October 2014
The “October 2014” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on October 3, 2014.
Publisher's Message
Dear Friends and Readers,
– By Phong H. Bui
Critics Page
"There Is a Certain Slant of Light"
– By Ed SchadWhen I See a Train, I Want to Take It in My Arms
– By Andrew BerardiniLearning from Mike Kelley
– By Holly MyersMy Lozano (Not Letting Go)
– By Sarah Lehrer-GraiwerPerpetual Conceptual
– By Catherine WagleyMy Preoccupation with Piero Manzoni
– By Alma RuizGoo-Gone
– By Michael Ned HolteNot Interested in That Sort of Thing
– By Jonathan GriffinMeditations on a Diptych
– By Travis DiehlMOJAVE IN ME: Noah Purifoy On My Mind
– By Yael Lipschutz
Art
JAMES BISHOP with Alex Bacon & Barbara Rose
ANTHONY MCCALL with Jarrett Earnest
THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY
ELIZABETH JAEGER with Jarrett EarnestWhat to Do With the Ghost of James Lee Byars When He Is Dead and His Body Buried?
– By Thyrza Nichols GoodevePHYLLIS TUCHMAN with Joyce Beckenstein
A Tribute to
Marilena Bonomo
(1928 – 2014)– By Carol LeWitt and Naomi S. AntonakosCAO FEI with Charles Schultz
Israel Lund's Analog JPEGs
– By Alex BaconTHE HELD ESSAYS ON VISUAL ART
Avant-Garde Folk Art– By David Robbins
ArtSeen
CLAIRE SHERMAN Sempervirens
– By Sarah GoffsteinBEAUTIES UNINTENTIONAL, ACCIDENTAL ISABEL NOLAN An Answer About the Sky
– By Alana Shilling-JanoffMARSDEN HARTLEY The German Paintings 1913 – 1915
– By Terry R. MyersTOMER ALUF Thirteen
– By Nora GriffinDEREK FORDJOUR The Big Game
– By Jonathan GoodmanWILLEM VAN GENK Mind Traffic
– By Alana Shilling-JanoffZIPORA FRIED I Hope the Moon Explodes
– By Taney RonigerTERESA SOLAR ABBOUD Foreign Office
– By Michael McCanneMARCEL DZAMA Une Danse Des Bouffons (or A Jester's Dance)
– By Paula BurleighFor a Love of His People: The Photography of Horace Poolaw
– By Christopher GreenERIC WESLEY Daily Progress Status Report
– By Lucy LiBack to Eden: Contemporary Artists Wander the Garden
– By David CarrierNICHOLAS KRUSHENICK Early Paintings
– By Ben La RoccoBILL LYNCH
– By Jessica HolmesFRANCESCA CAPONE Oblique Archive
– By Charles SchultzMIKE CLOUD Bad Faith and Universal Techique
– By William CorwinMATTHEW RITCHIE Ten Possible Links
– By Corina LarkinAMY FELDMAN High Sign
– By David RhodesMind Games: James Siena's typewriter drawings
– By Joan WaltemathHELEN MIRRA Waulked
– By Alexander Shulan
Books
SERIAL WANNABE
LEE KLEIN with Matthew VollmerMatter of Factual
– By Katharina SmundakThe Strangling Fruit
– By Daniel LevinePhilosophy Express
– By Allen Guy WilcoxBloody Sunday
– By Casey Murphy
Music
Brooklyn Rail Highly Selective Music Events
Trumpet Tones, City Streets
– By Paula MatthusenA Vital Pulse: The Philip Glass Ensemble and Steve Reich and Musicians at BAM
– By Paul GrimstadUndiscovered Lands
– By George GrellaUndiscovered Lands
– By Marshall YarbroughUndiscovered Lands
– By Andrea GordilloUndiscovered Lands
– By Christopher NelsonJIM WHITE: An Acquired Taste
– By KK KozikNEBLUNG PRICE Jewels of the Jetpack Malice
– By Dann BakerOuttakes
– By Steve Dalachinsky
Dance
The Body as Semi-transparent Envelope1
– By Madison MainwaringOn and with Effie Bowen
– By Leslie AllisonREBECCA BROOKS: Hopeful Grief
– By Cassie PetersonWHAT THE BODY SAYS: An Appreciation of Simon Courchel
– By Risa ShoupLYDIA OKRENT: The Work I Do Is Performing, Is Mine
– By Jaime Shearn CoanSix Nights and Seven Sizes Later
– By Jaime Shearn CoanChoreographic Wizardry of Yanira Castro
– By Ivan TalijancicAdditional Dancers of Note
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Theater
PRELUDE2014
CHLOË BASS, JACKIE SIBBLIES DRURY, SARAH ROSE LEONARD, and ALLISON LYMAN with Frank HentschkerWhiskey, Thelonious Monk, and Other Spirits
Dave Malloy's Ghost Quartet Comes to The Bushwick Starr– By Susan Soon He Stanton"Holding you up while you are holding up me": The give and take of working for free
– By Erin Courtney
Fiction
A Regular Day for Regular People
– By Robert LopezFour Shorts
– By Robert LopezYunus and Yusuf
–from Miransú
–The Selected Correspondence of Louis-Ferdinand Céline
–An extract from
A Stranger In My Own Country--The 1944 Prison Diary–Comic Strip Beginning with a Line from "A Poem Beginning with a Line by Pindar" by Robert Duncan
– By Tom MotleyWest Side
– By Tom Daly
Art Books
How it Feels to be on Fire
Reading Cookie Mueller Today– By Jarrett Earnest
Field Notes
HEALTH AND ECONOMIC CRISES
JOSÉ TAPIANYU Graduate Union Votes for Change
– By Samuel FeldblumIn the Shadow of Gentrification
– By Elizabeth Kissam