The Brooklyn Rail
Critical Perspectives on Art, Politics and Culture
Dec 2005/Jan 2006
Featured Articles
Rich Man, Poor Man: A History of Fort Greene
by Carl Hancock RuxLocal
“The poverty stricken condition of the inhabitants residing in the [Fort Green*/Clinton Hill district] of Brooklyn render it almost an unknown land,” or so claimed an article published in the New York Times titled “Homes of the Poor.”
Dore Ashton with Phong Bui & Deidre Swords
by Phong BuiArt
On a late Saturday afternoon, Rail publisher Phong Bui and the painter Deidre Swords visited the art critic and art historian Dore Ashton at her East Village home to talk about her life and work.
- Nils Karsten by Thomas Micchelli
- John Graham by James Kalm
- Three Generations of Abstract Painting: _Alice Trumbull Mason, Emily Mason, & Cecily Kahn_ by Roger Kamholz
- If It’s Too Bad To Be True, It Could Be DISINFORMATION by Francis Raven
- Aron Namenwirth and Jason Van Anden by Ben LaRocco
- Nancy Spero: The Drawing Center & Galerie Lelong by David Levi Strauss and Jon Bird
- Shirin Neshat by Hrag Vartanian
- Mediating the void Gabriel Orozco
- The Long Ride of Larry Poons by John Zinsser
- Egon Schiele by Stephanie Buhmann
- Richard Pousette-Dart by Jim Long
- Judy Simonian by Shane McAdams
- Bob Thompson by Ben LaRocco
- Luc Tuymans by James Kalm
- Daniel Zeller by Jason Murison
Full Contents
Local
- Family Feud: Will the Real Satmar Please Stand Up? by Jenny Clevstrom
- A Benediction by Eleanor Bader
- A Dividing Wall by Megan Bahree
- Rich Man, Poor Man: A History of Fort Greene by Carl Hancock Rux
Express
- Impossible Dreams by Stephen Duncombe
- Putting NYC Writers into Stone by Williams Cole
- Bonfire of the French Vanities by Francois Cusset
- Xmas at the Q by JT Gottlieb
- Reading Osama by Mridu Chandra
- The Nature of the System/It's the System Not the Man: Eugene Jarecki with Williams Cole by Williams Cole
- Katrina Vanden Heuvel with Theodore Hamm by Theodore Hamm
- A Riposte to Retort by Paul Mattick
- In Texas a Model of Criminal Justice (Honest) by Gabriel Thompson
- Country and the City by Steve Strunsky
Art
- Dore Ashton with Phong Bui & Deidre Swords by Phong Bui
- The Painted World P.S. 1 by Roger White
- In Conversation: Stephen Shore with Noah Sheldon & Roger White
- Hwang Young Sung: Painter from GwangJu by Robert C. Morgan
- Performa 05 by Ellen Pearlman
- A Tribute to Philip Pavia (1912-2005) by Phong Bui
- Pierre Soulages with Robert C. Morgan
ArtSeen
- Nils Karsten by Thomas Micchelli
- John Graham by James Kalm
- Three Generations of Abstract Painting: _Alice Trumbull Mason, Emily Mason, & Cecily Kahn_ by Roger Kamholz
- If It’s Too Bad To Be True, It Could Be DISINFORMATION by Francis Raven
- Aron Namenwirth and Jason Van Anden by Ben LaRocco
- Nancy Spero: The Drawing Center & Galerie Lelong by David Levi Strauss and Jon Bird
- Shirin Neshat by Hrag Vartanian
- Mediating the void Gabriel Orozco
- The Long Ride of Larry Poons by John Zinsser
- Egon Schiele by Stephanie Buhmann
- Richard Pousette-Dart by Jim Long
- Judy Simonian by Shane McAdams
- Bob Thompson by Ben LaRocco
- Luc Tuymans by James Kalm
- Daniel Zeller by Jason Murison
Books
- Adding Up by Win Clevenger
- Melissa Rossi with K.M. Ferebee
- The Songs Are My Lexicon by Nora Griffin
- Fiction: Rock & Roll Diary by Arthur Vaughan
- Art: We Are All Connected by Rachel Syme
- Investigative Reporting: Squatter Nation by Ellen Pearlman
- New York Stories: Acquainted With the Night by Alexander Nazaryan
Music
- Weird War: In the Belly of the Beat by Todd Simmons
- Untouchable Is Something to Be: The Rise and Continued Rise of Against Me! by Justin Taylor
- The Double: Loose in the Area by Fred Cisterna by Fred Cisterna
Dance
- Searching for Virgin Territory by Ben La Rocco
- Dancing on the Rail by Vanessa Manko
Film
- Classy Class War, Debonair Existentialism: The Holiday Musicals of Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers by Sarahjane Blum
- Empty Metal Jacket: Jarhead's Dereliction of Duty by Patrick Levell
- Heaven, Purgatory, Hell, The Blues by David N. Myer
- DOCS IN SIGHT: The Next Way to Watch? by Williams Cole
- The Wild, Wild East by David Varno
Theater
- Bloodlust at Red Bull: The Revenger's Tragedy by Wendy Weisman
- Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas: Tight Embrace by Kristoffer Diaz
- Two Headed Calf with Roger Babb by Roger Babb
- Out of the Darkness: Apparition by Richard Fulco
Fiction
- THE SAL MINEO PRESERVATION SOCIETY by Albert Mobilio
- According to YJ, The Origin of the Long Island City Kinoclub by Eugene Lim
- Frank by R.M. Berry
- Instructions for Sebastian by Angela Fajardo
Poetry
- from the "Apple Anyone" Sonnets by Leonard Schwartz
- From IOVIS 3: Colors in the Mechanism of Concealment by Anne Waldman
- The After-Dinner War by John Ashbury
Streets
- I Want to Re-Home Your Pet by Marjory Garrison
- What's for Dinner by Marjory Garrison
