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Race Is On for the Future of Central Brooklyn
by Theodore HammLocal
More than a few onlookers have characterized this political season’s most exciting local contest as a battle over race.
Getting Trashed
by Antonio LopezExpress
Im sitting in the dark in a yet to be used press tent pirating electricity and wireless as bugs crawl across my screen. Hows that for camping? Its a few days ahead of the opening of the Bonnaroo festival in Tennessee.
Irving Sandler with Phong Bui and John Yau
by Phong Bui and John YauArt
Rail publisher Phong Bui and Art Editor John Yau paid a visit one sunny Saturday to the authors home/office which he shares with his wife Lucy Freeman Sandler, scholar of Medieval art, to talk about his life and work.
DADA Lives @ MoMA New York
by Valery OisteanuArt
What is Dada? asked Theo von Doesburg. The answer came from Tristan Tzara: Dada is a state of mind.
The Anti-Aesthetic of Dada
by Robert C. MorganArt
Originally organized by the Centre George Pompidou in Paris under the curatorial guidance of Laurent Le Bon, “Dada” was given two venues in the United States…
Welcome to Bono’s Borough?
by Theodore HammA sure sign that a neighborhood is over is when its real estate starts to be marketed to “rock stars” seeking to “avoid the paparazzi.”
- Report from London by Sherman Sam
- Report from Germany and Austria by Barbara Weidle
- Saviour Scraps by William Powhida
- Eva Lundsager by Stephanie Buhmann
- Reto Boller by Jennifer Riley
- Thomas Nozkowski by John Yau
- Alex Katz by Roger White
- Spacificity by John Reed
- Contemporary Asian Arts Week by Ellen Pearlman
- Elizabeth Cooper by James Kalm
- Invisible Might: Works From 1965-1971 by Shane McAdams
- Jenny Holzer by Thomas Micchelli
- Open Air by Hrag Vartanian
- Perestroika Revisited: Artists Against the State by David Markus
- Sasha Chermayeff and Chuck Bowdish by Ben La Rocco
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Some Thoughts on Eva Hesse
by Tom ButterArt
I first learned about Eva Hesse while I was in undergraduate school at University of the Arts through a former teacher, Ree Morton, who would talk about Hess and her work profusely in class.
Eva Hesse: Language and What Remains
by Naomi SpectorArt
“Lines/Language,” the first topic on the invitation to a recent panel on Eva Hesse seemed loaded with potential.
Pied Beauty
by Krista MirandaDance
Cradled in The Slipper Room’s womb of a bar that glowed Amsterdam red, Miss Saturn, a go-go dancing hors d’oeuvre for the burlesque buffet, was puppeteer and marionette in her own body.
Two Guys Walk Into a Bar
by Tim McLoughlinFiction
Entering Peggy’s, we interrupted a conversation between the barmaid and Sal about when infants get their first erections. Sal speculated that it was around age two, but Sylvia disagreed vehemently.
Full Contents
Local
- Water Fight at McCarren Park Pool by Sabine Heinlein
- Crossing the Line: The Story of Fat Nick by Jesse Sunenblick
- Race Is On for the Future of Central Brooklyn by Theodore Hamm
- Bait & Switch: A View of the Cell Phone Ban, From the Bronx by Jen Weiss
Express
- “All the Pauls” by Ronald J. Glasser
- Getting Trashed by Antonio Lopez
- DISAPPEARED IN AMERICA by Naeem Mohaiemen
- Uncontrolled Cinema: Albert Maysles by Williams Cole
- Inside Denver by Jason Flores-Williams
- The Happiest Uprising on Earth by Ryan Grim
Art
- Irving Sandler with Phong Bui and John Yau by Phong Bui and John Yau
- Whitfield Lovell with John Yau by John Yau
- Seo-Bo Park with Robert Morgan by Robert C. Morgan
- DADA Lives @ MoMA New York by Valery Oisteanu
- The Anti-Aesthetic of Dada by Robert C. Morgan
- Some Thoughts on Eva Hesse by Tom Butter
- Eva Hesse: Language and What Remains by Naomi Spector
ArtSeen
- Report from London by Sherman Sam
- Report from Germany and Austria by Barbara Weidle
- Saviour Scraps by William Powhida
- Eva Lundsager by Stephanie Buhmann
- Reto Boller by Jennifer Riley
- Thomas Nozkowski by John Yau
- Alex Katz by Roger White
- Spacificity by John Reed
- Contemporary Asian Arts Week by Ellen Pearlman
- Elizabeth Cooper by James Kalm
- Invisible Might: Works From 1965-1971 by Shane McAdams
- Jenny Holzer by Thomas Micchelli
- Open Air by Hrag Vartanian
- Perestroika Revisited: Artists Against the State by David Markus
- Sasha Chermayeff and Chuck Bowdish by Ben La Rocco
Books
- Hanif Kureishi with Hirsh Sawhney by Hirsh Sawhney
- You Are What You Eat by Johannah Rodgers
- Cynthia Carr’s Our Town by Sabrina Seelig
- Art: A Critical Life by Joscelyn Jurich
- Empty Barracks of the Mind by David Varno
- Is Compassion the New Black? by Anne Pelletier
Music
- Her Own Hell To Raise by Sharon Mesmer
- A Temporary Spoken Dub Zone by José Padua
- Off the Freak Folk Path by Tony Coulter
- Burned-Out Factories, Hem, and the Brooklyn Pastoral by Katy Henriksen
- Taking It Uneasy by Todd Simmons
Dance
- Pied Beauty by Krista Miranda
- Real Life Burlesque by Linn Edwards
- To Bare or Not to Bare? by Carley Petesch
Film
- French Noir and Flying Swordsmen by David Wilentz and David N. Meyer
- Bringing up Baby Beelzebub by Tessa DeCarlo
- The Death of the Subject by Nora Griffin
- July/August 2006 by David Wilentz and David N. Meyer
- Summer 2006 by Williams Cole
- Bruce McClure with Brian Frye by Brian Frye
- Magic & Images/ Images & Magic by David Levi Strauss
Theater
- From Kansas to the Ohio: The Ice Factory 2006 by Miriam Felton-Dansky
- After the Fall by Heidi Schreck
- Politics is a Drag by Jason Grote
- Divining Adam Szymkowicz by Sheila Callaghan
- Jane Austen Reclaimed and Retold by Paul Menard
- Depends on the Audience by Timmy Wisconsin
Fiction
- Two Guys Walk Into a Bar by Tim McLoughlin
- excerpts from Threads by Jill Magi
- Stories by Kate Hall
- Stories by Justin Taylor
Poetry
- Heat Wave 1996, Flight Test by Lewis Warsh
- safe by Evie Shockley
- Eight Poems by Stephen Ratcliffe
LastWords
- Remembering Gilbert Sorrentino by Eugene Lim
Editor's Message
- Welcome to Bono’s Borough? by Theodore Hamm


