February 2011
The “February 2011” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on February 3, 2011.
Publisher's Message
A Note on Our Upcoming Benefit
– By Phong H. Bui
Local
REPORT CARD: Dubious Standards for Charter Schools
– By Liza FeatherstoneBrooklyn Business Proves That HOM is Where the Heart Is
– By Eleanor J. BaderRuminations on Duane Reade
Spirits of Red Hook
– By Thomas KerrOn the Job Hunt
– By Mary Mann"Blind Date, Brooklyn"
– By Robin Grearson
Express
The Still Lives of Wells Tower
– By Paul MaliszewskiMORE THAN GORE: Ghita Schwarz's Holocaust Stories
– By Bec Zajacfrom Nina Revoyr's Wingshooters
– By Nina RevoyrBottoms-Up American History
– By David Rosen and David RosenThanks for the Memories
– By Michael TerryDeception Points
– By Allen WilcoxAn Accidental Memoir
– By Christopher Michel
ArtSeen
23 Hours at the Wintering Spiral Jetty
– By Greg LindquistThe Slow Ascent: Death and Resurrection of the Art Fair
– By Kara L. RooneyEDWARD KRASINSKI AND EUSTACHY KOSSAKOWSKI J'ai Perdu La Fin!!!
– By Cora FisherJENNIFER BARTLETT'S Recitative: Fractions Between Concept and Decorum
– By Robert C. MorganON BECOMING AN ARTIST: ISAMU NOGUCHI and His Contemporaries, 1922–1960
– By Stephanie BuhmannAce of Spades
– By Charles SchultzKATRIN SIGURDARDOTTIR at the Met
– By Michael StrausMARIA LASSNIG
– By John YauDAVID RABINOWITCH Birth of Romanticism: New Works on Paper
– By Thomas MicchelliKURT KNOBELSDORF Postcard from Florida
– By John YauBrooklyn in the Extreme
– By James KalmLetter from BERLIN: MANFRED KUTTNER A – Z
– By David RhodesIRVIN MORAZAN Temple of the Bearded Man
– By Gail Victoria Braddock QuagliataPainters and Poets
– By Valery OisteanuWinter Break
– By David St.-LascauxJOSEPH BERNARD BASEDONATRUESTORY!, Parts 1 & 2
– By Vince CarducciART BOOKS IN REVIEW: Gerhard Richter is Speechless
– By Benjamin GottliebGILLIAN JAGGER's Reality--and Welcome to It
– By Edward M. GómezELLEN LANYON
– By Martica SawinADAM MARNIE, TOM THAYER, and RUBY SKY STILER
– By Anne Sherwood PundykThe MARK BRADFORD Show
– By Maxwell HellerJAKE BERTHOT
– By Ben La RoccoThe Talent Show
– By Jen Schwarting
Books
KIRI BLAKELEY with Alyssa Pinsker
Complete Cosmicology
– By Barry SchwabskyFrom Whatever Was Left of Their Authentic Selves
– By Andrea ScrimaRose Alley
– By John MaderaBartleby, At Bat
– By Christopher GrimesBummer, Defined
– By Mac BarrettClandestine in Chile: The Adventures of Miguel Littín
– By Jesse Tangen-MillsStamps and Beats
– By Ellen PearlmanPoetica
– By Nicolle ElizabethLethal Warriors
– By Connie AitchesonObsessive Compulsive
– By Maxine CaseRAPID TRANSIT: A Final Kiss To 2010
– By Jeffrey Cyphers Wright
Music
Fluid Improvisation
– By David St.-LascauxBoulevards of Broken Dreams
– By Dann BakerDriving Lonely, Across the State
– By Kate SilverFast-Forwarding Through Classic Arts Showcase
– By Richard KostelanetzOuttakes
– By Steve Dalachinsky
Dance
Editor's Note
– By Claudia La RoccoKeeping it Realness
– By Patricia MilderAll the City's a Stage
– By Meagan BruskewiczDrawing with the Body
– By Siobhan BurkeAn Excerpt From An Attempt to Understand My Socio-Political Disposition Through Artistic Research on Personal Identity in Relationship to the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict, Part One
– By Tarek HalabyOn Blind Faith...
– By Christine HouBIRD BRAIN: Reflecting on Black Swan, and Ballet's Maybe Moment
– By Evan Namerow
Film
THE 11 BEST FILMS OF 2O1O +1
– By David N. MeyerMINERVA'S OWL
– By Ethan SpiglandTHE THIN RED LINE
– By David N. MeyerLADIES AND GENTLEMEN, THE ROLLING STONES
– By David N. Meyer
Theater
FREQUENT FLIER: Kyoung Park Gets disOriented
– By Aurin SquireFOOTBALL: why these chicks are the future of the game
– By Trish HarnetiauxLAUGH TIL YOU DON'T: Dorota Maslowska's A Couple of Poor, Polish-Speaking Romanians
– By Alan Lockwood
Fiction
FÉDER or the Gilded Husband
– By Stendhall , translated from the French by Brian Evensonfrom FIVE TOPOGRAPHIES
– By Yasmine Alwanfrom NOTES FROM THE PENTHOUSE
– By Yorgos LamprakosTragic Strip
– By T. MotleyCharacter and Fitness: Chapter 3
– By Jason Flores-WilliamsCharacter and Fitness: Chapter 4
– By Jason Flores-Williams
Poetry
Unto the House of Words
– By David St.-LascauxThree Poems
– By Pierre JorisFrom: Caesura
– By Habib Tengour, translated by Pierre Joris