March 2009
The “March 2009” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on March 6, 2009.
Editor’s Message
The Saga Continues...
– By Theodore Hamm
Local
Looking For a Place to Hang
– By Marie CarterNonfiction: Art on the Wall Inspires Duo
– By Eleanor J. Bader"When We Were Kings" Pro-Boxing Back in the Hood
– By Karl GreenbergJustice Center a Success, But Budget Cuts Loom
– By Kieran K. Meadows
Express
NYC: A Nice Place to Be Unemployed?
– By Richard WellsCrisis? What Crisis? Singing the Gospel at Crapola's End
– By Christopher KetchamWearing Me: A Tale of T-Shirts
– By Rebecca ArmstrongExperimental Geography: From Cultural Production to the Production of Space
– By Trevor PaglenRemembering Huey Long
– By Christian RoselundLux Interior (RIP)
– By Williams Cole and Williams ColeTales from the Other Side, Berger's From A to X: A Story in Letters
– By Nicholas JahrPicking Up the Pieces, Sanger's The Inheritance: The World Obama Confronts and the Challenges to American Power
– By Tom BoumanInside Detroit , Bergmann's Getting Ghost
– By James ArnettA Rather Bestial Fellow, Bailey's Cheever: A Life
– By Ian CrouchA Different Sort of Romeo, Sandweiss's Passing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line
– By Nicholas DeRenzo
ArtSeen
Being Vincent van Gogh
– By Ben La RoccoJohn Newman
– By Ben La RoccoChris Martin Works on Paper
– By John YauImi Knoebel
– By John YauMelissa Meyer New Works
– By John YauPhilip Guston 1954-1958
– By John YauJonathan Torgovnik: Intended Consequences: Rwandan Children Born of Rape
– By Cora FisherDaria Martin: Minotaur
– By Claudia La RoccoPierre Bonnard & Peter Doig
– By Greg LindquistToday's Special: Saucy Curatorship and Tofu Art
– By Shane McAdamsSusan Bee: Eye of the Storm
– By Craig OlsonMike Womack: High Grade Empty
– By Shane McAdamsThe Art World on Facebook: A Primer
– By Sharon L. ButlerBrooklyn Dispatches
– By James KalmThe Third Mind--American Artists Contemplate Asia, 1860 – 1989
– By Ellen PearlmanSHE: Images of Women by Wallace Berman & Richard Prince
– By Natalie HaddadStephan Pascher: Who Got the Chickens
– By Liz WingLetter from LONDON
– By Sherman SamGrace Rim: YES Love, YES Life
– By Robert C. MorganMatta: Five Decades Of Painting
– By Valery OisteanuThe Last Breath of Piero Manzoni
– By Robert C. MorganKeren Cytter : Les Ruissellements Du Diable
– By Thomas MicchelliLost in Space: Outsiderness and the Art of Dave Lane
– By Tessa DeCarloDisEchoNance
– By Warren Fry
Books
FICTION: Who Is She?
– By J.W. McCormackFICTION/DRAMA: Triple the Tragic Fantastic
– By Win ClevengerNONFICTION: A Natural Inclination
– By Brian SholisNONFICTION: Craziest Guys on the Lower East Side
– By Jim FeastNONFICTION: Skywriting
– By Jackson TaylorFICTION: Bodies In Motion
– By Joseph SalvatoreNONFICTION: Who Is the Foulest of Them All
– By Clinton KruteRAPID TRANSIT
– By Jeffrey Cyphers WrightTOKENS
– By Dan Fall, Sharon Mesmer, and Polly Rosenwaike
Music
DIY Parties
– By Megan MartinVoice(s) of America Robert Ashley at La MaMa
– By Fred CisternaTired Soldiers of the Modern Age
– By Jed LipinskiKim Kashkashian with Alessandro Cassin
"Flourishes of Things You Love" Beirut's Zach Condon
– By Kate CranePermission to Dance The Luminescent Orchestrii's Sxip Shirey
– By Linda LesemanOuttakes
– By Steve Dalachinsky
Dance
Jill Sigman's ZsaZsaLand Keeps the Party Going
– By Mary Love HodgesSavion Glover, a Rhythmic Musician
– By Emily MacelReviving the Grande Dame
– By Dalia Ratnikaszoe/juniper at Dance Theater Workshop
– By Erika EichelbergerQuality Over Quantity: Dance in Immediate Medium's Chuck.Chuck.Chuck.
– By April GreeneOrfeo ed Euridice at the Metropolitan Opera
– By Emily Macel
Film
Got My Vans On But They Look Like Sneakers
– By David N. MeyerTakashi Miike takes New York
– By David WilentzJapanese Cult Cinema and Abjection
– By Evan WalterA Night at the (Virtual) Opera
– By Tessa DeCarloOn Golden Pond, With a Psycho
– By Mary HanlonI Hate Mathematics and Racists
– By Lu Chen
Theater
Bob Jude Ferrante's New Theory of Vision
– By Susan BernfieldVenice Saved: A Seminar
– By Gary WinterTake the Train
– By Aurin Squire
Fiction
HOLY CITY
– By Lewis WarshThe Sweethearts
– By Mario BenedettiHope
– By T. MotleyAn Excerpt from Jacques Roubaud's forthcoming novel, The Loop
– By Jacques RoubaudRERUNS REZOOMED a serial novel
– By Jonathan Baumbach
Poetry
Ginger, A Novelized Memoir in Progress-- Comments and Other Confusing Advice From the Editor
– By Guillermo CastroLife Sentences
– By Elizabeth Fodaski
LastWords
Double or Nothing
– By Ron Singer