Dec/Jan 14–15
The “Dec/Jan 14–15” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on December 18, 2015.
Publisher's Message
Dear Friends and Readers,
– By Phong H. Bui
Critics Page
A Tree With Roots
– By Raymond FoyeIN MEMORIAM
Rene Ricard
(1946 – 2014)– By Raymond FoyeMassachusetts Avenue
– By Rene RicardPoems
– By Rene RicardIntroducing Eric Walker
– By Raymond FoyeWILL EPSTEIN with Marshall Yarbrough
from Hoodo Metaphysics
–Shiv Mirabito on Shivastan Publishing
RIDE IT, OR GO UNDER
HENRY THREADGILL AND JASON MORAN with George Grella and Raymond Foye"It's a glorious thing if you don't expect an explanation."
Jordan Belson on his Art– By Raymond Foye and Jordan BelsonStroke
– By Charles SteinPHILIP TAAFFE with Charles Stein
The Liberation of the Knots
– By Jack Hirschman
Art
2014/15 Winter Reading List: Literary Revisitations
– By Phong H. BuiALANNA HEISS with David Carrier and Joachim Pissarro, with the assistance of Gaby Collins-Fernandez
Rethinking Duchamp
– By Barbara RoseROBERT GOBER with Jarrett Earnest
ALEXANDER ROSS with Will Corwin
Stealing Time: Emma Bee Bernstein
– By Michele Gerber KleinCasa Wabi
– By Lucía Hinojosa and Diego GerardNo Room for Artists
– By Darragh McNicholasTHE HELD ESSAYS ON VISUAL ART
Troubled Sleep, Sugar High– By Siona WilsonJUSTIN VIVIAN BOND with Jarrett Earnest
ArtSeen
IN MEMORIAM
Thoughts about Jane Freilicher (1924 - 2014)– By Joan GrubinZIN HELENA SONG:
Beyond Color – By Jonathan GoodmanLOUISE BOURGEOIS Suspension
– By Phong H. BuiLetter from Copenhagen
– By Terry R. MyersLILIANE TOMASKO Into the Darkness
– By David CarrierJAMES HOFF Skywiper
– By Charles SchultzGILLIAN WEARING We Are Here
– By Shana Beth MasonCARY SMITH and DON VOISINE Orthogonal and Diagonal
– By Joan WaltemathNEO RAUCH At the Well
– By Tom McGlynnANETA GRZESZYKOWSKA Selfie
– By David RhodesMICHELLE GRABNER
– By Kate LiebmanCHRIS OFILI Night and Day
– By Alexander ShulanTOM OTTERNESS Creation Myth
– By William J. SimmonsRICHARD POUSETTE-DART
– By Phong H. BuiBETTINA BLOHM
– By Jonathan GoodmanFRANCESCO VEZZOLI Teatro Romano
– By Samuel FeldblumTHE SECRET LIFE OF A FAKE UTOPIANIST DAN ALLENDE Humans: The Secret Life of Martin Handford
– By Aron K. YamaXU BING Phoenix: Xu Bing at the Cathedral
– By Taney RonigerRICHARD JACOBS: SOUL DELAY
– By Sarah GoffsteinJULIAN STANCZAK From Life
– By Tatiana IstominaALEKSANDAR DURAVCEVIC
– By Phong H. BuiMOURNING HABITS
Death Becomes Her: A Century of Mourning Attire– By Adele TutterMOBY Innocents
– By William CorwinSADE Attacking the Sun
– By John Galbraith Simmons
Books
End of an Era
– By Madeline GresselThe Myth of a Post-Racial America
– By Jill DehnertInconclusion
– By Geoffrey YoungMOTHER TONGUE
LEORA SKOLKIN-SMITH with Andrea ScrimaFall's Picks for Younger Readers
– By Jordan B. NielsenWARM CORE:
The Unusually Associative Cyclonic System of Ben Lerner's 10:04– By Lee KleinWHY ARE THERE NO FOUNDING MOTHERS?
KATHLEEN ROONEY with Rachel SlotnickArms in the Air
– By T Clutch FleischmannPure Art
– By Amy DenesonWRITTEN AT THE BODY
CHRISTINE WERTHEIM with Alexandra ChasinThe Long View Back to the Gardens: Politics as Dissident Polis in Jonathan Lethem's Dissident Gardens
– By Benjamin HollanderTo Articulate the Daily Miraculous
– By Weston CutterDREAM MACHINE
SADE MURPHY with Laura StokesA Vaccine for Death Itself Eludes Us Yet
– By Ben PfeifferA WAY I COULD BE
KATE BERNHEIMER with Matt BellFragments of Feminism: Four New Books
– By Christen Clifford
Music
Brooklyn Rail Highly Selective Music Events
CONSIDER THE CRITIC
Dispatch from the CMJ Music Marathon– By Allyson Polsky McCabeThe Code from Beneath Drives the Lines
– By Marshall YarbroughThe Beautiful Weirdness of Javier Cohen
– By Geoffrey ClarfieldGeorge Clinton
– By Kurt GottschalkOuttakes
– By Steve DalachinskyAnthems in the Afternoon
– By Andrea Gordillo10 LISTENS REVIEW: Philip White's Documents
– By Michael Durek
Dance
APPARITION OF A FACE IN A CROWD
Eiko's First Solo Performance In Philadelphia's 30th Street Station– By Madison MainwaringLives of (Xavier Le Roy's) Performers: Retrospective by Xavier Le Roy
– By Jaime Shearn CoanThis Interview
– By Stormy BudwigBEYOND "FORMAL"
Complicating Categorizations and Preserving Street Dance With Rep Your Style– By Ali Rosa-Salas
Theater
Aggressive Inefficiency:
from Stage to Page with Rachel Chavkin and Alec Duffy– By Frank BoudreauxBody Blows
David Anzuelo and the Creation of Violence– By Sarah ShaeferScenes From a Life
IVO VAN HOVE with Kristin MeyerA BEAUTIFUL DAY IN NOVEMBER ON THE BANKS OF THE GREATEST OF THE GREAT LAKES
Lee Sunday Evans with Sam Pinkleton</>– By Sam Pinkleton
Fiction
Somebody's Got to Sweep the Floors
– By Craig GarrettBorn Man
– By Lisa Gunnfrom Miransù
–Two Extracts from Aline and Valcour
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Poetry
Two
– By Douglas KearneyDromomania
– By Divya VictorFour
– By Julien Poirier
Art Books
The Ten Best Art Books of 2014
Events Ashore
– By Adam BellEight Begin: Artists' Memories of Starting Out
– By Nathlie Provosty
Field Notes
WHITHER THE REPUBLICAN PARTY?
The 2014 Election and the Future of Capital's "A-Team"– By Charlie PostTHE REVOLUTION IS BEING TELEVISED
BRANDON JOURDAN OF GLOBAL UPRISINGS with Paul MattickFIGHTING FOR THE FOREST
Ecological Activism in France– By Clémence Durand and Ferdinand CazalisAre we really feeling healthier or just dying less?
Questions for José Tapia– By Jose A. Tapia