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INCONVERSATION
ALMA EGGER with Joachim Pissarro
Art
Fresh Window Gallery presented the exhibition NightLight from September 5 through October 18, 2014. The two-person show featured the work of Swiss-born painter Marc Egger and Japenese-Russian painter and sculptor, Miya Ando.
FEATURE CREEPS
How Pandora’s Music Genome Project Misrepresents the Way We Hear Music
by Dave Mandl
Music
When you’re a Silicon Valley tool with a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Among other things, this means that nearly any object or phenomenon known to man is reducible to some formula or algorithm, and thus replicable—only better!—in a lab or startup garage.
INCONVERSATION
NOW IS THE DOMAIN OF THE NOW
ENRICO D. WEY with Jaime Shearn Coan
Dance
I met Enrico Wey during a heat wave in August 2013. Once we got to talking, Wey mentioned the genesis of his then-current project: a slim book of fragmented prose called água Viva, written by the Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector.
INCONVERSATION
CROSSOVER ARTIST
CLAUDIA LA ROCCO with Siobhan Burke
Books
I first met Claudia La Rocco in 2009, when I took her Writing on Dance class at what was then Dance Theater Workshop. The course began from the simple premise, a revelation to me at the time, that criticism is an art form in itself.
Politics Without Politics
by Anselm JappeField Notes
Must it be taken then as an article of faith that opposition to capitalism, or to its contemporary excesses, goes via what is commonly called politics? It is clear that nothing would have changed if Ségolène Royal, the 2007 French Socialist Party candidate for president, had been elected instead of rightist Nicolas Sarkozy.
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PUBLISHER&ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
PUBLISHER&ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Dear Friends and Readers,
by Phong BuiWe managed to complete the elaborate installation of Spaced Out: Migration to the Interior just a few minutes before the opening reception on Thursday, October 9. Whew!
GUESTCRITIC
Translating Communities
by Mary Ann CawsPicking up on a thread from the last Brooklyn Rail Critics Page, about haunting, and who and what haunts you, I first think of André Breton’s Nadja and its beginning: “Who am I? If this once I were to rely on a proverb, then perhaps everything would amount to knowing whom I ‘haunt.’”
CRITICSPAGE
- Sound of the Sky by Barbara Campisi
- Art Story by Charlotte Kent
- Antoni Muntadas and Translation by Michèle C. Cone
- Dorrit Black’s Bridge, Leaping the Gap by Rosemay Lloyd
- Palace Art Squat by Jonathan P. Eburne
- Guardi’s Balloon by Lee Hallman
- …art translated by Michael Alec Rose
- Ekphrastic Poem by Jennifer Michael Hecht
- Two Poems by Sarah Plimpton
ARTSEEN
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JÖRG IMMENDORFF
Café Deutschland by Phong Bui - Experiments With Truth: Gandhi and Images of Nonviolence by Phong Bui
- MUNRO GALLOWAY Belief System by Sara Christoph
- JUSTINE KURLAND Sincere Auto Care by Tom McGlynn
- ROBERT GOBER The Heart is Not a Metaphor by David Carrier
- ADAM HELMS Uncanny Valley by Sara Roffino
- RICHARD PRINCE New Portraits by Taylor Dafoe
