June 2014
The “June 2014” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on June 5, 2014.
Critics Page
Wellsprings Reconsidered
– By Ann McCoyThe Cracks in the Pavement
– By Marina WarnerCubist, as in Cuba
– By Enrique PardoDreamscripts in the Waking World
– By William KieselNo More Hidden Order of Art
– By Donald KuspitCindy and Andy on the Ancient Unconscious
– By Richard FletcherA NEW JERSEY WITCH IN JOHN CALVIN'S COURT
Excerpts from an interview with Khem Caigan, conducted, edited, and composed–To Plow the Sea: A Note on the Unconscious
– By Carter RatcliffEverything's All Right
– By Lesley Dill"Vespers Pool" (1999 – 2000)
– By Carolee SchneemanSigmar Polke's Photographic Unconscious
– By Maika PollackThe Unconscious
– By Lenore MalenThe Matriarch's Rhapsody
– By Jacolby SatterwhiteVISUALIZING MADNESS
A Long History of Madness, 2012 – Present– By Mieke Bal and Michelle Williams GamakerMICHAEL ZANSKY
(Documentation for the Works of Art)– By Michael ZanskyRICHARD SMITH
– By Steven PoserThis is Not the Article, Just Coffee Talk...
– By Barnaby Ruhe...Saying These Things, I Went to Sleep...
– By Brian CotnoirThe Warp and the Woof
– By Mira SchorSUSAN BEE
KIKI SMITH
NALINI MALANI
Mutable and Immutable Divides
– By Joan WaltemathFaith & the Devil
– By Lesley DillArtists-of-the-Dream: Harbingers of Social Change
– By Patricia AriadneWhy I Went from the Visual Arts to Theater
– By Michael F. BergmannSometimes it takes an Outsider artist to remind us how the unconscious serves not only as a powerful source of inspiration but the only source that results in truly compelling art...
– By Peter Hastings Falk"Even the Dumbest Dream Can Astound Us with its Art"
– By Nor HallKris-Crossing
– By Ellen Handler SpitzFORREST BESS
A Visionary Artist's Journey into Madness– By Steven PoserPsyche
– By Anita Sieff
Publisher's Message
Dear Friends and Colleagues,
– By Phong H. Bui
Art
Living Under Sick Machines
PETER LAMBORN WILSON /HAKIM BEY with Jarrett EarnestSAM MOYER with Alex Bacon
Into a Future of His Choice: Catching Up with Frank O'Hara
– By Tim KeaneROBERT FEINTUCH with Phong Bui
What Will Have Been: Interviews on A People's Archive of Sinking and Melting
– By Dana KopelMy Heart is Full of Futurity
MIGUEL GUTIERREZ with Jarrett EarnestTHINK HARDER
An exchange between David Ostrowski and Alex Bacon
ArtSeen
Pontormo and Rosso Fiorentino: Diverging Paths of Mannerism
– By David CarrierTHOMAS HIRSCHHORN: Flamme éternelle (Eternal Flame)
– By Julie HigonnetCLINT JUKKALA Cosmic Trigger
– By Hearne PardeeHOWARDENA PINDELL Paintings, 1974-1980
– By Jessica HolmesLEBBEUS WOODS Architect
– By Jonathan GoodmanJORINDE VOIGT Codification of Intimacy: Works on Nikolas Luhmann
– By Alana Shilling-JanoffISA GENZKEN Retrospective
– By Terry R. MyersKIM JONES mountain girl door
– By Tom McGlynnKATIE HOLTEN and MARIATERESA SARTORI Linea
– By William CorwinADRIANA VAREJÃO
– By Sara RoffinoLISI RASKIN Recuperative Tactics
– By Juliet HelmkeHED: FRAGMENTED HISTORY
ZHANG HUAN Evoking Tradition– By Heather Corcoran
STOP, LOOK AND LISTEN!
