The Brooklyn Rail

Table of Contents

Publisher's Message

• Dear Friends and Readers,

  – By Phong Bui

Editor's Message

• On trans | fem | endurance

  – By McKenzie Wark

Art

• EJ Hauser with Phong H. Bui

• Alex Hay with Amanda Gluibizzi

• Ebecho Muslimova with Anna Tome

• Federico Solmi with Dan Cameron

• Peter Lamborn Wilson with Lucía Hinojosa, Diego Gerard, Raymond Foye, and Anne Waldman

ArtSeen

• Frank Bowling: London/New York

  – By David Rhodes

• Assuming Distance

  – By Valerie Mindlin

• David Smith: Follow My Path

  – By Jonathan Goodman

• Cristina BanBan: Del Llanto

  – By Alfred Mac Adam

• Polyplatonics (For Keltie Ferris)

  – By Phong Bui

• Thomas Holton: The Lams of Ludlow Street

  – By Lisa Yin Zhang

• Eamon Ore-Girón: The Symmetry of Tears

  – By Barbara Calderón

• Gabriel Rico: Of Beauty and Consolation

  – By Madeleine Seidel

• Koho Yamamoto: Under a Dark Moon

  – By Amanda Millet-Sorsa

• Carol Rhodes

  – By William Davie

• Marilyn Lerner: Walking Backward Running Forward—Again

  – By David Rhodes

• Remy Jungerman: Brilliant Corners

  – By William Corwin

• Daiga Grantina: Temples

  – By Alex Bennett

• John Giorno

  – By Barbara A. MacAdam

• Hermann Nitsch: Bayreuth Stories

  – By Alfred Mac Adam

• J Stoner Blackwell & Masamitsu Shigeta

  – By Darla Migan

• Katie DeGroot: Boscage

  – By Robert R. Shane

• The National 2021: New Australian Art

  – By Paul Gladston

• Hypnose

  – By Joseph Nechvatal

• Alice Neel: People Come First

  – By Ann C. Collins

• Liu Xiaodong: Borders

  – By Vivian Li

• Rebecca Warren: V

  – By Louis Block

• Estamos Bien: La Trienal 20/21

  – By Alfred Mac Adam

• Kennedy Yanko: Postcapitalist Desire

  – By Folasade Ologundudu

• Kate Millett: Terminal Piece

  – By Ksenia Soboleva

• Matthew Schrader: M. Obultra 3

  – By Peter Brock

• Monique Mouton: Inner Chapters

  – By Louis Block

• Wilhelm Sasnal: New Paintings and One Film

  – By Amanda Gluibizzi

• Kim Juwon: The night, the past recalls the past

  – By Jonathan Goodman

• Nour Mobarak: Logistique Elastique

  – By Benjamin Clifford

• Tariku Shiferaw: It’s a love thang, it’s a joy thang

  – By Charles Moore

• David Row

  – By Colin Edgington

• Alessandro Pessoli: Carousel

  – By Charles Schultz

• Julie Mehretu

  – By David Rhodes

• Jo Messer: Knees to Navel

  – By Reilly Davidson

• Rose Salane: C21OWO

  – By Adriana Furlong

• Still/Live

  – By Charlotte Kent

Critics Page

• I Hate Zoom

  – By Zarina C

• Let Us Live

  – By Jordana LeSesne

• Utopian Disappointments

  – By Tamsin Kimoto

• Black Carnelian Grotto

  – By Shola von Reinhold

• Trans-Gendered, or How to Disappear

  – By Sessi Kuwabara Blanchard

• Something as Ordinary as a Smile

  – By Vanessa Clark

• Untitled/Unlabeled

  – By Linda La

• The Sapphire Sea

  – By Jackie Ess

• The Type of Power Our World Needs

  – By Davia Spain

• untitled

  – By Joss Barton

Books

• Lilly Dancyger’s Negative Space

  – By Jacquelyn Marie Gallo

• Mihaela Moscaliuc’s Cemetery Ink

  – By Tony Leuzzi

• John Domini’s The Archeology of a Good Ragù

  – By Jacob M. Appel

• Caleb Azumah Nelson’s Open Water

  – By Joseph Peschel

• Rachel Cusk’s Second Place

  – By Joseph Peschel

• Matt Bell’s Appleseed

  – By Kurt Baumeister

• David Winner with Joan Marcus

• Hanif Abdurraqib with Eric Farwell

• Nicole Krauss’s To Be a Man

  – By Carissa Chesanek

• Caitlin Horrocks with Joseph Scapellato

  – By Joseph Scapellato

• Adele Bertei with Luc Sante

Music

• From Space to Environment, Fluxus to Furniture Music: The Women of Kankyō Ongaku (Part II)

  – By Sadie Rebecca Starnes

• Dealing With the Human Condition: Lisa Bella Donna

  – By Vanessa Ague

• Maryanne Amacher: Selected Writings and Interviews

  – By George Grella

• Duma and their Doom-Overload Nairobi-Kampala Electro-Metal Maelstrom

  – By Martin Longley

• Listening In: Leni Stern, High-Flying Bird

  – By Scott Gutterman

Dance

• Aliyah Dunn-Salahuddin with Luke Williams

• Bubbling Over with Joy

  – By Susan Yung

• Moving Through Grief and Transition: devynn emory’s deadbird

  – By Noa Weiss

Film

• Alexandre Koberidze’s What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?

  – By Tyler Wilson

• Amalia Ulman’s El Planeta

  – By Caitlin Quinlan

Theater

• We See You, White American Theater

  – By Brittani Samuel

Fiction

• Crown Heights, 2020

  – By Amber Joseph

• Mardon’s Night

  – by Kjell Askildsen, translated from the Norwegian by Seán Kinsella

Poetry

• My Own Version of You

  – By Evan Kennedy

• from mahogany

  – By erica lewis

• five

  – By Daniel Bouchard

• from Days

  – By Simone Kearney

• nine

  – By Anne Tardos

• five

  – By Yanko González, translated from the Spanish by Stephen Rosenshein

• five

  – By Bill Earle

Art Books

• Jessica Vaughn’s Depreciating Assets

  – By Megan N. Liberty

• Schnabel

  – By William Corwin

• Elliott Erwitt’s Found Not Lost

  – By Sarah Moroz

• On Scale

  – By Alexander Nagel

• Carolee Schneemann’s Parts of a Body House Book

  – By Kate Silzer

• Emma Amos: Color Odyssey

  – By Karen Chernick

In Memoriam

• A Tribute to Marty Greenbaum

• A Tribute to Barbara Rose

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• Barbara Rose with Lucas Samaras

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Field Notes

• Back to the Future?

  – By Paul Mattick

• The Pandemic and the Economy: An Uncertain Prospect

  – By José A. Tapia

• Pity the Poor Police: New Laws to Back the Blue

  – By Rona Lorimer

• Palantir’s Picture of Michel Foucault, or How to “Discipline and Punish”

  – By Julian Castronovo

The Miraculous

• 51. (Both Banks of the Hudson River)

  – By Raphael Rubinstein

• 52. (New York’s Waterways)

  – By Raphael Rubinstein

• 53. (The Shoreline of the South Bronx)

  – By Raphael Rubinstein

• 54. (The East River)

  – By Raphael Rubinstein

• 55. (Gansevoort Peninsula)

  – By Raphael Rubinstein