The Brooklyn Rail’s Player-of-the-Year, 2012
By Theodore HammVolumes of horse race punditry notwithstanding, the 2012 presidential campaign seemed like anything but a day at the track.
A Brand Called Brooklyn
By Norman OderIf the new arena could speak, its first word would be “Brooklyn.”
WITHERED AND BURNED: Some Lessons from Texas
By Robert S. Eshelman, art by Andrea LauerUntil recently, Americans thought ecological threats occurred in faraway places.
End of the Line in the ICU
By Kristen McConnellSome first-hand observations of a place where there are few gentle good nights.
DAVID HUMPHREY with Phong Bui
By Phong BuiThe painter David Humphrey welcomed Rail publisher Phong Bui to his Chelsea studio to talk about the recent work, which will be featured at his one-person exhibit David Humphrey: New Paintings at Fredericks and Freiser (November 28 – December 22, 2012).
Art In Conversation
ABCs for/of Richard Tuttle
An epistolary interview with Jarrett Earnest, pt. 2 “H–O”
“Fire lives the death of air, and air lives the death of fire; water lives the death of earth, earth that of water.”
Art In Conversation
PATRICIA CRONIN with Phong Bui
While preparing for her forthcoming solo show Dante: The Way of All Flesh at fordProject (November 8 – December 21, 2012) Patricia Cronin welcomed Rail publisher Phong Bui to her Gowanus studio one late Sunday morning to view the new body of work and to discuss her art and life.
Art In Conversation
ROBERT LAZZARINI with Jonathan T. D. Neil
Jonathan T. D. Neil and Robert Lazzarini met at the Brooklyn Rail’s headquarters in mid-October to discuss the artist’s newest body of work, (damage), which will go on view at Marlborough Chelsea on November 15.
In the Thick of Things
By George StolzThe first thing one sees upon entering the Yale University Art Gallery—which re-opens fully to the public in December after a 10-year incremental renovation—is a Sol LeWitt wall drawing.
AN AMERICAN REVIVALIST: Dom Flemons and the Return of the African-American String Band
By Geoffrey ClarfieldDuring the height of the Depression, folklorist Alan Lomax persuaded his employers at the Library of Congress to send him across the South to collect folk music.
No One is Done Nothing is Over: Jackie Sibblies Drury’s We Are Proud To Present…
By Mark ArmstrongPlaywright Jackie Sibblies Drury didn’t set out to write a play about the German genocide on the Herero of Namibia in Southwest Africa around the turn of the 20th century.
Film In Conversation
CHEMICAL SUNDOWNS
PHIL SOLOMON with Leo Goldsmith
By Leo Goldsmith
This fall has seen two New York premieres of recent works by experimental filmmaker Phil Solomon. “EMPIRE,” which screened at this year’s Views from the Avant-Garde, wittily recreates Andy Warhol’s film of the same name.
from I am the Robert Walser
By Mina Pam DickMina Pam Dick is the author of Delinquent (Futurepoem books, 2009). Recently, she has been making out and off with Hölderlin, Trakl, Nietzsche, and Büchner in hybrid translit.
From the Publisher & Artistic Director
A Note to Our Readers
By Phong BuiI believe we will all rise above this time with a greater purpose in life and art.
Editor's Message
The Politics of Art
By Barbara RoseReviewing current art, both locally and globally, it appears that much of it has or purports to have a political content.
ArtSeen
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A Riot is the Language of the Unheard: An Exercise in Unrestrained Speech
– By Kara L. Rooney -
DAVID DIAO and WALID RAAD
– By Joan Waltemath -
LIN TIANMIAO Bound Unbound
– By Corina Larkin -
AHMED ALSOUDANI
– By Robert C. Morgan -
HiJack!
– By Noah Dillon -
DIRTY LOOKS: A Monthly Platform for Queer Experimental Film and Video
– By Eve Perry -
RALPH HUMPHREY
– By Susan Harris -
MICKALENE THOMAS
– By Desi Gonzalez
Origin of the Universe -
TATZU NISHI Discovering Columbus
– By Anne Sherwood Pundyk -
In the Thick of Things
– By George Stolz -
The Present Age
– By R. H. Lossin -
JONAS MEKAS Reminiscences of a Displaced Person
– By Joseph Klarl -
RODNEY MCMILLIAN Prospect Ave.
– By Jen Schwarting -
We the People
– By Chloé Rossetti -
BRIAN BELOTT
– By Jonathan Goodman
A Goosh Noosh -
FARRELL BRICKHOUSE
– By Jason Stopa -
RONNIE LANDFIELD
– By William Corwin
Where it all Began -
The New Barnes Foundation Museum
– By David Carrier -
City of Gold: Tomb and Temple in Ancient Cyprus
– By Alana Shilling-Janoff -
PETER SACKS New Paintings
– By Talia Bloch -
FRANK STELLA The Retrospective, Works 1958-2012
– By David Rhodes -
SHARON HAYES There’s So Much I Want to Say to You
– By Kareem Estefan
Table of Contents
Editor's Message
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The Politics of Art
– By Barbara Rose
Publisher's Message
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A Note to Our Readers
– By Phong Bui
Local
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A Brand Called Brooklyn
– By Norman Oder -
ANDREW CUOMO: New York’s Scott Walker?
