MARCH 2021 – The Brooklyn Rail

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Publisher's Message

Dear Friends and Readers,
– By Phong Bui

Editor's Message

To Declare a New World
– By Will Fenstermaker

Art

ArtSeen

Dona Nelson: Stretchers Strung Out On Space
– By Hearne Pardee
Caitlin Keogh: Waxing Year
– By Patrick J. Reed
François Morellet: In-Coherent
– By Tom McGlynn
Paul Anthony Smith: Tradewinds
– By William Corwin
Nicole Eisenman and Keith Boadwee
– By Maddie Klett
Alastair MacKinven: Dlnrg [oeeey]
– By Louis Block
Dmitri Hertz: Crabapple
– By Peter Brock
Elia Alba, Baseera Khan, Sola Olulode, and Maya Varadaraj: Home Body
– By Barbara Calderón
Mark McKnight: Hunger for the Absolute
– By Zach Ritter
TR Ericsson: Pale Fires
– By Emily Chun
The Symbolists: Les Fleurs du mal
– By Elizabeth Buhe
Ezra Tessler: An angle to the place I live in
– By Joel Parsons
The Frick Madison
– By Jason Rosenfeld
Goya’s Graphic Imagination
– By Joseph Masheck
Engineer, Agitator, Constructor: The Artist Reinvented
– By Sam Korman
Mortality: A Survey of Contemporary Death Art
– By Robert R. Shane
David Hammons: Body Prints, 1968–1979
– By Zoë Hopkins
Lucas Blalock: Florida, 1989
– By Avram C. Alpert
Esteban Cabeza de Baca: Nepantla
– By Amanda Gluibizzi
Paul McCarthy: A&E Sessions–Drawing and Painting
– By David Rhodes
Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration
– By Darla Migan
Shirin Neshat: Land of Dreams
– By Sahar Khraibani
Mariana Castillo Deball: Between making and knowing something
– By Vanilla Anandam
Albers and Morandi: Never Finished
– By Tom McGlynn
Mildred Thompson: Throughlines, Assemblages and Works on Paper from the 1960s to the 1990s
– By Susan Harris
Laura Aguilar: Show and Tell
– By Rachel Remick
Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration
– By Adriana Furlong
Ron Athey: Queer Communion
– By Ksenia Soboleva
Ljiljana Blazevska
– By Nicholas Heskes
Engineer, Agitator, Constructor: The Artist Reinvented, 1918–1939
– By Charlotte Kent
Sun You: This Two
– By Jonathan Goodman
Goya’s Graphic Imagination
– By Alfred Mac Adam
Carl Craig: Party/After-party
– By Simon Wu
Lawrence Weiner
– By Robert C. Morgan
Georg Baselitz: Pivotal Turn
– By Phyllis Tuchman
Souvenirs: Cornell Duchamp Johns Rauschenberg
– By Amanda Gluibizzi
Peter Sacks: Republic
– By Jonathan Goodman
Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America
– By David Carrier

Critics Page

Radical Care
– By Sarah Cowan
9 Primers
– By Emmanuel Iduma
Something in the Air
– By Kaitlyn A. Kramer
The Revolution Is the Trial
– By Pac Pobric
A Guide to Eating and Walking
– By José Peña Loyola
Seeds, Sharing, Manifestos
– By Amelia Rina
What We Cannot Speak About We Must Pass Over in Silence
– By Noah Dillon
New England Bauhaus
– By Christopher Alessandrini

Books

ROSS BENES with Christopher Heine
Fluid Selves: Legacy Russell’s Glitch Feminism
– By Olivier Berggruen
Paul Mendez’s Rainbow Milk
– By Tony Leuzzi
DARRYL PINCKNEY with William Corwin
Hoda Barakat’s Voices of the Lost
– By John Domini
Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun
– By Andrew Ervin
Jamie Figueroa’s Brother, Sister, Mother, Explorer
– By Carissa Chesanek
Jackie Wang’s The Sunflower Cast a Spell to Save Us From the Void
– By Amanda Auerbach
Lucy Ives’s Cosmogony
– By Cigdem Asatekin
William Boyd’s TRIO
– By Joseph Peschel

