July/Aug 2001
The “July/Aug 2001” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on July 11, 2001.
Editor’s Message
The Meaning of Express
– By Theodore Hamm
Local
Want to Save PBS? Make it Pay-Per-View
– By Ray NedzelRevelations in May
– By Jim KnableLentil Soup: Van Gogh's Table
– By Cathy Nan QuinlanSunset Park: The Next Times Square?
– By Patrick GallahueThe Battle for Borough Hall
– By Jonas SalganikSiberia Bar: Exiled in Times Square
– By Justin VogtPower Politics: The Protests Continue
– By Bridget TerryJacking the Hudson River: Welch's Last Stand
– By Russell CobbAgainst the Giuliani Legacy
Express
Hot Fun in the Brooklyn Summer
– By Meghan McDermottThe Environment: Another Weapon of War?
– By Phil BerriganIndonesia: Business as Usual
– By Gregg SalisburyQuebec City Diary: Struggling Against a Global Takeover
– By Carlos Vásquez and Pennelope LewisLetter: Look Out Kid, It's Something You Did
Opinions: On Gay Marriage
– By Jason JonesArchie Bunker, R.I.P.
Opinion: End Toxic Discrimination
Art
Brute Realism: Leon Golub at the Brooklyn Museum of Art
May 13 – August 24, 2001– By Daniel BairdLEON GOLUB with Chris Martin
The Margins of William Blake
– By Phong H. BuiTravelling at the Speed of Night: 65 mph
– By Valerie Jaffe
ArtSeen
Richmond Burton
– By Rachel YouensRyan McGinness
– By Peter EleeyJacqueline Humphries
– By Lori OrtizDeep Surface: Reading a New Language in the Kinetic Passages of Jay Milder
– By Jeffrey Cyphers WrightChariots of the Gauze: Nader Ebrahimi
– By Jeffrey Cyphers WrightKazumi Tanaka
– By Peter EleeyJoan Snyder
– By Rachel YouensPitt.stop
– By Lori OrtizSuzan Batu
– By Lori OrtizElizabeth Cohen and Michael Talley
– By Art AskéBetween Street and Mirror: The Drawings of James Ensor
– By Cecily Kahn
Books
Where Did You Go, Joe DiMaggio?
– By Patrick WalshA Portrait of the Artist as a Loving Daughter
– By Patrick WalshDiane di Prima's New York
– By Ellen PearlmanDocumenting Revolution: Emile de Antonio
– By Tamara L. FalicovOne Man's Universe
– By Miriam GreenbergSummer Fiction
– By Sophie FelsA Pacifist in the Trenches
– By Theodore HammThe Brooklyn Rail recommends...
Music
Love Camp 7
Vacation Village– By David Shirley
Dance
Hail, Baryshnikov: White Oaks's Judson Dances at BAM
– By Ellen PearlmanSWARM at WAX: KICK/STANDance
– By John Merchant
Film
A lesson for the Masses: Ken Loach's Bread and Roses
– By Emily DeVoti
Theater
Lionel Abel Remembered
– By Phong H. BuiDante in Dumbo: GAle GAtes et al. Tales it Down... and Down... and Down
– By Alan LockwoodNothing is True: Lipstick Traces and The 20th Century
– By Beth Rosemberg
Fiction
Another Housing Story
– By Scot CrawfordExcerpt from Gowanus Notecard Abduction
– By Tod Thilleman
Poetry
Umbrian Odes
– By David RigsbeeSkai's Marriage
– By Snorri SturlusonPoetic Lives I: Harvey Shapiro, in conversation with Galen Williams
Poetic Lives II: In the Homeless Shelter
– By Thomas ObrzutPoetic lives III: NYC's Youth Poetry Scene
– By Jen Weiss