July/August 2014
The “July/August 2014” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on July 15, 2014.
Publisher's Message
Dear Friends and Readers,
– By Phong H. Bui
Critics Page
FLUX TIME: Moving-Image Art and the Ends of Cinema
– By Leo Goldsmith and Rachael RakesSuggestion for an Audiovisual Device
– By Anja Dornieden and Juan David González MonroyOn the "Status and Position of Moving Image Art Today"
– By Berta SichelON AND ON: Thoughts on Artists' Cinema
– By Elle BurchillTHE SKIN I LIVE IN: Notes on Vimeo
– By James N. Kienitz WilkinsOn "Artists' Cinema" and "Moving-Image Art"
– By Roger BeebeArt + Cinema
– By Rebecca ClemanFrom a Conversation at the 2014 Flaherty Seminar
– By Eric BaudelaireMove It All Around
– By Jesse McLeanQuestions for the Frozen Sea
– By Chris StultsA Future to Want
– By Colin BeckettThe Thing Is No More
– By Lynne SachsBlack Box in White Cube
– By Bettina SteinbrüggeCheap Seats
– By Christy LemasterAfter Anthropocinema
– By Mohammad SalemyCinematic Arts' Attack on Actuality
– By Nicole BrenezPast Possible Futures
– By Nuno Lisboa
Art
SIR NORMAN ROSENTHAL with David Carrier and Joachim Pissarro
–DAVID LEVI STRAUSS with Jarrett Earnest
TERESITA FERNÁNDEZ with Sara Roffino
TSIBI GEVA with Phong Bui and Jonathan T.D. Neil
ERIC FISCHL with Robert Berlind
THE HELD ESSAYS ON VISUAL ART
Beyond the Relic Cult of Art– By Alexander NagelAARON BOBROW with Alex Bacon
ArtSeen
The Nature of Carl Andre
– By Barbara RoseJUDITH SHEA
– By Robert KushnerJEAN-BAPTISTE BERNADET Fugue
– By Alex BaconMIKA ROTTENBERG Bowls Balls Souls Holes
– By Phong H. BuiGARRY WINOGRAND
– By Sara ChristophJEFF KOONS A Retrospective
– By Kara L. RooneyJO NIGOGHOSSIAN New Work
– By Ed SchadLARRY CLARK they thought i were but i aren't anymore...
– By Jessica HolmesCAMILLE HENROT The Restless Earth
– By Becky BrownBRIDGET RILEY The Stripe Paintings 1961 – 2014
– By Jurriaan BenschopThis is what sculpture looks like
– By Anne Sherwood PundykGABRIEL KURI
– By Terry R. MyersRYAN CONRAD SAWYER
– By David CarrierJUTTA KOETHER Champrovent
– By Craig StockwellLEE BUL
– By Jonathan GoodmanCHRISTOPH SCHLINGENSIEF Now and Then
– By Alana Shilling-JanoffGREG SMITH Breakdown Lane
– By Sarah GoffsteinDEREK LERNER Convenient Gratification
– By Taney RonigerStreets That Tell Stories
– By Adele TutterBRADLEY EROS eau de cinema: constellations & contradictions
– By Maya HarakawaMANA CONTEMPORARY All the Best Artists Are My Friends
– By Jeremy ButmanRailing Opinion
– By Joseph MasheckJOAN MITCHELL Trees
– By Phong H. BuiLUCAS SAMARAS Offerings From a Restless Soul
– By Valery OisteanuADRIAN SCHIESS Peinture
– By David RhodesSkin Deep
– By William CorwinCLAUDIA HART Welcome to Alice's Gift Shop!
– By Tom McGlynnLife in Death: Still Lifes and Select Masterworks of Chaim Soutine
– By Anna Tome
Books
REDEMPTION SONG
SEAN MADIGAN HOEN with Stephen O'ConnorThe Life-Long Sentence
MARY RUEFLE with Tony LeuzziPicking Over The Crumbs
– By John DominiDrifting Away
– By Geoffrey YoungBetting Big
– By Christopher MichelIn a Waters World
– By Katharina SmundakQueerly Familiar
– By T Clutch FleischmannA General Strangeness
– By Anne Margaret DanielTHE SKEWED WORLD OF THE BOOK: JOSH WEIL with Matt Bell
– By Matt BellA Crisis of Faith
– By Brian GreskoLooking for (Mrs) Laura (Riding) Jackson, the anti-social people's poet, from Jamaica (Queens) to Woodruff Avenue (Brooklyn)
– By Benjamin HollanderGrieving the Lost And The Found
– By Patricia Park
Music
Brooklyn Rail Highly Selective Music Events
DAVID GREILSAMMER with Alessandro Cassin
DOWNTOWN INTERNATIONAL
Suoni Per Il Popolo, Part 1– By Marshall YarbroughGOING ON A SONIC VACATION
TIM PRESLEY of White Fence with Donald BreckenridgeBOY
Carla Bozulich's Foray Into Pop– By Allyson Polsky McCabeOuttakes
– By Steve DalachinskyDowntown International
Nostalgia in Tompkins Square and Suoni per il Popolo, Part II– By George Grella
Dance
DANCE AND PROCESS
Kim Brandt, Alan Calpe, Rebecca Patek, and Gillian Walsh, curated by Sarah Michelson– By Leslie AllisonSTEPHEN PETRONIO with Nancy Dalva
The Ghost in You, She Don't Fade
– By Risa ShoupOn the Runway with Cedar Lake
– By Brian Schaefer
Film
LIFE IN THE NO-GO ZONE
Two Views of Husbandry and Decline at Japan Cuts– By Benjamin Schultz-FigueroaANCESTREE
An excerpt from The George Kuchar Reader–The Complexities of Robert Darroll
– By Huckleberry Lain
Theater
Let's Talk about The Weather Project
Making Theater of Community in the Catskills– By Jordan G. TeicherSex, Blogs, and eBooks
Laura Eason's Sex With Strangers– By Kathryn WalatUnfolding Form: Daredevil, Gary Winter with Ariel Stess
– By Ariel StessPolybe + Seats Comes to Bay Ridge
Sarah Sakaan's Anna Asli Suriyah (I Come from Syria)– By Libby Emmons
Fiction
Moment of Return
–At The Glass Exposition In Peking
–from Miransù
–What Girl Built
– By Rita BullwinkelThe Selected Correspondence of Louis-Ferdinand Céline
–Tastemakers
– By M. M. De VoeTragic Strip
– By Tom MotleyElevator Jenny
– By Keren KatzNew Totalities
– By Aaron Cockle
Poetry
from Agon of the City, Ahoy of the City
– By Matt ReeckFour
– By Daniel BouchardTwo
– By Ed ColettiEight
– By Barbara HenningMemory
– By Chris Martin
Art Books
Circling the Square: Maidan and Cultural Insurgency in Ukraine
– By Olga KopenkinaBertolt Brecht
– By Gregory SholetteWalker Evans: The Magazine Work
– By Adam BellUndermining: A Wild Ride Through Land Use, Politics, and Art in the Changing West
– By Maya HarakawaBoth Visible and Invisible, Object and Interface:
Site proposition and completion in painting, sculpture, and participation– By Greg LindquistWalter Benjamin: Recent Writings
– By Clancy Martin
Field Notes
Editor's Note
– By Paul MattickEDUCATION REFORM Beneath the Surface
Part III: Paving the Roads to Inequality– By John GarveySweet 15
– By Phil A. NeelPORTUGAL: Forty Years of Democracy
– By Charles Reeve