May/June 2001
The “May/June 2001” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on May 9, 2001.
Editor’s Message
An Open Invitation
– By Theodore Hamm
Local
How to Bake a Chicken--A Day at the Met
– By Cathy Nan QuinlanMarx on the Playground
– By Jill ClatemanMiss Mary's Advice to the Lovelorn: When it's more than sisterhood
Against the Giuliani Legacy
Artist Evictions Update
– By Zoe AlsopFasten Your Seatbelts, Brooklyn, It's the City Council Election
– By Jonas SalganikFt. Greene--Keeping it Local
– By Justin VogtNorman Siegel Runs for Public Advocate
– By Theodore HammBeing Regular
– By Scot CrawfordThe Fall of Gino Braccione (1962)
– By William DeVotiRed Remembers Brooklyn
– By Theodore Hamm
Express
Economy: First Things Third
– By Ray NedzelZapping the Fox, or Out-Foxing the Zaps? A Report From Mexico
– By Russell CobbDaniel of the Lion's Den
– By Patrick Walsh
Art
Balthus Remembered
– By Phong H. BuiPaul McCarthy-ism
– By Daniel BairdVermeer and the Delft School
– By Phong H. Bui
ArtSeen
CROSS-POLLINATION at The Holland Tunnel
– By Lori OrtizDAVID KAPP at Beitzel Gallery
– By Lori OrtizDifferent Strokes at Im N Il
– By Rachel YouensFRANK STOUT
– By Phong H. BuiJACK POSPISIL at Studio Facchetti
JOE AMRHEIN at Roebling Hall
– By Art AskéLee Etheredge IV at Pierogi 2000
– By Peter EleeyMEREDITH ALLEN and CHRIS BORS at P.S. 122
– By Lori OrtizMILTON RESNICK at Robert Miller Gallery
– By Rachel YouensTAMARA GONZALES at Cheryl Pelavin Gallery
– By Rachel Youens
Books
Fatal Ambition: Kazuo Ishiguro's When We Were Orphans
– By Valerie JaffeIt All Started with Ma' Teodora: Alejo Carpentier's Music in Cuba
– By Andrew Grant Wood and Andrew Grant WoodThe Flashboat: Poems Collected and Reclaimed
– By David RigsbeeThe Unexpected Legacy of Divorce
– By Sophie Fels
Music
Salsa Dura: Willie Villegas plays Brooklyn
– By Alan LockwoodThe Local Music Scene
– By Dann BakerWe Owe You Nothing: Punk Planet
– By Daniel Baird
Dance
Dance in the Modern Firmament
– By Alan Lockwood
Film
A Film Festival Blossoms in Brooklyn
– By Valerie LivingstonThe Conflict Between Past and Present: A Retrospective of the Films of Su Friedrich
– By Joe Maggio
Theater
Romeo y Julieta en Bushwick
– By Rafael Morales and Stephen HaffFloating With Leni: A Play In One Act
– By Randolph Lewis
Poetry
Anonymous Biography
– By Armando RubioBecause All Falsehood Spreads Its Illness, I
– By Patrick WalshBlankness, Much
– By Noelle KocotBOTH WAYS
– By Ralph MartinSpirit of Butterflies Lovers, Story of A Chinese Classic Music
– By Shao WeiThe Ashes
– By Carolyn Kizer