July/August 2026
Featuring interviews with Mary Ellen Carroll, Cristina Iglesias, Nancy Rubins, Anicka Yi. Guest Critics Katy Siegel & Elise Armani: “An Unfinished Revolution”
The “July/August 2026” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on June 30, 2026.
Publisher’s Message
Dear Friends and Readers
– By Phong H. Bui
Critics Page
An Unfinished Revolution
– By Elise Armani and Katy SiegelIndigenous Knowledges as Living Histories: What the 250th Narrative Misses
– By Jessa Rae Growing ThunderThe White House in Pieces
– By Vyta PivoLet Freedom Ring
– By Glenn AdamsonThe Devil in the White City
– By M.J. Rymsza-PawlowskaWashington, DC and Struggles over History
– By Tobias WoffordBicentennial Women: Feminism, Antifeminism, and Craft
– By Sarah ArcherCherokee250+
– By Kirk SavageKeeping Our Stories Alive
– By Connie Young Yu and Amy KahngExhibitions for the Semiquincentennial
– By Elise Armani and Katy Siegel
ArtSeen
Rothko in Florence
– By Jurriaan BenschopWillem de Kooning: The Insatiable Master
– By Phong H. BuiLucy Mullican: Encounter
– By Ginevra de BlasioKevin Beasley: All I thought / I loved
– By Allison CareyMark Manders
– By Jessica HolmesMartin Puryear: Nexus
– By Jason RosenfeldWilliam Blake: The Age of Romantic Fantasy
– By Tom McGlynnLee Miller
– By Richard KalinaIM Youngzoo: The Late 故
– By Joanna SeifterAbstraction & Ourselves
– By Sheila ReganLeonora Carrington: Shape of Dreams
– By Ekin ErkanDouriean Fletcher: Jewelry of the Afrofuture
– By Chenoa BakerAnne Truitt: Pioneer of Minimal Art
– By Jurriaan BenschopFarrell Brickhouse: The Stationary Traveler
– By Faye HirschRobert Zandvliet
– By Invar-Torre HollausRudolf Polanszky: Daidalon
– By Steven PollockTerran Last Gun: Celestial Observations
– By Terry R. MyersWomen Across America: 1945–1979
– By Rebecca AllanCirca 1776: Jews in Colonial America
– By Sarah BarashDavid Hockney: Works from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation
– By Rosa Boshier GonzálezAnselm Kiefer: The Women Alchemists
– By Ann McCoyAnthony van Dyck: Van Dyck, the European
– By William DavieTracey Emin: A Second Life
– By Neil BaldwinN. Dash: Geophilia
– By Amanda GluibizziJoseph Kosuth: I Shall Offer It To You As A Ready-Made Product
– By Saul OstrowPhotography as a Way of Life: Minor White, Aaron Siskind, & Harry Callahan
– By Stephen FraileyMark di Suvero: Avanti!
– By Jessica HolmesFairfield Porter: What Everyone Knows
– By Saul OstrowMarcel Duchamp
– By Ekin ErkanAgnes Martin: Works on Paper from the 1960s
– By Alfred Mac AdamMarcel Duchamp
– By Pujan KarambeigiDerrick Adams: View Master
– By Lee Ann NormanDumitru Gorzo: Șantier
– By Charles MooreHistory Doesn’t Repeat Itself, but It Does Rhyme. Dumile Feni: African Guernica
– By Charles MooreChiharu Shiota: Two Home Countries
– By Mark Van ProyenGerhard Richter: Landschaften
– By Jason Rosenfeld
Field Notes
Editor’s Note
– By Paul MattickOn DHS, or Defeating Homeland Security: The Movement Against Deportations in the US, 2025–26
– By Julian Francis Park
Art Books
Borderless Painting as Borderless Art: Antonio Dias between Brazil and Europe
– By Thomas WallerConstance Jaeggi: Escaramuza
– By Janelle LynchDionne Lee: Currents
– By Victoria HorrocksShanzhai Lyric’s Endless Garment
– By Nicole KaackRecursive Apologies: Janet Zweig’s Text Generating Sculpture
– By Elizabeth WietHujar:Contact
– By Louis ShankarTrevor Paglen’s How to See Like a Machine: Images After AI
– By Sarah Hromack
Books
Olga Ravn’s The Wax Child
– By Chimera SingerShannon Sanders’s The Great Wherever
– By Henry Hicks IVSarah Minor’s Carousel: An Essay on Seeing
– By Melissa Holbrook PiersonAlbert Mobilio’s Readings Against Type
– By Chris CampanioniMaggie O’Farrell’s Land
– By Tom DeignanChris Campanioni’s Rolling Windows
– By Joshua MasseyArden Levine’s Spoke
– By Tony LeuzziJem Calder’s I Want You to Be Happy
– By Sam FranziniJULIE BUNTIN with Hannah Burns
Music
Morton In Moers
– By Martin LongleyOn the Nonexistence of Morton Feldman’s For Mark Rothko
– By Kenneth KirschnerMorton Feldman in Time
– By George GrellaIn a Chromatic Field: Morton Feldman & Jules Olitski
– By Alex GrimleyThe Art of Friendship
– By Scott GuttermanAbout Morton Feldman
– By Petr Kotik
Dance
The Generosity of Performance Mix 40
– By Jen C. GeorgeRENNIE MCDOUGALL with Phoebe Roberts
Sharing Space
– By Karen HildebrandJade Manns: Falling
– By Grace Nissan
Film
GREGG ARAKI with Payton McCarty-Simas
JANE SCHOENBRUN with Payton McCarty-Simas
Finding Community at Non Films’s DarkRoom
– By Stephanie MonohanKatarina Zhu’s Bunnylovr
– By Katie Gee SalisburyKENT JONES with Weiting Liu
New Humans: Memories of the Future
– By Kathy OuThe Mets at the Movies
– By A.M. Gittlitz
Theater
Hopeful as Hell in LINES
– By Georgia PetersenBROOKLYN IMPALE
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Fiction
Engineer of Safe Havens
– By Jim Shepard
Poetry
three poems
– By Derek Chanfrom The Hummingbird
– By Matt LongabuccoThey Have Their Stories
–four poems
–from Middle Slope: Poems
– By Lindsay Turner
Architecture
Museum at a Distance: LACMA David Geffen Galleries
– By Nile GreenbergEye Level
– By Luis Ortega GovelaA Memory of Newness
– By Michael Abel Deng and Michelle Abel DengThe New Museum
– By Sam Chermayeff
Dispatches
Dispatch 121. The Difference Between Cheating and Winning
– By David Levi StraussDispatch 120: “Who the Hell Do These People Think They Are?”
– By David Levi Strauss