Music

Jen Shyu and the Music of Loss
– By George Grella
DEFORREST BROWN, JR. with S. David
Raúl Monsalve y Los Forajidos
– By Adolf Alzuphar
Luke Stewart Calls Two Places Home
– By Rob Duguay
Listening In: Cat Toren, Inside the Sound
– By Scott Gutterman

Dance

Ralph Lemon Takes The Fall
– By Luise Mörke
Thinking with the Body: Dance and Performance at the 13th Gwangju Biennale
– By Emily May
Darkness Manifest, Onstage and Off
– By Susan Yung

Film

A Moveable Feast: International Film Festival Rotterdam 2021
– By Marius Hrdy
The Immeasurable Unseen: All Light, Everywhere
– By Tyler Wilson
Rubbing Elbows: The Criterion Collection’s “World of Wong Kar Wai”
– By Anthony Hawley

Theater

In Search of Shared Goals
– By Dylan Pickus
All the World’s A Couch
– By Lauren Emily Whalen
BRYN HERDRICH with Jeesun Choi

Fiction

Editor’s Note
–
Antonio
– by Beatriz Bracher, translated from the Portuguese by Adam Morris
To the Sea
– By Sharon Adarlo

Poetry

Lewis Warsh: Part of His History
– By Steve Clay
three from Elixir
– By Lewis Warsh
Losing Lewis
– By Barbara Henning
L.W. I.M.
– By Simon Pettet
For Lewis
– By Peter Bushyeager
Dad you are this cloud I am looking at above the San Francisco Bay
– By Sophia Warsh
two
– By John Godfrey
Clouds
– By Daniel Owen
Lewis’s Sound
– By Daniel Kane
LET GO /
– By Anne Waldman
He Stood There (For Lewis)
– By Uche Nduka
They Oughta Name a Shoe After You
– By KB Nemcosky
Big Lew
– By Giuseppe Infante
Sixty Lines for Lewis on His Sixtieth Birthday
– By Gloria Frym
“Everyone you’ve ever been with for a moment”
– By Gary Lenhart
Poem
– By Ron Padgett
Yes?
– By Lydia Cortés
Days of the Week
– By Sarah Anne Wallen
two
– By Dennis Moritz
Fragments for Lewis Warsh
– By Valérie Déus
Tribute
– By Tony Iantosca
Remembering Lewis Warsh, a Planter of Poets
– By Don Yorty
Falling into Conversation with Lewis
– By Ed Friedman
Pillow Talk
– By Lisa Jarnot
Marcella Durand
For Lewis
– By Vincent Katz
From an ongoing untitled poem for Lewis Warsh
– By Anselm Berrigan

Art Books

Mårten Lange’s Ghost Witness
– By Edmée Lepercq
Ulises Carrión's Sonnet(s)
– By Megan N. Liberty
François Halard’s 56 Days In Arles
– By Sarah Moroz
Rated RX: Sheree Rose with and after Bob Flanagan
– By Eli Winter
Hal Foster’s Brutal Aesthetics: Dubuffet, Bataille, Jorn, Paolozzi, Oldenburg
– By Joseph Nechvatal

Field Notes

Trouble in Paradise
– By Matthew Byrne
My Beautiful City
– By Thomas Heise
Community Policing Is Not The Solution To Racist Police Violence
– By Oliver Hinds
Corona is the virus, Capitalism is the pandemic, what do we do next?
– By Philip RIZK

The Miraculous

41. (322 Seventh Avenue)
– By Raphael Rubinstein
42. (5 West 21st Street)
– By Raphael Rubinstein
43. (407 Greenwich Street, 105 Hudson Street, 260 Elizabeth Street)
– By Raphael Rubinstein
44. (Washington Market, Lower East Side)
– By Raphael Rubinstein
45. (568 Broadway, Hoboken)
– By Raphael Rubinstein

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