The Brooklyn Rail

Table of Contents

Editor's Message

• Prolixity and Painting

  – By Nancy Princenthal

Local

• What Queerocracy Looks Like

  – By Eleanor J. Bader

• A Groundswell of Teachers Wants More

  – By Ari Paul

• AMONG THE STRONGEST ROBIN NAGLE with Gabriel Thompson

• Seaside Stories

  – By Saskia Kahn and Lindsey Catherine Cornum

Express

• CASE NO: 1

  – By Jason Flores-Williams

• Israel/Palestine and the Re-education of Sarah Schulman

  – By Bec Zajac

• The Bankruptcy of Doom and Gloom

  – By Robert S. Eshelman

• New Look for Rail Books

  – By Theodore Hamm

• ART, MUSIC, MONEY PHOEBE LEGERE with Vienna Boa

Art

• Three Notes on the Behavioral Turn

  – By Judith Rodenbeck

• ALEX KATZ with David Salle

• RICHARD NONAS with Alex Bacon

• RONA PONDICK with Phong Bui

ArtSeen

• CHARLES LUTZ “BABEL (Brillo Stockholm Type)”

  – By Michael Straus

• BERNARD FRIZE Winter Diary

  – By Terry R. Myers

• The Color Bars of Francis Alÿs

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• Drawing Surrealism

  – By Valery Oisteanu

• Beyond Thinking

  – By Karen Schiff

• It looks like words have won...

  – By Michelle Grabner

• Centaurs and Microbes

  – By David Humphrey

• Talk/Show: Language and the Resistant Artwork

  – By Richard Kalina

• Visual Intelligence

  – By Mira Schor

• Words are Limited

  – By Carrie Moyer

• This Is How We Do It

  – By Stephen Westfall

• Notes on Looking, Thinking, and then Writing

  – By Robert Berlind

• DOUG ARGUE Artspeak and The Art of Translation

  – By Alana Shilling-Janoff

• Breathing Room

  – By Susan Bee

• Discourse ≠ Art

  – By Stephen Maine

• Arguing Art

  – By Dennis Kardon

• DAVID SHRIGLEY Signs

  – By Noah Dillon

• Prolixity and Art

  – By Thyrza Nichols Goodeve

• SABINE HORNIG Transparent Things

  – By Paula Burleigh

• Looking/Reading/Writing

  – By David Carrier

• Sense and Unsensibility

  – By Tom McGlynn

• The Medium Has No Message

  – By R. H. Lossin

• A.R. PENCK New Paintings

  – By Jonathan Goodman

• SÉBASTIEN CLICHE, SYLVIE COTTON, CHELSEA KNIGHT, and MARK TRIBE Brooklyn/Montreal Exchange

  – By Gail Victoria Braddock Quagliata

• CORA COHEN The Responsibility of Forms

  – By Nora Griffin

• TOMMY MINTZ Mind the Gap/Mine the Gaps

  – By William Corwin

• TREVOR PAGLEN

  – By Desi Gonzalez

• LARRY POONS New Paintings

  – By Robert C. Morgan

• PAUL LAFFOLEY and SUZANNE TREISTER

  – By Ann McCoy

Books

• Lessons in Empathy

  – By Geoffrey Young

• LAUREN GROFF with Matthew Daddona

• Men Being Played

  – By Weston Cutter

• Technoir at Light Speed

  – By Ben Pfeiffer

• Where Food is Family

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• Wandering Beauty

  – By Tony Leuzzi

• A Wide Open Mind

  – By Christopher Michel

Music

• A Chance Meeting of Words and Music

  – By David St.-Lascaux

• AMPLIFY 2013: rotation

  – By Christopher Nelson

• A Great and Joyful Noise

  – By Jose Padua

• Decoding Lez Zeppelin

  – By Allyson Polsky McCabe

• Outtakes

  – By Steve Dalachinsky

• Still Tragic, Still Political, Still Swoon-Worthy

  – By Joanna McNaney Stein

Dance

• Protective Frost

  – By Siobhan Burke

• Viscera

  – By Cassie Peterson

• RASHAUN MITCHELL with Nancy Dalva

Film

• IT’S ALRIGHT, WILLIAMSBURG (I’M ONLY BLEEDING) SU FRIEDRICH with Cynthia Lugo

• The Many Hindrances of STEPHEN DWOSKIN

  – By Max Nelson

• ROOMS OF MELANCHOLIA Cristian Mungiu’s Beyond the Hills

  – By Ricky D'Ambrose

• NOTHING’S HAPPIER THAN HAPPINESS Pablo Larraín’s NO

  – By José Miguel Palacios

• FROM A DARK ROOM SANDRA GIBSON AND LUIS RECODER with Genevieve Yue

Theater

• Red Wigs and Lettuce Passing Through the Heart with Dalia Basiouny

  – By Catherine Filloux

• Lesser America Takes On A Tragic Chimp

  – By Ken Urban

• Miranda Huba's Candy Tastes Nice Puts Virginity on the Auction Block.

  – By Gary Winter

Fiction

• from The Collected Writings of Art Smith, The Bird Boy of Fort Wayne

  – By Michael Martone

• I Would Be Remiss If I Did Not Mention That I Have Nothing To Offer You In Return Whatsoever

  – By Nicolle Elizabeth

• When the Time Comes

  – By Josef Winkler

• ZOMB

  – By Matt Seneca

• Catscan

  – By Molly Roth

• Arrowschmitt!!!

  – By Arryan Decatur

• Tears Don't Dry

  – By Leah Hayes

• Tragic Strip

  – By T. Motley

• from the story collection The Man Who Walked on Air & other tales of innocence

  – By Alain Arias-Misson

Poetry

• Five

  – By Maxine Chernoff

• from Situations: Events and Spells

  – By Mercedes Roffé, translated from the Spanish by Judith Filc

• At Hell Gate

  – By Brandon Downing

Art Books

• Summer of Hate

  – By Wendy Vogel

• Hesitating Beauty

  – By Talia Bloch