The Brooklyn Rail

Table of Contents

Publisher's Message

• Dear Friends and Readers,

  – By Phong Bui

Editor's Message

• Performa 2021

  – By RoseLee Goldberg

Art

• Ghada Amer with Amanda Gluibizzi

• Tacita Dean with Jonathan T.D. Neil

• Tomashi Jackson with Maddie Klett

• Jorge Pardo with William Corwin

• Una Stanza Per Panza

  – by Donald Judd

• Pure Meshuggah: Anti-Semitism Invades Art History

  – By Francis M. Naumann

ArtSeen

• Kon Trubkovich: The Antepenultimate End

  – By David Carrier

• Tamara Gonzales: Horrible Beauty

  – By Amanda Millet-Sorsa

• Louise Lawler: LIGHTS OFF, AFTER HOURS, IN THE DARK

  – By Hannah Sage Kay

• Leonardo Drew

  – By Jillian Russo

• Kon Trubkovich: The Antepenultimate End

  – By Nicholas Heskes

• Nicky Nodjoumi: We the Witnesses

  – By Andrew Paul Woolbright

• O-I-L Paint (for Albert Ryder)

  – By Bill Jensen

• A Wild Note of Longing: Albert Pinkham Ryder and a Century of American Art

  – By Peter Acheson

• A Wild Note of Longing: Albert Pinkham Ryder and a Century of American Art

  – By Amanda Millet-Sorsa

• Jennie C. Jones: New Compositions

  – By Ann C. Collins

• Hemali Bhuta: and the epic did not happen!

  – By Barbara A. MacAdam

• Stacy Lynn Waddell: Mettle

  – By Darla Migan

• Emilie Stark-Menneg: Strawberry Moon

  – By Alfred Mac Adam

• Nicole Storm

  – By Bryan Martin

• Ron Gorchov: Spice of Life

  – By Tom McGlynn

• Convergent Evolutions: The Conscious Body of Work

  – By Charlotte Kent

• Katelyn Eichwald: Never

  – By Elizabeth Buhe

• Alex Callender: All Her Loves and All Her Disappointments

  – By Marcus Civin

• Joanna Borkowska & Sandi Slone: Material/Immaterial

  – By Robert C. Morgan

• Matvey Levenstein

  – By Andrew L. Shea

• Philip Guston: 1969–1979

  – By David Rhodes

• Lois Dodd

  – By Hearne Pardee

• John Currin: Memorial

  – By Alfred Mac Adam

• Alison Elizabeth Taylor: Future Promise

  – By Susan Harris

• Daniel Johnston: I Live My Broken Dreams

  – By Barbara Purcell

• Thomas Nozkowski: The Last Paintings

  – By Tom McGlynn

• Liz Ahn: unobservable scavenger

  – By Pamela Sneed

• Wallace Berman: Off the Grid

  – By Ann McCoy

• Julian Schnabel: Self-Portraits of Others

  – By David Ebony

• Bernar Venet: 1961 & 1963: les origins

  – By Joseph Nechvatal

• Martha Tuttle: Wild irises grow in the mountains

  – By Louis Block

• Elizabeth Murray: Back in Town

  – By Douglas Dreishpoon

• McArthur Binion: Modern:Ancient:Brown

  – By Amanda Millet-Sorsa

• Kamala Sankaram: The Last Stand

  – By Julie Reiss

• Wardell Milan: Amerika. God Bless You If It’s Good To You

  – By Cat Dawson

• BRUCE CONNER & JAY DEFEO: (“we are not what we seem”)

  – By Jessica Holmes

• Lisa Yuskavage: New Paintings

  – By Jason Rosenfeld

• Raquel Rabinovich: Portals

  – By Jonathan Goodman

Critics Page

• Live from New York

  – By Charles Aubin

• The Real World

  – By Kathy Noble

• Amazon (Proxy)

