NOV 2014

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A message from Phong Bui
Publisher and Artistic Director

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

Translating Communities
Guest Critic: Mary Ann Caws
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-QuiÃ±ones)
2015 Pushcart nominees InTranslation, the Brooklyn Rail
(Jen Zoble and Donald Breckenridge, eds.)
Matricide
by Santiago VizcaÃno, translated from the Spanish by Kimrey Anna Batts
Music Below Ground
by Santiago VizcaÃno, 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 Tom 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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NOV 2014

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NOV 2014

Find the RAIL in print

Subscribe $50 annually

A message from Phong Bui
Publisher and Artistic Director

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

Translating Communities
Guest Critic: Mary Ann Caws
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-QuiÃ±ones)
2015 Pushcart nominees InTranslation, the Brooklyn Rail
(Jen Zoble and Donald Breckenridge, eds.)
Matricide
by Santiago VizcaÃno, translated from the Spanish by Kimrey Anna Batts
Music Below Ground
by Santiago VizcaÃno, 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 Tom 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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