The Brooklyn Rail

Table of Contents

Editor's Message

• Dear Reader

  – By Martha Schwendener

Local

• Watching the Watchdogs

  – By Ari Paul

• Big Mama’s Legacy

  – By Eleanor J. Bader

• CITYNOTES Kelly by the Numbers

  – By Theodore Hamm

• Seaside Stories

  – By Saskia Kahn

Express

• A Poetic Life HARVEY SHAPIRO with Galen Williams

• An Animated Life RALPH BAKSHI with Gregory Smulewicz-Zucker

• Inside the Motor City

  – By Gabriel Thompson

• The Pen is Mightier

  – By Geoffrey Young

• Being Grass

  – By Allen Guy Wilcox

• MITCH LEIGH with Phong Bui

• The Body Politic

  – By David Rosen

• An Atlas of Tolerance

  – By Orli Van Mourik

• The People v. Barack Obama

  – By Jason Flores-Williams

Art

• Life of a Happy Man

  – By P. Adams Sitney, Richard Foreman, Gregory Zucker, Ken Jacobs, Pip Chodorov, Vyt Bakaitis, and Penny Arcade

• LINDA FRANCIS with Ben La Rocco

• Ishmael Randall-Weeks with Alex Bacon

• CRITICS’ PAGE Art Without Criticism

  – By Viktor Witkowski

• CRITICS’ PAGE Art Criticism and the Marketing of Contemporary Art

  – By Robert C. Morgan

• Thomas Cahill with Phong Bui

• ABC for/of Richard Tuttle An epistolary interview with Jarrett Earnest, pt.3 “P-Z”

• JOACHIM PISSARRO with Alexander S. C. Rower

ArtSeen

• What Do We Do Now? Arts & Labor's Alternative Economies Resource Guide

  – By Members of the OWS Arts & Labor Alternative Economies Group

• Alternative Economies, Alternative Societies

  – By Oliver Ressler

• Everybody Needs Wiggle Room

  – By David Robbins

• One Thing

  – By David Levine

• A Conversation

  – By Julia Byran-Wilson and Mel Y. Chen

• Alternatives

  – By Coco Fusco

• Dropping Adjectives from Art Writing

  – By Lee Ambrozy

• Make Room!

  – By Barry Schwabsky

• Disseminating Photography

  – By Geoffrey Batchen

• Art is the Commons

  – By Maria Byck

• Artists Supporting Their Own

  – By Paul Schimmel

• The Amateur

  – By Marcel Janco

• Manifesto for an Education Beyond the Power Grid

  – By Rainer Ganahl

• Kelly Lake Store

  – By Chris Kraus

• More Cooperatives

  – By Members of the Park Slope Food Coop, Food Processing Committee, C Week Monday Afternoon Squad

• A Modest Proposal

  – By Sean Elwood

• A Different One Percent

  – By Lucy Lippard

• BILL OF RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES pertaining to FIFTEEN NESTING BOOKCASES that are now property of KUNSTMUSEUM AAN ZEE, OOSTENDE and that are to be made available to the CITIZENS OF OOSTENDE

  – By Joe Scanlan

• An Ideal Ratio

  – By Erin Sickler

• Everyone Wants to be Subaltern

  – By Simone Leigh

• If I Could Turn Back Time...

  – By Edward Winkleman

• Escaping the Missionary Position

  – By Naeem Mohaiemen

• Clichés Lead Critics Down Slippery Slope

  – By Blake Gopnik

• A New Role for the N.E.A.

  – By Christopher Knight

• An Equity for Visual Arts Act

  – By William Powhida

• Art, Autonomy, Pedagogy in 2013

  – By Jaleh Mansoor

• Solidarity Art Worlds

  – By Caroline Woolard

• I Dream a Dream

  – By Barbara Pollack

• What Do We Expect From Art?

  – By Martha Buskirk

• Alternative Takes

  – By Barbara Hammer

• Alternative to an Alternative

  – By Dean Daderko

• Alternatives

  – By Dan S. Wang

• The Experimental Laboratory of the Present

  – By Ben Davis

• What is the Alternative?

  – By Kay Eske

• Lotus Petals

  – By Noah Fischer

• The Critic’s Doubt

  – By Cinqué Hicks

• No Alternatives, One Imperative

  – By Danny Marcus

• Notes From a Future

  – By Mary Mattingly

• Alternatives

  – By Laurel Ptak

• Creative Redevelopment

  – By Bruce Reynolds

• Teaching Philosophy

  – By Judith Rodenbeck

• Alternative Reality Transmission / Written Oral Record of Kinesic Storytelling (ARTWORKS)

  – By Tyler Rowland

• Productive Anonymity

  – By Mira Schor

• Occupy, Resist, Produce!

