June 2004
The “June 2004” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on June 2, 2004.
Editor’s Message
Summer of Fear?
– By Theodore Hamm
Local
Letter to a Third Grader
– By Barbara RussoEnvisioning the Gowanus
– By Arthur VaughanHousing vs. the RNC: A Question of Priorities
– By Williams Cole and Williams ColeProspect Heights: Ratner's Secret Deals Won't Stop the Fight
The Price of Ratner's Hoopla: Brooklyn Stadium a Money Loser
– By Johannah Rodgers
Express
The Last Arab
– By Norman KelleyInside Al Jazeera: Samir Khader
– By Mridu Chandra and Rehan AnsariLife in the O.T.: Anat Biletzki
– By Eyal DanieliWhat Makes News, News
– By Ryan Grim
Art
Daniel Richter
– By Daniel BairdAlone and Together on The Stage of The World
– By John YauIstvan Kantor with Daniel Baird
Portraits in Richmond
– By Robert C. Morgan
ArtSeen
Fred Wilson: Objects and Installations: 1979–2000
– By Stephanie BuhmannTerrorvision: Exit Art
– By Nick StillmanDigital Avant-Garde: Celebrating 25 Years of Ars Electronica
– By Ellen PearlmanXiomara De Oliver: Scarlets in Ghent
– By James KalmKlaus Weber
– By Katie StoneAndreas Gursky: Matthew Marks Gallery
– By Farrah KarapetianLee Bontecou: Drawings 1958-1999
– By Tomassio LonghiTwo enter and one leaves: YEAR
– By William PowhidaBradley Wester: When In Rome
– By Ben La RoccoThe Free Library: The Riviera
– By Sonya ShrierCrossing the Bridge
– By Ben La RoccoJon Kessler: Global Village Idiot
– By Tomassio LonghiCarol Peligian: The Seductive Quality of the Impossible
– By John HawkeWillem de Kooning: Gagosian, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, and Richard Gray
– By Jim Long
Books
On Gertrude Stein
– By Frances RichardThe Provocations of Arthur Cravan
– By Andy MerrifieldOff the Shelves
– By Book Staff
Music
The Holger Czukay Academy of Spontaneous Music
– By Roger WhiteReview: Dallam-Dougou's New Destiny (Jumbie Records)
– By John ReedNo Golden Throat: Lizzy Mercier Descloux (1956–2004)
– By Holly TavelZeb: Alien with Extraordinary Abilities
– By Lucas Graves
Dance
Reviews
– By Jessica WeissDancing on the Rail
– By Vanessa MankoMatteson at Symphony Space
– By Shanti Crawford
Film
The Filmmaker's a Clown
– By Lisa RosmanBukowski: Born Into This
– By Williams Cole and Williams ColeJehane Noujaim
– By Mridu ChandraDocs in Sight: The New Dawn of the Profitable Political Film
– By Williams Cole and Williams ColeYvonne Rainer: Dancing in the U.S. Interstices of Experimental Film
– By Michael Joshua RowinEveryday People
– By Theodore Hamm
Theater
Down the Rabbit Hole with Lynn Nottage
– By Sonya SobieskiTrusting in Theatre with JON FOSSE
– By Caridad SvichThe Neo-Futurists Land in Brooklyn
– By Kyle Thomas SmithReview: Gimme Shelter
– By Christy HutchcraftDon Quixote: Suffering Fools Wisely
– By Emily DeVoti
Fiction
Hotbed
– By Shelley Stenhousefrom Long Day, Counting Tomorrow
– By Jim Feast
LastWords
Thursday Story
– By Kenji Jasper