NOV 2014 – The Brooklyn Rail

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Publisher's Message

Dear Friends and Readers,
– By Phong Bui

Editor's Message

Translating Communities
– By Mary Ann Caws

Art

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-QuiÃƒÂ±ones)
2015 Pushcart nominees InTranslation, the Brooklyn Rail
– (Jen Zoble and Donald Breckenridge, eds.)
Matricide
– by Santiago VizcaÃƒÂno, translated from the Spanish by Kimrey Anna Batts
Music Below Ground
– by Santiago VizcaÃƒÂno, 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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