  – By Marina Sitrin

• Alternatives

  – By Daniel Spaulding

• Art in The Post-Consumer World: A Case for Exceptionalism?

  – By Debra Thimmesch

• Principles of W.A.G.E. Certification

  – By W.A.G.E.

• Alternative World: A Code of Ethics, Behaviors, Attitudes, and Understandings

  – By Oliver Wasow

• Karsten, What are You Doing?

  – By Roger White

• Dancing Around the Bride

  – By Tom McGlynn

• ROLAND FLEXNER

  – By Raphael Rubinstein

• MATISSE In Search of True Painting

  – By David Carrier

• JUDITH BERNSTEIN Hard

  – By Ann McCoy

• BARBARA RUBIN Christmas On Earth

  – By Joseph Klarl

• WOLF VOSTELL Reclaiming the Present through Décollage

  – By Robert C. Morgan

• PEGGY CYPHERS Animal Spirits

  – By Jonathan Goodman

• ROSEMARIE TROCKEL A Cosmos

  – By Paula Burleigh

• TREE HUGGERS Giuseppe Penone’s “Spazio di Luce” and Rachel Whiteread’s “Tree of Life”

  – By William Corwin

• ALLEN GINSBERG Losing Sight, Coming into Focus: Beat Memories

  – By Alana Shilling-Janoff

• ELISA LENDVAY Small Sculpture

  – By Daniel Wiener

• Alternative Living Spaces that Subvert New York Real Estate Rent Oligopoly

  – By Mary Mattingly and Greg Lindquist

Books

• Shake-Speare Fission

  – By William S. Niederkorn

• The Relativity of Small (Or, the Affairs of Men): Two Novellas

  – By Larissa Zimberoff

• TARUN TEJPAL with Nicolle Elizabeth

• Meat and Mayhem

  – By Susan Buttenwieser

• MARY JO BANG with Adam Fitzgerald

• JOSHUA BECKMAN and JON BEACHAM with Erika Anderson

• LUIS JARAMILLO with Marietta Brill

Music

• BAM Next Wave, Part II

  – By George Grella

• Put a Yodel in Your Soul

  – By Jose Padua

• Musical Dissonance, Cognitive Strain

  – By David St.-Lascaux

• Outtakes

  – By Steve Dalachinsky

• Natural Elements

  – By Richard Klin

• MOHSEN NAMJOO with Shoja Azari

• Exit the Maestro

  – By Alessandro Cassin

Dance

• RICHARD MOVE with Ryan Wenzel

• JUSTIN PECK with Ryan Wenzel

• Artful Limbo

  – By Siobhan Burke

• Pleasures of the Fresh

  – By Garnet Henderson

Film

• The Uses of Richard Pryor

  – By Colin Beckett

• What Will Be Will Be Abbas Kiarostami’s Like Someone in Love

  – By Paul Felten

• Pasolini's Body Cathy Lee Crane with Leo Goldsmith & Rachael Rakes

• One Night in the Bush Miguel Gomes’s Tabu

  – By Steve Macfarlane

• The Emancipation Wetdream On Django Unchained

  – By Brandon Harris

Theater

• Anger and Forgiveness in Martin Moran’s All the Rage

  – By James Lecesne

• Spring Season at the Starr: Joshua Conkel, Michael Levinton, and Eliza Bent

  – By Sarah Bishop-Stone

Fiction

• When the Time Comes

  – By Josef Winkler

• Tales/Composites/From Nearby

  – By Dorothy Albertini

• Associate

  – By Mikael Awake

• Five Stories

  – By Debora Kuan

• How It Is

  – By Bianca Stone

• The Adventures of Time Traveling Omelette

  – By Andrea Tsurumi

• ink thirsty

  – By Alexander Rothman

• Tragic Strip

  – By T. Motley

• The Exam

  – By Tom Whalen

Poetry

• FOURfrom Portraits of the Artists as Their Own Subjects

  – By Mike Lala

• Hold the Line

  – By Matt Longabucco

• Five

  – By Connie Mae Oliver

Art Books

• Ai Weiwei According to What?

  – By Greg Lindquist and Mary Mattingly

• Nocturnes

  – By Eugenie Dalland