APR 2014 – The Brooklyn Rail

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Editor's Message

BEYOND THE HORIZONS OF CRAFT Diversity in the Global Art Market
– By Lowery Stokes Sims

Publisher's Message

Dear friends and readers,
– By Phong Bui

Art

ArtSeen

ETHAN COOK: Problem In Chair Not In Computer
– By Alex Bacon
Mary McDonnell Clear Pause
– By Tom McGlynn
Metro
– By Jessica Holmes
Myths of Eden and Gauguin’s Metamorphoses
– By Alana Shilling-Janoff
Fountain Art Fair, 69th Armory Building
– By Margaret Graham
ALI BANISADR Motherboard
– By William Corwin
Ink Art: Past as Present in Contemporary China
– By Corina Larkin
Italian Futurism, 1909 – 1944: Reconstructing the Universe
– By Valery Oisteanu
PETER BUGGENHOUT Caterpillar Logic II
– By Darren Jones
NORBERT PRANGENBERG The Last Works
– By Ben La Rocco
THREE DIFFERENT VERSIONS OF THE SAME STORY Thomas Kovachevich 2013
– By David A. Willis
A=I O=II U=III BRIAN O’DOHERTY Connecting the ...
– By Kara L. Rooney
WILLIAM J. O’BRIEN
– By Terry R. Myers
NORIO IMAI Perspective in White
– By Taney Roniger
PAWEŁ ALTHAMER The Neighbors
– By Chloe Wyma
GERMAINE RICHIER
– By Sara Christoph
NATALIE EDGAR Abstract Journey
– By William Benton
For Marian
– By Anna Tome
EMILY NOELLE LAMBERT Curio Logic II
– By Becky Brown
CHUCK CLOSE Nudes 1967 – 2014
– By Phong Bui
PAT STEIR
– By Phong Bui
ROSS BLECKNER
– By Phong Bui
WILLIAM PANGBURN
– By Jonathan Goodman
ERWIN WURM Synthesa
– By Nicola Ricciardi
Sexing Sound: Aural Archives and Feminist Scores
– By Karlynne Ejercito

Critics Page

ALL TOGETHER NOW: Craft Across Boundaries
– By Glenn Adamson
WHAT CRAFT IS MISSING: Conversation to Continue…
– By Namita Gupta Wiggers
The Margin You Feel May Not Be Real
– By Sheila Pepe
WE ARE ALL CORALS NOW: A Crafty Yarn About Global Warming
– By Margaret Wertheim
CORPOREAL IMPULSE: Contemporary Artists Working in Clay
– By Allyson Unzicker
Parallel Closets
– By Aaron McIntosh
CRAFTING OUT OF HAND RON LABACO with Lowery Stokes Sims
THE POTTER IS PRESENT Alex Matisse’s Creative Cycle of Intention, Accident, and Community
– By Keith Recker

Books

The Rules of Obsession
– By Weston Cutter
Prismatic Plato
– By Jack Finnegan
Wading Into the Grey
– By Jeremy Polacek
Enemy and Promised Land
– By Katharina Smundak
SPECTACULAR INK DANIEL LEVINE with Benjamin Percy
WHAT’S IMPORTANT IS READING ADAM WILSON with Ben Pfeiffer
Unlikely Pairs
– By Risa Miller

Music

Brooklyn Rail Highly Selective Music Events
THE OUTSIDER Allen Lowe Against the Jazz Tradition
– By George Grella
ROMANO DROM
– By Marshall Yarbrough
WILLIAM TYLER
– By Christopher Nelson
Muzak for the Manic
– By Taylor Dafoe
Outtakes
– By Steve Dalachinsky
Tinariwen at Brooklyn Bowl
– By Enrica Ferrero
Christian Wolff @ 80
– By Kurt Gottschalk

Dance

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Faye Driscoll’s World
– By Brian Schaefer
GERARD & KELLY with Stephanie Joy Del Rosso

Film

The Practice of Description: Films and Videos by Thom Andersen
– By Colin Beckett
ROBERT GREENE with Valentina Canavesio
ALWAYS IN THE PRESENT TENSE KEVIN JEROME EVERSON with Benjamin Schultz‑Figueroa
OUT OF EDEN Jarmusch Since 2009
– By Joseph Pomp
The Theater of Outlaws The Wooster Group’s Rumstick Road
– By Xin Zhou
FADE TO BLUE On Derek Jarman’s Final Film
– By Shana Beth Mason

Theater

UBU SINGS UBU DAN SAFER and TONY TORN with JOHN REED
How to be Good, and Win Anyway Bryan Cranston Goes All The Way
– By J. C. Hallman
Iskandar’s Feast: Bringing the Bacchanal Back to Theater Ed Sylvanus Iskandar with Jordan G. Teicher
Deserving in Kansas: Catherine Trieschmann
– By Trista Baldwin

Fiction

from DNA
– By Johannah Rogers
from Miransù
– by Monica Sarsini, translated from the Italian by Maryann De Julio
extracts from FIELD GLASS
– Joanna Ruocco | Joanna Howard
A diary of mysterious difficulties…
– By Laura Raicovich
Diary
– By Liana Finck
Tragic Strip
– By Tom Motley

Poetry

Five
– By Carley Moore
Five
– By CAConrad
Five
– By Guillermo Filice Castro
Three
– By Andrew Boston
Eight from Newcomer
– By Nathaniel Farrell
Four
– By Paul G. Maziar

Art Books

IN MEMORIAM PictureBox
– By Trinie Dalton
Converging Lines: Eva Hesse and Sol LeWitt
– By Samantha Dylan Mitchell
The Place We Live
– By Adam Bell

Field Notes

From the Editor: Field Notes
– By Paul Mattick
WHITHER LICH? Healthcare in an Age of Austerity
– By The Florence Johnson Collective
LETTER FROM POZNAN Who controls the budget, controls culture
– By Krzysztof Król
HOPE On the Revolts in Bosnia-Herzegovina
– By Charles Reeve

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