The Brooklyn Rail

Table of Contents

Editor's Message

• 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

• The Brown Girl of Bed-Stuy’s Brownstones

  – By Ron Howell

• In the Beginning, All Need the Word

  – By Eleanor J. Bader

• When the Drumming Stops

  – By Steve Wishnia

Express

• The Brooklyn Rail’s Player-of-the-Year, 2012

  – By Theodore Hamm

• My Wounded Constitution

  – By Jason Flores-Williams

• A VIEW FROM THE EAST PANKAJ MISHRA with Hirsh Sawhney

• Reading Eugene Genovese in the Age of Occupy

  – By Stuart Schrader

• Searching for the “I” in History

  – By Abby Margulies

• His Mother’s Son

  – By Greg Ryan

• Twentieth-Century Blues

  – By Kathy Smundak

• America’s First Foodie

  – By Orli Van Mourik

Art

• Herbie Vogel

  – By Lucio Pozzi

• Time is an Emotional Muscle BARBARA HAMMER with Jarrett Earnest

• BIRDHEAD with Charles Schultz

• A letter from JOSEPH CORNELL to DOROTHEA TANNING

  – By Robert Kelly

• ALICE CHANNER with Barry Schwabsky

• Living a Revolution

  – By Ariella Azoulay

• Figuring It Out: Bard’s Low-Residency M.F.A. Program

  – By Steel Stillman

ArtSeen

• The Diagnostic Essay

  – By Alex Bacon

• Everything That Matters

  – By Daniel Baird

• “Is There a Crisis in Art Criticism?”* Response from Marek Bartelik

• Dress Trope

  – By Bill Berkson

• Responses for Irving Sandler (A Later Seizure), November 21

  – By Bill Berkson

• Re: Art Criticism Today

  – By Robert Berlind

• Dear Irving

  – By Phong Bui

• How it Appears

  – By Jarrett Earnest

• Post-Critical

  – By Hal Foster

• If Picasso Is So Sexy, Why Is No One On TV Talking About Art?

  – By Christopher French

• The Incredible Shrinking Art Critic

  – By Eleanor Heartney

• Irving:

  – By Dave Hickey

• Popcorn Manifesto

  – By David Humphrey

• Critical Acts

  – By Richard Kalina

• The Four Corners of Painting

  – By Richard Kalina

• Three Crises

  – By Pepe Karmel

• The Persistence of Art Criticism

  – By Vincent Katz

• A Fork in the Linguistic Road

  – By Max Kozloff

• Dear Irving

  – By David Levi Strauss

• Re: Art Criticism Today

  – By Kim Levin

• The End of Reading

  – By Jonathan T.D. Neil

• What’s So Important About Criticism?

  – By Barbara A. MacAdam

• Re: Art Criticism Today

  – By Jed Perl

• Middlebrow? Smile When You Say That

  – By Peter Plagens

• Performance Anxiety

  – By Nancy Princenthal

• Thanks for the Memory

  – By Barbara Rose

• Renewable Energy for Criticism

  – By Raphael Rubinstein

• What’s Lost is What I Want

  – By Ed Schad

• Criticism and Self-Criticism

  – By Barry Schwabsky

• Re: Art Criticism Today

  – By Martha Schwendener

• Ars Critica

  – By Robert Storr

• Art Criticism & Social Media

  – By Phyllis Tuchman

• The World Out There

  – By Amei Wallach

• Crit Lit

  – By Lilly Wei

• A Good Painting is Better and More Interesting Than a Stick in the Eye

  – By Stephen Westfall

• Re: Art Criticism Today

  – By Karen Wilkin

• Quarterdeck Reflections

  – By Alexi Worth

• Re: Art Criticism Today

  – By Christian Viveros-Faune

• EYEWITNESS: Reflections on Richard Artschwager’s “Untitled,” 1971

  – By Michael Torlen

• BERNINI: Sculpting in Clay

  – By Brandt Junceau

• TOM BURCKHARDT Pretty Little Liars

  – By Corina Larkin

• Devin Powers, Paintings

  – By Jonathan Goodman

• FERDINAND HODLER View to Infinity

  – By Chloé Rossetti

• The escape from the banal everyday life to the world of the ideal

  – By Kara L. Rooney

• MICHAL ROVNER Topography

  – By Robert C. Morgan

• JOSEF SUDEK The Legacy of a Deeper Vision

  – By David Carrier

• PICASSO Black and White

  – By Valery Oisteanu

• ALINA SZAPOCZNIKOW Sculpture Undone, 1955-1972

  – By William Corwin

Books

• A Compelling, If Foggy Debut

  – By Rayyan Al-Shawaf

• A Second Birth

  – By Larissa Zimberoff

• Against the Law

  – By Gabriel Don

• Pain on Both Sides

  – By Kenan Trebincevic

• JOSHUA 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 Feast

• Against a narcotic culture whose primary desire is stupefaction Andrea Scrima talks to Rainer J. Hanshe, founder of Contra Mundum Press

• On Board with The Atavist

  – By Christopher Carbone

Music

• BAM Next Wave, Part I

  – By George Grella

• World Music in the Cradle of (Someone’s) Democracy

  – By George Sempepos

• Hell, Set to Music

  – By David St.-Lascaux

• “WE TALK REAL FUNNY DOWN HERE” Randy Newman’s “Birmingham” as Ironic Southern Anthem

  – By Marshall Yarbrough

• Outtakes

  – By Steve Dalachinsky

• Reading and Listening with Listener

  – By Nicolle Elizabeth

Dance

• Bring in Da Boise

  – By Ryan Wenzel

• ELIZABETH STREB: An Introduction

  – By Nancy Dalva

• KYLE ABRAHAM with Ryan Wenzel

Film

• Plus ça devient vieux, Plus ça devient bête The European Bourgeoisie in Michael Haneke’s Amour

  – By Jaap Verheul

• NIHIL UNBOUND Rick Alverson’s The Comedy

  – By Jason LaRivière

• RETURNING THE FOURTH WALL Reenactment as Recursion at CPH:DOX

  – By Rachael Rakes

• A HOLLIS FRAMPTON ODYSSEY

  – By Leo Goldsmith

• FACES Middle of Nowhere and Nothing But A Man

  – By Katie Rogin

• THE 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 Dickey

• Madness and Martyrdom in La Divina Caricatura LEE BREUER with Kyoung H. Park

• Uptown to the Grand Canyon and Onward to the Sea SETH NUMRICH with Libby Woodbridge

• Jesus in India: Finding Out Who We Are with Lloyd Suh

  – By Matthew Paul Olmos

Fiction

• When the Time Comes

  – By Josef Winkler

• Excerpted from CITY OF ANGELS: or The Overcoat of Dr. Freud, A NOVEL

  – By Christa Wolf, translated from the German by Damion Searls

• Arrowschmitt!!!

  – By Arryan Decatur

• Tragic Strip

  – By T. Motley

• New England

  – By Matthew Thurber

• Extracts 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. Jalon

• The Answers to the Questions

  – By Robert Hershon

• Three

  – By Sandra Simonds

• Four

  – By Jim Behrle

Art Books

• Another Language

  – By Adam Bell

• Rookie Yearbook One

  – By Maura M. Lynch