The Brooklyn Rail

Table of Contents

Editor's Message

• Thirteen Ways of Looking at Disappearance

  – By Roger Conover

Publisher's Message

• Dear Friends and Readers,

  – By Phong Bui

Art

• Singing in Unison: Artists Need to Create On the Same Scale That Society Has the Capacity to Destroy

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• Laurie Anderson with Paul D. Miller

• Bernard Piffaretti with Raphael Rubinstein

• Kenny Scharf with Jason Rosenfeld

• Tavares Strachan with Amanda Gluibizzi

• Herbert W. Franke with Charlotte Kent

• Cecilia Alemani with Natalia Gierowska

• Silvio Wolf with Lyle Rexer

ArtSeen

• Glenda León: Every Shape is a Shape of Time

  – By Joyce Beckenstein

• Edith Schloss: Blue Italian Skies Above

  – By Barbara A. MacAdam

• Peter van Agtmael: Look at the USA

  – By Jake Romm

• J.V. Martin: Something is Rotten in the State of Everything Everywhere

  – By Hunter Braithwaite

• Marina Adams: What Are You Listening To?

  – By Charlie M. Schultz

• Sam McKinniss: Mischief

  – By Jacob Brooks

• Karen Kilimnik: Early Drawings 1976 – 1998

  – By Nick Marsico-Morea

• Liliane Tomasko: Evening Wind

  – By Raphy Sarkissian

• Turba Tol Hol-Hol Tol: The Chilean Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale

  – By Monika Fabijanska

• Unnatural Nature: Post-Pop Landscapes

  – By Alfred Mac Adam

• Ebony G. Patterson: to kiss a flower goodbye

  – By David Ebony

• In All Innocence: Women, Children and Others at the Venice Biennale

  – By Nancy Princenthal

• Bungalow

  – By Bryan Martin

• Karla Knight: Road Trip

  – By Ann McCoy

• Naudline Pierre: Enter the Realm

  – By Amanda Millet-Sorsa

• Scott Kahn: The Walled City

  – By Andrew L. Shea

• Perle Fine: A Retrospective

  – By Tennae Maki

• Marguerite Louppe: Diagramming Space

  – By Jonathan Goodman

• Martin Wong: Dream Fungus: Early Works 1967-1978

  – By Christian Liclair

• The earth leaked red ochre

  – By William Corwin

• Robert Motherwell: Lyric Suite

  – By Robert C. Morgan

• Richard Prince: Hoods

  – By Tom McGlynn

• Tomas Vu: The Man Who Fell to Earth 76/22

  – By Jonathan Goodman

• Tomas Vu: The Man Who Fell to Earth 76|22

  – By Amanda Millet-Sorsa

• Oscar Murillo: Ourself behind ourself concealed

  – By Phyllis Tuchman

• Emilie Louise Gossiaux: Significant Otherness

  – By Cassie Packard

• Alan Saret: Allies

  – By Greg Lindquist

• Deana Lawson

  – By Zoë Hopkins

• Adam Higgins: Lonesome

  – By Eileen Havant Townsend

• Ebony G. Patterson: …to kiss a flower goodbye…

  – By Ksenia Soboleva

• Sean Scully: The Shape of Ideas

  – By Raphy Sarkissian

• Bernard Piffaretti: Pick Up

  – By David Rhodes

• Basel Abbas & Ruanne Abou-Rahme: May amnesia never kiss us on the mouth

  – By Dina A. Ramadan

• Guadalupe Maravilla: Tierra Blanca Joven

  – By Mason Whitehorn Powell

• Richard Serra

  – By Alfred Mac Adam

• Steeped in Spilled Milk pt.2

  – By Dana Notine

• Linda Daniels: Splits

  – By Terry R. Myers

• Francis Bacon: Faces & Figures

  – By Alfred Mac Adam

• Fictions of Emancipation: Carpeaux Recast

  – By Brandt Junceau

• Jake Berthot: The Enamels

  – By Phillip Griffith

• Really Free: The Radical Art of Nellie Mae Rowe

  – By Daniel Fuller

• William Wegman: Writing by Artist

  – By Ann C. Collins

• George Petrides: Hellenic Heads

  – By S. David

• Tobi Kahn: Formation: Images of the Body

  – By Douglas Dreishpoon

• Robert Rauschenberg

  – By Charlotte Kent

• Bang Geul Han: If You Grind The Threshold of Three Other Houses

  – By Amelia Saul

• Richard Nonas: As Light Through Fog

  – By Lilly Wei

Critics Page

• The Cancellation of Russia

  – By Darra  Goldstein

• The Disappeared Country

  – By Mladen Dolar

• Write As If You’re Dead

  – By Andrei Codrescu

• Beauty is Difficult

  – By Joseph Grigely

• Bas Jan Ader: Missing at Sea, Missing at Home

  – By Mary Sue Andersen-Ader

• Now You See It. Now You Don’t.

