September 2025
Featuring interviews with Ann Craven, Tom Friedman, Allen Jones, and Nathaniel Mary Quinn. Guest Critic Klaus Ottmann: “On Nicolas Poussin”
The “September 2025” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on September 2, 2025.
Publisher's Message
Dear Friends and Readers
– By Phong H. Bui
Critics Page
On Nicolas Poussin
– By Klaus OttmannPainting as Contemplation in a Time of Upheaval: On Nicolas Poussin
– By Ali BanisadrJohn Currin
David Carrier
Julia Oschatz
Matter & Space
– By Richard ShiffThe Paradoxes of Poussin
– By Matvey LevensteinThe Letters of Nicolas Poussin
– By Elizabeth CropperHenry Keazor
Lüpertz and Poussin
– By Dorothy KosinskiWhy Did Poussin Paint Arcadia?
– By Rachel FeinsteinA cult classic in the realm of Istoria
– By Stephen DeanTodd Olson
James Hyde
Aleksandar Duravcevic
ArtSeen
Marina Adams: Cosmic Repair
– By Alfred Mac AdamEmma Safir: Uyt Den Gheest
– By Ho Won KimTiona Nekkia McClodden: PURE GAZE
– By Patricia L LewyKevin McNamee-Tweed: Before Lunch
– By Bradley KingMercedes Matter
– By Jessica HolmesLynn Hershman Leeson: About Time
– By Mark Van ProyenPaulo Pasta: Passages
– By David RhodesCameron
– By Ann McCoyLawrence Weiner: AS OFTEN AS NOT
– By Saul OstrowSolange Pessoa: Catch the sun with your hand
– By Killian Wright-JacksonGaku Tsutaja: Pidgingo-no-Inko
– By Rachel FedermanDream House
– By Ben La RoccoEarthen Clay: As the apple disappears into water and sweetness in our bodies
– By Tony BluestoneSturtevant: The Echo of Innovation
– By Ricardo ValentimKang Seung Lee & Candice Lin: Not I, not I, but the wind that blows through me
– By Min ParkErnst Caramelle: two dots one line
– By Rebecca SchiffmanSuzan Frecon: The Light Factory
– By Jacob BrombergGustave Caillebotte: Painting His World
– By Richard KalinaAlex Da Corte: The Whale
– By Hannah Sage KayMagical Realism: Imagining Natural Dis/order
– By Bartolomeo SalaHelen Frankenthaler: Painting Without Rules
– By Cynthia PayneMavis Pusey: Mobile Images
– By Chenoa BakerSacred Geometry
– By Ekin ErkanAll Manner of Experiments: Legacies of the Baghdad Modern Art Group
– By Melissa GronlundThe Art and Design of Howard Smith
– By Megan N. LibertyDo Ho Suh: Walk the House
– By Clara Maria ApostolatosAlan Saret: Galacticonexus
– By Saul OstrowEdward Burra
– By Minh LeJane Dickson: Wonder Wheel
– By Alfred Mac AdamAsh Eliza Williams: The Dreams of Small Animals
– By Alex A. JonesKim Chong Hak, Painter of Seoraksan
– By Jonathan OddenKlara Lidén: Over out und above
– By Toni HildebrandtOlga de Amaral
– By Silvia BenedettiWafaa Bilal: Indulge Me
– By Dina A. RamadanAndy Goldsworthy: Fifty Years
– By Jason RosenfeldWangechi Mutu: Black Soil Poems
– By Alastair SookeNina Katchadourian: Origin Stories
– By Amelia SaulEdward Burtynsky: The Great Acceleration
– By Jan StallerNina Yankowitz: In the Out/Out the In
– By Amelia SaulLisa Yuskavage: Drawings
– By Nolan KellyBobby Anspach: Everything is Change
– By Joanna SeifterAbang-guard: Makibaka
– By Lilly WeiAmerican Vernacular
– By Killian Wright-JacksonHilma af Klint: What Stands Behind the Flowers
– By Lyle Rexer
Field Notes
Ordinary Men
– By Paul MattickThe Suicide State
– By Jamie Merchant
Art Books
Too Good to Get Married: The Life and Photographs of Miss Alice Austen
– By Karen ChernickDavid Wojnarowicz’s Memories That Smell Like Gasoline
– By Louis ShankarChris Marker’s Immemory: Gutenberg Version
– By Nolan KellyVivian Browne: My Kind of Protest
– By Sarah MorozThe Harlem Book of the Dead
– By Naomi EliasAndreas Beyer’s Benvenuto Cellini and the Embodiment of the Modern Artist
– By Nageen ShaikhMaryam Eisler and Alexei Riboud’s West West
– By Quinn O'Neill
Books
JOAN LARKIN with Tony Leuzzi
HARRYETTE MULLEN with Mandana Chaffa
Katharina Volckmer’s Calls May Be Recorded
– By Dan KubisJosephine Rowe’s Little World
– By Meghan RacklinKate Zambreno’s Animal Stories
– By Melissa Holbrook PiersonCHLOÉ CALDWELL with Hannah Burns
Wendy N. Wagner’s Girl in the Creek
– By Yvonne C. GarrettIrenosen Okojie’s Curandera
– By Yvonne C. GarrettTHE CYBORG JILLIAN WEISE with Alex Dueben
Arthur Machen’s The Hill of Dreams
– By Lyle Rexer
Music
VIKTORIIA VITRENKO with Ondrej Veselý
Return to the Moon
– By Scott GuttermanGENE SCHEER with George Grella
Dark Reflections
– By Andrey Henkin
Dance
Beach Dances
– By Ethan PhilbrickAll in the Hands
– By Joel Pipitone2nd Best Dance Company’s Light Labor
– By Hallie ChametzkySlip #2: Classon & St. Johns Pl.
– By Tess MichaelsonASAMBLEA DESVIADA with Vera Carothers
KAT SOTELO with Dylan Sherman
Film
MoMA’s When the World Broke Open: Katrina and Its Afterlives
– By Nicky YeagerAli Asgari’s Divine Comedy
– By Ali FarahmandThree Favorites from Locarno
– By Rebecca TurnerStan Douglas: Ghostlight
– By Joanna Seifter90s Queer Cinema
– By Charles Switzer
Poetry
three poems from Girlfriend
– By Barbara Henningthree poems from PADAM PADAM
– By Kevin Killianfour poems
– By Radoslav Rochallyi
Architecture
SO–IL with Nile Greenberg
The Mannerist Mind(set)
– By Jean-Marc TangArchitectural Autofictions of the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale
– By Ryan Treat MillerArt Fair as Architectural Type, Art Basel 2025: A Case Study
– By Reese LewisRecent Building Cuts: Appropriation as Radical Preservation
– By Ewa Roztocka
Special Report
OUR GAZE : THE MISSING OBJECT
– By Kader Attia, Stéphanie Deschamps-Tan, Alain Vanier, and Hala WardéOBJECTS WATCH US GO BY
– By Kader Attia, Benoît de L'Estoile, and Olivier GabetFROM OBJECT FRAGMENTS TO PHANTOM LIMBS
– By Kader Attia, Cécile Giroire, and Maylis de KerangalPicasso and the Libation Bearers
– By David R. BaumThe Little People Don't Care
– By David Dixon
Dispatches
Dispatch 86: Scandal in the Castle at the End Times
– By David Levi StraussDispatch 85: Grandpa’s Gun, the Conflict Entrepreneurs, and Erika Kirk’s Forgiveness
– By David Levi StraussDispatch 84: The Treachery of Images & Words
– By David Levi StraussDispatch 83: Transparency and Truth, Social
– By David Levi Strauss