How Far Is Brooklyn From Manhattan?
By Johannah RodgersIve lived in Brooklyn for thirteen years, meaning I have at least five more to go until I can say I grew up here. And, while Im still decades away from establishing the kind of family history many have in Brooklyn, I have been here long enough to see some pretty significant changes.
Child of War, A Memoir
By Jason Flores-WilliamsIt was the beginning of the 80s and my dad Drake had made a fortunelegally, for the most partin the business world. Vance, his identical twin brother and an outlaw, had made a bundle in the pot biz. Everyone was loaded. We moved from Houston to Santa Fe, where I started St. Francis Junior High in the middle of the seventh grade.
Art In Conversation
Stephen Antonakos in Conversation with Phong Bui
A few days before leaving with his wife, the writer Naomi Spector, for his retrospective at the Benaki Museum-Pireos in Athens, artist Stephen Antonakos welcomed Rail publisher Phong Bui to his SoHo loft/studio to talk about his life and work.
Art In Conversation
Allan Graham in Conversation with John Yau
Allan Graham welcomes Brooklyn Rails John Yau to his studio and home, east of Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Art In Conversation
Green Hermeticism: David Levi Strauss in conversation with Peter Lamborn Wilson and Christopher Bamford
"We all agreed that there is not a sufficient spiritual focus for the environmental movement," says Lamborn Wilson. "And without a spiritual focus, a movement like this doesn't generate the kind of emotional energy that it needs to battle against global capitalism."
Two Places At Once
By Sophie GilbertHaynes is no ordinary filmmaker, and Im Not There is no ordinary biopic. Tricky, powerful, sometimes ridiculous, it eludes definition. Haynes cast both a black eleven-year-old boy and an Australian woman as Dylan. On, paper it sounds ridiculous, but on film, strangely, it workssometimes.
Shameless
By Douglas GloverWhen she was eight years old, Megan Strehle conceived an unnatural passion for Tamas Preltz, a fifteen-year-old apprentice butcher in the town where her father took vegetables to the local farmers market. She would beg her father to bring her along when he loaded his Ford half-ton pickup with cucumbers, tomatoes, potatoes, summer squash, beans and brussels sprouts.
Editor's Message From The Editor
The Brooklyn Rail Person of the Year 2007
By Theodore HammIts safe to say that 2007 wasnt a banner year. No matter how many awards Al Gore received, the climate still got worse. Two trillion dollars later, Afghanistan and Iraq remained in shambles. The endless slog otherwise known as the U.S. presidential campaign didnt exactly produce Lincolnesque debate.
ArtSeen
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Seurats Secret
– By Sanford Schwartz -
Alex McQuilkin: Joan of Arc
– By Thomas Micchelli -
Land Grab
– By Shane McAdams -
High Times for Lawrence Weiner
– By Jeremy Sigler -
The Geometry of Hope
– By Geoffrey Cruickshank-Hagenbuckle -
Lalla Essaydi: Les Femmes du Maroc
– By Stephanie Buhmann -
Art & Psyche: The Freudian Legacy
– By Valery Oisteanu -
Edward Burtynsky: Quarries
– By Greg Lindquist -
Judith Vivell
– By John Reed -
Nyehaus becomes Indica
– By Nora Griffin -
Robert Barry: NOT THE ART OF WAR, BUT ART AND WAR
– By Robert C. Morgan -
Performa 07
– By Ellen Pearlman -
Nancy Haynes: Threshold
– By Joan Waltemath -
Be Blank Consort
– By Warren Fry -
Mating Minds: David Byrne and Evolutionary Psychologist Geoffrey Miller Ask Why Humans Make Art
– By Jed Lipinski -
Richard Prince and the American Girl
– By Sharon L. Butler -
Wade Guyton
– By John Yau -
David Reed
– By John Yau -
Drawing Connections: Baselitz, Kelly, Penone, Rockburne and the Old Masters
– By John Yau -
Shiva Linga Paintings
– By Craig Olson -
Cy Twombly
– By Ben La Rocco -
Brooklyn Dispatches
– By James Kalm -
Anthony Caro: New Galvanized Steel Sculptures
– By Hrag Vartanian -
robbinschilds
– By Litia Perta -
Judith Supine
– By Erin Lindholm -
Letter from London
– By Andrew Bick
Table of Contents
Editor's Message
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The Brooklyn Rail Person of the Year 2007
– By Theodore Hamm
Local
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A Mural of Déjà Vu
– By Shell Fischer -
How Far Is Brooklyn From Manhattan?
