The Brooklyn Rail

Table of Contents

Editor's Message

• Martial Intimacies: The Gun and Everyday Militarism

  – By Pamela M. Lee

Publisher's Message

• Dear Friends and Readers

  – By Phong Bui

Art

• Liz Deschenes with Jean Dykstra

• Joel Meyerowitz with Charlotte Kent

• Daniel Richter with Toby Kamps

• Tony Cokes with Zoë Hopkins

• Melissa Chiu with Joachim Pissarro & Jennifer Stockman

ArtSeen

• Marcus Jahmal: Interiors

  – By Phong Bui

• Tiziano 1508. Agli esordi di una luminosa carriera

  – By David Carrier

• The Credit Suisse Exhibition: Frans Hals

  – By William Davie

• Sean Scully: LA Deep

  – By Terry R. Myers

• Vaughn Spann: Trilogy

  – By Alfred Mac Adam

• The Taos Abstract Artist Collective

  – By Jeremy Zilar

• Distortions: Moscow Conceptualists Working Today

  – By David Carrier

• Laura Anderson Barbata: Singing Leaf

  – By Ekin Erkan

• Annesta Le: Eternal Current

  – By David Ebony

• Allison Miller: World

  – By D. Dominick Lombardi

• Katy Moran: How to paint like an athlete

  – By Alfred Mac Adam

• Aaron Curry

  – By Jonathan Goodman

• Charles Traub: Skid Row

  – By Saul Ostrow

• David Novros: Wall Paintings

  – By Alfred Mac Adam

• Heather Dewey-Hagborg: Hybrid: an Interspecies Opera

  – By Laurel V. McLaughlin

• Jessica Segall: Human Energy

  – By Hearne Pardee

• Ali Banisadr: The Changing Past

  – By Maximiliane Leuschner

• Dala Nasser: Adonis River

  – By Elliot Josephine Leila Reichert

• Adriana Furlong: Hundreds Do Things

  – By Qingyuan Deng

• Martyn Cross: All Shall Be Well

  – By Ekin Erkan

• Don Eddy

  – By Riad Miah

• Wave Pattern

  – By Andrew Paul Woolbright

• Marisol: A Retrospective

  – By Jessica Holmes

• Manet/Degas

  – By David Carrier

• Richard McDonough: House Full of Time

  – By Ann C. Collins

• Yonia Fain: Modern-ish: Yonia Fain and the Art History of Yiddishland

  – By Nicholas Heskes

• Christian Walker: The Profane and the Poignant

  – By William Corwin

• Barkley L. Hendricks: Portraits at the Frick

  – By Zoë Hopkins

• Dana James: Pearls & Potions

  – By Annabel Keenan

• Valerie Jaudon: Parameters

  – By Alfred Mac Adam

• Connected Diaspora: U.S. Central American Visuality in the Age of Social Media

  – By Beatriz Yanes Martinez

• Harry Smith: Fragments of a Faith Forgotten

  – By Ann McCoy

• Out of Bounds: Japanese Women Artists in Fluxus

  – By Jenny Wu

• Manet/Degas

  – By Phyllis Tuchman

• Ezra Tessler: Where the Stress Falls

  – By Louis Block

• Remedios Varo: Science Fictions

  – By Debra Riley Parr

• Trude Viken: Night Crawlers

  – By Charles Schultz

• Roy Lichtenstein: Bauhaus Stairway Mural

  – By David Whelan

• Deborah Buck: Into the Wild: To Crash is Divine

  – By Andrew Paul Woolbright

• Climate Futurism

  – By Alec Turnbull

• I See No Difference Between a Handshake and a Poem

  – By Bruna Shapira

• Man Ray: Other Objects

  – By Charles Stuckey

• Chloe Chiasson: Keep Left at the Fork

  – By Madison Ford

• Myrtle Williams: Spirit of the Sisterhood

  – By Amanda Gluibizzi

• Manet/Degas

  – By Jason Rosenfeld

• Sam Gilliam: The Last Five Years

  – By Alfred Mac Adam

• Andrew Ross: Bucket of Truth

  – By William Corwin

• Sean Scully: Jack the Wolf

  – By Joachim Pissarro

1x1

• Hindley Wang on Candice Lin

Critics Page

• The Armed Individual, Black Life, and the Race for New Social Worlds

  – By Joshua Aiken

• Two Observations on Early Origins of the Western: Pressure Studies

  – By Lucy Raven

• Stray Bullets

  – By Tuan Andrew Nguyen

• Fortune and Fear: Samuel Colt’s Revolver and Cyclical Violence

  – By Joseph Mizhakii Zordan

• ¡WELCOME TO AMERICA!

