The Brooklyn Rail
Critical Perspectives on Art, Politics and Culture
February 2005
Featured Articles
The Atlantic Yards Project: No Longer “Inevitable”?
by Brian J. CarreiraLocal
What a difference a year can make. As January 2005 winds to a close, Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards proposal, launched a year ago as the crown jewel in the developer’s Brooklyn menagerie, seems to be chugging along on fumes.
Shirley Chisholm’s Legacy
by Aimee MolloyExpress
Writing in the January 1973 issue of Ms. Magazine, Gloria Steinem reflected on Shirley Chisholm’s recent run for the White House.
The Spiritual in Art
by Daniel BairdArt
Even for a viewer largely ignorant of Tibetan Buddhism, the Tantra paintings at the Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art have a transcendent intensity. The central figures, remote yet radiant in their precision of detail and vibrancy of color, are pivots in a fierce, wheeling geometry that presents an image of dynamic cosmic forces the viewer is meant to internalize and take out into the world.
Peter Acheson
by John YauArtSeen
In scale, Peter Acheson’s untitled, abstract paintings and watercolors range from diminutive to small. In fact, one could reproduce all of Acheson’s paintings actual size in a catalogue that would fit comfortably on someone’s lap.
- Peter Acheson by John Yau
- Queens International 2004 by Chris Howard
- Ouverture: young contemporary artists from Emilia Romagna in New York by Antony Hudek
- Tamara Gonzales by Katie Stone
- Klara Liden by Nick Stillman
- Thomas Lendvai by William Powhida
- Katherine Bradford by James Kalm
- Charles Garabedian by Ben LaRocco
- Jason Cole Mager, Michael Yinger, and Jeffery Kilmer by William Powhida
- Traces Everywhere by Ben LaRocco
- John Lurie by Hrag Vartanian
- The Book as Object and Performance by Thomas Micchelli
- Calder/Miró by Stephanie Buhmann
Full Contents
Local
- The Atlantic Yards Project: No Longer “Inevitable”? by Brian J. Carreira
- NYC School System Makes Teachers Pay by Marjory Garrison
- Williamsburg Rises Up by Williams Cole
- A View from Prospect Heights by Patricia Spears Jones
- Jack Newfield’s Memorial by Williams Cole
Express
- Shirley Chisholm’s Legacy by Aimee Molloy
- Chisholm’s Legacy: Shola Lynch with Theodore Hamm by Theodore Hamm
- Rewriting the American Revolution by Michael J. Thompson
- Fur Coats, Cowboy Hats, and Pepper Spray: An account of the second inauguration of George W. Bush by Christian Roseland
- A Call to Secession by Jason Flores-Williams
- Letter from Pakistan by Mridu Chandra
- An Extremely Political Life: Thai Jones with Shaina Fineberg by Shaina Fineberg
Art
- The Spiritual in Art by Daniel Baird
- MoMA: How to Look at Modern Art - Abramovic by Marina Abramovic
- MoMA: How to Look at Modern Art-Brillembourg by Carlos Brillembourg
- MoMA: How to Look at Modern Art-Bartelik by Marek Bartelik
- MoMA: How to Look at Modern Art-Dunham by Carroll Dunham
- MoMA: How to Look at Modern Art-Wei by Lilly Wei
- MoMA: How to Look at Modern Art-Danieli by Eyal Danieli
- Village of the Damned by James Kalm
- Catherine Murphy by John Yau
- Remembering Agnes Martin (1912-2004) by Marcia Hafif
- On Susan Sontag (1933-2004) by David Levi Strauss and Katy Siegel
ArtSeen
- Peter Acheson by John Yau
- Queens International 2004 by Chris Howard
- Ouverture: young contemporary artists from Emilia Romagna in New York by Antony Hudek
- Tamara Gonzales by Katie Stone
- Klara Liden by Nick Stillman
- Thomas Lendvai by William Powhida
- Katherine Bradford by James Kalm
- Charles Garabedian by Ben LaRocco
- Jason Cole Mager, Michael Yinger, and Jeffery Kilmer by William Powhida
- Traces Everywhere by Ben LaRocco
- John Lurie by Hrag Vartanian
- The Book as Object and Performance by Thomas Micchelli
- Calder/Miró by Stephanie Buhmann
Books
- Off the Shelves by Book Staff
- Ron Padgett’s Joe, A Memoir of Joe Brainard by Phong Bui
- George Braziller with Phong Bui by Phong Bui
- All The Presidents as Men—Stephen Graubard by John Reed
- The End to Mishra by Hirsh Sawhney
Music
- Music to Look In For by Alan Lockwood
- The Sound Your Eyes Can Follow by Holly Tavel
- In Praise of the Segue by Dave Mandl
Dance
- Landscape Moves by Gabriel Thompson
- Thoughts on Savion by Jane Goldberg
- From Mania to Melancholy by Claudia La Rocco
- Dancing on the Rail by Vanessa Manko
Film
-
That’s Great, That Sucks*
The Best Films of 2004 by David N. Meyer - exchange: Hal Hartley & Joe Maggio
- African Diaspora Festival at BAM by Douglas Singleton
- docs in sight: Documentary Is Not Fiction! by Williams Cole
Theater
- Lumberjack Alchemy: Richard Foreman by David Kilpatrick
- The Gallery Players: Brooklyn Theater Grows a Hybrid by Gary Winter
- The Sick, Ugly Brilliance of Gina Gionfriddo by Rob Handel
Fiction
- Family Life by Aaron Zimmerman
- Coming of Age by Lynda Schor
- The Three-Body Problem by Therese Cox
Poetry
- from ECO QUARRY BELLWETHER by Brenda Lijima
- Spectacular World, No Bossanova; Suiting Up: Rubber; In the Netherlands… by Ethan Fugate
- Biography for Amphibians by John Yau