– By Ari Paul -
The Graying of AIDS
– By Eleanor J. Bader
Express
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End of the Line in the ICU
– By Kristen McConnell -
WITHERED AND BURNED: Some Lessons from Texas
– By Robert S. Eshelman, art by Andrea Lauer -
DOC NYC: Gotham’s Documentary Film Festival
– By Williams Cole -
Holding Court
– By Leigh Kamping-Carder -
A City in Crisis
– By David Rosen -
Science’s Last Romantics
– By Courtney Fiske -
The Brooklyn Rail’s Player-of-the-Year, 2012
– By Theodore Hamm
Art
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DAVID HUMPHREY with Phong Bui
– By Phong Bui -
ABCs for/of Richard Tuttle An epistolary interview with Jarrett Earnest, pt. 2 “H–O”
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PATRICIA CRONIN with Phong Bui
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Reflections on Gerhard Richter: Painting 2012
– By Alex Bacon -
Marcel Duchamp Slept Here
– By Francis M. Naumann -
ROBERT LAZZARINI with Jonathan T. D. Neil
ArtSeen
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A Riot is the Language of the Unheard: An Exercise in Unrestrained Speech
– By Kara L. Rooney -
DAVID DIAO and WALID RAAD
– By Joan Waltemath -
LIN TIANMIAO Bound Unbound
– By Corina Larkin -
AHMED ALSOUDANI
– By Robert C. Morgan -
HiJack!
– By Noah Dillon -
DIRTY LOOKS: A Monthly Platform for Queer Experimental Film and Video
– By Eve Perry -
RALPH HUMPHREY
– By Susan Harris -
MICKALENE THOMAS Origin of the Universe
– By Desi Gonzalez -
TATZU NISHI Discovering Columbus
– By Anne Sherwood Pundyk -
In the Thick of Things
– By George Stolz -
The Present Age
– By R. H. Lossin -
JONAS MEKAS Reminiscences of a Displaced Person
– By Joseph Klarl -
RODNEY MCMILLIAN Prospect Ave.
– By Jen Schwarting -
We the People
– By Chloé Rossetti -
BRIAN BELOTT A Goosh Noosh
– By Jonathan Goodman -
FARRELL BRICKHOUSE
– By Jason Stopa -
RONNIE LANDFIELD Where it all Began
– By William Corwin -
The New Barnes Foundation Museum
– By David Carrier -
City of Gold: Tomb and Temple in Ancient Cyprus
– By Alana Shilling-Janoff -
PETER SACKS New Paintings
– By Talia Bloch -
FRANK STELLA The Retrospective, Works 1958-2012
– By David Rhodes -
SHARON HAYES There’s So Much I Want to Say to You
– By Kareem Estefan
Books
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A Question of (Soma)tics
– By Alex Estes -
Misery Loves Company With a Sense of Humor
– By Laura Smith Terry -
Relative Triangles and The Dangers of Proximal Alphabets
– By Elianna Greenberg -
In Exile
– By Michael McCanne -
Unsung Hero
– By Amy Wolfe -
RAPID TRANSIT MAPPING THE GRAIN: Silver, Mercury, and Lead Go into a Bar…
– By Jeffrey Cyphers Wright -
Southern Exposure
– By Laura Cesarco Eglin -
ELIZABETH KOKE and AMY SCHOLDER of the Feminist Press with Gabriel Don
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MICHAEL BRACEWELL with Kathy Battista
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PENINA ROTH with Nicolle Elizabeth
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Noise’s Nectar
– By Joseph Nechvatal -
The Light Pours Out of Me
– By Brendan Byrne -
Tell It Quick
– By Nicolle Elizabeth
Music
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AN AMERICAN REVIVALIST: Dom Flemons and the Return of the African-American String Band
– By Geoffrey Clarfield -
Previously Unreleased Footage of Boulez–Cage Tennis Match Discovered
– By David St.-Lascaux -
Outtakes
– By Steve Dalachinsky -
Brooklyn’s Children are Singing
– By George Grella -
Tomorrow’s Parties, Today
– By Todd Simmons -
Still Ragin’ After All These Years
– By Billups Allen
Dance
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Present in the Absence
– By L.J. Sunshine -
An Ineffective Upheaval
– By Evan Namerow -
Gathering Momentum
– By Siobhan Burke -
KYLE ABRAHAM with Ryan Wenzel
Film
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THE PROBLEMS OF FICTION PABLO LARRAÍN with José Miguel Palacios
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IN RETROSPECT Jeff Preiss’s STOP
– By Giampaolo Bianconi -
CHEMICAL SUNDOWNS PHIL SOLOMON with Leo Goldsmith
– By Leo Goldsmith -
New Fangled Old Things: Views from the Avant-Garde 2012
– By Felix Bernstein
Theater
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Ich Bin Ein Pumpkin Deity
– By Eliza Bent -
Drunken History with Cusi Cram
– By Marin Gazzaniga -
No One is Done Nothing is Over: Jackie Sibblies Drury’s We Are Proud To Present…
– By Mark Armstrong -
Esther, Muriel, and Yvette: The Roots
– By Dan Trujillo
Fiction
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Week 13
– By Emily Flake -
Professor Greyhound’s Poetry Tests
– By Keren Katz -
Dark Tomato
– By Sakura Maku -
Telegram
– By Andrea Tsurumi -
Single Girl, Chicken Soup
– By Connie Sun -
Tragic Strip
– By T. Motley -
Spooky Action at a Distance
– By Eugene Lim -
Vestigial Features
– By Mary Stein -
from the novella A Familiar Beast
– By Panio Gianopoulos -
If a Body Meet a Body
– By Jason Lees
Poetry
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Three from The Garden
– By Ed Steck -
from I am the Robert Walser
– By Mina Pam Dick -
Three
– By Brian Blanchfield
Art Books
