OCT 2020 – The Brooklyn Rail

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Critics Page

Edges/Limits. Edges/Tableau
– By Laura Lisbon
Painted Sides: Bringing Visual and Emotional Energies Together
– By Maija Miettinen
Painting without Edge
– By Suzanne Silver
SQUEAK CARNWATH with Amanda Gluibizzi
Embarrassment of Edges
– By Aimee Ng
The frame that suffocates the image
– By Amy Knight Powell
Side Issues
– By George Rush
The Ec-centric Gaze
– By César Paternosto

ArtSeen

Bahar Sabzevari: Gaze and Glance
– By Jonathan Goodman
Beverly Fishman: I Dream of Sleep
– By William Corwin
Andrew LaMar Hopkins: Créolité
– By Will Fenstermaker
Leeza Meksin: Turret Tops
– By Lizzy De Vita
Between the Lines
– By Bruna Shapira
Gayleen Aiken: Interiors
– By Lyle Rexer
Andrew Lyght: Second Nature
– By Barbara Rose
Ficre Ghebreyesus: Gate to the Blue
– By Tausif Noor
Gedi Sibony: The Terrace Theater
– By Blake Oetting
Adrián Villar Rojas: La fin de l’imagination
– By Alexis Dahan
Park Kyung Ryul: Tense
– By Jonathan Goodman
C.T. McClusky: Circus Surreal
– By Josephine Zarkovich
Harold Ancart: Traveling Light
– By Susan Harris
Julian Schnabel: The Sad Lament of the Brave, Let the Wind Speak and Other Paintings
– By David Rhodes
Melissa Vogley Woods
– By Jo-ey Tang
Taney Roniger: Never The Same River
– By Mary Jones
Peter Doig
– By Terry R. Myers
Toyin Ojih Odutola: Tell Me A Story, I Don’t Care If It’s True
– By Amber Jamilla Musser
Grayson Cox and Joan Waltemath: Apparatus
– By Cigdem Asatekin
An-My Lê: On Contested Terrain
– By Louis Block
Suzan Frecon & Patricia Treib
– By Louis Block
Luchita Hurtado: Together Forever
– By Susan Breyer
Lily Stockman: Seed, Stone, Mirror, Match
– By Elizabeth Buhe
Joan Snyder: The Summer Becomes a Room
– By William Corwin
Lauretta Vinciarelli: Intimate Distances
– By William Corwin
Duke Riley: Welcome Back to Wasteland Fishing
– By Will Fenstermaker
Léonie Guyer and Rebeca Bollinger: Threshold
– By Hannah Maier-Katkin
Claudia Hart: The Ruins
– By Charlotte Kent
Jesse Chun: SULLAE 술래
– By Diana Seo Hyung Lee
Suzan Frecon: oil paintings
– By Alfred Mac Adam
Joanna Pousette-Dart: Floating World
– By Tom McGlynn
Ferrari Sheppard: Heroines of Innocence
– By Yxta Maya Murray
Alvin Armstrong: This Place Looks Different
– By Amber Officer-Narvasa
Joiri Minaya: I’m here to entertain you, but only during my shift
– By Rachel Remick
Jim Shaw: Dad’s Drawings
– By Lyle Rexer
Will Ryman: Dinner III
– By David Rhodes
Andy Goldsworthy: Red Flags
– By Jason Rosenfeld
David Shrigley: DO NOT TOUCH THE WORMS
– By Claire Phillips
Berlin Biennial 11: The Crack Begins Within
– By Gillian Sneed
Silky Shoemaker: Billboard Project
– By Ksenia Soboleva
Josh Smith: Spectre
– By Phyllis Tuchman
Erik Lindman: Fal/Parsi
– By Barbara A. MacAdam
Julia Phillips: New Album
– By Jared Quinton
Vantage Points
– By Hovey Brock
Christo: Show Cases, Show Windows & Store Fronts, 1963-1966
– By Joseph Nechvatal
Gabriel Orozco
– By Jonathan Goodman

