Globalizations Underside: Sex Trafficking in Brooklyn
By Claire HoffmanThe sordid business of human trafficking, which includes enslavement in agricultural work, sweatshops, domestic labor, and prostitution, is rapidly expanding. And with its growing immigrant population, experts say, parts of New York City, including Brooklyn and Queens, have become hot spots in a trade that the International Labor Organization has described as the underside of globalization.
Art In Conversation
Tehching Hsieh
By Delia Bajo and Brainard CareyTehching Hsieh is a pioneer of Performance Art. He has been called a master by Marina Abramovic and appears in almost every book written on the subject. He did six extraordinary one-year performances.
The Man Who Carried His Art in His Pocket
By Robert C. MorganHaving written about Minimal and Conceptual art over the years, I became aware, shortly after discovering the news of Fred Sandbacks recent passing, that I had never actually written about his work. There are certain artists who are highly respected and whose art has an original and persistent quality, yet who miss the critical attention they deserve.
James Siena Gorney, Bravin + Lee
By Stephanie BuhmannJames Sienas third solo exhibition at Gorney Bravin + Lee features 78 works on paper that emanate with life and expressive individuality. Among these innovative abstractions in graphite, ink, and colored pencil are thirty notational drawings assembled in the gallerys small back room.
The American Effect
By Jill ConnerThere is no question that American policies and globalization have oppressed citizens in Second and Third World countries. The riots waged against the WTO convention in Seattle in 1999 protested the use of corporate sweatshops, where low-wage laborers have literally worked their lives away while creating commodities for Western capitalist markets.
Books In Conversation
PAUL AUSTER with John Reed
Paul Austers 10 novels include, most recently, The Book of Illusions, which comes out in paperback from Picador this August. He has also written several books of poetry, as well as screenplays including Smoke and Blue in the Face (both 1995).
Editor's Message
Two Men Named Davis
By Theodore HammOut of the torrent of news reports about the recent tragedy at City Hall emerged a portrait of City Councilman James Davis as a charismatic, streetwise and principled progressive politicianresponsive to his local constituents, and, perhaps, accessible to a fault.
ArtSeen
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Kazimir Malevich: Suprematism
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The American Effect
– By Jill Conner -
Outpost
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Kehinde Wiley: Faux Real
– By Nick Stillman -
James Siena Gorney, Bravin + Lee
– By Stephanie Buhmann -
Thomas Ruff New Work
– By Megan Heuer -
Geoffrey Davis
– By James Kalm -
No, Trespassing
– By Stephanie Buhmann -
Focus Group
– By William Powhida -
Gandalf Gavan and Susanna Heller
– By Benjamin La Rocco -
Future Species
– By Benjamin La Rocco -
An Exhibition of Five Contemporary Thai Artists
– By Karen Demaviva -
From Print Edition Web Exclusive: Letter from London
– By Katie Stone
Table of Contents
Editor's Message
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Two Men Named Davis
– By Theodore Hamm
Local
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Globalizations Underside: Sex Trafficking in Brooklyn
– By Claire Hoffman -
The Truth in Greensboro Starts in Brooklyn
– By Marjory Garrison -
in memoriam: James E. Davis (1962-2003)
– By Howard Pitsch -
Power (Plant) Politics
– By Theodore Hamm -
Showdown at Verizon
– By Ryan Grim -
Profile: Brooklyns King of Suds
– By Ewan Brown -
Comidas Buenas en Brooklyn
– By Adriana Velez -
Houseguestiquette: A Guide
– By Lisa Rosman
Express
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For the Dismissal of Objectivity in News
– By Williams Cole -
Letter From Palestine: Searching For Eliyahu Gorey
– By Robert S. Eshelman -
Perspectives on Party Politics: Part 1
– By Peter Dolack -
THE WORLD OF SECRET AFFINITIES: Remembering Isaac Babel and Walter Benjamin
– By Andy Merrifield -
9/11: Surfs Up
– By Jeff Taylor
Art
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The Man Who Carried His Art in His Pocket
– By Robert C. Morgan -
Tehching Hsieh
– By Delia Bajo and Brainard Carey -
José Antonio Hernández-Diez
– By Daniel Baird
ArtSeen
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Kazimir Malevich: Suprematism
– By Jim Long -
The American Effect
– By Jill Conner -
Outpost
– By William Powhida -
Kehinde Wiley: Faux Real
– By Nick Stillman -
James Siena Gorney, Bravin + Lee
– By Stephanie Buhmann -
Thomas Ruff New Work
– By Megan Heuer -
Geoffrey Davis
– By James Kalm -
No, Trespassing
– By Stephanie Buhmann -
Focus Group
– By William Powhida -
Gandalf Gavan and Susanna Heller
– By Benjamin La Rocco -
Future Species
– By Benjamin La Rocco -
An Exhibition of Five Contemporary Thai Artists
– By Karen Demaviva -
From Print Edition Web Exclusive: Letter from London
– By Katie Stone
Books
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PAUL AUSTER with John Reed
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Richard Cummings
– By Alan Lockwood -
The Postmodern Condition
– By Jim Feast -
Darkness at the Edge of Town
– By Reed Jackson -
Eres un Perdedor?
– By Thea Goodman -
Out of the Picture
– By Tomassio Longhi
Music
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Nels Cline: The Many Loves of a Musical Chameleon
– By Bethany Ryker -
Reviews: Todd Snider Near Truths and Hotel Rooms
– By Jason Gross -
Chris Whitley: Cultural Asylum
– By KK Kozik
Dance
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DanceBrazils Camará
– By Shanti Crawford -
The Lithuanians of Fresh Death
– By Laura Barcella -
A Choreographer in Search of A Style
– By Vanessa Manko
Film
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Teen Power: From American Brands to Foreign Brandos
– By Galen Williams -
From Dogme 95 to Dogville: A Scatological Survey
– By Jocelyn Glei -
A Different Kind of Kodak
– By Lisa Rosman
Theater
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Brooklyn in the Fringe
– By Brook Stowe -
Cruising Through The Lost and Found with Lisa DAmour
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A Prediction: The Rural Theater Movement
– By Gary Winter -
Menopause, The Dream
– By Coleman Hough
Fiction
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part three of three in a series: Beyond Hope
– By Elizabeth Reddin -
State of the Nation
– By Douglas Glover -
Outside
– By Rodgers Johannah -
Rikki Ducornet
– By Ellen Pearlman -
Soon
– By Alex Orlovsky
Poetry
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Jeremy Sigler
– By Jeremy Sigler -
To Micah Ballard in San Francisco
– By Geoffrey Young -
In Memory of My FeelingsFrank OHara
– By Mary Jo Bang -
Table Turning
– By Mary Jo Bang -
Bunting in Isla Vista
– By Geoffrey Young -
Confession
– By Geoffrey Young -
Cursive Landscape
– By Mary Jo Bang -
Five Queasy Pieces
– By Clayton Eshleman -
The First World
– By Clayton Eshleman
LastWords
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Amazon Steam Engine
– By V.S. Pearl