– By Steven Grotell11:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
– By Nancy PrincenthalA Moment’s Pause
–12:00–1:00 p.m.
– By John McEnroe and Patty Smyth1:00–2:00 p.m.
– By Lauren Rosati2:00–3:00 p.m.
– By Rebecca Rabinow3:00–4:00 p.m.
– By Julia Blaut4:00–5:00 p.m.
– By Teri J. Edelstein and Neil Harris5:00–6:00pm
– By Liz Braun6:00–7:00 p.m.
– By Howard Singerman7:00–8:00 p.m.
– By Rosalind McKever8:00–9:00 p.m.
– By Jeff L. Rosenheim9:00–10:00 p.m.
– By Catherine Gund10:00–11:00 p.m.
– By Stephanie Lebas Huber11:00 p.m.–12:00 a.m.
– By Abraham Thomas12:00–1:00 a.m.
– By Damian Volpe1:00–2:00 a.m.
– By Andrew Lampert2:00–3:00 a.m.
– By Noam M. Elcott3:00–4:00 a.m.
– By Kate Crawford4:00–5:00 a.m.
– By Charles Schultz5:00–6:00 a.m.
– By Alexander Iadarola6:00–7:00 a.m.
– By Ligaya Mishan7:00–8:00 a.m.
– By Abby HermosillaOvertime
– By Alex Traub
ArtSeen
Dona Ann McAdams: Black | Box
– By Yvonne OwensThe River That Flows Both Ways
– By Kerry DowneyFrancine Tint: Symbolic of the Whole
– By Hearne PardeeHarold Wortsman: Shapes for the Future, Traces of the Past
– By William CorwinMiquel Barceló
– By Charles SchultzKang Seung Lee: Body of Memory
– By Natalie PrizelIan Hamilton Finlay: Fragments
– By Alfred Mac AdamGordon Hall: Hands and Knees
– By Tony BluestoneYoung-Il Ahn: Selected Works 1986–2019
– By Suzanne HudsonMario Cresci: Geometries / Epiphanies
– By Bartolomeo SalaMarcus Jahmal
– By Andrew Paul WoolbrightPatricia Treib: Sinuations
– By Louis BlockSyd Mead: Future Pastime
– By Collin SundtFranz Kline
– By Alfred Mac AdamGenevieve Goffman: All the words that came down to meet the body that came up from the ground
– By Nicholas HeskesArthur Rothstein: New Deal America
– By Farren Fei YuanFranz Erhard Walther: Who cannot wait will stumble
– By Tom McGlynnThe Book of Marvels: Imagining the Medieval World
– By Fabiola AlondraMary Ann Unger: Across the Bering Strait
– By Elizabeth BuheWolfgang Laib: Towers of Silence
– By Ann McCoyJune Crespo: SOLAR
– By Valerie MindlinHal Hirshorn: Surrender Everything to the Sun
– By Lyle RexerMartha Rosler: Truth is/is not
– By Clara Maria ApostolatosRaphaël Barontini: Somewhere in the Night, the People Dance
– By Meredith MartinYto Barrada: Deadhead
– By Phoebe RobertsWilliam Corwin
– By Taliesin ThomasElizabeth Colomba
– By Rebecca SchiffmanKennedy Yanko
– By Saul OstrowWilliam Corwin
– By Lilly WeiMai Blanco: I Crave to Be All
– By Raphy SarkissianShirin Neshat: Born of Fire
– By Joyce BeckensteinTeresa Lanceta: Tracing the threads, I find you
– By Ann C. CollinsRick Briggs: I Love Painting + Painting Loves Me
– By William CorwinRebecca Ward: vector specter
– By Ekin ErkanLouisa Gagliardi: Many Moons
– By Pamela KortYehwan Song: Are We Still (Surfing)?
