September 2013
The “September 2013” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on September 4, 2013.
Critics Page
What is Art--and Why Even Ask?
– By Carter RatcliffWhat is Art?
– By Juan PuntesOn Defining Art: A Quasi-Definition of Works of Art
– By Tiziana AndinaWhat is Art?
– By Elizabeth C. BakerWhat is Art?
– By Peter BartonWhat is Art?
– By Bill BerksonWhat is Art?
– By Gregory BottsMy Personal Definition of Art
– By Diane BurkoWhat is Art?
– By Noah Dillonlines circling a definition of art (on my birthday, for W.H.A.)
– By Jarrett EarnestWhat is Art?
– By Peter FreemanWhat is Art?
– By Charles SteinWhat is Architecture? (Art?)
– By Steven HollFilling the Emptiness
– By Vincent KatzIs it Possible to Define Art?
– By Ford CrullWhat is Art?
– By Corina LarkinArt Is
– By George QuashaWhat is Art?
– By Lenore MalenWhat is Art?
– By Ann McCoyVedova / Tintoretto
– By Robert C. MorganWhat is Art?
– By Gary StephanWhat is Art? Art is What?
– By Joan WaltemathWhat is Art?
– By Francis M. NaumannPoints of Change; A Painter's Journey
– By Dorothea Rockburne
Local
De Blasio Time
– By Ari PaulSTORM TROOPERS
The Legacy of Occupy Sandy– By Ari PaulFaith + Action = Justice
– By Eleanor J. BaderSeaside Stories
– By Saskia KahnIn Homestretch of NYC Mayor's Race, Watch for John Liu
– By Theodore HammAntonio Reynoso's Fight for Williamsburg
– By Williams Cole and Williams Cole
Express
Inside the Mexican Cartels
– By Anabel HernándezA Pack of Damn Lies
– By Matt Igoe
ArtSeen
DONNA DENNIS Coney Night Maze
– By Robert BerlindJAMES TURRELL
– By Kara L. RooneyPunk: Chaos to Couture
– By David CarrierSVEN-OLE FRAHM A Hole in the Wall is Nothing to Worry About – Part I
– By Taney RonigerSoundings: A Contemporary Score and The String and the Mirror
– By Andrew CappettaArt About the Art World
– By Michael PepiPoetics of the Unpromising
– By Alana Shilling-JanoffDescending Into the Abyss of Double Negative
– By Greg LindquistAKIVA SAUNDERS & JOHN FELL RYAN
The Shining (Backwards and Forwards)– By William CorwinWomen's Fiction
– By Jen Schwarting
Books
Terry Eagleton Versus Winston Churchill
– By David LehmanShades of Greying
– By Abby MarguliesSummer Escapees
– By Jodi AngelMe, Myself, And My Mind
– By Jeremy PolacekWhen Darkness Isn't Dark
– By Geoffrey YoungEyes Everywhere
– By David Rosen and David RosenThrowaway Lives
– By David Rosen and David RosenIn the House Upon the Dirt Between the Lake and the Woods
– By Todd PettyTampa
– By Weston CutterThe Only Thing(s) to Fear: Monkeytown
– By Stephen CicirelliTorquing the Form
– By Weston CutterMan of Silicon and the American Future
– By J.T. Price
Music
Outtakes
– By Steve DalachinskyZorn @ 60
– By George GrellaA SPOTLIGHT BENT THROUGH A PRISM
Teri Gender Bender of Bosnian Rainbows– By Allyson Polsky McCabeTIME-BASED PERFORMANCE: A Decade of Issue Project Room
– By Marshall YarbroughHear and There: Soundings at MoMA and The String and the Mirror at Lisa Cooley
– By Jonny Farrow
Film
LYNNE SACHS with Karen Rester
AFFECTIVE NUMBERS
Chris Marker and Pierre Lhomme's Le Joli Mai– By Benjamin Schultz-FigueroaDREAM REELER
Jud Yalkut (1938-2013)– By Gregory Zinman
Theater
FRIENDSHIP'S CHAFING BONDS
Jonathan Caren's The Recommendation– By Janine NabersIT'S THE APOCALYPSE. DOH!
Anne Washburn brings The Simpsons post-electric– By Emily DeVoti
Fiction
The Crime of Passion or, Love's Delirium: A Spanish Story
– By Marquis de Sade, translated from the French by Jocelyne Geneviève Barque and John Galbraith SimmonsThe Border Picnics
– By Laura Brown-LavoieWhen the Time Comes
– By Josef WinklerThe Renoir Is Put Straight
– By Pamela Ryderan extract from Blinding: Book One
– By Mircea Cărtărescu, translated from the Romanian by Sean Cotter, out now on Archipelago booksA Connected People
– By David PrudhommeI Remember Beirut
– By Zeina AbirachedErnesto
– By AlfredAnxious Squirrel
– By Antony HuchetteTokyo/Blooklyn
– By Aya KakedaTragic Strip
– By T. Motley