April 2012
The “April 2012” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on April 2, 2012.
Critics Page
To Whom It Must Concern
– By Raphael RubinsteinA LETTER TO PHILIP GUSTON from David Rhodes
Local
CITYNOTES
Murphy's Dissent– By Theodore HammREPORT CARD
"Education for Sale"– By Liza FeatherstoneThey Don't Bake 'em Like They Used To
Creating a Groundswell in Brooklyn
– By Eleanor J. Bader
Express
Mitt Ain't Got It
– By Michael TerryThe Green Nuke Lovers Are Wrong
– By Christian ParentiThe Hotel Tehran
– By Matthew IgoeTHE ALBION NATION: Communes on the Mendocino Coast
– By Cal WinslowSome Rules for the Conduct of Young Gentlemen
– By William Rossa ColeCLASS NOTES: A fragment from Isolate Flecks: An Anatomy
– By Forrest HyltonIntervention that Works
– By Vincent RossmeierLife Is Elsewhere
– By Allen WilcoxAnother Prohibition: Uncovering the Real 1920s
– By David Rosen and David Rosen
ArtSeen
A LETTER TO MARTIN MULLIN from Carter Ratcliff
A LETTER TO CINDY SHERMAN from Christopher Stackhouse
A LETTER TO MOIRA DRYER from David Rhodes
SONIA ALMEIDA The Angle of the Sun's Rays
– By Joan WaltemathJESUS RAFAEL SOTO Soto: Paris and Beyond 1950–1970
– By Robert C. MorganTAMARA GONZALES Untitled, An Exhibition of New Paintings
– By Sharon L. ButlerA LETTER TO BRYAN OSBURN from Trevor Winkfield
DJUNA BARNES Newspaper Fiction: The New York Journalism of Djuna Barnes, 1913 – 1919
– By Joseph KlarlLIONEL MAUNZ Receipt of Malice
– By Charles SchultzA LETTER TO ROBERT SMITHSON from Greg Lindquist
A LETTER TO RAPHAEL RUBINSTEIN from Daniel Wiener
JOHN EVANS John Evans: 1984
– By Valery OisteanuMICHIEL CEULERS Des Malentendus et le temps perdu
– By Jonathan GoodmanMISSIVE TO FRANK O'HARA from Vincent Katz
WILLIAM ANTHONY Ironic Icons II
– By Dan TarnowskiAN OPEN LETTER ON THE SUBJECT OF RITUAL
– By Kara L. RooneyTHEO A. ROSENBLUM & CHELSEA SELTZER Two Heads are Better than One
– By Gail QuagliataALEX BAG AND PATTERSON BECKWITH Cash from Chaos / Unicorns & Rainbows
– By Eve Perry
Books
ALAN MOORE with Kathy Battista
Hold Me Now
– By Shathley Q.Divine Error
– By Neale Bachmann GoldLotus Eaters for Public Consumption
– By Gary LainPompous Circumstance
– By Tatiaana L. LaineA Voodoo Doll's House
– By Jeff McConaghyListen Closely
– By Laura Smith TerrySize Matters
– By Nava RenekIN MEMORIAM
On Barney Rosset– By Jim FeastNarrative Fuel
– By Angela PatrinosHalf in Speculation
– By Chris CampanioniIn Like a Lion
– By Ed SchadRAPID TRANSIT
– By Jeffrey Cyphers Wright
Music
Institutional Adjustments
– By Andrew CappettaA Stageful of Toys
– By David St.-LascauxBACK TO 1911 MOVEMENT
Manifesto #3: "Music"– By Peter Lamborn Wilson"Floating Above the Earth, Never Anchored to Time or Place"
– By David ShirleyOuttakes
– By Steve Dalachinsky"I Want It! I Need It!"
– By M. T. Richards
Dance
Oceanography
– By Nancy DalvaThe Meaning of "Live"
– By Sarah MaxfieldMark Morris Versus The Music
– By Ryan Wenzel
Fiction
Tragic Strip
– By T. MotleyThe Diary of Martín Santomé: A Novel
– By Mario BenedettiThe Regulars
– By Lily Hoang
Poetry
from Sonics
– By Lee Ann BrownFive
– By Betsy Faginfrom Some Worlds for Dr. Vogt
– By Matvei Yankelevichfrom Box Score: An Autobiography
– By Kevin Varrone
Art Books
Def Jam Recordings and Golf Wang
– By Ashok KondaboluDavid Shrigley: Brain Activity
– By Dan NadelThe Present
– By Adam BellAgnes Martin
– By Courtney FiskeThe Future of Art: A Manual
– By Joseph TeelingKusama, In Her Own Words
– By Edward M. Gómez
LastWords
from The Revolution Of Everyday Life
– By Raoul Vaneigem, A new translation from the French by Donald Nicholson-Smith