November 2013
The “November 2013” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on November 5, 2013.
Critics Page
What Richard Pryor Didn't Know
– By Amei WallachCHRISTO with Jarrett Earnest
Painting Pollock
– By Phyllis TuchmanBREAKING THE FRAME
Space, Time, and a Body of Work– By Joyce BeckensteinKIMSOOJA
Works and Process– By David EbonyWith Her Back to the World and Her Face to the Camera
– By Nancy PrincenthalTHE MET-GETTY PROGRAM FOR ART ON FILM
NADINE COVERT with Susan DelsonGetting Away With It
– By Gregory ZinmanPICASSO'S MYSTERY: Art and Cinema
– By Angela Dalle Vacche
Publisher's Message
Dear Readers
– By Phong H. Bui
Local
BATS Step Up to the Plate
– By Eleanor J. BaderWill James Challenge De Blasio on Atlantic Yards?
– By Norman OderSeaside Stories
– By Saskia KahnThe Brooklyn Mayor
– By Williams Cole and Williams ColeUrbanGlass Remakes a Brooklyn Landmark
– By Michael Randazzo and Chip Brenner
Express
POST-OCCUPIED
Art, Free Speech, and the 1%– By Paul McLeanA Pack of Damn Lies
– By Matt IgoeThe Writin' Irish
– By Williams Cole and Williams ColeThe Narco Cultura War Next Door: Shaul Schwarz with Williams Cole
Art
FRANKLIN EVANS with Greg Lindquist
APPLYING PRESSURE
CHRIS BURDEN with Jarrett EarnestREMEMBERING
Arthur Danto
(1924 – 2013)– By Daniel Herwitz and Lydia GoehrCelebrate the New Dark Age
– By David GeersNALINI MALANI with Ann McCoy
ArtSeen
ALEX KATZ Small Paintings 1987–2013
– By Robert BerlindPainting at 56 Bogart
– By Ben La RoccoANNE TRUITT Threshold: Works from the 1970s
– By Jonathan GoodmanJOHN O'CONNOR The Machine and the Ghost
– By Brian ChidesterTONY COX Shapes of Shade
– By Charles SchultzWILLIAM ANASTASI Sound Works, 1963–2013
– By William CorwinCHRIS BURDEN Extreme Measures
– By Alexander ShulanDOROTHEA ROCKBURNE Drawing Which Makes Itself
– By Matthew FarinaNALINI MALANI In Search of Vanished Blood
– By Gail Victoria Braddock QuagliataSculpture after Artschwager
– By Michael PepiJOAN WALTEMATH
The Dinwoodies, 2005-08: graphite drawings on mylar– By Kara L. RooneyMAGRITTE The Mystery of the Ordinary 1926–1938
– By Valery OisteanuNew Jersey as Non-Site
– By Alana Shilling-JanoffStreet Art Brazil
– By Joachim Pissarro and David CarrierMATTHEW CRAVEN Oblivious Path
– By Pac PobricTONY FEHER
– By Rupert Goldsworthy
Books
You had me at ''Goodbye''
– By Leigh Kamping-CarderThe Question of Being Human
– By Karissa ChenLasting Memory
– By Geoffrey YoungDOCTORS DRIVING CABS
AMIN (A.X) AHMAD with Charlene AllenAn Unmapped Life
– By Abby MarguliesWriting on Writing
– By Orli van MourikAUTOFORENSICS
CRIS MAZZA with Kathleen RooneyEROS AND PLAY
ELIZABETH ROBINSON with Tony LeuzziTwo by Scott McClanahan
– By Weston CutterA Spider's Mirror
– By Larissa ShmailoTen Years in the Tub
– By Leslie FierroVisitation Street
– By Andrew CottoSAM CABOT with Andrew Cotto
Music
NINE NOCTURNES
Jandek's The Song of Morgan– By Christopher NelsonGG Allin Gets Trapped in America, Sends Word to the Empire
– By Margarita ShalinaKT TUNSTALL: Travelling Light
– By KK KozikOuttakes
– By Steve DalachinskyBRUCE MOLSKY with Stephen Ellis and David Ross
Dance
Rehearsal Diary
– By Claudia La Rocco
Film
OUT OF THE PRESENT
Films of the Berlin School at MoMA– By Jaimey FisherJIA ZHANGKE with Zhou Xin
OF NOMADS AND MIGRANTS To Look Awry: Latin and Spanish Filmmakers Far From Home
– By José Miguel PalaciosNotes on Daredevils
– By Rachael RakesA New Resistance: Far From Afghanistan
– By Laura Paul
Theater
Notes from a Star-Struck Fan
Mary-Kate Olsen is in Love– By Hans VermyThe Past and Future Sunsets of Dominique Morisseau
– By Matthew Paul OlmosBEING THE IMAGINABLE
RUTH MALECZECH: A tribute– By Mallory Catlett, Martha Elliot, Karen Houppert, Melanie Joseph, Theodora Skipitares, Joe Stackell, and Nick WestrateSurfing the Coasts: L.A.'s IAMA Theatre Company Hits N.Y.C.
– By Addie Johnson Talbott
Fiction
from Zugzwang
– By Eduard Màrquez, translated from the Catalan by Lawrence VenutiAlien Daughters Walk Into the Sun
– By Jackie WangA diary of mysterious difficulties...
– By Laura RaicovichSalt Lake City Congo
– By Laird Huntfrom The Compleat Memoirrhoids
– By Steve Katz, out now on Starcherone Booksthe first 3 chapters from Manhattan Tropics
– By Guillermo Cotto-Thorner, translated from the Spanish by J. Bret ManeyTragic Strip
– By Tom MotleyThe Right Thing
– By Bishakh SomCoat Check Room
– By Keren KatzAmong the Shadows
– By Marc-Antoine Mathieu
Poetry
from Jaguar Harmonics
[person woven of, of tesserae]– By Anne WaldmanEleven
– By Rodney KoenekeTwo
– By Eric Amling