June 2026
Featuring interviews with Rod Bigelow, Thomas Demand, Allison Katz, Markus Lüpertz, and Celia Paul. Guest Critic Molly Warnock: “Going On”
The “June 2026” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on June 2, 2026.
Publisher’s Message
Dear Friends and Readers
– By Phong H. Bui
Critics Page
Going On
– By Molly WarnockRomantic Futures After the End of Art
–The Expressionist, As Practiced
– By Joseph HenryHandoff
– By Rachel CohenDavid Reed & Amy Sillman with Molly Warnock
Ad Reinhardt’s Posthistory
– By Maria StavrinakiTo What End Painting?
– By Julian NykolakOne Day After Another
– By Dieter SchwarzSongs of the Ongoing
– By Alistair RiderJane Swavely with Molly Warnock
Eric N. Mack with Molly Warnock
Readings
– By Stephen MelvillePieter Schoolwerth with Molly Warnock
ArtSeen
Greater New York 2026
– By Jillian RussoMarcel Duchamp
– By Mark BlochBeverly Price & Gordon Parks: A Language We Share
– By Anisa JacksonShu Lea Cheang: LOVER LOVE
– By Matthew BiroCecilia Vicuña: Reverse Migration, a Poetic Journey
– By Allison CareyHarlem Sculpture Gardens
– By Ben La RoccoJasper Johns: Flags
– By Patricia L LewyWillem de Kooning: The Breakthrough Years, 1945–50
– By Alfred Mac AdamJulian Schnabel: Italy Through Its Trees
– By Alfred Mac AdamPhilip Guston: Life with P.
– By Hearne PardeeJohn Armleder: Ripple: Furniture Sculpture and Painting after 1982
– By Saul OstrowKatharina Fritsch
– By Saul OstrowKarla Black
– By Marjorie WelishMatt Dillon: Porto-Novo to Abomey
– By Phong H. BuiLeon Kossoff
– By Natalie PrizelManet & Morisot
– By Jason RosenfeldPaul Klee: Other Possible Worlds
– By Ara H. MerjianLynette Yiadom-Boakye: Many A Moonlit Caveat
– By Killian Wright-JacksonFrancine Tint: Open Color
– By Noa WynnSelf-Made: A Century of Inventing Artists
– By William CorwinTessa Greene O’Brien: Poems from Here
– By Faye HirschKati Henning: An Unquiet House
– By Barbara A. MacAdamAmorelle Jacox: Mothers of Time
– By Andrew Paul WoolbrightDalí: The Great Years, 1929–1939
– By Frederique Joseph-LoweryMiguel Soler-Roig: Nostalgic memory of my Life Before Birth
– By Scarlet Cheng
Field Notes
War and the Production of Space: Notes from Beirut
– By Jad JariThe Protestant War Ethic
– By Austin Hayden SmidtAnti-Capitalism, a Global Future
– By Peter St. Clair
Art Books
Illuminating Women Artists: Anne Vallayer-Coster
– By Karen ChernickNo Wrong Holes: Thirty Years of Nayland Blake
– By Kathleen LangjahrGermaine Krull’s Chien Fou: Selected Writings
– By Divya MehraJohn Kapusta’s Self-Realization Nation
– By Jennie Waldow
Books
BIANCA STONE with Tony Leuzzi
Deb Olin Unferth’s Earth 7
– By Yvonne C. GarrettCourtney Kocak’s Girl Gone Wild
– By Emily Jace McLaughlinEmily LaBarge’s Dog Days
– By Noah T. BrittonKyle McCarthy’s Immersions
– By Liz DeGregorioJames Loop’s Metronome
– By C. Francis FisherOANA ARISTIDE with Jonathan Daniel Gardner
LUKE GOEBEL with Jackie Corley
LISA RUSS SPAAR with Geoff Graser
chaun webster’s Without Terminus: Untraining an Archive
– By Melissa Holbrook Pierson
Music
Birth of a Sound: Miles in the Fifties
– By Scott GuttermanMiles to the Future: Miles in the Sixties
– By George GrellaA Hundred Miles No Speed Limit: Miles in the Seventies
– By Martin LongleyStar Time: Miles in the Eighties
– By Phil Freeman
Dance
LUCINDA CHILDS with Susan Yung
Wild Firebird
– By Kyle McCarthyLIZ LERMAN with Sophie Bress
In the Relational World of Patricia Hoffbauer
– By Sade Collier
Film
PETE OHS & JEREMY O. HARRIS with Weiting Liu
Guy Maddin at Film Forum
– By Payton McCarty-SimasShunji Iwai’s Love Letter
– By Tori PotenzaHorny Shorts for Intellectual Perverts
– By Andrea TorresTONY LEUNG CHIU-WAI & ILDIKÓ ENYEDI with Weiting Liu
Fiction
from Mare
– By Emily Haworth-BoothThe Nightmare
– By Rosalind Belben
Poetry
from Coffin Flowers
– By Bianca CasadyWe Do Not Resemble This World
–Butterly at the Tang
– By Forrest Gandertwo poems
– By Rick BarotThin Place Visit
– By Ishion Hutchinson