May 2013
The “May 2013” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on May 3, 2013.
Critics Page
Vocabulary of the Possible
– By Christopher FrenchArt Criticism That Made A Difference
– By David CarrierWords To Live By
– By Darren JonesJean-Michel Basquiat Commented On Your Status
– By Noah BeckerCriticism After Utopian Politics
– By Pac PobricCriticism on the Spot
– By Christina Schmid
Local
A Maestro At The Met
– By Eleanor J. BaderWARNING: Vultures Eyeing NYCHA
– By Ari PaulWelcome to Nyack
– By Bill BatsonSeaside Stories
– By Saskia Kahn
Express
Notes on a Fallen Star
– By Theodore HammExcerpts from J.-B. Pontalis's Brother of the Above
– By J.-B. Pontalis, translated from the French by Donald Nicholson-Smith (International Psychoanalytic Books, 2012)A Pack of Damn Lies
– By Matt IgoeA Letter to Attorney General Holder
– By the Whistleblower Defense League
ArtSeen
GORDON MATTA-CLARK Above and Below
– By David RhodesJOEL SHAPIRO Sculpture and Drawings, 1969-1972
– By Alex BaconZHANG XIAOGANG
– By Robert C. MorganDANH VO's Portentous Art
Mother Tongue and I M U U R 2– By Bansie VasvaniWait, Later This Will Be Nothing: Editions by Dieter Roth
– By Becky BrownSANFORD WURMFELD Light & Dark
– By Margaret GrahamMICHAEL PORTNOY 27 Gnosis
– By Chloé RossettiDAVID DIAO TMI
– By Robert Berlind12 Paintings by LAURA OWENS
– By Terry R. MyersBEN LA ROCCO Fugue State
– By Corina LarkinJOHN MOORE Portals
– By Robert BerlindSERGEI TCHEREPNIN Ear Tone Box
– By Kara L. RooneyThe Artful Recluse: Painting, Poetry, and Politics in 17th-Century China
– By Ann McCoyCORDY RYMAN Adaptive Radiation
– By Alex BaconMARY LUCIER New Installation Works
– By Corina LarkinCLAES OLDENBURG The Street and The Store and Mouse Museum/Ray Gun Wing
– By Valery OisteanuPOIGNANCY ON VIEW Giosetta Fioroni: L'Argento
– By Alana Shilling-JanoffSUSANNA HELLER Phantom Pain
– By Jonathan GoodmanEdo Pop: The Impact of Japanese Prints
– By Gail Victoria Braddock QuagliataKATE TEALE The Sea Is All Around Us
– By Tom McGlynnTED STAMM Paintings
– By Pac PobricSOMEDAY IS NOW: The Art of Corita Kent
– By Michael DuncanANDREW KUO You Say Tomato
– By Ryan Lee WongPainting Advanced
– By Matthew Shen Goodman
Books
Lyrics for Love and Loss
– By J.W. McCormackRAPID TRANSIT
– By Jeffrey Cyphers WrightBILL CHENG with Scott Cheshire
Fractured Knowledge
– By Orli Van MourikDivided We Fall
– By Amy CavanaughA Classless Education
– By Katie RolnickFrederick & Fyodor
– By Rayyan Al-ShawafWorld Without End
– By Katharina Smundak
Music
Electronic Engagement
– By Marshall YarbroughLonnie Holley's Past, Present, and Future
– By Christopher NelsonThe Producer As Critic
– By George GrellaOuttakes
– By Steve Dalachinsky
Film
THE PRESENT GENERATION
Chinese Realities/Documentary Visions at MoMA– By Jason FoxTHE COMMUNARDS OF WALL STREET
On Zoe Beloff's The Days of the Commune– By Jason LivingstonDESCRIPTION OF A STRUGGLE
Straub-Huillet's Class Relations– By Jonathan Andrews
Theater
Being Walt Disney: Lucas Hnath and the Theater of Celebrity
– By Heidi SchreckDelusion to Delusion to Delusion: How I Wrote a Movie and Then Got it Made
– By Halley FeifferPerché No Pass a Night Formal You at the Hotel Colors?
– By Ben GassmanWhat It Means To Disappear Here: UglyRhino comes to Port Royal
– By Susan Soon He Stanton
Fiction
When the Time Comes
– By Josef WinklerLove and the Demonstration
– By Mahmoud Saeed, translated from the Arabic by William M. HutchinsARROWSCHMITT!!!
– By Arryan Decaturexcerpt from The Raw Edge - Issue 01
– By Devin ClarkTragic Strip
– By T. Motleyfrom Demian
– By Hermann Hesse
Poetry
Three
– By Drew GardnerTwo
– By Patricia Spears JonesEight
– By Cliff FymanHeavy Sublimation
– By Leonard SchwartzEILEEN MYLES and Noel Black
Art Books
Corrected Slogans: Reading and Writing Conceptualism
– By Courtney Fiske