Table of Contents

Editor's Message

On Edge(s)
– By Amanda Gluibizzi

Publisher's Message

Dear Friends and Readers,
– By Phong Bui

Art

ArtSeen

Bahar Sabzevari: Gaze and Glance
– By Jonathan Goodman
Beverly Fishman: I Dream of Sleep
– By William Corwin
Andrew LaMar Hopkins: Créolité
– By Will Fenstermaker
Leeza Meksin: Turret Tops
– By Lizzy De Vita
Between the Lines
– By Bruna Shapira
Gayleen Aiken: Interiors
– By Lyle Rexer
Andrew Lyght: Second Nature
– By Barbara Rose
Ficre Ghebreyesus: Gate to the Blue
– By Tausif Noor
Gedi Sibony: The Terrace Theater
– By Blake Oetting
Adrián Villar Rojas: La fin de l’imagination
– By Alexis Dahan
Park Kyung Ryul: Tense
– By Jonathan Goodman
C.T. McClusky: Circus Surreal
– By Josephine Zarkovich
Harold Ancart: Traveling Light
– By Susan Harris
Julian Schnabel: The Sad Lament of the Brave, Let the Wind Speak and Other Paintings
– By David Rhodes
Melissa Vogley Woods
– By Jo-ey Tang
Taney Roniger: Never The Same River
– By Mary Jones
Peter Doig
– By Terry R. Myers
Toyin Ojih Odutola: Tell Me A Story, I Don’t Care If It’s True
– By Amber Jamilla Musser
Grayson Cox and Joan Waltemath: Apparatus
– By Cigdem Asatekin
An-My Lê: On Contested Terrain
– By Louis Block
Suzan Frecon & Patricia Treib
– By Louis Block
Luchita Hurtado: Together Forever
– By Susan Breyer
Lily Stockman: Seed, Stone, Mirror, Match
– By Elizabeth Buhe
Joan Snyder: The Summer Becomes a Room
– By William Corwin
Lauretta Vinciarelli: Intimate Distances
– By William Corwin
Duke Riley: Welcome Back to Wasteland Fishing
– By Will Fenstermaker
Léonie Guyer and Rebeca Bollinger: Threshold
– By Hannah Maier-Katkin
Claudia Hart: The Ruins
– By Charlotte Kent
Jesse Chun: SULLAE 술래
– By Diana Seo Hyung Lee
Suzan Frecon: oil paintings
– By Alfred Mac Adam
Joanna Pousette-Dart: Floating World
– By Tom McGlynn
Ferrari Sheppard: Heroines of Innocence
– By Yxta Maya Murray
Alvin Armstrong: This Place Looks Different
– By Amber Officer-Narvasa
Joiri Minaya: I’m here to entertain you, but only during my shift
– By Rachel Remick
Jim Shaw: Dad’s Drawings
– By Lyle Rexer
Will Ryman: Dinner III
– By David Rhodes
Andy Goldsworthy: Red Flags
– By Jason Rosenfeld
David Shrigley: DO NOT TOUCH THE WORMS
– By Claire Phillips
Berlin Biennial 11: The Crack Begins Within
– By Gillian Sneed
Silky Shoemaker: Billboard Project
– By Ksenia Soboleva
Josh Smith: Spectre
– By Phyllis Tuchman
Erik Lindman: Fal/Parsi
– By Barbara A. MacAdam
Julia Phillips: New Album
– By Jared Quinton
Vantage Points
– By Hovey Brock
Christo: Show Cases, Show Windows & Store Fronts, 1963-1966
– By Joseph Nechvatal
Gabriel Orozco
– By Jonathan Goodman

Critics Page

Edges/Limits. Edges/Tableau
– By Laura Lisbon
Painted Sides: Bringing Visual and Emotional Energies Together
– By Maija Miettinen
Painting without Edge
– By Suzanne Silver
SQUEAK CARNWATH with Amanda Gluibizzi
Embarrassment of Edges
– By Aimee Ng
The frame that suffocates the image
– By Amy Knight Powell
Side Issues
– By George Rush
The Ec-centric Gaze
– By César Paternosto