  – By Danielle Dean

• Stalk

  – By Ericka Beckman

• The Stage

  – By Tschabalala Self

• notes towards becoming a spill

  – By Shikeith

• Review

  – By Madeline Hollander

• Down at the Arcade

  – By Sara Cwynar

• Being Silica

  – By Andrés Jaque

• The Sound of Morning

  – By Kathy Noble

Books

• Aimee Parkison’s Sister Séance

  – By Jacquelyn Marie Gallo

• Deborah Levy’s Real Estate

  – By Elizabeth Block

• Khadija Abdalla Bajaber & Jonathan Franzen

  – By Yvonne C. Garrett

• Shukri Mabkhout’s The Italian

  – By John Domini

• A Woman’s Worth

  – By Carissa Chesanek

• Revolutionary Letters: 50th Anniversary Edition

  – By Patrick James Dunagan

• John Banville’s April in Spain

  – By Joseph Peschel

• Clare Chambers’s Small Pleasures

  – By Carissa Chesanek

• Lincoln Michel’s The Body Scout

  – By Rone Shavers

• Martha Cooley with Catherine Parnell

Music

• Possessed by the Moon

  – By Adolf Alzuphar

• Into the Blue

  – By Scott Gutterman

• Ostrava Days, Ostrava, Czech Republic, August 20–21, 2021

  – By Martin Longley

• “A Totally Integrated Club Scene”: New York, New Music: 1980–1986 at the Museum of the City of New York

  – By Matthew Pessar Joseph

• Time, Lost and Regained

  – By George Grella

Dance

• Light and Desire: Illuminating Anger and Transformation

  – By Jen C. George

• Taylor Returns—But What Holds the Future?

  – By Susan Yung

• How Do We Stage a World?

  – By George Kan

Film

• Emma Dante’s The Macaluso Sisters

  – By Laura Valenza

• Angelo Madsen Minax’s North By Current

  – By Anna Cahn

Theater

• Write Me Back: P.S. Offers a Unique Window into Pen Pals’ Isolation

  – By Joey Sims

• The Dramaturg’s Perspective: A Conversation with Amauta Firmino

  – By Alexi Chacon

• For Your Eyes OnlyFans: Playwright Gage Tarlton on Sex, Confessions, and the Digital Age

  – By Kyle Turner

Fiction

• Miss Weinburger

  – By Alec Niedenthal

• Coda: Waiting by the Shore

  – By Kate McIntyre

Poetry

• two

  – By I.S. Jones

• three

  – By Charles Theonia

• The Autobiography of Jean Foos

  – By Jessica Grim and Melanie Neilson

• Moon with David

  – By Ed Steck

• three

  – By Kendra Sullivan

• Late Humans and Other Animals

  – By Jason Morris

Art Books

• Sara Cwynar’s Glass Life

  – By Karen Gu

• Kristin Bedford’s Cruise Night

  – By Nicole Kaack

• Designing Motherhood: Things That Make and Break Our Births

  – By Ksenia Nouril

• Edith Young’s Color Scheme

  – By Alana Pockros

• Derek Sullivan’s Evidence of the Avant Garde Ex-Library

  – By Megan N. Liberty

• Richard Tuttle’s The Role of the Story Teller

  – By Louis Block

ArTonic

• The Foundation for Contemporary Arts

  – By Charlotte Kent

Field Notes

• Occupied

  – By Paul Mattick

• Buying Time: Evictions and Tenant Organizing at the Pandemic Slow End

  – By Nathan Eisenberg and Daniel Tutt

• The Present and Future of Engineers

  – By Nick Chavez

The Miraculous

• 71. (The Studio Museum in Harlem)

  – By Raphael Rubinstein

• 72. (Various walls around the city)

  – By Raphael Rubinstein

• 73. (Various museums and galleries)

  – By Raphael Rubinstein

• 74. (402, 404 & 414 East 14th Street)

  – By Raphael Rubinstein

• 75. (Pier 18, Hudson River)

  – By Raphael Rubinstein