April 2026
Featuring interviews with Mike Cloud & Nyeema Morgan, April Gornik, Václav Požárek, Dorothea Rockburne, and Noelle Kadar & Padmanabh Singh. Guest Critic Erica Hunt: “Visible Read”
The “April 2026” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on March 31, 2026.
Publisher's Message
Dear Friends and Readers
– By Phong H. Bui
Critics Page
Visible Read
– By Erica Huntfrom “Coronary Artist”
–Truth Decay
– By Johanna DruckerKamau Brathwaite
sadé powell
Renee Gladman
Douglas Kearney
Francie Shaw with Bob Perelman and Rae Armantrout
from The Light Factory
– By Marcella Durand and Suzan FreconSusan Bee and Charles Bernstein
from “The American Archivist”
– By Diana Khoi NguyenKostas Anagnopoulos and Keiko Narahashi
Rachel Blau DuPlessis
ArtSeen
Vian Sora: Tepe Gawra
– By William WhitneyTamo Jugeli: From 5 to 7
– By Annabel KeenanMichael Heizer: Negative Sculpture
– By Jason RosenfeldAbigail Lucien: Wrought
– By Elizabeth BuheTorbjørn Rødland: Bones in the Canal and Other Photographs
– By Zach RitterMerrill Wagner: Marking Time
– By Alfred Mac AdamEmmet Gowin: Baldwin Street: Photographs 1966–1994
– By Lyle RexerFederico Solmi: Adrift
– By Charles MooreIn Practice: Ana Gzirishvili
– By Nina ChkareuliShamadhi: Real Objects (the most exciting thing that happened since before I was born!)
– By Savannah KnoopHARD COPY NEW YORK
– By Matt MomentWilliam Turnbull: Origins (1946–1959)
– By Alfred Mac AdamGlobal Visions – FotoFest at 40
– By Scarlet ChengDaniel Giordano, Davana Robedee, Kathy Ruttenberg
– By Hovey BrockChen Peng and Fan Wu: Dog Nights
– By Maisie MolotHughie O’Donohue: Time and the Architecture of Memory
– By Raphy SarkissianRobert Gober: Plein Air
– By Lyle RexerSam Jablon: Luck or Else
– By Noa WynnHenri Rousseau: A Painter’s Secrets
– By Lyle RexerBrandon Ndife and Louis Osmosis: On the Swing of Norms
– By Ekin ErkanRalph Lemon: From Out of Space
– By Allison CareyA Kind of Order
– By Chenoa BakerCinga Samson: Ukuphuthelwa
– By Alex BaconHawai‘i: a kingdom crossing oceans
– By Amanda GluibizziIsa Genzken: World Receiver
– By Alice GodwinSteven Cohen: Long Life
– By Norman L KleeblattRana Begum: Reflection
– By Justin DuyaoRon Nagle: Irrational Discovery
– By Patricia L LewyDavid Novros
– By Barbara A. MacAdamRaquel Rabinovich: Gateless
– By Ann McCoyPeter Saul: Peter Saul’s Art History
– By Saul OstrowThomas Gainsborough: The Fashion of Portraiture
– By Jason RosenfeldGabriele Münter: Contours of a World
– By Ara H. MerjianArshile Gorky: Horizon West
– By Terry R. MyersMichelle Lopez: Shadow of a Doubt
– By Sara Farrell OkamuraÉdouard Vuillard: Early Interiors
– By Alfred Mac AdamYuko Mohri: Falling Water Given
– By Joshua Chee SanfordRobert Rauschenberg’s New York: Pictures from the Real World
– By Liam OteroChristopher Payne: Made in America
– By Jan StallerQiu Xiaofei: The Theater of Wither and Thrive
– By Hindley WangMotohiro Takeda: Counting Leaves
– By Ayesha Raees
Field Notes
Prison and Port: Lineaments of Migrant Detention in South Texas
– By Gabriel MeierThe Ratline, Neoliberalism, and the New Right in Chile
– By Pavlos Roufos
Art Books
Sante D’Orazio’s A Shot in the Dark
– By Quinn O'NeillAlejandro Cartagena’s Ground Rules
– By Arturo SotoPerforming Chance: The Art of Alison Knowles In/Out of Fluxus
– By Nicole KaackPaul Mpagi Sepuya’s SHOOT
– By Megan N. LibertyMargaret Morton’s Glass House
– By Zoe RodenSophie Taeuber-Arp: la règle des courbes / The Rule of Curves
– By Sarah MorozRuth Asawa: The Tamarind Prints
– By Jennie Waldow
Books
Karla Kelsey’s Transcendental Factory: For Mina Loy
– By Chris CampanioniWally Lamb’s The River Is Waiting
– By Carissa ChesanekJohn Wieners’s Behind the State Capitol: Or Cincinnati Pike
– By Robert PodgurskiMARK FORSYTH with Riley Moore
– By Riley MooreFrancis Naumann’s Impossible: The Love Affair between Marcel Duchamp & Maria Martins, and the Artwork it Inspired
– By Charles StuckeyNathan Kernan’s A Day Like Any Other
– By Michael ShorrisDarcey Steinke’s This Is the Door
– By Caroline ShannonNora Lange’s Day Care
– By Meghan RacklinTerrence Arjoon’s The Disinherited
– By Reid KurkerewiczTolani Akinola’s Leave Your Mess at Home
– By Henry Hicks IVKory Stamper’s True Color
– By Melissa Holbrook PiersonCharleen Hurtubise’s Saoirse: A Novel
– By Tom DeignanKEVIN SAMPSELL with Jackie Corley
Zlochov, My Home: Poems by Moyshe-Leyb Halpern
– By Tony Leuzzi
Music
Paul Pinto’s MANO A MANO
– By John HastingsEconomies of the Underground
– By Jillian MarshallA New Music Tree Grows in Brooklyn
– By Ben GambuzzaStraight Out of Kinshasa
– By Scott GuttermanThe Time of Music
– By George Grella
Dance
Everyone is Content
– By Gerardo BanderaNoé Soulier’s The Waves
– By Candice ThompsonKinesthetic Conversations
– By Neil BaldwinA Romeo and Juliet for the Screen Age
– By Sara KrolewskiA Soul-Filling Simulation
– By Caedra Scott-FlahertyWomanhood is an Unforgiving Wardrobe
– By Lucy Kudlinski
Film
Julie Rubio’s The True Story of Tamara de Lempicka & The Art of Survival
– By Ann C. CollinsSteven Soderbergh’s The Christophers
– By Laura ZengZoe Beloff’s Josephine the Singer or the Mouse People and Life Forgotten
– By Nicholas GamsoKevin Walker and Jack Auen’s Chronovisor
– By Dylan Adamson
Poetry
from Metronome
– By James Loopfrom Caetano
– By Alexis Almeidafrom Last Stops of the Night Journey
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Art and Technology
Back to the Drawing Board
– By Charlotte Kent
Architecture
On House and Housing
– By Alessandro OrsiniSound, Space, and the Body: Bernhard Leitner
– By Tomi LajaThis Is Eclectic Queerness as Architecture
– By Samuel McChesneyAnimating Form
– By Stephen Zimmerer
Special Report
NORA RAZIAN with Natalia Gierowska
– By Natalia Gierowska
Dispatches
Dispatch 114: Artemis v. Ares
– By David Levi StraussDispatch 113: A Whole Civilization Will Die Tonight
– By David Levi StraussDispatch 112: “You Crazy Bastards”
– By David Levi Strauss