February 2010
The “February 2010” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on February 3, 2010.
Local
Little Shop of Horrors
– By Gabriel ThompsonHANNE TIERNEY: Promoting Theater Without Actors
– By Eleanor J. BaderMoCADA Show Takes On the G-Word
– By Theodore HammPerspectives on the Quake
– By Jacques Africot and Toni Cela
Express
A More Decent Republic
– By Theodore HammLearning from Vancouver: Matt Hern with Theodore Hamm
– By Theodore HammViewing Tibet
– By Williams Cole and Williams ColeRemembering Max: A Story of Love and Marriage
– By Litia PertaWE SIT LIKE HOT STONES (The Performance of Grief)
– By Kristin PrevalletCutting Off the Cable
– By Williams Cole and Williams ColePRIVATE COLLECTION
– By Bernardo FernándezTHE SMACK WARS
– By Hirsh SawhneyIn Defense of Yellow Journalism
– By Margaret EbyA Hearty Spread
– By Riddhi ShahA Frustrating Mess
– By Kaitlin BellDrawing Trouble
– By Christopher MichelRecreating Russell
– By Christopher Michel
ArtSeen
FRANK LOBDELL: Figure Drawings
– By John YauSTANLEY WHITNEY: Untitled '10
– By Craig OlsonPHILIP GUSTON: Small Oils on Panel 1969-1973
– By Thomas MicchelliART AND POLITICS IN IRAN
– By Robert C. MorganBORDERLINE BAD
– By Geoffrey Cruickshank-HagenbuckleNew Mirrors: Painting in a Transparent World
– By Sharon L. ButlerThe Difference Between Jerry Saltz's America and Mine
– By John YauSTUART SHERMAN: Nothing Up My Sleeve
– By Jen SchwartingJOSEPH BEUYS: "We Are the Revolution"
– By Valery OisteanuOMER FAST
– By Shane McAdamsTIM EBNER
– By Terry R. MyersAGNES DENES: Philosophy in the Land II
– By Kara L. RooneySYLVIA SLEIGH
– By Carrie MoyerDENYSE THOMASOS: The Divide: New Paintings
– By Cora FisherLetter from LONDON: RICHARD WRIGHT: Turner Prize 09
– By Joseph NechvatalFRANCES BARTH: Scale, Economy and Unnamable Color
– By Joan WaltemathCARLOS RUNCIE TANAKA: FRAGMENTO
– By Raphael RubinsteinPEARLSTEIN/HELD: Five Decades
– By Phong H. BuiA Brief Look Into Institutional Celebration
– By William Powhida
Books
Poetry: INVENTION OF THE LOVELORN
– By Allan GraubardTHE UNBEARABLE BADNESS OF WRITING
– By Tim W. BrownINTERDISCIPLINARY: PREDICTION'S PRETEXT
– By Anna Elena EyreFiction: STAIRS AND FLOURISHES
– By John MaderaPoetry: DIS/ADVANTAGED
– By Scott HightowerFiction: JEHOVAH JERK
– By Christopher VolaPAUL AUSTER: INVISIBLE
– By Raina LipsitzRAPID TRANSIT
– By Jeffrey Cyphers WrightTOKENS
– By Dawn Raffel, Suzanne Reisman, Dawn Raffel, Vanessa Neumann, Peter Morris, and Tatiaana L. Laine
Music
"The Magical Point of Contact of Man with Nature": WADADA LEO SMITH, SPIRITUAL DIMENSIONS (CUNEIFORM RECORDS)
– By David ShirleyBoy Meets Girl: LINDSTRØM & CHRISTABELLE, REAL LIFE IS NO COOL (SMALLTOWN SUPERSOUND) CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG, IRM (BECAUSE)
– By Kate SilverSome Kinds of Love: THE VELVET UNDERGROUND IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
– By Kurt GottschalkLow Art and High Drama at the Met
– By George GrellaJazz in New Places: THE JOHN ESCREET PROJECT/TAYLOR HASKINS & RECOMBINATION AT DROM
– By Harper WillisOUTTAKES
– By Steve DalachinskyRevival Times at Union Pool
– By Michael Cohn-Geltner
Dance
MEN, MEN, MEN: Dancing For a Cause
– By Joey LicoEveryone In This Room Is In This Fucking Dance: MIGUEL GUTIERREZ'S WHEN YOU RISE UP
– By Thom DonovanCulturemart Preview: LAURA PETERSON AND JOHARI MAYFIELD
– By L.J. SunshineContemporary Dance, For Real: AMERICAN REALNESS
– By Evan NamerowART COMES TO LIFE AT DANCE NEW AMSTERDAM'S GALLERY
– By Trina ManninoSPOTLIGHT ON THE TANK
– By Mary Love HodgesEast Meets East Meets West: A MODERN DANCE MASHUP
– By David St.-Lascaux
Film
"They'll Get Better At It As They Go Along:" The 11 Best Films of 2009
– By David N. MeyerFemale Trouble
– By Tessa DeCarloWANTED: DEAD OR ALIVE
– By Julia SirmonsBringing Back Brooklyn
– By Rachel Balik
Theater
ENTRE CHIEN ET LOUP WITH CATHERINE FILLOUX
– By Christine Toy JohnsonFUTUREROCK: PASS KONTROL'S NEW HOPE CITY
– By Eliza BentIBSEN'S BURRITO: SOUNDING AT HERE
– By Anna Gutto
Fiction
from THE ABYSS OF HUMAN ILLUSION
– By Gilbert SorrentinoTragic Strip
– By T. Motley
Poetry
The Perfect Faceless Fish
– By Eileen MylesThree Prose Poems
– By Garrett CaplesSo Could They Shroud Crows
– By Geoffrey Cruickshank-HagenbuckleView of the Domain Saint-Joseph (Cézanne)
– By Sylvia Gorelick