February 2012
The “February 2012” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on February 1, 2012.
Critics Page
All Painting Only Painting
– By Vincent KatzDAVID DRISKELL Creative Spirit: Five Decades
– By Bridget GoodbodyDAINA HIGGINS New Paintings
– By Charles SchultzLOIS DODD New Panel Paintings
– By Sharon L. ButlerUnlikely Friends: JAMES BROOKS & DAN FLAVIN
– By Greg LindquistDAMIEN HIRST The Complete Spot Paintings 1986 – 2011
– By Corina LarkinLORI ELLISON
– By Corina LarkinGEORGES HUGNET The Love Life of the Spumifers
– By Valery OisteanuDark Christmas
– By Bradley RubensteinELLSWORTH KELLY Schwarz & Weiss
– By David RhodesMALCOLM MORLEY Another Way to Make an Image, Monotypes
– By Robert StorrFive Works from the Collection of Albert Murray: ROMARE BEARDEN and NORMAN LEWIS
– By Charles SchultzTHE RONALD S. LAUDER COLLECTION: Selections from the 3rd Century BC to the 20th Century / Germany, Austria, and France
– By Charles SchultzAnonymous Tantra Paintings
– By Noah DillonSANGRAM MAJUMDAR
New Work– By Kara L. RooneyGUDMUNDUR THORODDSEN Father's Father
– By Paolo JavierSOTO Paris and Beyond,
1950 – 1970– By Cora FisherJESS Paintings
– By Phong H. BuiGEORGE MCNEIL
– By Robert BerlindVICTOR MATTHEWS
– By Vincent KatzLOLA MONTES SCHNABEL Love Before Intimacy
– By David MarkusTHOMAS WOODRUFF The Four Temperament Variations
– By Kara L. RooneyMARTHA CLIPPINGER Hopscotch
– By Robert BerlindPETER GALLO
– By Jonathan GoodmanConnected
– By Noah DillonKANDINSKY's "Painting with White Border"
– By Susan BeeBARBARA SANDLER Straight On Till Morning
– By Robert BerlindDecember (Organized by Howie Chen)
– By Nathan KernanEDWIN DICKINSON In Retrospect
– By Robert BerlindJOSÉ RIVERA
– By Nathan KernanREMBRANDT'S WORLD: Dutch Drawings from the Clement C. Moore Collection
JOSEPH MONTGOMERY Velveteen
– By Linnea KniazThe Renaissance Portrait from Donatello to Bellini
– By Mira SchorBOSCO SODI Ubi Sunt
– By Jonathan GoodmanDOUG WADA Americana
– By Lilly WeiMind the Gap
– By Anne Sherwood Pundyk
Local
The N.Y.P.D. Clamps Down on Jazz
– By Liliana SeguraCITYNOTES
Fear of the First Amendment– By Theodore HammREPORT CARD
The Privatized Mind– By Liza FeatherstoneMusic that Picks You Up
– By Eleanor J. BaderThe Brief Histories & Modern Journey of a Vinyl Record
– By Sean CooperBurlesque, Beer, and PowerPoint
– By Mary Mann
Express
AMATEUR NIGHT
A fragment from Isolate Flecks: An Anatomy– By Forrest HyltonLETTER FROM THE TRAIL: Atwater's Ghost
– By Michael TerryA Festival of Reason and the Art of Common Sense
– By Christopher MoylanKristeva's Top-Down Critique
– By R. H. LossinEmma's Lyricism
– By Courtney FiskeAmerican Ringstrasse
– By David WescottWR: The Wanderings of a Lost Soul
– By David Rosen and David Rosen
ArtSeen
BILL JENSEN
– By Ben La RoccoWITHIN/WITHOUT: A Studio Visit With SHOSHANA DENTZ
– By Zachary WollardSUSANNA HELLER's Studio
– By Robert BerlindSTUDIO VISIT: JOYCE PENSATO