- HEDWIG BROUCKAERT a knot, a tangle, a blemish in the eternal smoothness by Taney Roniger
- STEPHEN SHORE by Lucy Li
- ANDREA BÜTTNER by David Rhodes
- CHRIS MARTIN by Phong Bui
- JASON FOX Supernaturalism by Kate Liebman
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THE PERKS OF BEING AN OUTSIDER
FRED GUTZEIT Signatures by Lynn Maliszewski - REBECCA WARREN Why Do Birds Suddenly Appear? by Kara L. Rooney
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She Depicting Her: A Woman’s Perspective
Eleanor Adam, Janet A. Cook, Liz Adams-Jones, Leah Lopez, and Orly Shiv by Christopher Green - WAYNE THIEBAUD by Hearne Pardee
- JOHN WALKER: Recent Paintings by Alana Shilling-Janoff
- WILL CORWIN & NEIL GREENBERG at the Staten Island Arts Culture Lounge by Jonathan Goodman
- Jean-Luc Mouléne Torture Concrete by Alexander Shulan
Table of Contents
Publisher's Message
- Dear Friends and Readers, by Phong Bui
Editor's Message
- Translating Communities by Mary Ann Caws
Art
- WALTER ROBINSON with Phong Bui
- RAQUEL RABINOVICH with Ann McCoy
- STEEL STILLMAN with Marcia E. Vetrocq
- ALMA EGGER with Joachim Pissarro
- FIRST LADY OF PERFORMANCE ART MARTHA WILSON with Jarrett Earnest
- ART AND ACTIVISM: Talking Steubenville, ANDREA BOWERS In Conversation with Ashton Cooper by Ashton Cooper
- Pilgrims at Esopus Creek: Three Seasons of the Shandaken Project A Conversation with Founding Director Nicholas Weist and 2014 Resident Chloé Rossetti
ArtSeen
- JÖRG IMMENDORFF Café Deutschland by Phong Bui
- Experiments With Truth: Gandhi and Images of Nonviolence by Phong Bui
- MUNRO GALLOWAY Belief System by Sara Christoph
- JUSTINE KURLAND Sincere Auto Care by Tom McGlynn
- ROBERT GOBER The Heart is Not a Metaphor by David Carrier
- ADAM HELMS Uncanny Valley by Sara Roffino
- RICHARD PRINCE New Portraits by Taylor Dafoe
- HEDWIG BROUCKAERT a knot, a tangle, a blemish in the eternal smoothness by Taney Roniger
- STEPHEN SHORE by Lucy Li
- ANDREA BÜTTNER by David Rhodes
- CHRIS MARTIN by Phong Bui
- JASON FOX Supernaturalism by Kate Liebman
- THE PERKS OF BEING AN OUTSIDER FRED GUTZEIT Signatures by Lynn Maliszewski
- REBECCA WARREN Why Do Birds Suddenly Appear? by Kara L. Rooney
- She Depicting Her: A Woman’s Perspective Eleanor Adam, Janet A. Cook, Liz Adams-Jones, Leah Lopez, and Orly Shiv by Christopher Green
- WAYNE THIEBAUD by Hearne Pardee
- JOHN WALKER: Recent Paintings by Alana Shilling-Janoff
- WILL CORWIN & NEIL GREENBERG at the Staten Island Arts Culture Lounge by Jonathan Goodman
- Jean-Luc Mouléne Torture Concrete by Alexander Shulan
Critics Page
- Sound of the Sky by Barbara Campisi
- Art Story by Charlotte Kent
- Antoni Muntadas and Translation by Michèle C. Cone
- Dorrit Black’s Bridge, Leaping the Gap by Rosemay Lloyd
- Palace Art Squat by Jonathan P. Eburne
- Guardi’s Balloon by Lee Hallman
- …art translated by Michael Alec Rose
- Ekphrastic Poem by Jennifer Michael Hecht
- Two Poems by Sarah Plimpton
Books
- Life Until Death by Jeremy Polacek
- Our Brave New World by Justin Slaughter
- NEGATION OF DESIRE DARCEY STEINKE with Elizabeth Trundle
- 2 A.M. at The Cat’s Pajamas MARIE-HELENE BERTINO with Marina Petrova
- A Life in a Box by T Clutch Fleischmann
- CROSSOVER ARTIST CLAUDIA LA ROCCO with Siobhan Burke
