Dec/Jan 13–14
The “Dec/Jan 13–14” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on December 18, 2013.
Publisher's Message
Dear friends and readers
– By Phong H. Bui
Local
As the Curtain Closes...
– By Theodore HammStreet Vendors of the City Unite
– By Eleanor J. BaderBloomberg's in His Helicopter, and the Children are Snug in Their Beds
– By Matthew VazSeaside Stories
– By Saskia Kahn
Express
Big Spring
– By Jason Flores-WilliamsA Pack of Damn Lies
– By Matt Igoe
Art
JACOB KASSAY with Alex Bacon
Two Days in the Lives of Art as Social Action:
SHAKESPEARE, DARWIN, AND HANGING OUT WITH TIM ROLLINS AND K.O.S.– By Thyrza Nichols GoodeveMASSIMILIANO GIONI with David Carrier and Joachim Pissarro
– By David CarrierRONI HORN with Jarrett Earnest
T. J. WILCOX
– By Michele Gerber KleinTHE HELD ESSAYS ON VISUAL ART
Art Placebo– By Alva Noë
ArtSeen
Dada & Surrealist Objects, Blain/DiDonna
– By Valery OisteanuMike Kelley Retrospective
– By Gail Victoria Braddock QuagliataFRAN SIEGEL Plans and Interruptions
– By Alexander ShulanAnne Sherwood Pundyk: Stadia
– By Julie HigonnetEvery Force Evolves a Form
– By Phong H. BuiPETER YOUNG
– By William CorwinWAYNE THIEBAUD Memory Mountains
– By Hearne PardeeSHIRLEY JAFFE Paintings from the 1970s
– By Robert KushnerGREGORY AMENOFF Trace
– By Corina LarkinRITUALS OF RENTED ISLAND: Object Theater, Loft Performance, and the New Psychodrama--Manhattan, 1970–1980
– By Tom McGlynnFRANZ ERHARD WALTHER
– By David RhodesJANET CARDIFF The Forty Part Motet
– By Heather WhiteI See Paris, I See France...
– By Adele TutterLove For Sale
– By Alana Shilling-JanoffSTEPHEN WESTFALL Jesus and Bossa Nova
– By Robert BerlindPoems for Robert Motherwell
– By Ben Keating and Phong H. BuiBILL JENSEN Floating World
– By Margaret GrahamHELMUT FEDERLE
The Ferner Paintings– By Noah DillonCHRISTOPHER WOOL and SEAN SCULLY
– By David CarrierOn We Think Alone
– By Heather WhiteEMI ANRAKUJI O Mapa
– By Jonathan GoodmanKathy Erteman
– By Robert KushnerCounter Forms: Tetsumi Kudo, Alina Szapocznikow, Paul Thek, Hannah Wilke
– By Jessica HolmesBENJAMIN DEGEN
– By Jonathan BeerPierre Huyghe The Menagerie Entertains
– By Joseph NechvatalParadise Lost and Found
– By David Willis
Books
Life Imitating Art
– By John ReedACCURACY OF THE MOMENT: ROXANA ROBINSON with Mariette Kalinowski
Double Identity
– By David RosenPotus Page-Turner
– By Greg RyanThe Heart of the Matter
– By Abby MarguliesAmazon in Exile
– By Andrea ScrimaAgainst Fiction
– By Katharina SmundakEmptiness Untampered
– By Carmen Giménez SmithAll the Peloton's Men
– By Casey Murphy
Music
The Danceification of Electronic Music
– By George GrellaFiona Apple
– By Stephanie Del RossoThe Bad Plus
– By Joanna McNaney SteinOuttakes
– By Steve DalachinskyWOMEN OF THE YEAR:
The Renaissances and Reunions Of 2013– By Allyson Polsky McCabe(Ex-)Editor's Note
– By Dave Mandl
Dance
Pam Tanowitz in Conversation with Ryan Wenzel
The Library, the Church, and the Riot
– By Brian SchaeferTap Crazy
– By David Parker
Film
Docs In Sight: Documentarians in the News Cycle
– By Williams Cole and Williams ColeAGNIESZKA HOLLAND with Joshua Sperling
RECORDS, REMNANTS, AND RUINS
Highlights from Doclisboa 2013– By Leo GoldsmithLOVE, FAITH, HOPE
Ulrich Seidl's Paradise Trilogy– By Sonja SimonyiLOTFY NATHAN with Valentina Canavesio
Theater
TYSON vs. ALI:
Reid Farrington Mashes It Up With Two Heavyweight Icons– By Gary WinterSarah Shaefer: A Noir Encounter
– By Jose RiveraSurfing the Coasts: L.A.'s IAMA Theatre Company Hits N.Y.C.
– By Addie Johnson Talbott
Fiction
A diary of mysterious difficulties...
– By Laura Raicovichfrom Miransù
– By Monica Sarsini, translated from the Italian by Maryann De JulioFour Shorts
– By Andrew Farkas2 excerpts from a memoir in progress
– By Lewis WarshLast Day We Fish
– By Doug PooleThe Game
– By Molly RothArrowschmitt
– By Arryan DecaturTragic Strip
– By Tom MotleyLa Poubelle de la Place Vendome
– By Florent Ruppert and Jérôme Mulot
Poetry
Moving Rooftop Picture Show w/Buffalos
– By Sarah Anne WallenSeven from If Reality Doesn't Work Out
– By Maged ZaherFive
– By Christopher Rey Pérez
Art Books
Top Secret
– By Samantha Dylan MitchellKATARINA POLIACIKOVA with Nick Kline
The Ten Best Art Books of 2013