September 2014
The “September 2014” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on September 4, 2014.
Publisher's Message
Dear Friends and Readers,
– By Phong H. Bui
Critics Page
A FEMINIST RESPONSE
Gender Games and the Art Machine– By Kara L. RooneyTHE GALLERY TALLY POSTER PROJECT
A Call for Gender Equity in the Art World– By Micol HebronSue Scott
Amnesiac Return
Amnesiac Return– By Mira SchorRiding the Fourth Wave in a Changing Sea
– By Wendy VogelLEAN BACK
Resisting Branded Feminism– By Chloe WymaNavigating the Nameless
– By Redell & JimenezECOSEX MANIFESTO
Draft 1.0 of a Work in Progress– By Beth Stephens and Annie SprinkleAfter the Slumber Party...
– By Andrea Bowers and Suzanne LacyDo I Stand in Darkness or in Light?
– By Laura RaicovichUPDATING (THE) USES OF THE EROTIC
from Georges Bataille and Jean Genet to Audre Lorde and bell hooks– By Lisi RaskinFranklin Evans
– By Franklin EvansFeminism Rising
– By Nancy PrincenthalOBJECT ATTACHMENTS
The Indexical Form in Feminist Art– By Krista Geneviève LynesThe Language of Art is Still Defined by Men
– By Nancy AzaraFrames
– By Susan Bee10 Divinations on Hip Hop As Sacred Medicine
Blood Time, Sex Rituals & Ancestral Communion of the Mother Tongue– By Katie CerconeMy French American Potluck
– By Coco DolleAll You Protest Kids, You Can Hear Jack Say, Sweet Jane
– By Patricia MaloneyNotes from an Old Maenad in the Trenches
– By Ann McCoyA Thick Neck in the Wedge of Habit Speaks with an Inherited Voice
– By Nathlie ProvostyAchieving Authentic Equality
– By Anne Sherwood PundykAfter Some Advances, A Backslide
– By Martha Schwendener
Art
MIKHAIL PIOTROVSKY with David Carrier & Joachim Pissarro
EVE ANDRÉE LARAMÉE with Ann McCoy
ETEL ADNAN & SIMONE FATTAL with Sara Roffino & Anna Tome
ROXY PAINE with Will Corwin
PAINTER:POET = FOREST:BEAST
Ellen Wiener and LB Thompson Collaborate– By Joyce BeckensteinTWENTY YEARS OF APEXART
A Profile of Founder Steven Rand– By Darragh McNicholasA Tribute to David Rosand
(1938 – 2014)– By Phong H. Bui
ArtSeen
Augustus
– By Richard TuttleHere and Elsewhere
– By Ann McCoyUnder the Same Sun: Art from Latin America Today
– By Lucía HinojosaTIME IS OF THE ESSENCE
Charles Gaines: Gridwork 1974 – 1989– By Lynn MaliszewskiA HUMAN KIND OF HOLINESS
Tà Hierá– By Alana Shilling-JanoffSPENCER FINCH A Certain Slant of Light
– By Matthew FarinaLUCIO FONTANA Retrospective
– By Tom McGlynnJEFF KOONS at the Whitney
– By William BentonCHRISTOPHER WILLIAMS The Production Line of Happiness
– By Sara ChristophRICHARD TUTTLE In Praise of Economic Determinism
– By Phong H. BuiCAIO REISEWITZ
– By Nicola Ricciardi
Books
Joyce's Sublime Depravity
– By Geoffrey YoungContinental Divine
– By John DominiWhen Being Bad Is Good
– By Ashley P. TaylorBrazil's Literary Hand Grenades
– By Jeffrey ZuckermanThe Transposition Workout
– By T Clutch Fleischmann
Music
Brooklyn Rail Highly Selective Music Events
FALL MUSIC SCENE
New Venues New York–Carving Coltrane's "Crescent"
– By Kurt Gottschalk1O LISTENS REVIEW
dinMachine's Dance to Reason– By Michael DurekTHE SHAPE OF PROTEST TO COME
Liberation Music Orchestra and Charlie Haden's Legacy– By Jeff TobiasOuttakes
– By Steve Dalachinsky
Dance
Site-Specific Dance
– By Stormy BudwigHappy We!
– By Nancy DalvaELIZABETH STREB with Nancy Dalva
– By Nancy DalvaDANCE DIPLOMACY
Healing a Hundred Years of Hatred One Step at a Time– By Gillian Jakab
Film
Correspondence: Ben Mendelsohn talks to filmmakers Peter Bo Rappmund and Hunter Snyder about contemporary landscape cinema and the politics of infrastructure
A Parable on Authenticity: Art and Craft
– By Williams ColeQUEERNESS AND MELANCHOLIA
An Excerpt from Terence Davies– By Michael KoreskyTHE BEST OF TIMES
The Films of Hou Hsiao-Hsien– By Xin ZhouAGAINST THE PRESENT
Selections from FID Marseille 2014– By Leo Goldsmith
Fiction
The Ancestor of Hearts
– By Christine Schutt and Diane WilliamsRussell
– By Daniel GrandboisCake (extract)
– By Sarah Françoisefrom Miransù
–Chapter 1 from Little Is Left To Tell
–an extract from Our Lady of the Nile
–The Selected Correspondence of Louis-Ferdinand Céline
–Yup Nope
– By Andrea TsurumiCountless Evils
– By HectorArrowschmidtt!!!
– By Arryan DecaturMessage from March 3rd, 2014
– By Molly RothOverheard at the Atlantic Terminal Mall
– By Steven Little
Poetry
from A Poem for Record Keepers
– By Ali PowerPYRAMIDS
– By Jamie TownsendNine
– By Melanie NeilsonRavel Unravel
– By Eugene Ostashevsky
Art Books
Living and Sustaining a Creative Life
– By Tamsin DohertyNewARTtheatre: Evolutions of the Performance Aesthetic
– By Jess Wilcox
Field Notes
Back to School
– By Paul MattickEDUCATION REFORM
Beneath the Surface
Part IV: Beyond Reform– By John GarveyRANDY RACCOONS
The Threat to Russia's Youth– By Margarita MeklinaDegrees of Privilege
– By Gary RothThe Sound of Hesitation
– By Leonhard Bartussek