June 2025
Featuring interviews with Rosa Barba, Jason Fox, Tom Otterness, and Takako Yamaguchi. Guest Critic Eana Kim: “Jack Whitten’s Abstract Becomings”
The “June 2025” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on June 3, 2025.
Critics Page
Jack Whitten’s Abstract Becomings
– By Eana KimSMARTER
– By Richard ShiffA Bridge to Phenomenal Existence
– By Andrianna Campbell-LafleurJack Whitten and Byzantium: Mosaic, Memory, and the Material Language of Abstraction
– By Andrea Myers AchiA Haunting: Jack Whitten’s Spectral Abstraction
– By Allison K. YoungAn Abstract Crossing
– By Annissa MalvoisinHomage to Jack
– By Helina MetaferiaA Confusion of Images
– By Erich Kessel, Jr.The Evidence of Things Unseen
– By Ashanté KindleA Letter to Jack Whitten (Our Egún), Written from my Woodshed (In North Philly)
– By Adebunmi GbadeboAn Odyssey through Jack Whitten’s Use of Afro Picks
– By Drew ThompsonOn Lynching and Light
– By Darla MiganOn and Beyond the Canvas
– By TK Smith