October 2013
The “October 2013” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on October 3, 2013.
Critics Page
Vulnerability and its Vicissitudes
– By Thyrza Nichols GoodeveAugust 26, 2013
– By Yvonne RainerMetaphor and the Feeling of Fact
– By Steven Henry MadoffMy Sad Little Tree
– By Judith RodenbeckWall of Water
– By Chloé RossettiOn the Aesthetic of Vulnerability
– By Mark DerySoft Body
– By Claire PentecostPoems
– By Tom McGlynnRadical Vulnerability
– By Jerry SaltzCrushes on Art
– By Jarrett EarnestDear Thyrza
– By Bill BerksonBEAUTIFUL VIOLATION
Art and the Predicament of Emotional Exposure– By Alana ShillingThe Hobgoblins of Bad Art
– By Daniel KunitzOn Vulnerability
– By Tim RollinsArt in the Age of Vulnerability
– By Ann McCoyI'm Not Sure When It Happened
– By David RossMind Fuck Building
– By Madeline SchwartzmanThe Wisdom of Insecurity
– By Taney RonigerRight Now the Future is Dark
– By Michael Taussig
Publisher's Message
Dear Readers
– By Phong H. Bui
Local
Barclays Center: Brooklyn's "Community Arena"?
– By Norman OderThe Political Education of Young Wilhelm
– By Theodore HammSeaside Stories
– By Saskia KahnOrthodox Women Rabbis? Maybe.
– By Laila CaronWalls That Outlast Sandy
– By Eleanor J. Bader
Express
Inside Moral Mondays
– By Alex KotchHow to Spot a Junkie
– By Christopher KetchamAn Ode to "Famous" Seamus Heaney
– By Williams Cole and Williams ColeA Pack of Damn Lies
– By Matt IgoeBreaking Bad vs. Badly Broken
– By Johannah RodgersThe End of Vermont Yankee
– By Jeff Unsicker
Art
REMEMBERING
Stephen Antonakos
(1926 – 2013)– By Cordy Ryman, Merrill Wagner, and Nathan KernanALEXIS ROCKMAN with Jonathan T. D. Neil
David Novros: Death, Ownership, and Public Art
Against the Text "Art is Immortal"– By Alan DuganATLAS OF INTIMACY
JILL MAGID with Jarrett EarnestProtecting Artists and Galleries in the Wake of Hurricane Sandy: A Checklist for Artist-Gallery Contracts
– By Judd Grossman and Michael StrausJEFFREY DEITCH with David Carrier and Joachim Pissarro
VULNERABILITY AS CRITICAL SELF-KNOWLEDGE
ERNESTO PUJOL with Thyrza Nichols GoodeveWHAT IS ART?
Elbow to Elbow– By Bill Jensen NYC, 2007-2012JOSHUA ABELOW
with Jason StopaWarhol and Rauschenberg Foundations Urge the Court in the Richard Prince Case to Take a Broad View of Appropriation Art
– By Michael Straus
ArtSeen
Survey: Modern Iranian Art
– By Bansie VasvaniJOAN WALTEMATH: The Dinwoodies, 2005-8: graphite drawings on mylar
– By Kara L. RooneyThe Importance of Being Bruce High Quality
– By Jeremy ButmanBARBARA TAKENAGA New Paintings
– By Robert BerlindEBERHARD HAVEKOST Titel
– By Terry R. MyersCHARLINE VON HEYL
– By Corina LarkinBARRY MCGEE
– By Jonathan GoodmanALDO TAMBELLINI We Are the Primitives of a New Era
– By Kara L. RooneyFlower Garden
– By Michael PepiGLORIOUS MADNESS
Art, Improbability, and Jean Dubuffet's Excursions en no man's space– By Alana Shilling-JanoffSOCIÉTÉ RÉALISTE
A rough guide to Hell– By Paula BurleighMATTHEW DAY JACKSON
Something Ancient, Something New, Something Stolen, Something Blue– By Alexander ShulanSONYA BLESOFSKY Renovation
– By Darren JonesJulian Pretto Gallery
– By Pac Pobric
Books
The Chase Goes On
– By Katharina SmundakLandscape With Yellow Birds: The Selected Poems of José Ángel Valente
– By Pablo MedinaThe Worst Story Ever Told
– By Christopher MichelSibum in Nighttown
– By John DominiTallying a Life
– By Amy CavanaughBryson, Inc
– By Allen Guy WilcoxMaternity Mythos
– By Carmen Giménez SmithAll Too Human
– By Scott CheshireThe Sum of Things
– By Jeremy Polacek
Music
Skeletal Improvisations and Thrilling Crescendos of Madness: Spy Music Fest 2013
– By Christopher NelsonFractured Visuals: Oneohtrix Point Never's R Plus Seven
– By Andrew CappettaA SOCIAL ORGANIZATION
A Decade of ISSUE Project Room– By Marshall YarbroughOuttakes
– By Steve Dalachinsky
Dance
Only Disconnect
– By Ryan WenzelSo This Dance Walks Into a Museum...
– By Brian Schaefer
Film
Musical Realism: Matt Porterfield's I Used to Be Darker
– By Paul FeltenPAWEŁ WOJTASIK, TOBY LEE, AND ERNST KAREL with Chi-hui Yang
Single Stream at the Museum of the Moving ImageChange You Can Believe In
Shaka King's Newlyweeds and Neil Drumming's Big Words– By Brandon HarrisFormal Logic
Materials and Methods at the 2013 Festival del film Locarno– By Leo Goldsmith and Rachael RakesUpside Down Cameras and Other Wonders
Ernie Gehr's Signal--Germany on the Air and Side/Walk/Shuttle at Light Industry, October 8– By Benjamin Schultz-Figueroa
Theater
Visions of Taylor Mac
Good Person of Szechwan Hits the Public– By Diana StahlROSEMARY MOORE with Lizzie Olesker
Side Street and the Dead PossibleThe Very Very Very Best City in the Entire World
In The Downtown Loop with Ben Gassman– By Paul KetchumA Gender Bending Roadtrip Deep into the Heartland: The TEAM's RoosevElvis
– By Sherri Eden Barber
Fiction
SOS
– By Mu Xin | Translated from the Chinese by Toming Jun LiuFor the Voice, For the Fragile Echo
A NOVELLA IN 3 PARTS, 3 of 3.– By Munira al-Fadhel | Translated from the Arabic by William M. HutchinsSix Enclosures from Ana Patova Crosses a Bridge
– By Renee Gladman[Untitled Summer Journal Project #10 Revisited]
– By Joshua CohenWhen the Time Comes
– By Josef Winklerfrom The Autobiography of a Corpse
– By Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky, translated from the Russian by Joanne Turnbull with Nikolai Formozov, out now from the New York Review of BooksMrs. Meurt
– By Jeremy M. DaviesCrazy Train
– By Molly RothArrowschmidtt!!!
– By Arryan DecaturTragic Strip
– By T. MotleyLao Area
– By Clement Baloup
Poetry
The Vargas-Vargas Affair
– By Joe Panfrom The Summer Flood Came Home
– By Stefania Irene MarthakisTwo
– By Ted Dodson