  – By Mary Ellen Carroll

• WHO IM FINNA TEACH WITH THEORY HOW NOT TO KILL ME?!

  – By Tiona Nekkia McClodden

• Visual Ballistics

  – By Joan Kee

Books

• Our Strange World

  – By Mandana Chaffa

• Louis Bury’s The Way Things Go

  – By Raphael Rubinstein

• Jeremy T. Wilson with Christine Sneed

• Shannon Sanders with Shannon Perri

• Natasha Stagg with Joel Danilewitz

  – By Joel Danilewitz

• Meg Kissinger’s While You Were Out

  – By Anson Tong

• Being and Loving: Talking about Life, Art, and Writing with Jarrett Earnest

  – By Thyrza Nichols Goodeve

• Naomi Alderman’s The Future

  – By Yvonne C. Garrett

• Justin Torres’s Blackouts

  – By John Domini

• Sigrid Nunez’s The Vulnerables

  – By Yvonne C. Garrett

• James Kennedy with Kathleen Rooney

• Yvonne Rainer’s Parts of Some Sextets, 1965/2019

  – By Cassie Packard

Music

• Ben Manley: Digital Thoreau

  – By Ben Gambuzza

• Bent Duo: Embodying Queer Sonics

  – By John P. Hastings

• Philip Ewell’s On Music Theory, and Making Music More Welcoming for Everyone

  – By George Grella

• Crossing the Distance

  – By Scott Gutterman

Dance

• Queering a Canon

  – By Candice Thompson

• Once the dust settles, flowers bloom

  – By Nell Breyer

• October 11, 1948/2023

  – By Caedra Scott-Flaherty

Film

• Ana Mendieta and Cuban Cinema

  – By Carly Mattox

• Thien An Pham’s Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell

  – By Farah Abdessamad

• Sebastián Silva’s Rotting in the Sun

  – By Joanna Seifter

• Alice Rohrwacher’s La Chimera

  – By Laura Valenza

Theater

• At Soho Rep., a Jokey Vagina, Chatty Penis, and Future Beyond Both

  – By Billy McEntee

• Stereophonic with Lily Goldberg

• Listening to the Play: Arin Arbus on Directing Waiting for Godot

  – By Paul David Young

Fiction

• Sponger Money

  – By Ethan Knowles

• Jungle Siren

  – By Jade Leatham

Poetry

• NICE BOOK: On NICE NOSE by Buck Downs & The Poetry of Ephemera

  – By Zack Pieper

• Brittany Adames

• David Blair

• Steve Orth

• Shin Yu Pai

• Sylvie Baumgartel

• Anneysa Gaille

Art Books

• Matarile Ediciones with Zach Ritter

• Joel Meyerowitz and Lorenzo Braca’s The Pleasure of Seeing

  – By Aaron M. Cohen

• The River Imp and the Stinky Jewel and Other Tales: Monster Comics from Edo Japan

  – By Sara Century

• Bringing Worlds Together: A Rethinking Residencies Reader

  – By Jenny Wu

• Surreal Spaces: The Life and Art of Leonora Carrington

  – By Alice Godwin

Field Notes

• Editor’s Note

  – By Paul Mattick

• Germany at War

  – By The Friends of the Classless Society

• “When We Win, We Lose:” The Story of a Run-Away Shop

  – By Elizabeth Henson

• Phil Neel with Komite

The Miraculous

• 51. Early 20th Century, Tucumán, Argentina

  – By Raphael Rubinstein

• 52. 1950s, before and after; Tryon, North Carolina; Philadelphia; New York City; Carry-le-Rouet, France

  – By Raphael Rubinstein

• 53. 1960s and later, Panama City, New York City

  – By Raphael Rubinstein

• 54. 1957, Liverpool, England

  – By Raphael Rubinstein

• 55. 1966-1979, Houston, Texas; New York City; London; Leeds

  – By Raphael Rubinstein

Art and Technology

• Crisis, A Critical Imaginary

  – By Charlotte Kent