June 2013
The “June 2013” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on June 3, 2013.
Critics Page
Transgression
– By Cary LevineScandal
– By Crystal AM NelsonTRANSGRESSION
A Museological Dilemma– By Harper MontgomeryTHE CRIMINAL, AGED FIVE
"Infringement of a law, command or duty: Transgress."– By Allan GurganusThe Lesbians
– By Our Literal SpeedSocialist, Digital, and Transgressive Objects
– By Philip GlahnBig Bird Made Me Watch
– By George JenneMarginally Transgressive Painting
– By Gregory WilliamsTRANSGRESSING TRANSGRESSION:
Reflections on Filmmaker Kurt Kren and the Vienna Actionists– By Richard LangstonArt World Voodoo
– By Coco FuscoNetwork of Relative Objects: Transgression+Painting
– By Greg Lindquist
Local
Liu Makes His Case
– By Ari PaulSand in Their Shoes
Belle Harbor Families Struggle to Return Home– By Amanda WaldroupeAizzah's Travels
– By Eleanor J. BaderSeaside Stories
– By Saskia KahnTWU Rolls from Occupy to Business as Usual
– By Ari Paul
Express
Apocalypse of the Mountaintops
– By Reverend BillyTomi Ungerer, Enfant Terrible
BRAD BERNSTEIN with Williams ColeA Pack of Damn Lies
– By Matt Igoe
ArtSeen
GERT & UWE TOBIAS
– By David RhodesTATE GALLERY
The Gallery of Lost Art– By Desi GonzalezANSELM KIEFER Morgenthau Plan
– By William CorwinSTANLEY WHITNEY Other Colors I Forget
– By Hearne PardeeBRUCE CONNER
– By Robert C. MorganWORLDS WITHIN WORLDS
The Collages of JONATHAN SCHORSCH– By Marc Michael EpsteinMICHAEL BALLOU Raw/Cooked
– By Jonathan GoodmanMetonymy, Mortality, and Wang Keping's Women
– By Alana Shilling-JanoffMAYA LIN Here and There
– By Taney RonigerGEORGE SUGARMAN Painted Wood
– By Jessica HolmesELENA SISTO Between Silver Light and Orange Shadow
– By Robert BerlindPAUL DELVAUX
– By Valery OisteanuMARK GREENWOLD Murdering the World, Paintings and Drawings 2007–2013
– By Phong H. BuiMAKOTO FUJIMURA Golden Sea
– By Margaret GrahamDON VOISINE
– By Pac PobricEating Apollo's Cattle
– By Ann McCoyCUI FEI Tracing the Origin
– By Matthew Shen Goodman
Books
The Wet Flame of Your Tongue: Translating Yvan Goll
NAN WATKINS with Tony LeuzziThe Status is Quo
– By Matthew DaddonaSpeaking of Evil
– By Geoffrey YoungKafka's Campus
– By Gabe DurhamSearching for the Man Behind the Cat
– By Greg RyanNow the Story of a Wealthy Family Who Lost Everything
– By Katharina SmundakSomething Has Happened
– By Weston CutterThe Way We Weren't
– By Allen Guy WilcoxSideways as a State of Being
– By Jeff PriceVillage People
– By David Rosen and David RosenA Matter of the Mind
– By Jeremy Polacek
Music
The Handmade's Tale
– By Kurt GottschalkEMBODYING SOUND
Exploring London's Sonic Landscape– By Andrew CappettaDEERHUNTER'S LONG DRIVE:
Suburban Roots and the Path to a New Record, Monomania– By Marshall YarbroughOuttakes
– By Steve DalachinskyPUNK ROCK LONELINESS
The Brooklyn What and the Borough's Past and Future– By Charly Himmel
Dance
Front and Center
– By Ryan Wenzel
Theater
FRANKENSTEIN UPSTAIRS
MAC ROGERS with Clay McLeod ChapmanThe Unavoidable Momentum of Steven Levenson
– By Kathryn WalatThe Theater of Aging: Lighting a SPARC
– By Larissa Lury
Fiction
When the Time Comes
– By Josef WinklerPoet In The Schools
– By Lynda Schorfrom LABOR
– By Jill MagiElephant in the City
– By Connie SunTragic Strip
– By T. MotleyBorb
– By Jason Little