– By William CorwinMaking American Taste: Narrative Art for a New Democracy
– By Shane McAdamsLetter from BERLIN
– By David RhodesJOSEPH MARIONI Eye to Eye
– By Robert C. MorganMaster Bill at MoMA
– By Irving SandlerGORDON MOORE
– By Joan WaltemathAggregate (Clare Gasson, Nick Hornby, Connor Linskey)
– By Kathy Battista
Books
NONFICTION
OCCUPYING W. S.– By William S. NiederkornFICTION
Conquering the Third Reich– By Ariell CacciolaNONFICTION
Snapshots of the Artist– By Chris CampanioniPOETRY
Lo and Behole– By Alex EstesPOETRY
Road to Nowhere– By Jerome MurphyThe Stuart Sherman Spectacle
– By Liz AxelrodFICTION
SUI GENERIS– By Jim FeastPOETRY
Answers Without Questions– By Jerome MurphyANTHOLOGY
The Burqa Unveiled– By John Emrys EllerMEMOIR
Extravagant Blooms– By Jenine HolmesA PORNOGRAPHER BARES ALL
SAM BENJAMIN with Winston Len– By Winston LenFICTION
Double Jackpot– By Jenine HolmesThe Dreaming Girl
– By Suzanne McConnellInterview with Poet Jerry Williams "Gamblin' Man"
– By Adam Fitzgerald
Music
Breaking Down the Fourth Wall--Again
– By Andrew CappettaTranslation As Erasure In Leonard Cohen's Songs From A Room
– By Marshall YarbroughRiffing On Schoenberg: Fieldwork's Hypnotic Virtuosity
– By David St.-LascauxOuttakes
– By Steve Dalachinsky
Dance
That's All She
WroteEdited– By Claudia La RoccoFeminist Killjoys
– By Christine Shan Shan HouAdventures In Realness
– By Siobhan Burke
Film
A Little Heap for Dara Greenwald
– By Rachael RakesNOT RECONCILED: Ben Wheatley's Kill List
– By Phil ColdironCOUNTER PROJECTIONS: PAUL SHARITS at Greene Naftali Gallery
– By Benjamin Schultz-Figueroa
Theater
Naked in Yosemite with Daniel Talbott
– By Laura EasonTense Change: Leave the Balcony Open by Maya Macdonald
– By Karen HartmanSet Designers Peter Ksander and Mimi Lien with Gary Winter
– By Gary WinterMother of All Collaborations: The Theatre of a Two-Headed Calf Debuts a Chamber Opera
– By Jessica Del VecchioThe Penultimate P: Erin Courtney with Madeleine George
– By Madeleine George and Erin CourtneyNellie Tinder Sets Fire to Evelyn
– By Trish HarnetiauxExcerpt from Evelyn
– By Julia May JonasDIVIDING DIVISIONS: What's at Stake in the Theater vs. Visual Arts Debate
– By Alexis Clements
Fiction
The Diary of Martín Santomé: A Novel
– By Mario BenedettiThe Weather in Fritz Bemelmans Park
– By Holly TavelTragic Strip
– By T. MotleyA Scrupulous Fidelity,
On Thomas Bernhard's The Loser– By Douglas GloverOn the Furtiveness of Kurtz
– By Jeremy M. Davies
Poetry
Nigerian Spammer
– By Adam FitzgeraldFour
– By Brett PriceTwo
– By Brendan LorberTwo
– By Laura Henriksenfrom We Are Here
– By Kristen Gallagher
Art Books
PETER DOWNSBROUGH: Two Reviews
– By Joseph MasheckBubbles: Spheres, Volume I: Microspherology
– By John GanzIs That All There Is?
– By Bill KartalopoulosBelieving is Seeing: Observations on the Mysteries of Photography
– By Ela Bittencourt
LastWords
from The Revolution Of Everyday Life
– By Raoul Vaneigem, A new translation from the French by Donald Nicholson-Smith