The Brooklyn Rail

Table of Contents

Editor's Message

• Abolition of a Category

  – By Susette Min and Amy Sadao

Co-Founder's Message

• Dear Friends and Readers,

  – By Phong Bui

Art

• Hew Locke with Emann Odufu

• Raphael Montañez Ortiz with Ana Perry

• Elle Pérez with Ksenia M. Soboleva

• Spencer Sweeney with Andrew Woolbright

• Cecilia Vicuña with Suzanne Herrera

• The Historical Present: Collective Solitude at Coenties Slip

  – By Prudence Peiffer

ArtSeen

• Joan Snyder: To Become a Painting

  – By Norman L Kleeblatt

• Pamela Sneed: ABOUT time

  – By Jillian McManemin

• Matthew Wong: The New World, Paintings From Los Angeles 2016

  – By Jessica Holmes

• PLEASE SEND TO REAL LIFE: Ray Johnson Photographs

  – By Mark Bloch

• Assembly 1: Unstored, Contemporary Sculpture from Mexico

  – By Hovey Brock

• Cindy Sherman: 1977–1982

  – By Ann C. Collins

• Inga Danysz: In Ancient Rome

  – By Alexandra Drexelius

• PLEASE SEND TO REAL LIFE: Ray Johnson Photographs

  – By Jean Dykstra

• Whistler to Cassatt: American Painters in Paris

  – By Joe Fyfe

• Paula Rego

  – By Natalia Gierowska

• everything slackens in a wreck

  – By Annabel Keenan

• Marley Freeman: take care

  – By Alfred Mac Adam

• Writing a Chrysanthemum: The Drawings of Rick Barton

  – By Ann McCoy

• Rirkrit Tiravanija: Mezcal vs. Pulque

  – By Tom McGlynn

• James Brooks: Rendez-vous Paintings 1972–1983

  – By Robert C. Morgan

• Mother Cyborg: Crafting Our Digital Legacy

  – By Steve Panton

• Klea McKenna: Rainbow Bruise

  – By Hearne Pardee

• Lydia Ourahmane: Tassili

  – By Dina A. Ramadan

• Alain Kirili

  – By David Rhodes

• J.M.W. Turner: Turner’s Modern World

  – By Jason Rosenfeld

• Nicole Eisenman: Untitled (Show)

