March 2013
The “March 2013” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on March 4, 2013.
Critics Page
Prolixity and Painting
– By Nancy PrincenthalIt looks like words have won...
– By Michelle GrabnerCentaurs and Microbes
– By David HumphreyTalk/Show: Language and the Resistant Artwork
– By Richard KalinaVisual Intelligence
– By Mira SchorWords are Limited
– By Carrie MoyerThis Is How We Do It
– By Stephen WestfallNotes on Looking, Thinking, and then Writing
– By Robert BerlindDOUG ARGUE Artspeak and The Art of Translation
– By Alana Shilling-JanoffBreathing Room
– By Susan BeeDiscourse ≠ Art
– By Stephen MaineArguing Art
– By Dennis KardonDAVID SHRIGLEY Signs
– By Noah DillonProlixity and Art
– By Thyrza Nichols GoodeveSABINE HORNIG Transparent Things
– By Paula BurleighLooking/Reading/Writing
– By David CarrierSense and Unsensibility
– By Tom McGlynnThe Medium Has No Message
– By R. H. Lossin
Local
What Queerocracy Looks Like
– By Eleanor J. BaderA Groundswell of Teachers Wants More
– By Ari PaulAMONG THE STRONGEST
ROBIN NAGLE with Gabriel ThompsonSeaside Stories
– By Saskia Kahn and Lindsey Catherine Cornum
Express
CASE NO: 1
– By Jason Flores-WilliamsIsrael/Palestine and the Re-education of Sarah Schulman
– By Bec ZajacThe Bankruptcy of Doom and Gloom
– By Robert S. EshelmanNew Look for Rail Books
– By Theodore HammART, MUSIC, MONEY
PHOEBE LEGERE with Vienna Boa
ArtSeen
BERNARD FRIZE Winter Diary
– By Terry R. MyersCHARLES LUTZ "BABEL (Brillo Stockholm Type)"
– By Michael StrausThe Color Bars of Francis Alÿs
Drawing Surrealism
– By Valery OisteanuBeyond Thinking
– By Karen SchiffA.R. PENCK New Paintings
– By Jonathan GoodmanSÉBASTIEN CLICHE, SYLVIE COTTON, CHELSEA KNIGHT, and MARK TRIBE Brooklyn/Montreal Exchange
– By Gail Victoria Braddock QuagliataCORA COHEN The Responsibility of Forms
– By Nora GriffinTOMMY MINTZ Mind the Gap/Mine the Gaps
– By William CorwinTREVOR PAGLEN
– By Desi GonzalezLARRY POONS New Paintings
– By Robert C. MorganPAUL LAFFOLEY and SUZANNE TREISTER
– By Ann McCoy
Books
Lessons in Empathy
– By Geoffrey YoungLAUREN GROFF with Matthew Daddona
Men Being Played
– By Weston CutterTechnoir at Light Speed
– By Ben PfeifferWhere Food is Family
Wandering Beauty
– By Tony LeuzziA Wide Open Mind
– By Christopher Michel
Music
A Chance Meeting of Words and Music
– By David St.-LascauxAMPLIFY 2013: rotation
– By Christopher NelsonA Great and Joyful Noise
– By Jose PaduaDecoding Lez Zeppelin
– By Allyson Polsky McCabeOuttakes
– By Steve DalachinskyStill Tragic, Still Political, Still Swoon-Worthy
– By Joanna McNaney Stein
Dance
Protective Frost
– By Siobhan BurkeViscera
– By Cassie PetersonRASHAUN MITCHELL with Nancy Dalva
Film
IT'S ALRIGHT, WILLIAMSBURG
(I'M ONLY BLEEDING)
SU FRIEDRICH with Cynthia LugoThe Many Hindrances of STEPHEN DWOSKIN
– By Max NelsonFROM A DARK ROOM
SANDRA GIBSON AND LUIS RECODER with Genevieve YueROOMS OF MELANCHOLIA
Cristian Mungiu's Beyond the Hills– By Ricky D'AmbroseNOTHING'S HAPPIER THAN HAPPINESS
Pablo Larraín's NO– By José Miguel Palacios
Theater
Red Wigs and Lettuce
Passing Through the Heart with Dalia Basiouny– By Catherine FillouxLesser America Takes On A Tragic Chimp
– By Ken UrbanMiranda Huba's Candy Tastes Nice Puts Virginity on the Auction Block.
– By Gary Winter
Fiction
from The Collected Writings of Art Smith, The Bird Boy of Fort Wayne
– By Michael MartoneI Would Be Remiss If I Did Not Mention That I Have Nothing To Offer You In Return Whatsoever
– By Nicolle ElizabethWhen the Time Comes
– By Josef WinklerZOMB
– By Matt SenecaCatscan
– By Molly RothArrowschmitt!!!
– By Arryan DecaturTears Don't Dry
– By Leah HayesTragic Strip
– By T. Motleyfrom the story collection
The Man Who Walked on Air & other tales of innocence– By Alain Arias-Misson
Poetry
Five
– By Maxine Chernofffrom Situations: Events and Spells
– By Mercedes Roffé, translated from the Spanish by Judith FilcAt Hell Gate
– By Brandon Downing
Art Books
Summer of Hate
– By Wendy VogelHesitating Beauty
– By Talia Bloch