– By Johannah Rodgers -
Eating on the Run: Foraging in New York's Parks
– By Paula Crossfield -
Lawsuit Claims Discrimination At Court House
– By Eleanor J. Bader -
From Nigeria to America, in Search of God
– By John Soltes
Express
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After Mailer
– By Kathy Perutz -
Of Skin and Snoods
– By Williams Cole -
Crocodile Hunting at JFK
– By Sabine Heinlein -
Child of War, A Memoir
– By Jason Flores-Williams -
Robot Nation
– By Linh Dinh -
Main Streets Whitewashed Windows
– By David Varno
Art
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Stephen Antonakos in Conversation with Phong Bui
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Allan Graham in Conversation with John Yau
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Green Hermeticism: David Levi Strauss in conversation with Peter Lamborn Wilson and Christopher Bamford
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Werner Kramarsky and the Art of Collecting
– By Nora Griffin -
Profile: Will Ryman
– By Maxwell Heller -
Traduttore Traditore
– By Dore Ashton
ArtSeen
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Seurats Secret
– By Sanford Schwartz -
Alex McQuilkin: Joan of Arc
– By Thomas Micchelli -
Land Grab
– By Shane McAdams -
High Times for Lawrence Weiner
– By Jeremy Sigler -
The Geometry of Hope
– By Geoffrey Cruickshank-Hagenbuckle -
Lalla Essaydi: Les Femmes du Maroc
– By Stephanie Buhmann -
Art & Psyche: The Freudian Legacy
– By Valery Oisteanu -
Edward Burtynsky: Quarries
– By Greg Lindquist -
Judith Vivell
– By John Reed -
Nyehaus becomes Indica
– By Nora Griffin -
Robert Barry: NOT THE ART OF WAR, BUT ART AND WAR
– By Robert C. Morgan -
Performa 07
– By Ellen Pearlman -
Nancy Haynes: Threshold
– By Joan Waltemath -
Be Blank Consort
– By Warren Fry -
Mating Minds: David Byrne and Evolutionary Psychologist Geoffrey Miller Ask Why Humans Make Art
– By Jed Lipinski -
Richard Prince and the American Girl
– By Sharon L. Butler -
Wade Guyton
– By John Yau -
David Reed
– By John Yau -
Drawing Connections: Baselitz, Kelly, Penone, Rockburne and the Old Masters
– By John Yau -
Shiva Linga Paintings
– By Craig Olson -
Cy Twombly
– By Ben La Rocco -
Brooklyn Dispatches
– By James Kalm -
Anthony Caro: New Galvanized Steel Sculptures
– By Hrag Vartanian -
robbinschilds
– By Litia Perta -
Judith Supine
– By Erin Lindholm -
Letter from London
– By Andrew Bick
Books
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FICTION: All Scenes Lead to Each Other
– By Ben Tripp -
Back to Eden
– By Erica Wetter -
Fiction: Collective Memory
– By David Varno -
Nonfiction: Brooklyn in Time and Memory
– By Janine Yu -
Fiction: A Literary Wonderland
– By Karen Rester -
Nonfiction: Film Fixer, Epic Nectar
– By Meghan Roe -
Amanda Stern with Lisa Kunik
– By Lisa Kunik -
Poetry Roundup
– By Jeffrey Cyphers Wright -
Prose Roundup
– By Book Staff
Music
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Audition and Its Discontents
– By John S.W. MacDonald -
Is Piracy Killing Independent Music?
– By Alex Cummings -
Prefabulous
– By David Shirley -
A Steal at Any Price
– By Todd Simmons -
Indie Baroque
– By Katy Henriksen
Dance
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Gesel Mason Performance Projects: A Review
– By Corey Harrower -
Trisha Brown with Susan Yung
Film
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I'm So Bored
– By Sarahjane Blum -
Two Places At Once
– By Sophie Gilbert -
Swords, Sandals and Sex
– By Sarah Kessler -
Is 1969 OK?
– By Ben Popper
Theater
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Windows Onto the World: New Works in Translation
– By Caridad Svich -
Jordan Harrison, Making Language Necessary
– By Deborah Stein -
We Must Go On: Re-directing Beckett
– By Alan Lockwood -
A Studio in the Domestic Strip: Oren Safdie with Roger Babb
Fiction
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Shameless
– By Douglas Glover -
Theatre of Incest
– By Alain Arias-Misson
Poetry
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René Char - Resistance in Every Way
– By Mary Ann Caws -
The Companions in the Garden
– By René Char -
Here's to the Snake!
– By René Char -
Jacquemard and Julia
– By René Char -
Not to be Understood
– By René Char -
The Shark and the Seagull
– By René Char -
The Library is on Fire
– By René Char -
Hypnos Moon
– By René Char -
Leaves of Hypnos
– By René Char -
Fort Chadwijk
– By Chadwick Dalton, Jimbo Blachly, and Lytle Shaw