Augustus
By Richard TuttleWhere plants grow well, humans usually do well, / Rome, Paris, London, San Francisco. It must have / Something to do with the light. There is a small intaglio / Of Agrippa in “Augustus” in a glass-clear mineral, / Which creates an image in light, of light, by light.
Brazil’s Literary Hand Grenades
By Jeffrey ZuckermanBecause of this year’s World Cup, cities that had once been footnotes in our consciousness have suddenly gained in solidity and weight. Porto Alegre, in particular, one of the World Cup host cities alongside Rio de Janeiro and Belo Horizonte, has skyrocketed into the international consciousness.
The Ancestor of Hearts
By Christine Schutt and Diane WilliamsThe fur coat she was wearing hung as heavy as a child on her shoulders, and she looked stunned, arrived somehow by taxi, livery cab? Fleeced? Mrs. DePour’s large alligator bag was open.
LUCIO FONTANA Retrospective
By Tom McGlynnLucio Fontana is amongst those latter-day European modernists whose post-WWII reputation was made by a signature autographic gesture.
THE SHAPE OF PROTEST TO COME
Liberation Music Orchestra and Charlie Haden’s Legacy
By Jeff Tobias
Charlie Haden, who passed away this year after a storied career as one of jazz’s most deeply valued bassists, titled his first recording as a bandleader Liberation Music Orchestra. The choices he made on the record were both deeply political and personally intuitive; Liberation Music Orchestra is bolted to its moment in history both as a response to the fog of war and an expression of the spontaneous self.
Living and Sustaining a Creative Life
By Tamsin DohertyLiving and Sustaining a Creative Life, Sharon Louden’s collection of essays by contemporary artists, chronicles how these men and women have sustained themselves, both financially and intellectually, throughout their artistic careers.
Degrees of Privilege
By Gary RothMarx once wrote that “it is essential to educate the educator.” Of late, educators have done quite well all on their own.
From the Publisher & Artistic Director
Dear Friends and Readers,
By Phong BuiOne thing is certain: the longer I live here the greater appreciation I gain for this ever-complex and lively city.
Editor's Message Guest Critic
A FEMINIST RESPONSE
Gender Games and the Art Machine
By Kara L. Rooney
In April of this year, I had the opportunity to interview artist Kara Walker on the subject of her project at the Domino Sugar Factory in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Our discussion, printed in the May edition of the Brooklyn Rail, covered issues of race and class, the subjugation of the labor force, and the economic and political complexities that engender and sustain such division, none of which can be considered without a discussion of feminism.
Critics Page
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THE GALLERY TALLY POSTER PROJECT
– By Micol Hebron
A Call for Gender Equity in the Art World -
Sue Scott
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Amnesiac Return
– By Mira Schor
Amnesiac Return -
Riding the Fourth Wave in a Changing Sea
– By Wendy Vogel -
LEAN BACK
– By Chloe Wyma
Resisting Branded Feminism -
Navigating the Nameless
– By Redell & Jimenez -
ECOSEX MANIFESTO
– By Beth Stephens and Annie Sprinkle
Draft 1.0 of a Work in Progress -
After the Slumber Party…
– By Andrea Bowers and Suzanne Lacy -
Do I Stand in Darkness or in Light?
