May 2026
Featuring interviews with JoAnne Akalaitis, Sedrick Chisom, Hayes Greenfield, and Sky Hopinka. Guest Critic Thierry de Duve: “Duchamp Now”
The “May 2026” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on April 28, 2026.
Publisher’s Message
Dear Friends and Readers
– By Phong H. Bui
Critics Page
Duchamp Now
– By Thierry de DuveWhat Fountain Changes to Art History (It’s Not What You Think)
– By Thierry de DuveMarcel Duchamp: Notes from Underground
– By Michael TaylorSINfluence
– By Francis M. NaumannLike a Stranger.
– By Yasmine d’O and Saâdane AfifReading the Room
– By Leah ModiglianiJack Flam
R. Mutt @ Die Mutter
– By Michela SacchettoMolly Nesbit
Marcel Duchamp and the Death of Radical Art
– By Charles GainesRedistribution
– By Agnieszka Kurant
ArtSeen
The Adventure of Domenico Gnoli
– By Saul OstrowEdmonia Lewis: Said in Stone
– By Chenoa BakerRevolution!
– By Joseph AkelEllsworth Kelly: Eight Decades
– By Alfred Mac AdamPaul Klee: Other Possible Worlds
– By Neil BaldwinMary Cassatt: An American in Paris
– By David CarrierEdwin Schlossberg: Unseen Layers
– By David EbonyLauren Halsey: sister dreamer lauren halsey’s architectural ode to tha surge n splurge of south central los angeles
– By Amber Jamilla MusserHans Hofmann
– By Alex GrimleyGisela Colón: La Montaña, El Monolito
– By Patrick HillIn The Company of Still Life
– By Tom McGlynnKING COBRA: Heathens
– By Amber Jamilla MusserRick Bartow: Storyteller
– By John WeberPaul Cezanne
– By Invar-Torre Hollauspeter campus
– By Hearne PardeeLuigi Ghirri: Polaroid ’79–’83
– By Bartolomeo SalaDiane Arbus: Sanctum Sanctorum
– By Mark Van Proyen(In)visible Presence
– By Richard VineMarina Adams: Works on Paper
– By Charles SchultzBrock Enright: I AM SO PRETTY
– By Andrew Paul Woolbright
Field Notes
Baseball is Back
– By Caleb FridellCuba, Year Zero
– By Paul MartelThe Ratline, Neoliberalism, and the New Right in Chile
– By Pavlos Roufos
Art Books
Lynne Tillman’s: Paying Attention
– By Megan N. LibertyKim Deitch’s How I Make Comics
– By Bill KartalopoulosMari Katayama’s Synthesis
– By Danielle EzzoRuth Lauer Manenti’s 4 Sides of the Table
– By Sarah Heather Brown
Books
Annakeara Stinson’s Nerve Damage
– By Hannah BurnsMaria Adelmann’s The Adjunct
– By Tom DeignanRobert E. Tanner’s Ambivalent Souls: A True Translation of Alexander Pushkin’s ‘Eugene Onegin’
– By Venya GushchinPortia Elan’s Homebound
– By Sara PolskyPaige Lewis’s Canon
– By Kate PreziosiEmma Copley Eisenberg’s Fat Swim
– By Shy WatsonColm Tóibín’s The News From Dublin
– By Tom DeignanBRAD WALROND with Ricky Tucker
M LIN with James Yu
SARA LIPPMANN with Jacqui Devaney
ROBERT L. BOWEN with Tom Huhn
Music
Vox Artificialis
– By Kevin NgYou’re Never Really Alone
– By Hillary Carelli-DonnellAndy Beta’s Cosmic Music
– By George GrellaTo Oud with Love
– By Scott Gutterman
Dance
KYLE MCCARTHY & SARI WILSON
Lifetime of Movements Compounding
– By Lucas OndakMaya Man: StarPower
– By Miya ShafferMAIKEL DOBARRO with Vera Carothers
Durational Experiments
– By Sarah Cecilia Bukowski
Film
Isiah Medina’s Gangsterism
– By Alexander MooneyFrancesco Sossai’s The Last One for the Road
– By Ara H. MerjianMark Jenkin’s Rose of Nevada
– By Soham Gadre
Fiction
from Brahms Comes to Dinner
– By Boman Desaifrom Kill Dick
– By Luke Goebel
Poetry
two poems
– By Reginald ShepherdThe Book of Beetles
– By The Friendtwo poems
– By Ariana Reines