May 2012
The “May 2012” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on May 3, 2012.
Editor’s Message
Looking Backward to Looking Forward
– By Dore Ashton
Local
Watchin' the Detectives--And the Rest of the Officers, Too
– By Eleanor J. BaderREPORT CARD
On Hakeem Jeffries– By Liza FeatherstoneAlias Anonymous
– By Robin Grearson
Express
SONG OF OURSELVES
ABBIE HOFFMAN with Abbie HoffmanA Mother's Days
– By Joan McClureTHE "LEADERLESS REVOLUTION"
CARNE ROSS with Nikolas KozloffBarack In A Weary Land
– By Michael TerryI Wish You Love
– By Barbara BrowningARTS AND LETTERS
A fragment from Isolate Flecks: An Anatomy– By Forrest HyltonBeautiful, Forever
– By Orli Van MourikCrime by the Numbers
– By Vincent RossmeierURBAN COMBUSTION: When Morality & Politics Mix
– By David Rosen and David RosenGraphic Uprising
– By Eric Triantafillou
ArtSeen
JACKIE SACCOCCIO Portraits
– By David RhodesYUJI AGEMATSU
– By Roger Van VoorheesBARRY X BALL Matthew Barney / Barry X Ball Dual-Dual Portrait
– By Anne Sherwood PundykELAINE CAMERON-WEIR Not Known To Be Used By Any Form Of Life
– By Jen SchwartingANDY COOLQUITT Chair w/Paintings
– By Stephanie BuhmannSTEPHANIE DODES & MARSHALL KORSHAK We Buy Gold
– By Eve PerryJONG OH
– By Robert C. MorganGERMAN STEGMAIER
– By David RhodesIRINA KORINA Demonstrative Behavior
– By Gail Victoria Braddock QuagliataNATALIE CZECH I Have Nothing to Say, Only to Show
– By Charles SchultzBound: HANS BELLMER and UNICA ZÜRN
– By Valery OisteanuCHARLES MCGILL Trapped
– By Dan TarnowskiALEJANDRA PRIETO Invisible Dust
– By Greg LindquistBorderless Map: Taiwanese Painting Now
– By Jonathan GoodmanNose Bleed
– By David St.-Lascaux
Books
Letters from Robots
– By Lizzy AckerARACELIS GIRMAY with Melinda Cardozo
JONATHAN GALASSI with Adam Fitzgerald
Just Try Quitting Hollywood
– By Justin CourterLife is Crappy, But What Are You Going to Do, Right?
– By Paul Charles GriffinChaos, Control
– By Bernard LumpkinSpace Oddity
– By Michael SpurgeonMinding the Gap
– By Chris CampanioniHere Comes A Regular
– By Michael MakowskiPlaisir, Pain
– By John CotterSteel Driving Man
– By David VarnoGames of France
– By Jon Dozier-EzellIt's All in Your Head
– By Chris Campanioni
Music
The Meaning of the Village
– By George GrellaSILENT MUSIC:
Craig Shepard's "On Foot: Brooklyn" Project– By Beth O'BrienBond's Last Bandstand
– By Logan K. YoungEARLY MUSIC: That Other Music Revival
– By Geoffrey ClarfieldMIRACULOUS AGITATION
Scroungings Toward a New Acoustic Synthesis– By Dan WilsonOuttakes
– By Steve Dalachinsky
Dance
The New Millennium Minstrel Show
– By Tanya Jayani FernandoJOHN JASPERSE with Aaron Mattocks
Stuck On You
– By Evan Namerow
Film
SHOCK OPERA: The First North American Film Retrospective of Werner Schroeter
– By Mónica SavirónHISTORY IN THE MAKING: Adam Curtis at e-flux
– By Tom McCormackSpaces of Capital
– By Joshua K. LeonA scene from The Color Wheel, a screenplay
– By Carlen Altman and Alex Ross Perry
Theater
LENORA CHAMPAGNE and LIZZIE OLESKER with Claire MacDonald
At Wrest in the Middle of Time with Will Eno
– By Ben GassmanACCORDIONS IN THE ARCTIC: Cynthia Hopkins Sails Ahead
– By Michelle MemranNoor Theatre Blazes New Light: Food and Fadwa at NYTW
– By Ginny Mohler
Fiction
The Diary of Martín Santomé: A Novel
– By Mario BenedettiArrow Canyon
– By Pamela RyderTragic Strip
– By T. Motley
Poetry
Tree Roots and Trunks
– By Clayton EshlemanFive
– By Noah Eli GordonAll I want is to be in a band
– By Thom DonovanThree
– By Gillian Conoley
Art Books
Living as Form
– By Wendy VogelWaking Up from the Nightmare of Participation
– By Natasha Stagg
LastWords
from The Revolution Of Everyday Life
– By Raoul Vaneigem, A new translation from the French by Donald Nicholson-Smith