The Brooklyn Rail

Table of Contents

Editor's Message

• On Trump and "The Blacks"

  – By Theodore Hamm

Local

• CITYNOTES: Mod Times

  – By Theodore Hamm

• Where Did Uptown Go?

  – By Rodney Robinson

• REPORT CARD: Reform via Gentrification

  – By Liza Featherstone

• PROFILE OF A TEEN MOM: Yaskaira Benitez

  – By Jessica Campbell

• SEEDING LOCALLY Brooklyn Community Foundation

  – By Eleanor J. Bader

• Diary of a Street Art Culture Warrior

  – By Robin Grearson

• I Drink to You: Anthology Film Archives's 40th Birthday and Benefit

  – By Jarrett Earnest

Express

• My Years With Guns

  – By Williams Cole

• Cul-de-Sac In Context

  – By Christian Parenti

• Inside Cul de Sac

  – By Ian Olds

• The splendid asylum of impersonating Kris Kringle

  – By Joshua Mohr

• A Buenos Aires Memory

  – By Steven Ross

• Kraków Here and There

  – By Alan Lockwood

• A Night in the Foxwoods

  – By Karl Greenberg

• Cyber Wars 2.0

  – By David Rosen

• In Dubious Battle

  – By Allen Wilcox

• Addicted to Polymers

  – By James Arnett

• Amongst the Ruins

  – By Michael Terry

• Still Looking For a Cure

  – By Christopher Michel

• BEHIND THE IRON CURTAIN: ROBIN HESSMAN in Conversation with Williams Cole

Art

• Leo Steinberg (1920 - 2011)

  – By David Levi Strauss, Robert Storr, and Nancy Goldring

• TOM BURCKHARDT with John Yau

• ROCHELLE FEINSTEIN with Phong Bui

• ROBERT WHITMAN with Joan Waltemath

• JUAN USLÉ with John Yau

• ARTISTS’ EYES: Children’s Art from Studio In A School

  – By Phong Bui

• By Night

  – By Richard Tuttle

ArtSeen

• Some Thoughts, Possibly Related, on Time, Criticism, and the Nature of Consciousness

  – By Claudia La Rocco

• Unpainted Paintings

  – By Shane McAdams

• JANE FREILICHER Recent Paintings and Prints

  – By John Yau

• JIM NUTT Coming Into Character

  – By Terry R. Myers

• Powders, a Phial, and a Paper Book

  – By Anne Sherwood Pundyk

• DAVID WOJNAROWICZ Spirituality

  – By Kara L. Rooney

• VALTON TYLER’S OTHERWORDLY ART: From the Heart of Texas

  – By Edward M. Gómez

• A Tribute to Alan Uglow

  – By Medrie MacPhee, Stephen J. Morse, and Olivier Mosset

• PROJECTS 94: HENRIK OLESEN

  – By Valery Oisteanu

• MARK LOMBARDI Index

  – By Cassandra Neyenesch

• Eugène Leroy and the Fle(mi)sh Figure

  – By Gwenaël Kerlidou

• TIPI: Heritage of the Great Plains

  – By Josh Garrett-Davis

• The Days of This Society Are Numbered

  – By Gail Victoria Braddock Quagliata

• DANA SCHUTZ Drawings & Prints

  – By John Yau

• BEYOND “WHAT YOU SEE”: Rethinking Abstract Painting as a Signifying Process

  – By Robert C. Morgan

• EMILY MASON Recent Paintings

  – By Phong Bui

• JAMES SIENA

  – By John Yau

• JEAN CROTTI Inhabiting Abstraction

  – By John Yau

• CORRECTION

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Books

• The Shakespeare Chronology Recalibrated

  – By William S. Niederkorn

• Of Mice and Despots

  – By Hope E. Ewing

• The Secrets of Gaza

  – By Randy Rosenthal

• Home Truths and African Magic

  – By Matthew Finch

• She That Bore Thee

  – By Marie Bacigalupo

• Do For Love

  – By Maxine Case

• Happiness is a Short-Short

  – By Justin Courter

• Foreign Relations

  – By Vladislav Davidzon

• Nechvatal’s Immersive Noise Theory

  – By Yuting Zou

• Rapid Transit

  – By Jeffrey Cyphers Wright

• A Sexual Revival?

  – By Rayyan Al-Shawaf

Music

• Sonics in the Wildernesses—A Justification

  – By Dan Wilson

• An Auspicious Beginning for Elliott Sharp's Seventh Decade

  – By David St.-Lascaux

• Life After Turntablism

  – By Dominic Umile

• Spacewalking Together, Under the Vault

  – By David St.-Lascaux

• “Thank You For Waiting”

  – By Todd Simmons

Dance

• Obeying = Acting Out in Brother of Gogolorez

  – By Siobhan Burke

• Facing the Music

  – By Christine Hou

• Come One, Come All...

  – By Jeremy Finch

• Wandering Along a Dreamscape

  – By Christine Hou

• Unforgettable

  – By L.J. Sunshine

• Curator's Letter

  – By David Parker

• “AS NIGHTFALL DOES NOT COME ALL AT ONCE…”: Yvonne Rainer’s Politics of Pathos

  – By Thom Donovan

• A MERCE CUNNINGHAM DANCE COMPANY QUICKIE (with an extended Trisha Brown Parenthetical)

  – By Claudia La Rocco

• My Schreibstück

  – By Karen Schupp

• THOMAS LEHMEN with Claudia La Rocco

Film

• “WE’VE COME TO A TERRIBLE PLACE”: Kelly Reichardt’s Meek’s Cutoff

  – By Paul Felten

• Varieties of Documentary

  – By Fred Camper

• ART-HOUSE MIXTAPE 2011: Selections from New Directors/New Films

  – By Colin Beckett

• WELCOME TO THE DEPARTMENT OF KICKASS: VANESSA RENWICK with Penny Lane

  – By Penny Lane

Theater

• The Shame of Theater

  – By Alex Kilgore

• Laurel Haines and her Anxiety, soon on display at the Flea

  – By Trista Baldwin

• Aviones de Papel: From One City to Another, a Play Takes Flight

  – By Christy Hutchcraft

• LET IT RAIN Director Daniel Talbott and Playwright Stephanie Janssen reopen The Umbrella Plays

  – By Crystal Skillman

Fiction

• Crown of Thorns

  – By Douglas Glover

• FÉDER or the Gilded Husband

  – By Stendhall , translated from the French by Brian Evenson

• Chapters 1, 2, & 8 from Fatale

  – By Jean-Patrick Manchette, translated from the French by Donald Nicholson-Smith

• Character and Fitness: Chapters 7 and 8

  – By Jason Flores-Williams

• Tragic Strip

  – By T. Motley

Poetry

• Ed Smokes, Stares Moodily

  – By Ed Friedman

• how the sculpture is made

  – By Priscilla Becker

Art Books

• A Collection of Personal Accounts

  – By Stephanie Buhmann

• Good-Bye To All That

  – By John Ganz

LastWords

• BLACK METAL TROY or, How to Drink Online

  – By Robert Moor