March 2015
The “March 2015” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on March 5, 2015.
Critics Page
Tools and Contemporary Art
– By Barbara LondonChristopher Thomas Allen
Ken Okiishi
Jana Winderen
Karen Archey
Tun Win Aung and Wah Nu
Marilyn Minter
Judith Barry
Johanna Fateman
A Tool is a Tool is a Rose
– By Sala-mancaTeppei Kaneuji
The Artist's Hands
– By Homer FlynnJosh Kline
Haroon Mirza
Antoine Catala
Guy Goldstein
Tools of the Trade
– By Naiza Khan
Publisher's Message
Dear Friends and Readers,
– By Phong H. Bui
ArtSeen
Olivier Mosset
– By Tom McGlynnDavina Semo
– By Noah DillonA Panel on Painting
Don't Shoot the Messenger
– By Phyllis TuchmanForever Now Tomorrow
– By Barbara RoseSeeing It Now
– By Mary Ann CawsThe Forever Now vs. Recombinant DNA
– By Amei WallachRYDER RIPPS Ho
– By Taylor DafoeOYSTER PERPETUAL
Mathias Poledna– By Aren K. YamaROBIN PECK
– By Ben La RoccoPICTURE/THING
Curated by Sasha Rudensky and Jeffrey Schiff– By Joyce BeckensteinMARIAH DEKKENGA
– By Tyler AkersSpecters of Communism: Contemporary Russian Art
– By Aaron RichmondHEIDI HOWARD
– By Kate LiebmanJOHN ZURIER
– By Eleanor RayDAN WALSH
– By David RhodesRoss Bleckner and Volker Eichelmann
– By Shana Beth MasonLORIS GRÉAUD The Unplayed Notes Museum
– By Hunter BraithwaiteDANIELLE MYSLIWIEC Harbinger
– By Taney RonigerMERLIN JAMES Genre Paintings
– By Phong H. BuiThe Great Debate About Art
– By Lynn MaliszewskiENTANG WIHARSO
– By Jonathan GoodmanLands' End
– By Jody GrafFRANCESCA WOODMAN
– By Sara ChristophMadame Cézanne
– By Adele Tutter and David CarrierIn Practice: Under Foundations
– By Simone KrugRon Cooper
– By Michael StrausRobert Barry: All the things I know ... 1962 to present
– By Alexandra NicolaidesSomeday We Will Draw Lions Together: Les Combarelles and Font-de-Gaume
– By William Corwin
Books
Winter's Picks for Young Readers
– By Jordan B. NielsenThe Absolution of Roberto Acestes Laing
– By Andrew ErvinElegies for Existence
– By Tony LeuzziPatterns of Anticipation
– By David WintersA Hundred and Fifty Years' Sleep
– By Cate FrickeThe Old Familiar Song
– By Madeline GresselAmerican Dissolve
– By Dustin IllingworthThe Limitations of Gender
– By Jill DehnertSeeing and Knowing: Graphesis: Visual Forms of Knowledge Production
– By Johannah RodgersTIME, SWEAT, AND IMAGINATION: J.C. HALLMAN in conversation with Matt Bell
HARD TIMES
T.C. BOYLE with Catherine LaSota
Music
White Hills
– By Marshall YarbroughDiary of a Mad Composer
– By George GrellaMusic as Mystery: John Carpenter's Lost Themes and Career Retrospective at BAM
– By Jeff TobiasBrooklyn Rail Highly Selective Music Events
MEREDITH MONK
A Vocabulary for the World– By George GrellaZoe Keating at SubCulture
– By Stephanie Del RossoThe Specials Revisited
– By Kurt GottschalkOuttakes
– By Steve Dalachinsky
Dance
IT'S JUST THE CHOREOGRAPHY THAT SOMETIMES GETS IN THE WAY
ANNIE-B PARSON with Stephanie Joy Del RossoSOMETHING OLD, SOMETHING NEW
A Marriage Of Styles In Baroque'd– By Madison MainwaringAPPROACHING THE POLE
Gerard & Kelly's P.O.L.E. at the New Museum– By Leslie AllisonHouses without Masters: Part 1 of 2 on "Platform 2015: Dancers, Buildings, and People in the Streets"
– By Siobhan Burke
Theater
Theater Comes Home
Gideon Irving is Living Here– By Ben ColemanDavid Greenspan. And his Little Dog, Too
– By Alexander Borinsky
Fiction
Home Remedies for Non Life-Threatening Ailments
– By Xuan Juliana WangTunnel
– By Azareen Van der Vliet OloomiThe Other Couple
– By Amanda K. DavidsonPython
– By Sarah Gerardfrom Fall
– By Jill MagiTwo Stories from Portraits and Conversations
– By Johannah Rodgersfrom Miransù
–Joe McVie & the End of the Mayan Calendar
– By Margarita ShalinaTragic Strip
– By Tom Motley
Poetry
Five
– By Chia-Lun Changfrom Opinion Sonnets
– By John YauThree
– By Alan SemerdjianTwo
– By Christopher StackhouseThe Air's Home
– By Joanna Fuhrman and Toni Simon
Field Notes
Editor's Note
– By Paul MattickIf Syriza is the answer, then the question was wrong.
– By Pavlos RoufosNegation of the Diaspora
– By Jacob BlumenfeldTHE FIRST BITTER FRUITS OF NATIONAL UNITY
Wars, Fears, Humiliations, Surveillance– By Said BouamamaNotes from the Anthropocene #2: Infrastructure
– By Glenn Dyer and Stephanie Wakefield