March 2026
Featuring interviews with John Akomfrah, Dike Blair, Kathy Butterly, and Pat Oleszko. Guest Critics Ginevra de Blasio and Vittoria de Franchis: “What is Radical?”
The “March 2026” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on March 3, 2026.
Publisher’s Message
Dear Friends and Readers
– By Phong H. Bui
Critics Page
What is Radical?
– By Ginevra de Blasio and Vittoria de FranchisAtelier dell’Errore
Maxwell Graham
Diva Corp
Eliel Jones
Elizabeth Breiner
Fabio Cherstich
Jota Mombaça
Luc Meier
Lu Yang
Natasha Ginwala
Nick Mauss
Puppies Puppies
ArtSeen
Chuck Close and Pulp
– By Benjamin CliffordDorothea Rockburne: Time Measures Itself
– By Natalie WeisRobert Motherwell: Surface/Subject
– By Alfred Mac AdamWilliam Kent: Trust the Peeple!
– By Ekin ErkanIsaac Julien: All That Changes You. Metamorphosis
– By Sabo KpadeAndisheh Avini: All of You
– By Ekin ErkanGlenn Ligon: Break it Down
– By Hannah Sage KayCurtis Mitchell: Erased de Clowning
– By Teddy JeffersonMelissa Brown: Window Shopping
– By Katy Diamond HamerJenny Lynn McNutt: Touch Me
– By William CorwinElizabeth Hazan: Double Fantasy
– By Patrick HillCathleen Clarke: Episodes
– By Elizabeth WietWilliam T. Williams: Word of Eye
– By Alex GrimleyBeverly Semmes: Slip
– By Jessica HolmesYasumasa Morimura & Charles Atlas: Anamneses
– By Joseph AkelBrenda Goodman: The Sum of Its Parts
– By Matt MomentSeeing Silence: The Paintings of Helene Schjerfbeck
– By Amanda Millet-SorsaStanley Whitney Henri Matisse
– By Ekin ErkanRodin’s Egypt
– By Brandt JunceauSterling Ruby: Atropa
– By Vittoria BenzineTheresa Hak Kyung Cha: Multiple Offerings
– By Mark Van ProyenUrsula von Rydingsvard
– By Susan HarrisJannis Kounellis: Labyrinth without Walls
– By Valerie MindlinLotty Rosenfeld: Disobedient Spaces
– By Caitlin AnklamThe Lost Beauty of Humankind
– By Ann C. CollinsJoyce Pensato
– By William CorwinImaging after Photography
– By Stephen FraileyBeverly Buchanan: Beverly’s Athens
– By Robert Alan GrandFred Sandback: Sculpture
– By Hannah Sage KayAyoung Kim: Delivery Dancer Codex
– By Taeyi KimThe Endless Garment: Atlantic Basin
– By Annette An-Jen LiuZarina: Beyond the Stars
– By Wallace LudelFrancesco Clemente: Travel Diary
– By Alfred Mac AdamJasper Johns: Between the Clock and the Bed
– By Alfred Mac AdamUrsula von Rydingsvard: states of becoming
– By Michael WolfHans Hofmann
– By David WhelanColour, Form and Composition
– By Tom McGlynnUman: After all the things …
– By Matt MomentJames Rosenquist: Waiting for an Idea
– By Saul OstrowThe House of Pikachu: Art, Anime, and Pop Culture
– By Collin Sundt
Special Report
Notes from the Twin Cities
– By Phong H. BuiThe Gravity of Botany: A Meditation on the Art of Emily Mason
– By Rebecca AllanBirthwork and Resistance
– By Saida Mahamud-TukriThe Poet and the Man of Sorrows (Behold the Flower of Mercy)
– By Craig OlsonNaples: Black Holes
– By Lyle RexerKookum
– By Xavier Tavera Castro CastroBe Safe
– By Maria Cristina TaveraPiotr Szyhalski’s Banner Project
Gretchen Gasterland-Gustafsson
Field Notes
Letter from Paris: Death of a Fascist
– By Rona LorimerOne Uprising After Another
Worse Than We Thought: Public Health in the First Year of Trump II
– By Ana V. Diez RouxThe Whole World is Watching Its Own Snuff Film
– By Andrew Holter
Art Books
Summer Kim Lee’s Spoiled: Asian American Hostility and the Damage of Repair
– By Liz KimNatasha Chuk’s Photo Obscura: The Photographic in Post-Photography
– By Danielle EzzoJennifer Sichel’s Criticism Without Authority
– By Daniella SanaderPeggy Ahwesh’s Sourcebooks
– By Kathleen LangjahrPeter Tomka’s Double Player
– By Sarah Moroz
Books
SARA LEVINE with Kathleen Rooney
LIAM CAGNEY with Tadhg Hoey
Amy Newman’s Barnett Newman: Here
– By Charles DuncanKIM SAMEK with Anne-Marie Kinney
SABA SAMS with Hannah Burns
Anne Waldman’s Mesopotopia
– By Bradley KingRonald M. Schernikau’s SMALLTOWN-NOVELLA
– By Chris CampanioniAnn Rower’s Lee & Elaine
– By C. Francis FisherGiada Scodellaro’s Ruins, Child
– By Loré YessuffAnn Foster’s Rebel of the Regency
– By Kristen LopezAnastasiia Fedorova’s Second Skin
– By Sam FranziniRichie Hofmann’s The Bronze Arms
– By Natalie Prizel
Music
Arctic Voices
– By Martin LongleyA Certain Wisdom
– By Cecily ParksWinterjazz Cologne
– By Martin LongleyMelvin Gibbs’s How Black Music Took Over the World
– By George GrellaSanctuary City
– By Scott Gutterman
Dance
The Dark Brings Light
– By Susan YungJODI MELNICK and SARA MEARNS with Caedra Scott-Flaherty
Contractual Obligation
– By Greta RainbowNEAL MEDLYN with Sarah Cecilia Bukowski
Film
Radu Jude’s Kontinental ’25
– By Laura ValenzaThe Archival Epic of WTO/99
– By Kathy OuCHRISTIAN PETZOLD with Weiting Liu
Julia Ducournau’s Alpha
– By Payton McCarty-Simas
Dispatches
Dispatch 111: The Hell He Lives In
– By David Levi StraussDispatch 110: AI and the Antichrist
– By David Levi StraussDispatch 109: Trump State Media at War
– By David Levi StraussDispatch 108: Trump’s Favorite Number
– By David Levi StraussDispatch 107: Utopia and Dystopia
– By David Levi Strauss
Theater
At Target Margin, This Is Real Explodes, and Strips Down, Genet
– By Catherine SawoskiIn HOMO ERECTUS, A Fresh-“ASS” Way to Experience the Musical
– By Billy McEnteeThe Cold War is Hot: Two New Plays Find Theatricality in Bizarre Conflict
– By Emily Chackerian
Fiction
from Godlike
– By Richard Hellfrom The Migraine Diaries
– By Zach Powers
Poetry
three poems
– By Aishvarya Aroratwo poems
– By Raymond de Borjatwo poems
– By Sparrow Murraytwo poems
– By Maya Pindyck
Architecture
Michael Meredith and Hilary Sample’s Public Spaces, NY
– By Satyam MistryA Temporal Triptych
– By Lucy WeisnerTHOMAS PHIFER with Nile Greenberg