November 2012
The “November 2012” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on November 6, 2012.
Editor’s Message
The Politics of Art
– By Barbara Rose
Publisher's Message
A Note to Our Readers
– By Phong H. Bui
Local
A Brand Called Brooklyn
– By Norman OderANDREW CUOMO: New York's Scott Walker?
– By Ari PaulThe Graying of AIDS
– By Eleanor J. Bader
Express
End of the Line in the ICU
– By Kristen McConnellWITHERED AND BURNED: Some Lessons from Texas
– By Robert S. Eshelman, art by Andrea LauerDOC NYC: Gotham's Documentary Film Festival
– By Williams Cole and Williams ColeHolding Court
– By Leigh Kamping-CarderA City in Crisis
– By David Rosen and David RosenScience's Last Romantics
– By Courtney FiskeThe Brooklyn Rail's Player-of-the-Year, 2012
– By Theodore Hamm
Art
DAVID HUMPHREY with Phong Bui
– By Phong H. BuiABCs for/of Richard Tuttle
An epistolary interview with Jarrett Earnest, pt. 2 "H–O"Reflections on Gerhard Richter: Painting 2012
– By Alex BaconPATRICIA CRONIN with Phong Bui
Marcel Duchamp Slept Here
– By Francis M. NaumannROBERT LAZZARINI with Jonathan T. D. Neil
ArtSeen
A Riot is the Language of the Unheard: An Exercise in Unrestrained Speech
– By Kara L. RooneyDAVID DIAO and WALID RAAD
– By Joan WaltemathLIN TIANMIAO Bound Unbound
– By Corina LarkinAHMED ALSOUDANI
– By Robert C. MorganHiJack!
– By Noah DillonDIRTY LOOKS: A Monthly Platform for Queer Experimental Film and Video
– By Eve PerryRALPH HUMPHREY
– By Susan HarrisMICKALENE THOMAS
Origin of the Universe– By Desi GonzalezTATZU NISHI Discovering Columbus
– By Anne Sherwood PundykIn the Thick of Things
– By George StolzThe Present Age
– By R. H. LossinJONAS MEKAS Reminiscences of a Displaced Person
– By Joseph KlarlRODNEY MCMILLIAN Prospect Ave.
– By Jen SchwartingWe the People
– By Chloé RossettiBRIAN BELOTT
A Goosh Noosh– By Jonathan GoodmanFARRELL BRICKHOUSE
– By Jason StopaRONNIE LANDFIELD
Where it all Began– By William CorwinThe New Barnes Foundation Museum
– By David CarrierCity of Gold: Tomb and Temple in Ancient Cyprus
– By Alana Shilling-JanoffPETER SACKS New Paintings
– By Talia BlochFRANK STELLA The Retrospective, Works 1958-2012
– By David RhodesSHARON HAYES There's So Much I Want to Say to You
– By Kareem Estefan
Books
A Question of (Soma)tics
– By Alex EstesMisery Loves Company With a Sense of Humor
– By Laura Smith TerryRelative Triangles and The Dangers of Proximal Alphabets
– By Elianna GreenbergIn Exile
– By Michael McCanneUnsung Hero
– By Amy WolfeRAPID TRANSIT
MAPPING THE GRAIN: Silver, Mercury, and Lead Go into a Bar...– By Jeffrey Cyphers WrightSouthern Exposure
– By Laura Cesarco EglinELIZABETH KOKE and AMY SCHOLDER of the Feminist Press with Gabriel Don
MICHAEL BRACEWELL with Kathy Battista
PENINA ROTH with Nicolle Elizabeth
Noise's Nectar
– By Joseph NechvatalThe Light Pours Out of Me
– By Brendan ByrneTell It Quick
– By Nicolle Elizabeth
Music
AN AMERICAN REVIVALIST: Dom Flemons and the Return of the African-American String Band
– By Geoffrey ClarfieldPreviously Unreleased Footage of Boulez–Cage Tennis Match Discovered
– By David St.-LascauxOuttakes
– By Steve DalachinskyBrooklyn's Children are Singing
– By George GrellaTomorrow's Parties, Today
– By Todd SimmonsStill Ragin' After All These Years
– By Billups Allen
Dance
Present in the Absence
– By L.J. SunshineAn Ineffective Upheaval
– By Evan NamerowGathering Momentum
– By Siobhan BurkeKYLE ABRAHAM with Ryan Wenzel
Film
THE PROBLEMS OF FICTION
PABLO LARRAÍN with José Miguel PalaciosIN RETROSPECT
Jeff Preiss's STOP– By Giampaolo BianconiCHEMICAL SUNDOWNS
PHIL SOLOMON with Leo Goldsmith– By Leo GoldsmithNew Fangled Old Things: Views from the Avant-Garde 2012
– By Felix Bernstein
Theater
Ich Bin Ein Pumpkin Deity
– By Eliza BentDrunken History with Cusi Cram
– By Marin GazzanigaNo One is Done Nothing is Over: Jackie Sibblies Drury's We Are Proud To Present...
– By Mark ArmstrongEsther, Muriel, and Yvette: The Roots
– By Dan Trujillo
Fiction
Week 13
– By Emily FlakeProfessor Greyhound’s Poetry Tests
– By Keren KatzDark Tomato
– By Sakura MakuTelegram
– By Andrea TsurumiSingle Girl, Chicken Soup
– By Connie SunTragic Strip
– By T. MotleySpooky Action at a Distance
– By Eugene LimVestigial Features
– By Mary Steinfrom the novella
A Familiar Beast– By Panio GianopoulosIf a Body Meet a Body
– By Jason Lees
Poetry
Three from The Garden
– By Ed Steckfrom I am the Robert Walser
– By Mina Pam DickThree
– By Brian Blanchfield