  – By Ksenia Soboleva

• Carla Zaccagnini: Cuentos de Cuentas/Accounts of Accounting

  – By Jenny Wu

• Cezanne

  – By William Corwin

• Ellie Ga: Quarries

  – By Amelia Saul

• Milton Avery: Fifty Paintings/Fifty Years

  – By Tom McGlynn

• Bob Thompson: This House Is Mine

  – By Daniel Fuller

• Nora Turato: Govern Me Harder

  – By David Carrier

• The Baroness

  – By Brittany Rosemary Jones

• Ruth Asawa: Citizen of the Universe

  – By Vanilla Anandam

• Stan Douglas: 2011 ≠ 1848

  – By Amin Alsaden

• Lingua Franca

  – By Maia Siegel

• Paul Pagk: Queen of Spades

  – By Emireth Herrera Valdés

• Jonathan Silver: Matter and Vision

  – By Brandt Junceau

• Ani Liu: Ecologies of Care

  – By Helena Haimes

• Women at War

  – By Annabel Keenan

• Kazuko Miyamoto: Works from 1966 to 2005

  – By Jonathan Goodman

• The Condition of Being Addressable

  – By Olivia Gauthier

• Lynda Benglis

  – By Conor Lauesen

• Klammern aus denen Blätter Sprießen

  – By Hannah Sage Kay

• Eyes of the Skin

  – By Folasade Ologundudu

Critics Page

• An Unsettling Aesthetic Lexicon

  – By Kandice Chuh and Al-An deSouza

• Abstraction

  – By Yunhee Min, Anna Sew Hoy, and Tâm Van Tran

• Airport Burger

  – By Jesús Torrivilla and Yeni Mao

• Meena Nanji with Yong Soon Min

• Bakirathi Mani and Swati Rana and Sa’dia Rehman

• Ken Lum with Iyko Day

• Abby Chen and Lam Tung Pang

• Alice Tuan and Kristina Wong

• Jen Liu and Elaine W. Ho

• Asian American Art is a Monument

  – By Related Tactics

• Laura Kina and Seiji Igei

• Erina Alejo and Lian Ladia

• Mary Lum and Arnold J. Kemp

  – By Mary Lum and Arnold J. Kemp

• Việt Lê and Tiffany Chung

• Shahzia Sikander with Alpesh Kantilal Patel

• Carrie Yamaoka

• Sowon Kwon and Joe Wood and Alice Yang

• Valerie Soe with tammy ko Robinson

• Jean Shin with Sharmistha Ray

• Rachel Lee and Larissa Lai

• Tomie Arai with Ryan Lee Wong

• Vivian L. Huang with Mei Kazama

• John Yau and Mie Yim

• Astria Suparak and Chandan Reddy

• Sharon Mizota and Jen Pack

• Rachel Lastimosa and Paolo Asuncion and Michael Arcega

• Margo Machida with Marci Kwon

• Nancy Hom

• Anne Ishii with Cynthia Arrieu-King

• Kazumi Chin and Heesoo Kwon

• Aleesa Pitchamarn Alexander with Dominique Fung

• Beau Sia and Adriel Luis

• Craig Santos Perez and Lisa Blas

• Simon Leung

• Abbey Williams and Patty Chang

• Jeffrey Yang and Kazumi Tanaka

• Seher Shah

• Howie Chen and Renée Green

• Michelle Yee and Yun Wei

• Genji Amino

  – By Genji Amino

Books

• Mohsin Hamid’s The Last White Man

  – By John Domini

• Mieko Kawakami & Meng Jin

  – By Yvonne C. Garrett

• Emma Donoghue’s Haven: A Novel

  – By Yvonne C. Garrett

• Sloane Crosley’s Cult Classic

  – By Wayne Catan

• Édouard Louis’s A Woman’s Battles and Transformations

  – By Jacquelyn Marie Gallo

• Simon Wickhamsmith with Tony Leuzzi

• Diego Gerard Morrison’s Myth of Pterygium

  – By Alfred Mac Adam

Music

• Anima / Arrhythmia

  – By Adolf Alzuphar

• Trondheim Jazzfest

  – By Martin Longley

• Bush Tetras Reemerge at Elsewhere

  – By Dan Joseph

• Summertime Blues

  – By Scott Gutterman

Dance

• Giselle, Transcending Centuries

  – By Susan Yung

• Tripping on Dirt

  – By Noa Weiss

• Redactions

  – By Theo Armstrong

Film

• TRANSlations: Seattle Trans Film Festival

  – By Ryan Rose Aceae

• Mamadou Sarr and Paulin Soumanou Vieyra’s Afrique sur Seine

  – By Farah Abdessamad

• Jane Schoenbrun’s We’re All Going to the World’s Fair

  – By Payton McCarty-Simas

• Hong Sang-Soo’s In Front of Your Face

  – By Minh Tran

• Panah Panahi’s Hit the Road

  – By Kally Patz

Theater

• Bruce’s Beach

  – by Roger Q. Mason, illustration by Brian Vincent Rhodes

Fiction

• Tony

  – By Celine Aenlle-Rocha

• Hanging Out with Dad

  – By Mark Liedner

Poetry

• Griner Grounding

  – By Tracie Morris

• four

  – By Timothy Liu

• three

  – By Ken Taylor

• two

  – By Mel Elberg

• Fields of Flame

  – By Peter Burzyński

• two

  – By Tim VanDyke

• Diaries

  – By Maxine Chernoff

• Gary Lenhart & Vincent Katz

• Christopher Soto with Jan-Henry Gray

• t thilleman with Andrew Mossin

Art Books

• Helga Paris’s Women at Work

  – By Billie Anania

• Gabrielle Civil’s the déjà vu: black dreams & black time

  – By Erica N. Cardwell

• Listening to Clay

  – By Karen Chernick

• LaToya Ruby Frazier’s Flint is Family in Three Acts

  – By Naomi Elias

• Lampo Folio

  – By Jennie Waldow

Field Notes

• Editor’s Note

  – By Paul Mattick

• The Return of Paul Volcker

  – By Paul Mattick

• Tipping Point: Israel on the Brink

  – By Etan Nechin

• Who is for Tenants?

  – By Holden Taylor

• What Do (Digital) Bosses Do?

  – By Jason E. Smith

The Miraculous

• 11. Baltimore, 1926

  – By Raphael Rubinstein

• 12. 1956 and later, Los Angeles

  – By Raphael Rubinstein

• 13. 1968, East Lansing, Michigan

  – By Raphael Rubinstein

• 14. 1983 and later, Virginia & Portland

  – By Raphael Rubinstein

• 15. 2019, London

  – By Raphael Rubinstein

Art and Technology

• Beyond the Janus-Faced Typologies of Art and Technology

  – By Charlotte Kent