February 2014
The “February 2014” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on February 5, 2014.
Critics Page
Art, Theory, and Infancy
– By Joachim PissarroTo the Archives!
– By Jonathan WeinbergThinking Social
– By Natalie HegertArt (Un)Doing Theory
– By Jenny JaskeyDear Joachim,
– By Howard SingermanTheoretical Brutality: Cézanne And Gauguin
– By Donatien GrauOf Mice and Ghosts
– By Matthew L. LevyThinking and Looking in the Studio
– By Ed SchadArt, Theory, Poetry, and an Airplane Above Some Trees
– By Ivan GaskellAs It Feels
– By Richard ShiffArt Theory/Art Writing
– By David Carrier
Publisher's Message
Dear Friends and Readers
– By Phong H. Bui
ArtSeen
MICHAEL ZANSKY: A Vacation on Mars with God
– By Ann McCoyKanak, L'Art est une Parole
– By Hearne PardeeTimes Narrow
– By Tom McGlynnJASON DODGE We are the meeting
– By Michael PepiPAUL KLEE AND THE NAKED PERHAPS: Making Visible
– By Alana Shilling-JanoffMICHAEL FULLERTON Meaning, Inc.
– By Alexander ShulanA 'Womanhouse' or a Roaming House? 'A Room of One's Own' Today
– By Anne Sherwood PundykWOONG KIM
– By Kara L. RooneyLetter from BERLIN
– By Terry R. MyersROBERT WILSON Living Rooms
– By William CorwinSuddenly, There: Discovery of the Find
Curated by Eileen Jeng and Tamas Veszi– By Taney RonigerSUSANNA COFFEY Elemental
– By Hearne PardeeSAUL FLETCHER
– By Jonathan GoodmanWILLIAM KING
– By Joyce BeckensteinMichelangelo Pistoletto The Minus Objects 1965-1966
– By Nicola RicciardiPTV3 (Psychic TV) at Brooklyn Night Bazaar
– By Simon Critchley and Vanessa Sinclair
Books
The Containable Apocalypse
– By John DominiThe Homoplagiarism of Filip Noterdaeme
– By David CopenhaferTHE BRUTALITY OF BELIEVING: Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore In Conversation with Kathleen Rooney
Road Raptures: MARY MILLER with Matt Bell
What's Left To Say
– By Weston CutterPrecipice and Aftermath
– By Weston CutterA Political Fairy Tale
– By Marina PetrovaThe Troubador's Simple Songs
– By Weston CutterStrife Between the Tinctures
– By Aaron McColloughROSIE PEREZ with Lathleen Ade-Brown
– By Lathleen Ade-BrownEarthly Powers
– By Allen Guy WilcoxMake Ready the Champagne Bottle
– By Samuel AshworthBeyond the Game
– By Jeremy PolacekPosing Questions to the Universe
– By Tony LeuzziReeding George Zimmerman
– By Jeffrey Colvin
Music
Outtakes
– By Steve DalachinskyThat High And Lonesome Himalayan Sound
– By Geoffrey ClarfieldJonathan Cott, Dinner With Lenny
– By Jeff TompkinsHowe Gelb: Smelling The Smoke Of A Future Fire
– By KK KozikDiary Of A Mad Composer
– By George GrellaThe Medium That Brings You Something Rare
– By Andrea GordilloInheriting the Beatles
– By Joanna McNaney Stein
Dance
TERESA REICHLEN with Ryan Wenzel
Profiting from Dance
– By Noémie Lafrance
Film
Docs in Sight: Sundance 2014
– By Williams Cole and Williams ColeHANY ABU-ASSAD with Joshua Sperling
MEDIUM BULK MATERIAL TRANSFERRED FROM ONE COUNTRY TO ANOTHER
Lonnie Van Brummelen & Siebren De Haan's Monument Of Sugar– By Jim SupanickWALTZING WITH WOLVES: Israeli Filmmakers (Re)Discover Violence
– By Neta AlexanderDAVID JOSELIT with Lucy Hunter and R. Lyon
Theater
Going Down For It
Thomas Bradshaw's Intimacy– By Ariel StessAfterlife Telegram?
Ken Urban's The Correspondent– By Jaclyn BiskupThere's A Direness To A Mundane Existence
Talking Brand New Worlds with Trish Harnetiaux– By Jess BarbagalloSTOP HITTING YOURSELF: Rude Mechs Take on the 1%, and You
– By Melissa Moschitto
Fiction
from DNA
– By Johannah RodgersLet's Say His Name Was Daniel
– By Igor Stiks, translated by Natasa MilasA diary of mysterious difficulties...
– By Laura RaicovichMORE EPIPHANiES
– By Richard Kostelanetzfrom Miransù
– By Monica Sarsini, translated from the Italian by Maryann De JulioFace
– By Mary SteinHarlequin
– By Matthew MellinaThere Are No Real Places
JESSE BALL with Rita BullwinkelX. O. Exoplanets
– By Sakura MakuTom's Big Night
– By Tom MotleyDance Improv Duo
– By Clara Bessijelle
Poetry
Three
– By Clayton Eshlemanfrom you are everything you are not
– By John High67Memoria
– By Anahit GulianEight
– By Sandra SimondsNine
– By John Reed
Art Books
Hand Drying in America and Building Stories
– By Clarence Harlan OrsiMARTHA ROSLER with Abbe Schriber
Art on the Block
– By Serena QiuThe Sochi Project: An Atlas Of War And Tourism In The Caucasus
– By Adam BellBrian Dillon with Orit Gat
CARY LEVINE with Jarrett Earnest