JUL-AUG 2010 – The Brooklyn Rail

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Party at Ground Zero
– By Theodore Hamm

Local

200 Bucks to Montauk, and I Really Just Want to Get to Southampton
– By Julia Knobloch
Party at Ground Zero
– By Theodore Hamm
ALBANY’S DNA EXPANSION: A Foolproof Solution?
– By Liliana Segura
Brooklyn Housing Court: A Landlord Collection Agency?
– By Eleanor J. Bader
TAKING (DOWN) the HIGH ROAD
– By Dave Kim
CITY NOTES
– By Theodore Hamm
Mallets on Wheels
– By Marianne Moore
Iris in the Heartland
– By Katy Bolger

Express

Celebrity’s Two-Way Street: Leon Gast’s Smash His Camera
– By Williams Cole
Coney Island Beer Hustle
– By Matthew Vaz
Why Not Wounded Knee? A Tale of Two Monuments
– By Christian Parenti
EMPIRE UNBOUND: Philip S. Golub In Conversation with Phong Bui
RADICAL REFLECTIONS: Arthur Penn In Conversation with Gregory Zucker and Robert White
STRAIGHT TALK: Andrew Bujalski In Conversation with Paul Felten
Abortion Battle’s Hidden Front: Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady In Conversation with Williams Cole
The Bonds of War—Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington’s Restrepo
– By Williams Cole
A Judt Guide
– By Christopher Michel
Conflicted States
– By Allen Wilcox
Just a Spoonful of Sugar
– By Adam P. Frederick
The Not-So Roaring Twenties
– By David Rosen
Across the Border
– By Sophia Koutsoyannis

Art

ArtSeen

Matisse on the Move
– By Terry R. Myers
Kiki Smith: Allegories on Living and the Mystery of Existence
– By Robert C. Morgan
Walking the Elastic City
– By Patricia Milder
LEE BONTECOU: All Freedom in Every Sense
– By Kara L. Rooney
The Slave Theater
– By Kara L. Rooney
RACKSTRAW DOWNES: Onsite Paintings, 1972–2008
– By Ben La Rocco
RACKSTRAW DOWNES: In Focus
– By Phong Bui
MERLIN JAMES, LOUISE HOPKINS
– By John Yau
WAYNE THIEBAUD: 70 YEARS OF PAINTING
– By John Yau
PATRICK MICHAEL FITZGERALD Drawings
– By John Yau
EVE ERIKSSON
– By John Yau
MARK DI SUVERO
– By Thomas Micchelli
GREATER NEW YORK
– By Thomas Micchelli
THE HISTORY OF “WE”: HIS STORY, HER STORY, OUR STORY
– By James Kalm
LETTER FROM HONG KONG ARTHK 2010: WHAT ART YOU DOING?
– By Liz Riviere
CHRISTIAN BOLTANSKI No Man’s Land
– By Shane McAdams
JULIE MEHRETU Grey Area
– By Stephanie Buhmann
REBECCA SMITH Tape and Steel
– By Greg Lindquist
CHRISTINE HIEBERT Reconnaissance: Three Wall Drawings
– By Lilly Wei
JIM NUTT
– By David St.-Lascaux
ROSS NEHER Sanctuary
– By Charles Schultz
MAGRITTE, PAINTER-PHILOSOPHER
– By Valery Oisteanu
ROME, IMPERIUM SINE FINE? (DOMINION WITHOUT LIMITS?)
– By Dore Ashton

Books

2010 SUMMER READING LIST
– By Phong Bui and Robert Hullot-Kentor
Peter Orlovsky (1933-2010) From the Diaries 1960
– By Jonas Mekas
ART TRIPPIN’ THROUGH CHINATIME: CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF A MARKET
– By Robert C. Morgan
MEMOIR: YIN & LANG
– By Marc Nasdor
FICTION: DUSTJUNKIES AND DUSTJACKETS
– By Brendan Carney Byrne
FICTION: GETTING CARRIED AWAY
– By Paul Charles Griffin
FICTION: CROSSING PATHS
– By Dave Kim
FICTION: LARGE AND SIMPLE
– By Meghan Roe
POETRY: WASTE TO WITT
– By Helena Fitzgerald
FICTION: OUR LOTS OF LITTLE
– By John Madera
POETRY: THE COOKED AND THE RARE
– By Adam Fitzgerald
TOKENS
– By Dan Fall, Tatiaana L. Laine, Helena Fitzgerald, and Kenneth Schneyer
RAPID TRANSIT
– By Jeffrey Cyphers Wright

Music

REVOLUCION DEL HIPSTER
– By Peter Holslin
Matt Marks’s The Little Death: Killing Them Softly with Sentiment
– By Daniel J. Kushner
ONE-TRACK MIND
– By Ben Tripp
AMERICAN MASTER: HARRY NILSSON
– By David Shirley
JUILLIARD CONCERTS: THE GREAT SECRET
– By Richard Kostelanetz
YET ANOTHER TWO GEMS FROM THE BROOKLYN SCENE
– By Todd Simmons

Dance

NEW ARCHITECTURE FOR NOT-SO-NEW BALLETS
– By Evan Namerow
AESTHETICS OF DENIAL
– By L.J. Sunshine
JUNE 3, 2010: DEAR SHERRY
– By Christine Hou
TOO MUCH LEWIS
– By Patricia Milder
AND YOU THOUGHT GRAHAM WAS OLD-SCHOOL
– By Siobhan Burke

Film

HURTS SO GOOD, ITALIAN STYLE
– By David N. Meyer
PHIL SPECTOR: HE'S A RELIC
– By Sarahjane Blum
JAPAN CUTS
– By David Wilentz
TOTALLY, TENDERLY, TRAGICALLY
– By Julia Sirmons
PSYCHADELIC MATURITY
– By Hamilton Morris
GET SOME
– By David N. Meyer
MAD, BAD... & DANGEROUS TO KNOW: THREE UNTAMED BEAUTIES
– By Ethan Spigland
RED DESERT
– By Julia Sirmons

Theater

The Vision Disturbance of Christina Masciotti
– By Meghan Falvey
Women Play Two Gents (And More) with Judith Shakespeare Company
– By Ginny Hack
Queens Odyssey: The Internationalists’ Which Direction Home?
– By Ashley Kelly-Tata
Gardley Writes a River
– By Kathryn Walat

Fiction

FORGOTTEN MEMORIES
– By Mario Benedetti and Translated From The Spanish By Harry Morales
MARIO BENEDETTI
– By Harry Morales
from THE SECRET LIFE OF OBJECTS
– By Dawn Raffel
Tragic Strip
– By T. Motley

Poetry

From Molloy, the Flip Side
– By Chris Tysh
Subway Poems
– By Louis Bury
THIS I FIND HARD TO BELIEVE
– By Michael Gottlieb
WE ARE UNHAPPY TO SERVE YOU
– By Michael Gottlieb

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