July/August 2011
The “July/August 2011” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on July 11, 2011.
Editor’s Message
On the Road in Dakar
– By Theodore Hamm
Local
Windows of the World Workers Stay United
– By Dania RajendraNo Place for Walmart
– By Diane KrauthamerRedemption in Bushwick
– By Eleanor J. BaderUNITY: A desperate plea for adult supervision
– By Brian J. CarreiraREPORT CARD
– By Liza FeatherstoneNo Escape
– By Nicholas JahrAboard the Big Red Bus
– By Dave Kim
Express
Inside the Tropic of Chaos: CHRISTIAN PARENTI with Theodore Hamm
After the Twister
– By Brian AwehaliRED MEMORIES:
WALTER BERNSTEIN with Gregory Zucker and Molly Rose ÁvilaRed Legacies
– By Michael TerryTHE GOOD OLD '70S: The End of the Amerian Century
– By David Rosen and David RosenLASTING IMPRESSIONS
Three Reviews– By Christopher MichelSmoke and Mirrors in Pursuit of Suez's Striking Workers
– By Robert S. Eshelman
Art
MATTHEW DAY JACKSON with Charles Schultz
RICHARD SERRA with Phong Bui
DOROTHEA ROCKBURNE with David Levi Strauss and Christopher Bamford
JENNIFER BARTLETT with Phong Bui
WOLF KAHN
In Latter-Day Focus
Color & Consequence
– By Lucio PozziIn Memoriam
CY TWOMBLY (1928–2011)
– By Claire DaigleReadings From the Vast Unread
– By Phong H. Bui and Robert Hullot-KentorTRACEY EMIN Love Is What You Want
– By Vincent Katz
ArtSeen
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– By Gail QuagliataMARK DI SUVERO at Governor's Island
Whose Modernism is it Anyway?
– By Edward M. GómezFRANCIS ALŸS: A Story of Deception
– By Kara L. RooneyDONALD JUDD
– By Greg LindquistSea Worthy
– By Charles SchultzThe Peripheterists
– By Cora Fisher7 New York Painters
– By Ben La RoccoThe Ecstasy of Saint Herzog
– By Shane McAdamsGeometry: Selected Works from the Estate of MARY ANN UNGER
– By Kara L. RooneyDANIEL DOUKE Bytes of Reality
– By John YauLetter from BERLIN
– By David RhodesALEXANDER MCQUEEN Savage Beauty
– By Anne Sherwood PundykMELANIE BAKER: Feast
– By Phong H. BuiJOHN O'CONNOR What is Toronto???
– By Charles SchultzUnder Destruction II
– By Jen SchwartingLOUIS I. KAHN Building a View
STEPHEN ANTONAKOS Spaces– By Aldrin ValdezWE ARE PRIMITIVE: Apichatpong's Ineffable Experience of Nabua
– By Aily NashFeelers
– By Linnea KniazBROOKLYN DISPATCHES: Making the Trains Run on Time
– By James KalmDoes Nordic Art Exist? A Lesson In Transculture
– By Robert C. MorganGEORGE GITTOES: Witness to a War
– By Noah DillonLEE UFAN: The Art of Present Reality
– By Robert C. MorganALLORA & CALZADILLA: Gloria
– By David St.-LascauxThe 54th Venice Biennale
– By Emily WarnerArtists in Bushwick
– By Stephen TruaxBushwick Open Studios Continues to Grow but at What Cost?
– By Hrag VartanianPICASSO and MARIE-THÉRÈSE: L'Amour Fou
– By Cassandra NeyeneschJASPER JOHNS New Sculpture and Works on Paper
– By John YauBILL RICE Paintings & Works on Paper
– By John Yau
Books
Canonizer's Feast
– By William S. NiederkornComing of Age in Child Soldier Literature
– By Hawa AllanSIRI HUSTVEDT with Molly Gallentine
Echo's Accent
– By Michael LeongAnthology Review
– By Nicolle ElizabethMemoir Review
– By Rosemary BaileyRAPID TRANSIT or A SUMMARY OF SOME SUMMER PAGES
– By Jeffrey Cyphers WrightPalma's Artful Web
– By Marie BacigalupoFiction Review
– By Connie AitchesonFiction Review
– By Jim FeastRemembering Everything
– By Rochelle Melton
Music
Songs for Swinging Babies
– By George GrellaFurther Out of Time
– By Marshall YarbroughOuttakes
– By Steve DalachinskyVisitation Rites
– By Katy HenriksenShamanic Rites on Wall Street
– By David St.-LascauxEmbracing A New, Unforgotten Future
– By Justin VellucciIt Became Part of My Rock 'n' Roll Fantasy
– By Billups Allen
Dance
Hangman Takuzo
– By Yasuko YokoshiEditor's Note
– By Claudia La RoccoAn Imaginary Education in the History of Written Dances
– By Aynsley VandenbrouckeBlackfish
– By Emily JohnsonKennis Hawkins
– By Kennis HawkinsSome Experiments, Curiously Intertwined, on Time, the Body, and the Nature of What I Do Over Here
– By Kathryn EnrightFour drawing/collages for duet with Kayvon
– By Juliette MappThe Minotaur
– By Karinne Keithley SyersElectric Midlife
– By Beth GillAll the Props in My Basement
– By Annie-B Parson
Film
ADOLFAS MEKAS (1925–2011)
Notes on W.C. Fields (for Jim Gardner)
– By Jim SupanickPURE AMERICAN CRAZY: Errol Morris's Tabloid
– By Jacob MikanowskiONCE UPON A TIME, THE PRINCESS WOKE UP: Catherine Breillat's Sleeping Beauty
– By Anya Jaremko-GreenwoldBLURRED BOUNDARIES: Selections from Migrating Forms 2011
– By Colin Beckett and Jason Livingston
Theater
Margraff's Got the Greek Blues
– By Kathryn WalatTAKE IT TO THE STREETS: Site-Specific Theater Hits NYC
– By Jen TaherKara Lee Corthron's Julius by Design
– By Kia CorthronBalm in Brooklyn: A Case Study
– By Stephanie Fleischmann
Fiction
Girl
– By E. HamptonSpecial Friend
– By Lewis WarshLost Time
– By Lewis WarshFÉDER or the Gilded Husband
the final installment from an unfinished novella– By Stendhall , translated from the French by Brian EvensonThe Roses at the Hospital
– By Can Xue, translated from the Chinese by Karen Gernant and Chen ZepingThe Face
– By Laird HuntTragic Strip
– By T. MotleyCharacter and Fitness: Chapters 13 and 14
– By Jason Flores-Williams
Poetry
two from "Insurgentes"
– By Marc NasdorThe Word for World is Forest Poem
– By Laura NeumanWhile Drinking Coffee at Zingerman's
– By Clayton Eshlemanfrom "147 Million Orphans: A Haybun"
– By Eileen Tabios
Art Books
The Positive News About Negative Thinking
– By Abbe SchriberSMOKE AND MIRRORS: Fashion and Socialist Politics
– By Eugenie DallandA Time When No Budget, Unlimited Time and Resourcefulness Shaped Counter-Culture
– By Greg LindquistThe Problem with the Nightmare
– By Natasha Stagg