July/August 2012
The “July/August 2012” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on July 9, 2012.
Editor’s Message
What's New?
– By Elizabeth C. Baker
Local
OCCUPY and 350.ORG--You Come Down Here and Embrace!
– By Reverend BillyREPORT CARD
The Dumbass Factor– By Liza FeatherstoneCourt of No Return
– By Eleanor J. BaderCITYNOTES: A Real Relic
– By Theodore HammSummer Means Hibernation for Coney Island's Polar Bears
– By Lauren KeatingBucking Brooklyn's Machine
LINCOLN RESTLER with Williams Cole
Express
Giving it All for Ron Paul
– By Michael TerryBig Oil vs. The Little Folks
– By Polly BrewsterThe Strange Case of Charles Taylor
– By Nicholas JahrSTANLEY ARONOWITZ with Gregory Smulewicz-Zucker
Goodbye, Babylon
– By Seb DoubinskyBUSHWICK BOUNCE
A fragment from Isolate Flecks: An Anatomy– By Forrest HyltonPORN WARS: The F.B.I.'s Hidden Campaign to Police Morality
– By David Rosen and David RosenInterested Parties
– By Allen WilcoxBack On The Couch
– By Courtney Fiske
Art
HOLLY ZAUSNER with Raphael Rubinstein
JOAN SIMON with Anne Sherwood Pundyk
Absolutely-Too-Much
– By Simon CritchleyDAN GRAHAM with Carlos Brillembourg
BLESS with Barry Schwabsky
Why didn't Lucio Fontana use my sewing machine?
– By Elena BerrioloSuggestions for Summer Reading: Unspeakable Origins
– By Robert Hullot-Kentor
ArtSeen
AVANT-GARDE INK IN CHINA
Beyond Pop and Expressionism– By Robert C. MorganHow Newness Enters the Art World
– By Eleanor HeartneyBUSHWICK OPEN STUDIOS
June 1–3, 2012
JUNG AH KIM's Studio
56 Bogart Street– By Anne Sherwood PundykPaving Paradise Part I
– By James KalmWHITNEY CLAFLIN As Long As You Get To Be Somebody's Slave, Too
– By Jonathan GoodmanULRICH GEBERT The Negotiated Order
– By Charles SchultzRACHEL KNEEBONE Regarding Rodin
– By Desiree GonzalezMade in L.A. 2012
– By Terry R. MyersSHANA MOULTON The line where your appearance flips over into reality
– By Eve PerrySYLVIA PLIMACK MANGOLD Recent Works
– By Robert BerlindMICHELLE SEGRE Lost Songs of the Filament
– By Sharon L. ButlerInaugural Show
– By Charles SchultzSVEN LUKIN
– By Raphael RubinsteinMARGARET LANZETTA Reign Marks
DAVID PACKER Les Bidons– By Carol SchwarzmanLightness, Being
– By Charles Schultz"FRESH FOR(U)MS" Garden Party/Arts
– By Kara L. RooneyMaterial Tak
– By Jonathan GoodmanJAIME DAVIDOVICH Re: PLAY
– By Gail Victoria Braddock QuagliataHELEN VERHOEVEN Stage Disasters
– By David MarkusPROFILE:
JACOLBY SATTERWHITE & The New Human Body– By Maxwell HellerFRANK STELLA Black, Aluminum, Copper Paintings
– By David RhodesALEX KATZ Prints
– By Phong H. BuiIs Newness Still New?
– By Greg LindquistCongratulations
Books
THAD ZIOLKOWSKI with Mindy Cardozo
ELLEN PEARLMAN with Jade Sharma
TIMOTHY NOAH with Annie Juergens Behr
FICTION
Cave Art– By Aditi SriramFICTION
Breaking the Frozen Sea of the Soul: Clarice Lispector– By Audrey SchomerFICTION
The Invisible Woman– By Tatiaana L. LaineFICTION
A Complete and Lucid Whole– By Andrea ScrimaFICTION
Bridge to Brooklyn, and Blues Song– By Stephanie SpiroFICTION
Clean Cole– By Diane T. MasucciNONFICTION
Hop Global– By Jesse Tangen-MillsRAPID TRANSIT
Wisdom, Truth, and Beauty--Who Could Ask for More?– By Jeffrey Cyphers WrightFICTION
Scars to Jar– By Aditi Sriram
Music
Cecil Taylor, Home At Last
– By George Grella(Indie) Rock School
– By Kristy Eldredge"If I Make It Out Alive From Hollywood and Vine"
– By Todd SimmonsJust Add Rain
– By David St.-LascauxOUTTAKES
– By Steve DalachinskyWhen Worlds Don't Collide
– By Marshall Yarbrough
Dance
MARK MORRIS with Nancy Dalva
Queer Expectations
– By Christine Shan Shan HouJASON SAMUELS SMITH with L. J. Sunshine
Film
SCISSOR SPECULATIONS
Cut & Paste: Contemporary Collage Animation From North America at Anthology Film Archives– By Benjamin Schultz-FigueroaLike Being in a Rainbow: Gregory Markopoulos and the Temenos
– By Rebekah RutkoffUNSEEN VOICES: Caroline Martel WITH JIM SUPANICK
SKETCHES OF REVOLT: Ali Samadi Ahadi's The Green Wave
– By Steve MacFarlanePASTORAL: Emmanuel Gras's Bovines at Rooftop Films
– By Daniel Walber
Theater
The Imminent Implosion of 13P
– By Ben GassmanMusic is her Muse: Quiara Alegría Hudes and her Path to the Pulitzer
– By Marcus GardleyWelcome to the Fearless Indie Theater Universe. Population? Not Just You
– By Crystal SkillmanThe Penitents of MAGDALEN: Erin Layton and Julie Kline with Zack Calhoon
Fiction
The Diary of Martín Santomé: A Novel
– By Mario BenedettiMr. Colostomy
– By Matthew ThurberMonths
– By Leah HayesDeals Made Behind Closed Doors
– By Benjamin MarraArrowschmitt!!!
– By Arryan DecaturTragic Strip
– By T. MotleyAn excerpt from Prehistoric Times
– By Eric Chevillard<br>translated from the French by Alyson Waters<br>out now from Archipelago Books
Poetry
Particulars of Place
– By Richard O. MooreApartment 5D
– By Edwin Torres
Art Books
Draw It With Your Eyes Closed: The Art of the Art Assignment
– By Norm ParisAlice Neel: Late Portraits and Still Lifes
– By Lily Koto OliveNature
– By Wendy Vogel
LastWords
from The Revolution Of Everyday Life
– By Raoul Vaneigem<br>A new translation from the French by Donald Nicholson-Smith