- Memory is a Merciless Editor by Susan Buttenwieser
- MONSTROUS AMERICA by John Domini
- ASSAULT VIA ART by Chris Campanioni
- ABORIGINAL LOVE by J.T. Price
- The Hero Isn't Home by Megan Hanson
- Balling Hard in Different Aspect Ratios: HEIKO JULIEN in conversation with Rob Williams by Rob Williams
- BEYOND THAT: WENDY C. ORTIZ In Conversation with Laura Jean Moore: by Laura Jean Moore
- TO BE FLOODED ONCE MORE: JAMES TOLAN In Conversation with Tony Leuzzi by Tony Leuzzi
- MY GODDAMN FLESH by Amy Deneson
Music
- Brooklyn Rail Highly Selective Music Events
- FEATURE CREEPS How Pandora’s Music Genome Project Misrepresents the Way We Hear Music by Dave Mandl
- Three Best Repetitions of 2014 by Marshall Yarbrough
- My Year in Music by George Grella
- Best of 2014 by Christopher Nelson
- Outtakes by Steve Dalachinsky
Dance
- DEAN MOSS: johnbrown by Leslie Allison
- Singing clear through a forest of signs: On Bill T. Jones’s Story/Time, the performance and the book by Madison Mainwaring
- NOW IS THE DOMAIN OF THE NOW ENRICO D. WEY with Jaime Shearn Coan
- The Knife, The Moon, and The Grace of Jesus by Brian Schaefer
- ROSEANNE SPRADLIN with Siobhan Burke
- BIRD OF A FEATHER Jennifer Monson’s Live Dancing Archive by Cassie Peterson
Film
- Fighting the Power at DOC NYC by Williams Cole
- SAINT DEREK The Films of Derek Jarman at BAM Cinématek by Daniel Walber
- PASTS AND PRESENTS The New York Film Festival’s Projections by Colin Beckett
- UNAUTHORIZED AUTOBIOGRAPHIES Eduardo Coutinho’s Jogo de Cena by Steve Macfarlane
- Slavic Undercurrents in the 2014 London Film Festival by Herb Shellenberger
Theater
- Young Jean Lee: Inviting Everyone into the Room, Straight White Men, Too by Matthew Paul Olmos
- Asymmetric In the Trenches with Mac Rogers by Sean Williams
Fiction
- 2015 Pushcart nominees Fiction, the Brooklyn Rail (Donald Breckenridge, editor with assistance from Claudia Acevedo-Quiñones)
- 2015 Pushcart nominees InTranslation, the Brooklyn Rail (Jen Zoble and Donald Breckenridge, eds.)
- Matricide by Santiago Vizcaíno, translated from the Spanish by Kimrey Anna Batts
- Music Below Ground by Santiago Vizcaíno, translated from the Spanish by Kimrey Anna Batts
- Night and Nothing by Wayne Conti
- I Love Being A Gourmande by Colette, translated from the French by Mary Ann Caws
- from Miransù by Monica Sarsini, translated from the Italian by Maryann De Julio
- A Philadelphia Story by Ron Kolm
- Tragic Strip by T. Motley
- Notifications & Ringtones by Jess Worby
- Courtesy, Professionalism, Respect by Steven Little
- An OKComix Collaboration by Molly Roth
- Arrowschmitt!! by Arryan Decatur
Poetry
- Introduction by John Ebersole
- Seven by Ryan Eckes
- [han]: by Jenn McCreary
- Four by Natalie Lyalin
- from It's Time by Frank Sherlock
- Six by Carlos Soto-Román
Art Books
- Virgil Marti: Forest Park by Samantha Dylan Mitchell
- Gestures by Scott Patrick Wiener
Field Notes
- Capitalism, Utopian and Scientific by Paul Mattick
- Notes from the Anthropocene #1 by Glenn Dyer and Stephanie Wakefield
- A Chinaman’s Chance by Sokthan Yeng
- #FloodWallStreet Climate Activists: It’s Capitalism, Stupid! by Geoff Gilbert
- Politics Without Politics by Anselm Jappe
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