Dec/Jan 12–13
The “Dec/Jan 12–13” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on December 10, 2012.
Critics Page
Art Criticism Today
– By Irving Sandler
Local
Brooklyn Eagle, July 14, 1897
DELUGE FROM SEA AND SKY
RAIN AND HIGH TIDES CAUSE DAMAGE ON THE ISLAND. GRAIN AND HAY CROPS INJURED.AFTER SANDY, the People's Relief Grows in Coney
– By Williams Cole and Williams ColeThe Brown Girl of Bed-Stuy's Brownstones
– By Ron HowellIn the Beginning, All Need the Word
– By Eleanor J. BaderWhen the Drumming Stops
– By Steve Wishnia
Express
The Brooklyn Rail's Player-of-the-Year, 2012
– By Theodore HammMy Wounded Constitution
– By Jason Flores-WilliamsA VIEW FROM THE EAST
PANKAJ MISHRA with Hirsh SawhneyReading Eugene Genovese in the Age of Occupy
– By Stuart SchraderSearching for the "I" in History
– By Abby MarguliesHis Mother's Son
– By Greg RyanTwentieth-Century Blues
– By Kathy SmundakAmerica's First Foodie
– By Orli Van Mourik
Art
Time is an Emotional Muscle
BARBARA HAMMER with Jarrett EarnestHerbie Vogel
– By Lucio PozziBIRDHEAD with Charles Schultz
A letter from JOSEPH CORNELL to DOROTHEA TANNING
– By Robert KellyALICE CHANNER with Barry Schwabsky
Living a Revolution
– By Ariella AzoulayFiguring It Out: Bard's Low-Residency M.F.A. Program
– By Steel Stillman
ArtSeen
The Diagnostic Essay
– By Alex BaconEverything That Matters
– By Daniel Baird"Is There a Crisis in Art Criticism?"*
Response from Marek BartelikDress Trope
– By Bill BerksonResponses for Irving Sandler (A Later Seizure), November 21
– By Bill BerksonRe: Art Criticism Today
– By Robert BerlindDear Irving
– By Phong H. BuiHow it Appears
– By Jarrett EarnestPost-Critical
– By Hal FosterIf Picasso Is So Sexy, Why Is No One On TV Talking About Art?
– By Christopher FrenchThe Incredible Shrinking Art Critic
– By Eleanor HeartneyIrving:
– By Dave HickeyPopcorn Manifesto
– By David HumphreyCritical Acts
– By Richard KalinaThe Four Corners of Painting
– By Richard KalinaThree Crises
– By Pepe KarmelThe Persistence of Art Criticism
– By Vincent KatzA Fork in the Linguistic Road
– By Max KozloffDear Irving
– By David Levi StraussRe: Art Criticism Today
– By Kim LevinWhat's So Important About Criticism?
– By Barbara A. MacAdamThe End of Reading
– By Jonathan T.D. NeilRe: Art Criticism Today
– By Jed PerlMiddlebrow? Smile When You Say That
– By Peter PlagensPerformance Anxiety
– By Nancy PrincenthalThanks for the Memory
– By Barbara RoseRenewable Energy for Criticism
– By Raphael RubinsteinWhat's Lost is What I Want
– By Ed SchadCriticism and Self-Criticism
– By Barry SchwabskyRe: Art Criticism Today
– By Martha SchwendenerArs Critica
– By Robert StorrArt Criticism & Social Media
– By Phyllis TuchmanThe World Out There
– By Amei WallachCrit Lit
– By Lilly WeiA Good Painting is Better and More Interesting Than a Stick in the Eye
– By Stephen WestfallRe: Art Criticism Today
– By Karen WilkinQuarterdeck Reflections
– By Alexi WorthRe: Art Criticism Today
– By Christian Viveros-FauneEYEWITNESS: Reflections on Richard Artschwager's "Untitled," 1971
– By Michael TorlenBERNINI: Sculpting in Clay
– By Brandt JunceauFERDINAND HODLER View to Infinity
– By Chloé RossettiTOM BURCKHARDT Pretty Little Liars
– By Corina LarkinThe escape from the banal everyday life to the world of the ideal
– By Kara L. RooneyDevin Powers, Paintings
– By Jonathan GoodmanMICHAL ROVNER Topography
– By Robert C. MorganJOSEF SUDEK The Legacy of a Deeper Vision
– By David CarrierPICASSO Black and White
– By Valery OisteanuALINA SZAPOCZNIKOW Sculpture Undone, 1955-1972
– By William Corwin
Books
A Compelling, If Foggy Debut
– By Rayyan Al-ShawafAgainst the Law
– By Gabriel DonA Second Birth
– By Larissa ZimberoffPain on Both Sides
– By Kenan TrebincevicJOSHUA HENKIN with Hirsh Sawhney
BLAKE BUTLER, VANESSA PLACE, and CHRISTOPHER HIGGS with S. Tremaine Nelson
DEBRA DIBLASI and SAM WITT of Jaded Ibis Press with Liz Axelrod
On the Road Again
– By Jim FeastAgainst a narcotic culture whose primary desire is stupefaction
Andrea Scrima talks to Rainer J. Hanshe, founder of Contra Mundum PressOn Board with The Atavist
– By Christopher Carbone
Music
BAM Next Wave, Part I
– By George GrellaWorld Music in the Cradle of (Someone's) Democracy
– By George SempeposHell, Set to Music
– By David St.-Lascaux"WE TALK REAL FUNNY DOWN HERE"
Randy Newman's "Birmingham" as Ironic Southern Anthem– By Marshall YarbroughOuttakes
– By Steve DalachinskyReading and Listening with Listener
– By Nicolle Elizabeth
Dance
Bring in Da Boise
– By Ryan WenzelELIZABETH STREB: An Introduction
– By Nancy DalvaKYLE ABRAHAM with Ryan Wenzel
Film
Plus ça devient vieux, Plus ça devient bête
The European Bourgeoisie in Michael Haneke's Amour– By Jaap VerheulNIHIL UNBOUND
Rick Alverson's The Comedy– By Jason LaRivièreRETURNING THE FOURTH WALL
Reenactment as Recursion at CPH:DOX– By Rachael RakesA HOLLIS FRAMPTON ODYSSEY
– By Leo GoldsmithFACES
Middle of Nowhere and Nothing But A Man– By Katie RoginTHE OUTER LIMITS
First Look at Museum of the Moving Image– By Leo Goldsmith
Theater
When Machines Fail:
Paula Vogel and A Civil War Christmas– By Jessica DickeyMadness and Martyrdom in La Divina Caricatura
LEE BREUER with Kyoung H. ParkUptown to the Grand Canyon and Onward to the Sea
SETH NUMRICH with Libby WoodbridgeJesus in India: Finding Out Who We Are with Lloyd Suh
– By Matthew Paul Olmos
Fiction
When the Time Comes
– By Josef WinklerExcerpted from
CITY OF ANGELS: or The Overcoat of Dr. Freud, A NOVEL– By Christa Wolf, translated from the German by Damion SearlsArrowschmitt!!!
– By Arryan DecaturTragic Strip
– By T. MotleyNew England
– By Matthew ThurberExtracts from the 65th Anniversary Edition of Raymond Queneau's Exercises In Style
– By Raymond Queneau, Harry Mathews, Shane Jones, and Chris Clarke
Poetry
Two
– By Allan M. JalonThe Answers to the Questions
– By Robert HershonThree
– By Sandra SimondsFour
– By Jim Behrle
Art Books
Another Language
– By Adam BellRookie Yearbook One
– By Maura M. Lynch