JUNE 2014 – The Brooklyn Rail

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Editor's Message

Wellsprings Reconsidered
– By Ann McCoy

Publisher's Message

Dear Friends and Colleagues,
– By Phong Bui

Art

ArtSeen

Pontormo and Rosso Fiorentino: Diverging Paths of Mannerism
– By David Carrier
THOMAS HIRSCHHORN: Flamme éternelle (Eternal Flame)
– By Julie Higonnet
CLINT JUKKALA Cosmic Trigger
– By Hearne Pardee
HOWARDENA PINDELL Paintings, 1974-1980
– By Jessica Holmes
LEBBEUS WOODS Architect
– By Jonathan Goodman
JORINDE VOIGT Codification of Intimacy: Works on Nikolas Luhmann
– By Alana Shilling-Janoff
ISA GENZKEN Retrospective
– By Terry R. Myers
KIM JONES mountain girl door
– By Tom McGlynn
KATIE HOLTEN and MARIATERESA SARTORI Linea
– By William Corwin
ADRIANA VAREJÃO
– By Sara Roffino
LISI RASKIN Recuperative Tactics
– By Juliet Helmke
HED: FRAGMENTED HISTORY ZHANG HUAN Evoking Tradition
– By Heather Corcoran
STOP, LOOK AND LISTEN! MEL BOCHNER Strong Language
– By Richard Kalina
GUILLERMO KUITCA This Way
– By Georgia Phillips-Amos
LYGIA CLARK The Abandonment of Art, 1948–1988
– By The Editors
Martin Kippenberger Raft of the Medusa
– By Anna Tome

Critics Page

The Cracks in the Pavement
– By Marina Warner
Cubist, as in Cuba
– By Enrique Pardo
Dreamscripts in the Waking World
– By William Kiesel
No More Hidden Order of Art
– By Donald Kuspit
Cindy and Andy on the Ancient Unconscious
– By Richard Fletcher
A NEW JERSEY WITCH IN JOHN CALVIN’S COURT Excerpts from an interview with Khem Caigan, conducted, edited, and composed
– by Linda Weintraub
To Plow the Sea: A Note on the Unconscious
– By Carter Ratcliff
Everything’s All Right
– By Lesley Dill
“Vespers Pool” (1999 – 2000)
– By Carolee Schneeman
Sigmar Polke’s Photographic Unconscious
– By Maika Pollack
The Unconscious
– By Lenore Malen
The Matriarch’s Rhapsody
– By Jacolby Satterwhite
VISUALIZING MADNESS A Long History of Madness, 2012 – Present
– By Mieke Bal and Michelle Williams Gamaker
MICHAEL ZANSKY (Documentation for the Works of Art)
– By Michael Zansky
RICHARD SMITH
– By Steven Poser
This is Not the Article, Just Coffee Talk…
– By Barnaby Ruhe
…Saying These Things, I Went to Sleep…
– By Brian Cotnoir
The Warp and the Woof
– By Mira Schor
SUSAN BEE
KIKI SMITH
NALINI MALANI
Mutable and Immutable Divides
– By Joan Waltemath
Faith & the Devil
– By Lesley Dill
Artists-of-the-Dream: Harbingers of Social Change
– By Patricia Ariadne
Why I Went from the Visual Arts to Theater
– By Michael F. Bergmann
Sometimes it takes an Outsider artist to remind us how the unconscious serves not only as a powerful source of inspiration but the only source that results in truly compelling art…
– By Peter Hastings Falk
“Even the Dumbest Dream Can Astound Us with its Art”
– By Nor Hall
Kris-Crossing
– By Ellen Handler Spitz
FORREST BESS A Visionary Artist’s Journey into Madness
– By Steven Poser
Psyche
– By Anita Sieff