  – By Harry George

• The Lake That Disappeared

  – By Craig Dworkin

• Missing in Havana

  – By Rubén Gallo

• Which Europe Will Disappear?

  – By Slavoj Žižek

• What the Spectators See

  – By Jonathan Allen

• Losing My Identity

  – By Boris Groys

• Dis

  – By Ann Lauterbach

• Once mountain, now pit, pile, pipe:

  – By Chris Taylor

• Thirteen Other Ways of Looking at Disappearance

  – By Roger Conover

Books

• Holly Black & A.G. Slatter

  – By Yvonne C. Garrett

• Steve Yarbrough’s Stay Gone Days

  – By Joseph Peschel

• Matthew Vollmer’s This World Is Not Your Home

  – By Zach Schwab

• Terri Gordon-Zolov and Eric Zolov with Camilo Trumper

  – By Camilo Trumper

• Jerry Stahl with Adele Bertei

  – By Adele Bertei

• Jordan Castro: The Novelist

  – By Scott Cheshire

• Edie Meidav with Andrea Scrima

• Tobias Carroll with Kurt Baumeister

  – By Kurt Baumeister

• Carl Einstein’s A Mythology of Forms: Selected Writings on Art

  – By Joseph Masheck

• Sarah Rosenthal with Heidi Van Horn

  – By Heidi Van Horn

Music

• Coming Together: Long Play 2022

  – By George Grella

• Valgeir Sigurðsson with Ondrej Veselý

  – By Ondrej Vesely

• Listen Festival, Brussels

  – By Martin Longley

• Ukrainian Rhapsody

  – By Scott Gutterman

Dance

• Sorry/Please/No: A Dance for Survivors, Citizens, and Queens

  – By Anna Jayne Kimmel

• A Study of the Body

  – By Candice Thompson

• Kilpatrick’s Imaginative Costumes, Activated

  – By Susan Yung

Film

• Audrey Diwan’s Happening

  – By Nolan Kelly

• Tom Gormican’s The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent

  – By Payton McCarty-Simas

• Maureen Fazendeiro and Miguel Gomes’s The Tsugua Diaries

  – By Caitlin Quinlan

• Payal Kapadia’s A Night of Knowing Nothing

  – By Kamayani Sharma

Theater

• How to Make Ambitious Theater on a Budget, According to Clubbed Thumb’s Maria Striar

  – By Diep Tran

• Death of a Theater

  – By Harrison Hill

Fiction

• Ein Haus am Meer

  – By Joy Castro

• from Neruda on the Park

  – By Cleyvis Natera

Poetry

• two

  – By Joel Chace

• three

  – By Stephanie Adams-Santos

• three

  – By Nikki Wallschlaeger

• two

  – By Dao Strom

• ten

  – By António Osório, translated from the Portuguese by Patricio Ferrari and Susan M. Brown

• five

  – By Joe Elliot

• six

  – By Jim Moore

Art Books

• Meeka Walsh’s Malleable Forms: Selected Essays

  – By Mary Ann Caws

• Accra Shepp’s Radical Justice: Lifting Every Voice

  – By Lee Ann Norman

• Celia Paul’s Letters to Gwen John

  – By Cynthia Payne

• Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore’s Romare Bearden in the Homeland of His Imagination: An Artist’s Reckoning with the South

  – By TK Smith

• Lisa Slominski’s Nonconformers: A New History of Self-Taught Artists

  – By Jo Lawson-Tancred

In Memoriam

• A Tribute to Lance De Los Reyes

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ArTonic

• Joan Mitchell Foundation

  – By Amanda Millet-Sorsa

Field Notes

• The End of Roe

  – By Rob Hunter

• “Got a womb? Welcome to hell”

  – By Agata Tumiłowicz-Mazur

• Rikers, what good do you think you do?

  – By A.M. Gittlitz

The Miraculous

• 6. 1955, Los Angeles

  – By Raphael Rubinstein

• 7. January 7, 1955, the Metropolitan Opera House, New York

  – By Raphael Rubinstein

• 8. March 4, 1955, Broadway just above West 52nd Street

  – By Raphael Rubinstein

• 9. November and December, 1955, Paris

  – By Raphael Rubinstein

• 10. 1955, Paris; 2016, Bregenz, Austria

  – By Raphael Rubinstein