– By Priya GandhiRobert Motherwell: At Home and in the Studio
– By Erik LindmanMira Dayal: Steel Model of Paper Copy of Desk Top with Pencil Groove
– By Tom McGlynnMadalena Santos Reinbolt: A Head Full of Planets
– By Amanda Millet-SorsaDouble Vision & Francesca Mollett
– By Madison FordIndigenous Identities: Here, Now & Always
– By Ruth FineJorge Pardo
– By Valerie MindlinTracey Emin: I Loved You Until the Morning
– By Annabel KeenanRobert Irwin in Los Angeles
– By Terry R. MyersSaman and Sasan Oskouei: Flora Urbanica
– By Signe HavsteenMusic Inspiration: Beethoven’s Compositions in Modern Art
– By Charles MooreJ. M. W. Turner: Romance and Reality
– By Natalie PrizelPeter Mitchell: Nothing Lasts Forever
– By Bartolomeo SalaCecily Brown: Themes and Variations
– By Jason RosenfeldCo Westerik: Later Paintings: 2002–2016
– By Ekin ErkanRyoji Ikeda: data-verse
– By Helena ShaskevichErotic City
– By Joseph Akel
Field Notes
The Workers’ Council Redeemed?
– By Julian Francis ParkWorkers Councils: Solution or Problem?
– By Charles ReeveOn The Future (and Past) of Revolution
– By Frits JanssenJasper Bernes Responds
Art Books
Glenn Adamson’s A Century of Tomorrows
– By Chenoa BakerMARC ZINAMAN with Naomi Elias
Tacita Dean’s Why Cy
– By Dean RaderBruegel’s Three Soldiers
– By Nicholas di BenedettoMaría Medem’s Land of Mirrors
– By Karen GuFlashpoint! Protest Photography in Print, 1950–Present
– By Eric Miles
Books
Lauren Haddad’s Fireweed
– By Sam FranziniShon Faye’s Love in Exile
– By Sophie van Well GroeneveldAidan Ryan’s I Am Here You Are Not I Love You
– By Melissa Holbrook PiersonSusan Polgar’s Rebel Queen
– By Francis M. NaumannRoss Barkan’s Glass Century
– By John DominiJeremy Atherton Lin’s Deep House: The Gayest Love Story Ever Told
– By Henry Hicks IVJames W. Fuerst’s Distress Cries of Animals
– By Seb Doubinsky
Music
Babel Music XP
– By Martin LongleyNew Standard Time
– By Scott GuttermanZorn on Paper
– By George Grella
Dance
“A Collective Heartbeat” or How to be an Anti-Fascist
– By Vera CarothersAMELIA HEINTZELMAN with Karen Hildebrand
A Game with No Winners
– By Lucy KudlinskiFlexing New Muscles
– By Susan YungThe Spectral Stage
– By Karla KelseyGenerating Glory
– By Nora Raine Thompson
Film
Charles Burnett’s The Annihilation of Fish
– By Macaella GrayTwo Journeys to Italy
– By Laura ValenzaThe Revolution Will be Pornographized
– By Ara H. Merjian
Theater
The A(u)nts Go Marching One by One, Hurrah, Hurrah
– By Billy McEnteeIs this F***ing Play About Us?: The New Era of Cool-Girl Theater
– By Emily Chackerian
Poetry
four poems
– By Mónica de la Torrefrom IN CASE
– By James Sherry
Art and Technology
The State of AI Agents
– By Charlotte Kent
Architecture
Madeline Gins: Infinite Systems
– By Theadora WalshCHRIS CORNELIUS with Anoushka Mariwala
Brutal Days, Orchid Nights
– By Siena Ballotta Garman
Dispatches
Dispatch 69: The Prehistory of Technocracy & Elon’s Grandpa
– By David Levi StraussDispatch 68: Don’t Let the Pro-democracy Coalition Fracture
– By David Levi StraussDispatch 67: The Real and the Fake: Who Will Control AI?
– By David Levi StraussDispatch 66: “This Thing Happening in America is Wrong”
– By David Levi StraussDispatch 65. The New State of Surveillance
– By David Levi StraussDispatch 64: Not So Fast
– By David Levi Strauss