February 2013
The “February 2013” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on February 5, 2013.
Critics Page
Dear Reader
– By Martha SchwendenerOne Thing
– By David LevineA Conversation
– By Julia Byran-Wilson and Mel Y. ChenAlternatives
– By Coco FuscoDropping Adjectives from Art Writing
– By Lee AmbrozyMake Room!
– By Barry SchwabskyDisseminating Photography
– By Geoffrey BatchenArt is the Commons
– By Maria ByckArtists Supporting Their Own
– By Paul SchimmelThe Amateur
– By Marcel JancoManifesto for an Education Beyond the Power Grid
– By Rainer GanahlKelly Lake Store
– By Chris KrausMore Cooperatives
– By Members of the Park Slope Food Coop, Food Processing Committee, C Week Monday Afternoon SquadA Modest Proposal
– By Sean ElwoodA Different One Percent
– By Lucy LippardBILL OF RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES pertaining to FIFTEEN NESTING BOOKCASES that are now property of KUNSTMUSEUM AAN ZEE, OOSTENDE and that are to be made available to the CITIZENS OF OOSTENDE
– By Joe ScanlanAn Ideal Ratio
– By Erin SicklerEveryone Wants to be Subaltern
– By Simone LeighIf I Could Turn Back Time...
– By Edward WinklemanEscaping the Missionary Position
– By Naeem MohaiemenClichés Lead Critics Down Slippery Slope
– By Blake GopnikA New Role for the N.E.A.
– By Christopher KnightAn Equity for Visual Arts Act
– By William PowhidaArt, Autonomy, Pedagogy in 2013
– By Jaleh MansoorSolidarity Art Worlds
– By Caroline Woolard
Local
Watching the Watchdogs
– By Ari PaulBig Mama's Legacy
– By Eleanor J. BaderCITYNOTES
Kelly by the Numbers– By Theodore HammSeaside Stories
– By Saskia Kahn
Express
A Poetic Life
HARVEY SHAPIRO with Galen WilliamsAn Animated Life
RALPH BAKSHI with
Gregory Smulewicz-ZuckerInside the Motor City
– By Gabriel ThompsonThe Pen is Mightier
– By Geoffrey YoungBeing Grass
– By Allen Guy WilcoxMITCH LEIGH with Phong Bui
The Body Politic
– By David Rosen and David RosenAn Atlas of Tolerance
– By Orli Van MourikThe People v. Barack Obama
– By Jason Flores-Williams
Art
LINDA FRANCIS with Ben La Rocco
Life of a Happy Man
– By P. Adams Sitney, Richard Foreman, Gregory Zucker, Ken Jacobs, Pip Chodorov, Vyt Bakaitis, and Penny ArcadeIshmael Randall-Weeks with Alex Bacon
CRITICS' PAGE
Art Without Criticism– By Viktor WitkowskiCRITICS' PAGE
Art Criticism and the Marketing of Contemporary Art– By Robert C. MorganThomas Cahill with Phong Bui
ABC for/of Richard Tuttle
An epistolary interview with Jarrett Earnest, pt.3 "P-Z"JOACHIM PISSARRO with Alexander S. C. Rower
ArtSeen
What Do We Do Now?
Arts & Labor's Alternative Economies Resource Guide– By Members of the OWS Arts & Labor Alternative Economies GroupAlternative Economies, Alternative Societies
– By Oliver ResslerEverybody Needs Wiggle Room
– By David RobbinsI Dream a Dream
– By Barbara PollackWhat Do We Expect From Art?
– By Martha BuskirkAlternative Takes
– By Barbara HammerAlternative to an Alternative
– By Dean DaderkoAlternatives
– By Dan S. WangThe Experimental Laboratory of the Present
– By Ben DavisWhat is the Alternative?
– By Kay EskeLotus Petals
– By Noah FischerThe Critic's Doubt
– By Cinqué HicksNo Alternatives, One Imperative
– By Danny MarcusNotes From a Future
– By Mary MattinglyAlternatives
– By Laurel PtakCreative Redevelopment
– By Bruce ReynoldsAlternative Reality Transmission / Written Oral Record of Kinesic Storytelling (ARTWORKS)
– By Tyler RowlandProductive Anonymity
– By Mira SchorOccupy, Resist, Produce!
