SEPT 2014 – The Brooklyn Rail

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Publisher's Message

Dear Friends and Readers,
– By Phong Bui

Editor's Message

A FEMINIST RESPONSE Gender Games and the Art Machine
– By Kara L. Rooney

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 Beckenstein
TWENTY YEARS OF APEXART A Profile of Founder Steven Rand
– By Darragh McNicholas
A Tribute to David Rosand (1938 – 2014)
– By Phong Bui

ArtSeen

Augustus
– By Richard Tuttle
Here and Elsewhere
– By Ann McCoy
Under the Same Sun: Art from Latin America Today
– By Lucía Hinojosa
TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE Charles Gaines: Gridwork 1974 – 1989
– By Lynn Maliszewski
A HUMAN KIND OF HOLINESS Tà Hierá
– By Alana Shilling-Janoff
LUCIO FONTANA Retrospective
– By Tom McGlynn
SPENCER FINCH A Certain Slant of Light
– By Matthew Farina
JEFF KOONS at the Whitney
– By William Benton
CHRISTOPHER WILLIAMS The Production Line of Happiness
– By Sara Christoph
RICHARD TUTTLE In Praise of Economic Determinism
– By Phong Bui
CAIO REISEWITZ
– By Nicola Ricciardi

Critics Page

THE GALLERY TALLY POSTER PROJECT A Call for Gender Equity in the Art World
– By Micol Hebron
Sue Scott
Amnesiac Return Amnesiac Return
– By Mira Schor
Riding the Fourth Wave in a Changing Sea
– By Wendy Vogel
LEAN BACK Resisting Branded Feminism
– By Chloe Wyma
Navigating the Nameless
– By Redell & Jimenez
ECOSEX MANIFESTO Draft 1.0 of a Work in Progress
– By Beth Stephens and Annie Sprinkle
After the Slumber Party…
– By Andrea Bowers and Suzanne Lacy
Do I Stand in Darkness or in Light?
– By Laura Raicovich
UPDATING (THE) USES OF THE EROTIC from Georges Bataille and Jean Genet to Audre Lorde and bell hooks
– By Lisi Raskin
Franklin Evans
– By Franklin Evans
Feminism Rising
– By Nancy Princenthal
OBJECT ATTACHMENTS The Indexical Form in Feminist Art
– By Krista Geneviève Lynes
The Language of Art is Still Defined by Men
– By Nancy Azara
Frames
– By Susan Bee
10 Divinations on Hip Hop As Sacred Medicine Blood Time, Sex Rituals & Ancestral Communion of the Mother Tongue
– By Katie Cercone
My French American Potluck
– By Coco Dolle
All You Protest Kids, You Can Hear Jack Say, Sweet Jane
– By Patricia Maloney
Notes from an Old Maenad in the Trenches
– By Ann McCoy
A Thick Neck in the Wedge of Habit Speaks with an Inherited Voice
– By Nathlie Provosty
Achieving Authentic Equality
– By Anne Sherwood Pundyk
After Some Advances, A Backslide
– By Martha Schwendener

Books

The Transposition Workout
– By T Clutch Fleischmann
Joyce’s Sublime Depravity
– By Geoffrey Young
Continental Divine
– By John Domini
When Being Bad Is Good
– By Ashley P. Taylor
Brazil’s Literary Hand Grenades
– By Jeffrey Zuckerman

Music

Brooklyn Rail Highly Selective Music Events
FALL MUSIC SCENE New Venues New York
– by Marshall Yarbrough, with additional reporting by George Grella
Carving Coltrane’s “Crescent”
– By Kurt Gottschalk
1O LISTENS REVIEW dinMachine’s Dance to Reason
– By Michael Durek
THE SHAPE OF PROTEST TO COME Liberation Music Orchestra and Charlie Haden’s Legacy
– By Jeff Tobias
Outtakes
– By Steve Dalachinsky

Dance

Site-Specific Dance
– By Stormy Budwig
Happy We!
– By Nancy Dalva
ELIZABETH STREB with Nancy Dalva
– By Nancy Dalva
DANCE DIPLOMACY Healing a Hundred Years of Hatred One Step at a Time
– By Gillian Jakab

Film

A Parable on Authenticity: Art and Craft
– By Williams Cole
Correspondence: Ben Mendelsohn talks to filmmakers Peter Bo Rappmund and Hunter Snyder about contemporary landscape cinema and the politics of infrastructure
QUEERNESS AND MELANCHOLIA An Excerpt from Terence Davies
– By Michael Koresky
THE BEST OF TIMES The Films of Hou Hsiao-Hsien
– By Xin Zhou
AGAINST THE PRESENT Selections from FID Marseille 2014
– By Leo Goldsmith

Theater

Fiction

The Ancestor of Hearts
– By Christine Schutt and Diane Williams
Russell
– By Daniel Grandbois
Cake (extract)
– By Sarah Françoise
from Miransù
– by Monica Sarsini, translated from the Italian by Maryann De Julio
Chapter 1 from Little Is Left To Tell
– a debut novel by Steven Hendricks
an extract from Our Lady of the Nile
– by Scholastique Mukasonga, translated from the French by Melanie Mauthner
The Selected Correspondence of Louis-Ferdinand Céline
– translated from the French by Mitch Abidor
Yup Nope
– By Andrea Tsurumi
Countless Evils
– By Hector
Arrowschmidtt!!!
– By Arryan Decatur
Message from March 3rd, 2014
– By Molly Roth
Overheard at the Atlantic Terminal Mall
– By Steven Little

Poetry

from A Poem for Record Keepers
– By Ali Power
PYRAMIDS
– By Jamie Townsend
Nine
– By Melanie Neilson
Ravel Unravel
– By Eugene Ostashevsky

Art Books

Living and Sustaining a Creative Life
– By Tamsin Doherty
NewARTtheatre: Evolutions of the Performance Aesthetic
– By Jess Wilcox

Field Notes

Back to School
– By Paul Mattick
EDUCATION REFORM Beneath the Surface Part IV: Beyond Reform
– By John Garvey
RANDY RACCOONS The Threat to Russia’s Youth
– By Margarita Meklina
Degrees of Privilege
– By Gary Roth
The Sound of Hesitation
– By Leonhard Bartussek

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