April 2013
The “April 2013” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on April 3, 2013.
Critics Page
The Contemporary Art Gallery
– By David Carrier112 Greene Street--Spaces Interior and Exterior
– By Bill BeckleyAutobiographical Reflections and the Art World
– By Joachim PissarroGallery Charm
– By Ivan GaskellTaps for Joseph Beuys
– By Adele TutterRedesigning Resistance
– By Joshua K. LeonArt Entrances
– By Darren Jones
Local
UPROSE Uplifts Sunset Park
– By Eleanor J. BaderThe Quinning Strategy
– By Ari PaulCITYNOTES
Stars Come Out in Brooklyn– By Theodore HammSeaside Stories
– By Saskia Kahn
Express
WEED WARRIOR
KEITH STROUP with Jason Flores-WilliamsA Pack of Damn Lies
– By Matt IgoeThe Family Mansion
– By Anthony C. WinklerThe Jubilee Rolls On
– By Sara Roffino
ArtSeen
ADRIAN GHENIE Disturbing Dichotomies and New Paintings
– By Alana Shilling-JanoffPHOENIX RISING: NYC 1993 Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star
– By Thyrza Nichols GoodeveSIMON LEE MOTHER IS PASSING. COME AT ONCE
– By William CorwinZAUN LEE Borders
– By Jonathan GoodmanJOHN MCLAUGHLIN Paintings 1947 – 1974
– By Robert C. MorganTHOMAS NOZKOWSKI Recent Work
– By Robert BerlindJINDRICH STYRSKY Dreams
– By Valery OisteanuGet Off the Lawn
– By Matthew Shen GoodmanGIANNI COLOMBO
(or, "Greene Naftali or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Gallery")– By Gail Victoria Braddock QuagliataAL HELD Alphabet Paintings
– By David RhodesJOEL SHAPIRO Sculpture and Drawings 1969 – 1972
– By Phong H. BuiJOE ZUCKER Empire Descending a Staircase
– By Alex BaconMARA HELD
– By Phong H. Bui
Books
What Academic Freedom?
– By David Rosen and David RosenLEIGH NEWMAN with Susan Marque
By Creeps and Bounds
– By Lynne LawnerTwenty(-something) Questions
– By Leigh Kamping-CarderWhy Nabokov Matters
– By Christopher MichelAfter the Rainy Season
– By Sara VersluisThe Heights of Absurdity
Rudolph Herzog with Karen ResterAYANA MATHIS with Jenine Holmes
Music
Some Time in New York City
– By Richard KlinDarker But Still Singing
Anna Gourari's Canto Oscuro– By Alessandro CassinA Night at the Opera
– By David St.-LascauxOuttakes
– By Steve Dalachinsky
Theater
so go the ghosts of Matthew Paul Olmos
– By Susan Soon He StantonSlipping into the L.A. Scene
– By Becca Wolff
Fiction
When the Time Comes
– By Josef WinklerWoodchuck In Prison
– By Ted PeltonMothra
– By Mimi LipsonDeath Wish
– By Josh BayerDeux Ex McKenna
– By a bunch of cartoonists and Dave McKennaTragic Strip
– By T. Motley
Poetry
Seven
– By Cedar Sigofrom God May Be Around (1931)
– By Alexander Vvedensky, translated by Eugene OstashevskyFour
– By Joseph MasseyFour
– By Tracey McTagueMARIE PONSOT with David St.-Lascaux
Art Books
Oil On Paper
– By Suzaan BoettgerThe Culture of Curating and the Curating of Culture(s)
– By Loney Abrams