Oct/Nov 2001
The “Oct/Nov 2001” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on October 10, 2001.
Editor’s Message
Out of the Ashes
– By Theodore Hamm
Local
How to Pick a Tomato
– By Cathy Nan QuinlanWhere the Girls Are
– By Tysha PryorKing Me Mayor of NYC
– By Jonas SalganikIs Starbucks Stealing Our Mojo?
– By Grant MoserBrooklyn Sweatshops
– By Patrick GallahueDemography is not Destiny: Campaign for Fiscal Equity, Inc. vs. State of New York
– By Meghan McDermott and Julie CallahanVisions of a Tragedy, 9/11
– By Emily DeVoti, Carlos Vásquez, Álvaro Figueroa, and Michael BubbZoning Out: The Politics of North Brooklyn
– By Robin Rogers-DillonAgainst the Giuliani Legacy
Express
Editorials
OPINIONS: Deitchland uber alles? Deitch Projects comes to Williamsburg
– By Justin McGuirkRESPONSE: A Tribute, of Sorts
– By Shelley PasnikStreet Work: Globalizing Resistance From Brooklyn to Inanda
– By Rachel NeumannSoap and Civilization
– By C. LaymanMemories of the Good Fight
– By Robert Steck
Art
Artist in Residence
– By Chris MartinIn Conversation with Terry Winters
– By Peter Eleey
ArtSeen
A Quiet Incursion in Queens: Public Art as Infiltrator and Saboteur
– By Peter EleeyTHOMAS PIHL Paintings
Willem de Kooning and John Chamberlain: Influence and Transformation
– By Rachel YouensIf you lived here you would be dead now
– By Daniel BairdMARC SWANSON At First Sight
– By Jeffrey Cyphers WrightMIES VAN DER ROHE Mies in Berlin
– By Phillipe BaumannMIES VAN DER ROHE Mies in America
– By Karl JensenNANCY DAVIDSON
– By Rachel YouensMY REALITY: CONTEMPORARY ART AND THE CULTURE OF JAPANESE ANIMATION
– By Art AskéPHIL FROST Litany
WARD SHELLEY The Cube
– By Lori OrtizSHARON HORVATH Recent Paintings
– By Megan HeuerPrinted Works: Terry Winters at the Metropolitan Museum of New York
– By Daniel BairdThe Painting Center: Repetition in Discourse
TODT: Exurbia
– By Rachel Gordon
Books
Buchloh's Neo-Avantgarde
– By Daniel BairdOn the Waterfront in Revolutionary Mexico
– By Michael SnodgrassReflections on Motherhood
– By Jill ClatemanPostcards from Mencken
– By Phong H. Bui
Music
Letter from Buenos Aires
– By Alan Lockwood
Film
On Love and Sexy Beast
– By Stephan Altevogt
Theater
Mysteries of the Vernacular
– By Anne WashburnSpalding Gray on Zen and the Downtown Theater Scene
– By Ellen PearlmanExcerpt from I, the Undersigned Cardiac Case (1981)
– By Sony Labou Tansi
Poetry
A Hermit Pets a Cat, While Thinking About the Ocean
– By Ilya KutikTailor-Made
– By John HollanderIn Memory of Bill Cole
– By Seamus Heaney