– By Laura Raicovich -
UPDATING (THE) USES OF THE EROTIC
– By Lisi Raskin
from Georges Bataille and Jean Genet to Audre Lorde and bell hooks -
Franklin Evans
– By Franklin Evans -
Feminism Rising
– By Nancy Princenthal -
OBJECT ATTACHMENTS
– By Krista Geneviève Lynes
The Indexical Form in Feminist Art -
The Language of Art is Still Defined by Men
– By Nancy Azara -
Frames
– By Susan Bee -
10 Divinations on Hip Hop As Sacred Medicine
– By Katie Cercone
Blood Time, Sex Rituals & Ancestral Communion of the Mother Tongue -
My French American Potluck
– By Coco Dolle -
All You Protest Kids, You Can Hear Jack Say, Sweet Jane
– By Patricia Maloney -
Notes from an Old Maenad in the Trenches
– By Ann McCoy -
A Thick Neck in the Wedge of Habit Speaks with an Inherited Voice
– By Nathlie Provosty -
Achieving Authentic Equality
– By Anne Sherwood Pundyk -
After Some Advances, A Backslide
– By Martha Schwendener
ArtSeen
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Augustus
– By Richard Tuttle -
Here and Elsewhere
– By Ann McCoy -
Under the Same Sun: Art from Latin America Today
– By Lucía Hinojosa -
TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE
– By Lynn Maliszewski
Charles Gaines: Gridwork 1974 – 1989 -
A HUMAN KIND OF HOLINESS
– By Alana Shilling-Janoff
Tà Hierá -
LUCIO FONTANA Retrospective
– By Tom McGlynn -
SPENCER FINCH A Certain Slant of Light
– By Matthew Farina -
JEFF KOONS at the Whitney
– By William Benton -
CHRISTOPHER WILLIAMS The Production Line of Happiness
– By Sara Christoph -
RICHARD TUTTLE In Praise of Economic Determinism
– By Phong Bui -
CAIO REISEWITZ
– By Nicola Ricciardi
Table of Contents
Publisher's Message
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Dear Friends and Readers,
– By Phong Bui
Editor's Message
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A FEMINIST RESPONSE Gender Games and the Art Machine
– By Kara L. Rooney
Art
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MIKHAIL PIOTROVSKY with David Carrier & Joachim Pissarro
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EVE ANDRÉE LARAMÉE with Ann McCoy
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ETEL ADNAN & SIMONE FATTAL with Sara Roffino & Anna Tome
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ROXY PAINE with Will Corwin
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PAINTER:POET = FOREST:BEAST Ellen Wiener and LB Thompson Collaborate
– By Joyce Beckenstein -
TWENTY YEARS OF APEXART A Profile of Founder Steven Rand
– By Darragh McNicholas -
A Tribute to David Rosand (1938 – 2014)
– By Phong Bui
ArtSeen
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Augustus
– By Richard Tuttle -
Here and Elsewhere
– By Ann McCoy -
Under the Same Sun: Art from Latin America Today
– By Lucía Hinojosa -
TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE Charles Gaines: Gridwork 1974 – 1989
– By Lynn Maliszewski -
A HUMAN KIND OF HOLINESS Tà Hierá
– By Alana Shilling-Janoff -
LUCIO FONTANA Retrospective
– By Tom McGlynn -
SPENCER FINCH A Certain Slant of Light
– By Matthew Farina -
JEFF KOONS at the Whitney
– By William Benton -
CHRISTOPHER WILLIAMS The Production Line of Happiness
– By Sara Christoph -
RICHARD TUTTLE In Praise of Economic Determinism
– By Phong Bui -
CAIO REISEWITZ
– By Nicola Ricciardi
Critics Page
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THE GALLERY TALLY POSTER PROJECT A Call for Gender Equity in the Art World
– By Micol Hebron -
Sue Scott
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Amnesiac Return Amnesiac Return
– By Mira Schor -
Riding the Fourth Wave in a Changing Sea
– By Wendy Vogel -
LEAN BACK Resisting Branded Feminism
– By Chloe Wyma -
Navigating the Nameless
– By Redell & Jimenez -
ECOSEX MANIFESTO Draft 1.0 of a Work in Progress
– By Beth Stephens and Annie Sprinkle -
After the Slumber Party…
– By Andrea Bowers and Suzanne Lacy -
Do I Stand in Darkness or in Light?