MEL BOCHNER Strong Language– By Richard KalinaGUILLERMO KUITCA This Way
– By Georgia Phillips-AmosLYGIA CLARK
The Abandonment of Art, 1948–1988– By The EditorsMartin Kippenberger Raft of the Medusa
– By Anna Tome
Books
A Crisis of Faith
– By Brian GreskoMany States of America
– By Jack FinneganNoble Deceit
– By Geoffrey YoungThrough the Body of the Storm
– By Joyelle McSweeneyThis Instance of Entrance
– By Steve FellnerThe Writer and the Raptor
– By Casey MurphyAll of us in the Gutter: D. FOY in conversation with Matt Bell
– By Matt BellAn Unexpected Collaboration: KENAN TREBINCEVIC and SUSAN SHAPIRO in conversation with Rob Williams
– By Rob WilliamsAnatomization of a Marriage
– By Elizabeth EslamiEnlarging the Perception of Beauty
– By J. C. HallmanMrs. Brown's Furniture
– By Ashley P. TaylorOccasional Instances of Confession: TONY LEUZZI with David Groff
– By David Groff
Music
Call it Punk Rockhausen: Excepter
– By Taylor DafoeBrooklyn Rail Highly Selective Music Events
Steve Lehman Makes History
– By George GrellaMATA YOUTH, 2014 EDITION
– By George GrellaMATA April 16, 2014
Uusinta– By Jeff TompkinsMATA April 17, 2014
That Which Remains– By Stephanie Del RossoMATA April 18, 2014
Lives in Miniature– By George GrellaMATA April 19, 2014
Oscar Bianchi's Matra– By Christopher NelsonMATA April 20, 2014
Neue Vocalsolisten American Premieres– By Marshall YarbroughMATA April 21, 2014
Of Circles and Motions of the Others– By Susan ScheidOuttakes
– By Steve Dalachinsky
Dance
In Rehearsal with DD Dorvillier
– By Stormy BudwigTHIERRY THIEÛ NIANG with Ivan Talijancic
a Natural dance
– By Jaime Shearn Coan
Film
Interior Life: Place in the Films of Joanna Hogg
– By Rachael RakesDocs in Sight: A Plague of Money: Citizen Koch's Concrete Tale of Cash and Politics
– By Williams Cole and Williams ColeOBERHAUSEN TURNS SIXTY
International Short Film Festival Oberhausen– By Aily NashSHAINA ANAND with Xin Zhou
THE THIRST FOR ANNIHILATION
William Friedkin's Sorcerer– By Jason LaRivièrePAWEL PAWLIKOWSKI with Joshua Sperling
Theater
A Different Invitation
Queer Performance on the Road– By Alexis ClementsThe Howls and Sounds of our Little-Kiss Lives:
Ariel Stess's I'm Pretty Fucked Up– By Ben Gassman
Fiction
Blue is a cold number #1
– By Matt NelsonOn Von Chiffon
– By Alec NiedenthalOur Mother, Come to Find
– By J. A. Tylerfrom Miransù
–Remembering Gabriel García Márquez (1927-2014)
– By Catherine RendónThe Selected Correspondence of Louis-Ferdinand Céline
–Arrowschmitt!!!
– By Arryan DecaturTo Make This Thing With Better Flow
or: One of the Ones Who Got Away–Aline the Alien
– By Tom MotleyKeeping Time
–Avenge Me, Eavesdropper
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Poetry
from Daydreams
– By James La Marrefrom Back on Earth
– By Brent CunninghamThree
– By Rae ArmantroutVaporative
– By Layli Long SoldierDas Wirbelsäulen Orakel für Meret Oppenheim / The Vertebrae Oracle for Meret Oppenheim
– By Rebecca Hornfrom sleep as information/the fountain is a water feature
– By Ed SteckIn Conversation with Ed Steck
Art Books
Words for Art
– By Barbara Rose
Field Notes
Much Ado About Something
– By Paul MattickEDUCATION REFORM Beneath the Surface
Part II: Marketizing School Reform– By John GarveyBITCOIN
A Digital Alternative?– By Tony NorfieldBOXING COMBINATIONS
Rocky on Broadway– By David Hancock TurnerNOTES FROM TEXAS
This is What Oligarchy Looks Like– By Stephen Amberg