– By Marina SitrinTeaching Philosophy
– By Judith RodenbeckAlternatives
– By Daniel SpauldingArt in The Post-Consumer World: A Case for Exceptionalism?
– By Debra ThimmeschPrinciples of W.A.G.E. Certification
– By W.A.G.E.Alternative World: A Code of Ethics, Behaviors, Attitudes, and Understandings
– By Oliver WasowKarsten, What are You Doing?
– By Roger WhiteDancing Around the Bride
– By Tom McGlynnROLAND FLEXNER
– By Raphael RubinsteinMATISSE In Search of True Painting
– By David CarrierJUDITH BERNSTEIN Hard
– By Ann McCoyBARBARA RUBIN Christmas On Earth
– By Joseph KlarlWOLF VOSTELL Reclaiming the Present through Décollage
– By Robert C. MorganPEGGY CYPHERS Animal Spirits
– By Jonathan GoodmanROSEMARIE TROCKEL A Cosmos
– By Paula BurleighTREE HUGGERS
Giuseppe Penone's "Spazio di Luce" and Rachel Whiteread's "Tree of Life"– By William CorwinALLEN GINSBERG Losing Sight, Coming into Focus: Beat Memories
– By Alana Shilling-JanoffELISA LENDVAY Small Sculpture
– By Daniel WienerAlternative Living Spaces that Subvert New York Real Estate Rent Oligopoly
– By Greg Lindquist and Mary Mattingly
Books
Shake-Speare Fission
– By William S. NiederkornThe Relativity of Small (Or, the Affairs of Men): Two Novellas
– By Larissa ZimberoffTARUN TEJPAL with Nicolle Elizabeth
Meat and Mayhem
– By Susan ButtenwieserMARY JO BANG with Adam Fitzgerald
JOSHUA BECKMAN and JON BEACHAM with Erika Anderson
LUIS JARAMILLO with Marietta Brill
Music
BAM Next Wave, Part II
– By George GrellaPut a Yodel in Your Soul
– By Jose PaduaMusical Dissonance, Cognitive Strain
– By David St.-LascauxOuttakes
– By Steve DalachinskyNatural Elements
– By Richard KlinMOHSEN NAMJOO with Shoja Azari
Exit the Maestro
– By Alessandro Cassin
Dance
RICHARD MOVE with Ryan Wenzel
JUSTIN PECK with Ryan Wenzel
Artful Limbo
– By Siobhan BurkePleasures of the Fresh
– By Garnet Henderson
Film
The Uses of Richard Pryor
– By Colin BeckettWhat Will Be Will Be
Abbas Kiarostami's Like Someone in Love– By Paul FeltenPasolini's Body
Cathy Lee Crane with Leo Goldsmith & Rachael RakesOne Night in the Bush
Miguel Gomes's Tabu– By Steve MacfarlaneThe Emancipation Wetdream
On Django Unchained– By Brandon Harris
Theater
Anger and Forgiveness in Martin Moran's All the Rage
– By James LecesneSpring Season at the Starr: Joshua Conkel, Michael Levinton, and Eliza Bent
– By Sarah Bishop-Stone
Fiction
When the Time Comes
– By Josef WinklerTales/Composites/From Nearby
– By Dorothy AlbertiniAssociate
– By Mikael AwakeFive Stories
– By Debora KuanHow It Is
– By Bianca StoneThe Adventures of Time Traveling Omelette
– By Andrea Tsurumiink thirsty
– By Alexander RothmanTragic Strip
– By T. MotleyThe Exam
– By Tom Whalen
Poetry
FOUR
from Portraits of the Artists as Their Own Subjects
– By Mike LalaHold the Line
– By Matt LongabuccoFive
– By Connie Mae Oliver
Art Books
Ai Weiwei According to What?
– By Greg Lindquist and Mary MattinglyNocturnes
– By Eugenie Dalland