April 2014
The “April 2014” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on April 2, 2014.
Critics Page
BEYOND THE HORIZONS OF CRAFT
Diversity in the Global Art Market– By Lowery Stokes SimsALL TOGETHER NOW: Craft Across Boundaries
– By Glenn AdamsonWHAT CRAFT IS MISSING: Conversation to Continue...
– By Namita Gupta WiggersThe Margin You Feel May Not Be Real
– By Sheila PepeWE ARE ALL CORALS NOW: A Crafty Yarn About Global Warming
– By Margaret WertheimCORPOREAL IMPULSE: Contemporary Artists Working in Clay
– By Allyson UnzickerParallel Closets
– By Aaron McIntoshCRAFTING OUT OF HAND
RON LABACO with Lowery Stokes SimsTHE POTTER IS PRESENT
Alex Matisse's Creative Cycle of Intention, Accident, and Community– By Keith Recker
Publisher's Message
Dear friends and readers,
– By Phong H. Bui
ArtSeen
Metro
– By Jessica HolmesMyths of Eden and Gauguin's Metamorphoses
– By Alana Shilling-JanoffFountain Art Fair, 69th Armory Building
– By Margaret GrahamALI BANISADR Motherboard
– By William CorwinInk Art: Past as Present in Contemporary China
– By Corina LarkinItalian Futurism, 1909 – 1944: Reconstructing the Universe
– By Valery OisteanuPETER BUGGENHOUT Caterpillar Logic II
– By Darren JonesNORBERT PRANGENBERG The Last Works
– By Ben La RoccoTHREE DIFFERENT VERSIONS OF THE SAME STORY
Thomas Kovachevich 2013– By David A. WillisA=I O=II U=III
BRIAN O'DOHERTY Connecting the ...– By Kara L. RooneyWILLIAM J. O'BRIEN
– By Terry R. MyersNORIO IMAI Perspective in White
– By Taney RonigerPAWEŁ ALTHAMER The Neighbors
– By Chloe WymaGERMAINE RICHIER
– By Sara ChristophNATALIE EDGAR Abstract Journey
– By William BentonFor Marian
– By Anna TomeEMILY NOELLE LAMBERT Curio Logic II
– By Becky BrownCHUCK CLOSE Nudes 1967 – 2014
– By Phong H. BuiPAT STEIR
– By Phong H. BuiROSS BLECKNER
– By Phong H. BuiWILLIAM PANGBURN
– By Jonathan GoodmanERWIN WURM Synthesa
– By Nicola RicciardiETHAN COOK: Problem In Chair Not In Computer
– By Alex BaconMary McDonnell
Clear Pause– By Tom McGlynnSexing Sound: Aural Archives and Feminist Scores
– By Karlynne Ejercito
Books
Prismatic Plato
– By Jack FinneganWading Into the Grey
– By Jeremy PolacekEnemy and Promised Land
– By Katharina SmundakSPECTACULAR INK
DANIEL LEVINE with Benjamin PercyWHAT'S IMPORTANT IS READING
ADAM WILSON with Ben PfeifferUnlikely Pairs
– By Risa MillerThe Rules of Obsession
– By Weston Cutter
Music
Brooklyn Rail Highly Selective Music Events
THE OUTSIDER
Allen Lowe Against the Jazz Tradition– By George GrellaROMANO DROM
– By Marshall YarbroughWILLIAM TYLER
– By Christopher NelsonMuzak for the Manic
– By Taylor DafoeOuttakes
– By Steve DalachinskyTinariwen at Brooklyn Bowl
– By Enrica FerreroChristian Wolff @ 80
– By Kurt Gottschalk
Film
The Practice of Description: Films and Videos by Thom Andersen
– By Colin BeckettROBERT GREENE with Valentina Canavesio
The Theater of Outlaws
The Wooster Group's Rumstick Road– By Xin ZhouFADE TO BLUE
On Derek Jarman's Final Film– By Shana Beth MasonALWAYS IN THE PRESENT TENSE
KEVIN JEROME EVERSON with Benjamin Schultz‑FigueroaOUT OF EDEN
Jarmusch Since 2009– By Joseph Pomp
Fiction
from DNA
– By Johannah Rogersfrom Miransù
–extracts from FIELD GLASS
–A diary of mysterious difficulties...
– By Laura RaicovichDiary
– By Liana FinckTragic Strip
– By Tom Motley
Art Books
IN MEMORIAM
PictureBox– By Trinie DaltonConverging Lines: Eva Hesse and Sol LeWitt
– By Samantha Dylan MitchellThe Place We Live
– By Adam Bell
Field Notes
From the Editor: Field Notes
– By Paul MattickWHITHER LICH?
Healthcare in an Age of Austerity– By The Florence Johnson CollectiveLETTER FROM POZNAN
Who controls the budget, controls culture– By Krzysztof KrólHOPE
On the Revolts in Bosnia-Herzegovina– By Charles Reeve