November 2014
The “November 2014” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on November 5, 2014.
Publisher's Message
Dear Friends and Readers,
– By Phong H. Bui
Critics Page
Translating Communities
– By Mary Ann CawsSound of the Sky
– By Barbara CampisiArt Story
– By Charlotte KentAntoni Muntadas and Translation
– By Michèle C. ConeDorrit Black's Bridge, Leaping the Gap
– By Rosemay LloydPalace Art Squat
– By Jonathan P. EburneGuardi's Balloon
– By Lee Hallman...art translated
– By Michael Alec RoseEkphrastic Poem
– By Jennifer Michael HechtTwo Poems
– By Sarah Plimpton
Art
WALTER ROBINSON with Phong Bui
RAQUEL RABINOVICH with Ann McCoy
STEEL STILLMAN with Marcia E. Vetrocq
ALMA EGGER with Joachim Pissarro
FIRST LADY OF PERFORMANCE ART
MARTHA WILSON with Jarrett EarnestART AND ACTIVISM: Talking Steubenville, ANDREA BOWERS In Conversation with Ashton Cooper
– By Ashton CooperPilgrims at Esopus Creek: Three Seasons of the Shandaken Project
A Conversation with Founding Director Nicholas Weist and 2014 Resident Chloé Rossetti
ArtSeen
Experiments With Truth: Gandhi and Images of Nonviolence
– By Phong H. BuiMUNRO GALLOWAY Belief System
– By Sara ChristophJUSTINE KURLAND Sincere Auto Care
– By Tom McGlynnROBERT GOBER The Heart is Not a Metaphor
– By David CarrierADAM HELMS Uncanny Valley
– By Sara RoffinoHEDWIG BROUCKAERT a knot, a tangle, a blemish in the eternal smoothness
– By Taney RonigerRICHARD PRINCE New Portraits
– By Taylor DafoeSTEPHEN SHORE
– By Lucy LiANDREA BÜTTNER
– By David RhodesCHRIS MARTIN
– By Phong H. BuiJASON FOX Supernaturalism
– By Kate LiebmanTHE PERKS OF BEING AN OUTSIDER
FRED GUTZEIT Signatures– By Lynn MaliszewskiREBECCA WARREN Why Do Birds Suddenly Appear?
– By Kara L. RooneyShe Depicting Her: A Woman's Perspective
Eleanor Adam, Janet A. Cook, Liz Adams-Jones, Leah Lopez, and Orly Shiv– By Christopher GreenWAYNE THIEBAUD
– By Hearne PardeeJOHN WALKER: Recent Paintings
– By Alana Shilling-JanoffJean-Luc Mouléne Torture Concrete
– By Alexander ShulanWILL CORWIN & NEIL GREENBERG at the Staten Island Arts Culture Lounge
– By Jonathan GoodmanJÖRG IMMENDORFF
Café Deutschland– By Phong H. Bui
Books
Life Until Death
– By Jeremy PolacekOur Brave New World
– By Justin SlaughterNEGATION OF DESIRE
DARCEY STEINKE with Elizabeth Trundle2 A.M. at The Cat's Pajamas
MARIE-HELENE BERTINO with Marina PetrovaA Life in a Box
– By T Clutch FleischmannCROSSOVER ARTIST
CLAUDIA LA ROCCO with Siobhan BurkeMemory is a Merciless Editor
– By Susan ButtenwieserMONSTROUS AMERICA
– By John DominiASSAULT VIA ART
– By Chris CampanioniABORIGINAL LOVE
– By J.T. PriceThe Hero Isn't Home
– By Megan HansonBalling Hard in Different Aspect Ratios: HEIKO JULIEN in conversation with Rob Williams
– By Rob WilliamsBEYOND THAT: WENDY C. ORTIZ In Conversation with Laura Jean Moore:
– By Laura Jean MooreTO BE FLOODED ONCE MORE: JAMES TOLAN In Conversation with Tony Leuzzi
– By Tony LeuzziMY GODDAMN FLESH
– By Amy Deneson
Music
Brooklyn Rail Highly Selective Music Events
FEATURE CREEPS
How Pandora's Music Genome Project Misrepresents the Way We Hear Music– By Dave MandlThree Best Repetitions of 2014
– By Marshall YarbroughMy Year in Music
– By George GrellaBest of 2014
– By Christopher NelsonOuttakes
– By Steve Dalachinsky
Dance
DEAN MOSS: johnbrown
– By Leslie AllisonSinging clear through a forest of signs: On Bill T. Jones's Story/Time, the performance and the book
– By Madison MainwaringNOW IS THE DOMAIN OF THE NOW
ENRICO D. WEY with Jaime Shearn CoanBIRD OF A FEATHER
Jennifer Monson's Live Dancing Archive– By Cassie PetersonThe Knife, The Moon, and The Grace of Jesus
– By Brian SchaeferROSEANNE SPRADLIN with Siobhan Burke
Film
Fighting the Power at DOC NYC
– By Williams ColeSAINT DEREK
The Films of Derek Jarman at BAM Cinématek– By Daniel WalberPASTS AND PRESENTS
The New York Film Festival's Projections– By Colin BeckettUNAUTHORIZED AUTOBIOGRAPHIES
Eduardo Coutinho's Jogo de Cena– By Steve MacfarlaneSlavic Undercurrents in the 2014 London Film Festival
– By Herb Shellenberger
Theater
Young Jean Lee: Inviting Everyone into the Room, Straight White Men, Too
– By Matthew Paul OlmosAsymmetric
In the Trenches with Mac Rogers– By Sean Williams
Fiction
2015 Pushcart nominees
Fiction, the Brooklyn Rail–2015 Pushcart nominees
InTranslation, the Brooklyn Rail–Matricide
–Music Below Ground
–Night and Nothing
– By Wayne ContiI Love Being A Gourmande
–from Miransù
–A Philadelphia Story
– By Ron KolmTragic Strip
– By Tom MotleyNotifications & Ringtones
– By Jess WorbyCourtesy, Professionalism, Respect
– By Steven LittleAn OKComix Collaboration
– By Molly RothArrowschmitt!!
– By Arryan Decatur
Poetry
Introduction
– By John EbersoleSeven
– By Ryan Eckes[han]:
– By Jenn McCrearyFour
– By Natalie Lyalinfrom It's Time
– By Frank SherlockSix
– By Carlos Soto-Román
Art Books
Virgil Marti: Forest Park
– By Samantha Dylan MitchellGestures
– By Scott Patrick Wiener
Field Notes
Capitalism, Utopian and Scientific
– By Paul MattickNotes from the Anthropocene #1
– By Stephanie Wakefield and Glenn DyerA Chinaman's Chance
– By Sokthan Yeng#FloodWallStreet Climate Activists: It's Capitalism, Stupid!
– By Geoff GilbertPolitics Without Politics
– By Anselm Jappe