– By Laura Raicovich -
UPDATING (THE) USES OF THE EROTIC from Georges Bataille and Jean Genet to Audre Lorde and bell hooks
– By Lisi Raskin -
Franklin Evans
– By Franklin Evans -
Feminism Rising
– By Nancy Princenthal -
OBJECT ATTACHMENTS The Indexical Form in Feminist Art
– By Krista Geneviève Lynes -
The Language of Art is Still Defined by Men
– By Nancy Azara -
Frames
– By Susan Bee -
10 Divinations on Hip Hop As Sacred Medicine Blood Time, Sex Rituals & Ancestral Communion of the Mother Tongue
– By Katie Cercone -
My French American Potluck
– By Coco Dolle -
All You Protest Kids, You Can Hear Jack Say, Sweet Jane
– By Patricia Maloney -
Notes from an Old Maenad in the Trenches
– By Ann McCoy -
A Thick Neck in the Wedge of Habit Speaks with an Inherited Voice
– By Nathlie Provosty -
Achieving Authentic Equality
– By Anne Sherwood Pundyk -
After Some Advances, A Backslide
– By Martha Schwendener
Books
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The Transposition Workout
– By T Clutch Fleischmann -
Joyce’s Sublime Depravity
– By Geoffrey Young -
Continental Divine
– By John Domini -
When Being Bad Is Good
– By Ashley P. Taylor -
Brazil’s Literary Hand Grenades
– By Jeffrey Zuckerman
Music
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Brooklyn Rail Highly Selective Music Events
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FALL MUSIC SCENE New Venues New York
– by Marshall Yarbrough, with additional reporting by George Grella -
Carving Coltrane’s “Crescent”
– By Kurt Gottschalk -
1O LISTENS REVIEW dinMachine’s Dance to Reason
– By Michael Durek -
THE SHAPE OF PROTEST TO COME Liberation Music Orchestra and Charlie Haden’s Legacy
– By Jeff Tobias -
Outtakes
– By Steve Dalachinsky
Dance
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Site-Specific Dance
– By Stormy Budwig -
Happy We!
– By Nancy Dalva -
ELIZABETH STREB with Nancy Dalva
– By Nancy Dalva -
DANCE DIPLOMACY Healing a Hundred Years of Hatred One Step at a Time
– By Gillian Jakab
Film
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A Parable on Authenticity: Art and Craft
– By Williams Cole -
Correspondence: Ben Mendelsohn talks to filmmakers Peter Bo Rappmund and Hunter Snyder about contemporary landscape cinema and the politics of infrastructure
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QUEERNESS AND MELANCHOLIA An Excerpt from Terence Davies
– By Michael Koresky -
THE BEST OF TIMES The Films of Hou Hsiao-Hsien
– By Xin Zhou -
AGAINST THE PRESENT Selections from FID Marseille 2014
– By Leo Goldsmith
Theater
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Fact, Fiction, and the Impossibility of a Happy Ending LAUREN GUNDERSON with Tasha Gordon‑Solmon
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Women On the Verge of a Revolution Lisa Ramirez Gets Down TO THE BONE
– By Jake-ann Jones
Fiction
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The Ancestor of Hearts
– By Christine Schutt and Diane Williams -
Russell
– By Daniel Grandbois -
Cake (extract)
– By Sarah Françoise -
from Miransù
– by Monica Sarsini, translated from the Italian by Maryann De Julio -
Chapter 1 from Little Is Left To Tell
– a debut novel by Steven Hendricks -
an extract from Our Lady of the Nile
– by Scholastique Mukasonga, translated from the French by Melanie Mauthner -
The Selected Correspondence of Louis-Ferdinand Céline
– translated from the French by Mitch Abidor -
Yup Nope
– By Andrea Tsurumi -
Countless Evils
– By Hector -
Arrowschmidtt!!!
– By Arryan Decatur -
Message from March 3rd, 2014
– By Molly Roth -
Overheard at the Atlantic Terminal Mall
– By Steven Little
Poetry
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from A Poem for Record Keepers
– By Ali Power -
PYRAMIDS
– By Jamie Townsend -
Nine
– By Melanie Neilson -
Ravel Unravel
– By Eugene Ostashevsky
Art Books
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Living and Sustaining a Creative Life
– By Tamsin Doherty -
NewARTtheatre: Evolutions of the Performance Aesthetic
– By Jess Wilcox
Field Notes
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Back to School
– By Paul Mattick -
EDUCATION REFORM Beneath the Surface Part IV: Beyond Reform
– By John Garvey -
RANDY RACCOONS The Threat to Russia’s Youth
– By Margarita Meklina -
Degrees of Privilege
– By Gary Roth -
The Sound of Hesitation
– By Leonhard Bartussek
