July/August 2004
The “July/August 2004” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on July 7, 2004.
Editor’s Message
Send in the Clowns...
– By Theodore Hamm
Local
RNC Turns the Screws on NYC
– By Christian Roselund and Michael CarpioThe Brooklyn Admirals: Lacrosse in Brooklyn?
– By Karen B. SongImagining a Different RNC
– By Dan BellThe Dreamland Artist Club
– By Andrew Hodges
Express
The Beast with No Name: Mark Achbar and Joel Bakan with Williams Cole
The Passion of Michael Moore
– By Randolph LewisRocks from the Sky
– By Rick KarrA View from Latin America: Jorge Ramos with Hirsh Sawhney
The Continuous Decline of the West
– By Norman KelleyLiberals vs. The Left:
Learning From Identity Politics– By Francois CussetKeeping Alive the French and Indian War
– By Madeleine BaranAn Anarchist in the Hudson Valley: Peter Lamborn Wilson with Jennifer Bleyer
Art
Strange, Dark Places
– By Ellen PearlmanChristo and Jeanne-Claude with Praxis
Agnes Martin: "...going forward into unknown territory..."
– By Joan WaltemathEd Ruscha
– By Daniel BairdLarry Sultan's The Valley
– By Tessa DeCarloHope Kurtz (1959–2004)
– By Christina Hung
ArtSeen
Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China
ICP– By Robert C. Morgan and Nick StillmanTony Smith & Anish Kapoor
– By Michael BrennanSarah Beddington and Fritz Welch
– By Roger WhiteAndrea Fraser and Friedrich Petzel
– By Katie StoneSouth Brooklyn Galleries
– By James KalmRobert Ryman
– By Tomassio LonghiCrits' Pix
– By Shane McAdamsWMD Front Room Gallery July 2004
– By William PowhidaJanet Cardiff Her Long Black Hair Public Art Fund July 2004
– By Sonya ShrierAnn Hamilton, Corpus MassMoCA July 2004
– By Stephanie BuhmannSymbolic Space and Repetition Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art July 2004
– By Cynthia CoxModigliani: Beyond the Myth The Jewish Museum July 2004
– By Valery Oisteanu
Books
Culture: A Peculiar Place
– By Priya JainA View from Queens
– By Hirsh SawhneyThe Savage Glitter of Downtown
– By Daniel MorrisOff the Shelves
by Bookstaff
Music
The Archduke's Revenge: Franz Ferdinand Takes Williamsburg
– By Todd SimmonsTrebleLive Series
– By Bethany RykerDrumfolk
– By David Pleasant
Dance
Still Falling for the Bad Boy
Dancing on the Rail
– By Vanessa Manko
Film
Los Angeles Plays Itself
– By Michael Joshua RowinKen Jacobs-Star Spangled to Death
– By Jonas MekasTwo Lone Swordsmen: Hero by Zhang Yi Mou and Zatoichi by Takeshi "Beat" Kitano
– By David N. MeyerIn the Belly of the Beast
– By Saul AusterlitzCan Archival Footage Change the World?
– By Williams Cole and Williams Cole
Theater
In Dialogue: A Poetics of Terror: Ken Urban
– By Jason GroteThe Booth Variations
– By Brook StoweOn the Radio: Splendor and Death of Porfirio Rubirosa
– By Douglas Singleton
Fiction
Excerpt from Never Again
– By Doug NuferThe Belly Dance
– By Robert Pinget
Poetry
The Proteins
– By Marcella Durandfour short poems
– By Edmund BerriganToday We're Going to Conjure a House
– By Boni Joishortcomings
– By Adam Pollock
LastWords
Hank Thompson's Blues
– By Theodore Hamm