JUNE 2020 – The Brooklyn Rail

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Editor's Message

The Mirror Displaced: Artists Writing on Art
– By Tom McGlynn

Publisher's Message

Dear Comrades, Friends, and Readers,
– By Phong Bui

Art

ArtSeen

Quaranzine
– By Debra Riley Parr
Pamela Jorden: Reflector
– By David Rhodes
News From Prescient Yesterdays
– By Esmé Hogeveen
Come to Your Census: Who Counts in America?
– By Osman Can Yerebakan
Painting the Essential
– By Alfred Mac Adam
Nari Ward and Robin Rhode: Power Wall
– By Barbara A. MacAdam
Reza Shafahi: Pomegranate Garden
– By Charlie M. Schultz
Public Images
– By Bartolomeo Sala
Karla Knight: Notes from the Lightship
– By Jonathan Goodman
AP: Assembled Personalities
– By Kathleen Langjahr
The Art of Daily Living
– By Tausif Noor
Ana Mendieta & Carolee Schneemann: Irrigation Veins
– By Josephine Zarkovich
Allan McCollum: Early Works
– By William Corwin
Saul Steinberg: Imagined Interiors
– By Barbara A. MacAdam
Rashid Johnson: Untitled Anxious Red Drawings
– By Amber Jamilla Musser
Alberto Alejandro Rodríguez: Destruktion
– By Robert R. Shane
Sam Lavigne and Tega Brain: New York Apartment
– By Simon Wu
Brandon Ndife: MY ZONE
– By Avram C. Alpert
Alice Momm: The Gleaner’s Song
– By Susan Breyer
Brandon Ndife: MY ZONE
– By Peter Brock
Stephen Kaltenbach: The Beginning and The End
– By Patrick J. Reed
Theresa Bloise and George Boorujy: Messenger
– By Robert R. Shane
Flânerie in the Time of Corona
– By Ksenia Soboleva
The Dream Had Me
– By Ann C. Collins
With Pleasure: Pattern and Decoration in American Art, 1972–1985
– By Olivia Gauthier
How Can We Think of Art at a Time Like This?
– By Sahar Khraibani
Candice Breitz: Too Long, Didn’t Read
– By Jason Rosenfeld
Michael Williams: Opening
– By Phyllis Tuchman
Sindy Lutz: Seascapes
– By William Corwin
Cortney Andrews: I See You
– By Helen Georgas

Critics Page

On the Make
– By Mark Bloch
Writing on Art and Muscle Memory
– By Louis Block
A Real Connection
– By Hovey Brock
Playing Solitaire
– By William Corwin
What Lives in the Work
– By Colin Edgington
Double Helix
– By Alex A. Jones
Artists and Writers
– By Brandt Junceau
When We Are Given a Voice
– By Ann McCoy
Milling Stone
– By Mira Dayal
A Correspondence With Motherwell
– By Robert C. Morgan
Of Masonry and Shadows
– By Steven Pestana
An Artist Writing
– By David Rhodes
I Run My Hand Over the Race
– By Taney Roniger
Untitled (On amber, archers, cinnamon, horses and birds)
– By Sadie Rebecca Starnes
Transmission\Translation
– By Joan Waltemath
Writing about art is like talking about feelings
– By Gaby Collins-Fernandez

Books

What it Contains, What it Obscures
– By Ben Tanzer
CLIFFORD THOMPSON with David Winner
Joyelle McSweeney’s Toxicon and Arachne and Rachel Eliza Griffiths’s Seeing the Body: Poems
– By John Domini
JASON SCHNEIDERMAN with Tony Leuzzi
Lily Tuck’s Heathcliff Redux: A Novella and Stories
– By Joseph Peschel
Kathy Valentine’s All I Ever Wanted
– By Yvonne C. Garrett
Camille A. Collins: The Exene Chronicles
– By Yvonne C. Garrett
Emily Nemens’s The Cactus League and Luke Geddes’s Heart of Junk
– By Weston Cutter
Activations: NICK FLYNN with Boo Trundle

Music

On its 100th Anniversary, the World's First Electronic Instrument Continues to Awe
– By Nick Gallagher
KEITH ROWE with Todd B. Gruel
MARK DRESSER with Martin Longley
Horse Lords, The Common Task
– By Jude Thomas
Listening in: Vision and Revision
– By Scott Gutterman
Beautiful, Goodbye
– By George Grella

Dance

We Will Dance Again: The Dance Community Responds Part 1
– By Katy Dammers
ANNIE-B PARSON with Ivan Talijancic
PAM TANOWITZ with Susan Yung
Dancing Alone
– By George Kan

Film

Challenging Assumptions: Images Festival's in support of sex work Program
– By Katherine Connell
Philosophy For Living
– By Matt Turner
ZIA ANGER with Mike Tully

Theater

Fiction

Allentown, Saturday
– By Gabriel Bump
Beyond the Sea
– By Paul Lynch
Drifts
– By Kate Zambreno
Quotients
– By Tracy O’Neill

Poetry

Stepping Back
– By Anne Waldman
nine
– By John Coletti
four
– By Rachelle Rahmé
The Decree
– By Alamgir Hashmi
McClure
– By Bob Holman
four
– By Alice Burdick
The Scatterer
– By Jordan Davis
seven
– By Joseph Donahue
Lunar letters
– between Kiran Bath & Catherine Chen

Art Books

The Outwardness of Art: Selected Writings of Adrian Stokes
– By Jonah Goldman Kay
Dayanita Singh's Zakir Hussain Maquette
– By Megan N. Liberty
Joel Sternfeld's American Prospects
– By Greta Rainbow
Excerpts from the 1971 Journal of Rosemary Mayer
– By Kate Silzer

In Memoriam

Field Notes

Editor's Note: This is What History Looks Like
– By Paul Mattick
Normality is Death
– By Jacob Blumenfeld
Where Is She?
– By Soledad Álvarez Velasco
Prison in the Virus Time
– By Keith "Malik" Washington
Higher Education and the Remaking of the Working Class
– By Gary Roth
The Pandemics of Interpretation
– By John W. W. Zeiser
Propaganda and Mutual Aid in the time of COVID-19
– By Andreas Petrossiants
Class Power on Zero-Hours
– By Jarrod Shanahan

The Miraculous

6. [Downtown, West 57th Street]
– By Raphael Rubinstein
7. [Lower Broadway]
– By Raphael Rubinstein
8. [Chelsea]
– By Raphael Rubinstein
9. [Lower East Side]
– By Raphael Rubinstein
10. [Brooklyn Heights]
– By Raphael Rubinstein

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