Books

LINCOLN MICHEL, SAM J. MILLER, MONIQUE LABAN, ESHANI SURYA, and KEVIN NGUYEN with Carissa Chesanek
David Levi Strauss’s Co-Illusion: Dispatches from the End of Communication
– By Hovey Brock
Don DeLillo’s The Silence
– By M.C. Armstrong
Vote Now or Forever Hold Your Peace
– By Harry Feder
Rone Shavers’s Silverfish
– By James W. Fuerst
TYREE DAYE with Tony Leuzzi
Cristina Rivera Garza’s Grieving: Dispatches from a Wounded Country
– By Yvonne C. Garrett
Sayaka Murata’s Earthlings: A Novel
– By Yvonne C. Garrett
Stories by Chloe N. Clark & Jen Fawkes
– By John Domini
Aoko Matsuda’s Where The Wild Ladies Are
– By Elizabeth Block
Daddies and Divas: MICHAEL MONTLACK with Soraya Shalforoosh
Sarah Sala’s Devil’s Lake
– By Kiran Bhat

Music

BRENDON RANDALL-MYERS with Vanessa Ague
Tallinn Music Week
– By Martin Longley
The 83rd, Figure of Noise
– By S. David
CATHERINE CHRISTER HENNIX with Marcus Boon, Part 2
– By Marcus Boon
Listening In: Olivier Conan, The Soul of Barbès
– By Scott Gutterman

Dance

SHAMEL PITTS & ITAI ZWECKER with Jonah Goldman Kay
On Black Death and Fundraising
– By Sydnie L. Mosley
“I have the desire to fight”
– By Emily May

Film

FIDMarseille 2020: A Living Archive
– By Matt Turner
190 Seconds in Lockdown: Usama Alshaibi & Adam Sekuler’s Cinema-19
– By Madeleine Seidel
Documentary as Holistic Activism: Deia Schlosberg's The Story of Plastic
– By Nick Bennett

Theater

“I Could Understand a Person, If That Person Was a…”
– By Kyle Turner
Rehearsing a Self: David Adjmi on Lot Six, A New Memoir and An Outsider's Anthem
– By Sarah Lunnie
“Instead of call-out culture, we’re calling them in”
– By Diep Tran

Fiction

SWAJ
– By Christopher Bollen

Poetry

four
– By Anthony Robinson
Six From My Daily Actions, or The Meteorites
– By S. Brook Corfman
five
– By Tessa Bolsover
from Creve Coeur
– By Robert Fitterman

Art Books

Julia Christensen’s Upgrade Available
– By Hall W. Rockefeller
Ryan Debolski’s LIKE
– By Sarah Moroz
Nele Wynants’s When Fact Is Fiction: Documentary Art in the Post-Truth Era
– By Tiernan Morgan
Sol LeWitt: Not to Be Sold for More Than $100 and Sol LeWitt: Folds & Rips
– By Megan N. Liberty

ArTonic

The Enduring Spark: The Work and Legacy of The Gordon Parks Foundation
– By Yínká Elújọba

Special Report

Virtual Architecture: Art, Pandemic, Protest
– By Alan Gilbert

Field Notes

Money Magic
– By Paul Mattick
Health Self-Defense in a São Paulo Favela
– by Erick Corrêa, translated by Janet Koenig.
RAQUEL DE ANDA with Ethel Palacios Shipton
Politics with Normal Characteristics
– By Adam Theron-Lee Rensch
Beyond “Racial Capitalism”
– By Charlie Post
The Dangerous Seduction of Reform
– By Jarrod Shanahan and Zhandarka Kurti

The Miraculous

21. (Downtown)
– By Raphael Rubinstein
22. (The East Village and Points Beyond)
– By Raphael Rubinstein
23. (Midtown, Times Square, Washington Square Park, Madison Square Garden)
– By Raphael Rubinstein
24. (Park Avenue)
– By Raphael Rubinstein
25. (SoHo)
– By Raphael Rubinstein

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