JUL-AUG 2013 – The Brooklyn Rail

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Editor's Message

RE: Re-
– By Marcia E. Vetrocq

Local

Viva Menchaca?
– By Theodore Hamm
Vice Squad Targets Williamsburg
– By Ari Paul
Weiner’s Most Dangerous Fetish?
– By Theodore Hamm
Welcome Back, Spitzer?
– By Ari Paul
The Wages of Dignity
– By Eleanor J. Bader
Mike’s Labor Legacy
– By John Surico
Seaside Stories
– By Saskia Kahn
Unlikely Sparks in Brooklyn D.A.’s Race
– By Theodore Hamm
Bill de Blasio, John Liu, and the 99%
– By Theodore Hamm

Express

Among the Multitude: A Report from Brazil
– By Ricardo Kaminski and Luciana Chermont
The Manifesto of the Whistleblower Defense League
– By Jason Flores-Williams
NO COUNTRY FOR DICKHEADS DERIC LOSTUTTER with Theodore Hamm
OCCUPY TAKSIM BENGI AKBULUT with Robert S. Eshelman
A Pack of Damn Lies
– By Matt Igoe
Moral Monday Movement Marches On
– By Alex Kotch

Art

LATOYA RUBY FRAZIER with Greg Lindquist & Charles Schultz
CONSTANCE LEWALLEN with Phong Bui
RAFAEL FERRER with Barry Schwabsky
THE LIBRARY FOR NON-AMNESIACS A Possible Reading of Matthew Barney’s Drawings
– By Thyrza Nichols Goodeve
RAPHAEL RUBINSTEIN with Joan Waltemath
Worlds With Us
– By Katy Siegel
Studio in a School Teams Up with Mark Di Suvero
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SUMMER READING LIST History and Memory: The Velocity of Extinction
ARSHILE GORKY “An Artist of the Earth.”1
– By Irving Sandler
REMEMBERING Jene Highstein (1942 – 2013)
– By Richard Nonas
REMEMBERING Sarah Charlesworth (1947-2013)
– By Charles Traub and Matthew C. Lange

ArtSeen

Street
– By Joshua K. Leon
ANTHONY PEARSON
– By Taney Roniger
JANE FREILICHER Painter Among Poets
– By David Rhodes
DENNIS CONGDON
– By William Corwin
Gravity and Grace: Monumental Works by El Anatsui
– By Desi Gonzalez
RETO PULFER Zustandseffekte
– By Matthew Shen Goodman
GEDI SIBONY
– By Pac Pobric
JULIE MEHRETU Liminal Squared
– By Grant Klarich Johnson
JO BAER
– By David Rhodes
Traylor in Motion: Wonders from New York Collections and Bill Traylor: Drawings from the Collections of the High Museum of Art and the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts
– By Alana Shilling-Janoff
KEITH HARING The political Line
– By Mara Hoberman
Subliming Vessel: The Drawings of MATTHEW BARNEY
– By Ann McCoy
SUSAN BEE Criss Cross: New Paintings
– By Alexander Shulan
TOM SHANNON Nothing
– By Darren Jones
CARL PALAZZOLO New Paintings
– By Robert Berlind
JOE BRADLEY Lotus Beaters
– By Gail Victoria Braddock Quagliata
JASON MIDDLEBROOK My Landscape
– By Jessica Holmes
LIU ZHENG Dream Shock
– By Jonathan Goodman
Mushroom Hunter
– By Jessica Holmes
Vanishing Point
– By Collin Sundt
do it (outside)
– By Kara L. Rooney
SUSPENDED TURNS On Philip Taaffe’s “Sardica II” (2013)
– By Jarrett Earnest
RICHARD SERRA Early Work
– By Terry R. Myers
G.T. PELLIZZI The Red and the Black
– By Margaret Graham
NANCY LUPO Hats & Balls
– By Chloé Rossetti
“JACK... JACK... JACK...” Jack Goldstein X 10,000
– By Rachael M. Wilson
Cai Jin: Return to the Source
– By Jonathan Goodman

Critics Page

Bern 1969 /Venice 2013
– By Keith Sonnier
PLACES WITH A PAST New Site-Specific Art in Charleston Belongs to its Place and Time
– By Michael Brenson
Recollection of an “Incident”
– By Maria Elena González
ANTONIO MANUEL: I WANT TO ACT, NOT REPRESENT! The Re-Enactment of Historical Works from the Late 1960s and Early 1970s
– By Claudia Calirman
Re: From LAWRENCE WEINER STUDIO
– By Lawrence Weiner
Reinstallation and the Real
– By Caroline A. Jones

Books

A Literary Thriller with Legs
– By Orli Van Mourik
Dystopia, with Dancing
– By Charlene Allen
The Morality of Money
– By Weston Cutter
Inscriptions for Headstones
– By Matthew Daddona
Portrait of the Artists
– By Leigh Kamping-Carder
Pick a Card
– By Pablo Medina
Apples & Oranges
– By Allen Guy Wilcox
Storied History
– By Greg Ryan
The Prisoner's Journal
– By Sara Freeman
With Kings and Camp Counselors
– By John Domini
Once Bitten
– By Sarah Nicole Smetana

Music

TEN YEARS OF DUST-TO-DIGITAL: The Ongoing Mission of Moses Asch
– By Christopher Nelson
Outtakes
– By Steve Dalachinsky
NOT QUITE DYING David Bowie: The Next Day
– By Todd Simmons
TRIXIE WHITLEY’s Dot Odyssey
– By KK Kozik

Dance

Father/Figure
– By Nancy Dalva

Film

Theater

Change Story, Change Life Service and Solace Where Arts Meet Need
– By Larissa Lury
A Scary and a Beautiful Place Lucy Thurber’s Hill Town Plays
– By Mark Schultz
Looking for Some Bulk After Hours in East WillyB? Theater Artists Take on the Web Series
– By Matthew Paul Olmos
Painful Intimacy Daniel Pearle’s A Kid Like Jake
– By Mark Armstrong

Fiction

Drink and Time in Dublin
– By Flann O'Brien (Myles na Gopaleen)
When the Time Comes
– By Josef Winkler
Shakespeare
– By Robin Hirsch
Quarry
– By Robert Landon
excerpt from The Raw Edge - Issue 01
– By Devin Clark
Arrowschmitt
– By Arryan Decatur
Tragic Strip
– By T. Motley
extracts from The Art of Joy
– By Goliarda Sapienza, translated from the Italian by Anne Milano Appel, out now on FSG

Poetry

Four
– By Seth Abramson
Five
– By Shane Allison
Summer Journal [2012]
– By Stacy Szymaszek
We Do The Polis / In Different Voices
– By David Buuck

Art Books

Bad Boy: My Life On and Off the Canvas
– By Corina Larkin
2013?: A Doomsday Day Planner
– By Miles Klee
Garry Winogrand
– By Adam Bell

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