Books

A Crisis of Faith
– By Brian Gresko
Many States of America
– By Jack Finnegan
Noble Deceit
– By Geoffrey Young
Through the Body of the Storm
– By Joyelle McSweeney
This Instance of Entrance
– By Steve Fellner
The Writer and the Raptor
– By Casey Murphy
Anatomization of a Marriage
– By Elizabeth Eslami
Enlarging the Perception of Beauty
– By J. C. Hallman
All of us in the Gutter: D. FOY in conversation with Matt Bell
– By Matt Bell
An Unexpected Collaboration: KENAN TREBINCEVIC and SUSAN SHAPIRO in conversation with Rob Williams
– By Rob Williams
Mrs. Brown's Furniture
– By Ashley P. Taylor
Occasional Instances of Confession: TONY LEUZZI with David Groff
– By David Groff

Music

Call it Punk Rockhausen: Excepter
– By Taylor Dafoe
Brooklyn Rail Highly Selective Music Events
Steve Lehman Makes History
– By George Grella
MATA YOUTH, 2014 EDITION
– By George Grella
MATA April 16, 2014 Uusinta
– By Jeff Tompkins
MATA April 17, 2014 That Which Remains
– By Stephanie Del Rosso
MATA April 18, 2014 Lives in Miniature
– By George Grella
MATA April 19, 2014 Oscar Bianchi’s Matra
– By Christopher Nelson
MATA April 20, 2014 Neue Vocalsolisten American Premieres
– By Marshall Yarbrough
MATA April 21, 2014 Of Circles and Motions of the Others
– By Susan Scheid
Outtakes
– By Steve Dalachinsky

Dance

In Rehearsal with DD Dorvillier
– By Stormy Budwig
THIERRY THIEÛ NIANG with Ivan Talijancic
a Natural dance
– By Jaime Shearn Coan

Film

Interior Life: Place in the Films of Joanna Hogg
– By Rachael Rakes
Docs in Sight: A Plague of Money: Citizen Koch’s Concrete Tale of Cash and Politics
– By Williams Cole
OBERHAUSEN TURNS SIXTY International Short Film Festival Oberhausen
– By Aily Nash
SHAINA ANAND with Xin Zhou
THE THIRST FOR ANNIHILATION
William Friedkin’s Sorcerer
– By Jason LaRivière
PAWEL PAWLIKOWSKI with Joshua Sperling

Theater

A Different Invitation Queer Performance on the Road
– By Alexis Clements
The Howls and Sounds of our Little-Kiss Lives: Ariel Stess’s I’m Pretty Fucked Up
– By Ben Gassman

Fiction

Blue is a cold number #1
– By Matt Nelson
On Von Chiffon
– By Alec Niedenthal
Our Mother, Come to Find
– By J. A. Tyler
from Miransù
– by Monica Sarsini, translated from the Italian by Maryann De Julio
Remembering Gabriel García Márquez (1927-2014)
– By Catherine Rendón
The Selected Correspondence of Louis-Ferdinand Céline
– translated from the French by Mitch Abidor, with an introduction by Pascal Ifri
Arrowschmitt!!!
– By Arryan Decatur
To Make This Thing With Better Flow or: One of the Ones Who Got Away
– an OKComix collaboration by Molly Roth
Aline the Alien
– By Tom Motley
Keeping Time
– by Alexander Rothman
Avenge Me, Eavesdropper
– by Paul K. Tunis

Poetry

from Daydreams
– By James La Marre
from Back on Earth
– By Brent Cunningham
Three
– By Rae Armantrout
Vaporative
– By Layli Long Soldier
Das Wirbelsäulen Orakel für Meret Oppenheim / The Vertebrae Oracle for Meret Oppenheim
– By Rebecca Horn
from sleep as information/the fountain is a water feature
– By Ed Steck
In Conversation with Ed Steck

Art Books

Words for Art
– By Barbara Rose

Field Notes

Much Ado About Something
– By Paul Mattick
EDUCATION REFORM Beneath the Surface Part II: Marketizing School Reform
– By John Garvey
BITCOIN A Digital Alternative?
– By Tony Norfield
BOXING COMBINATIONS Rocky on Broadway
– By David Hancock Turner
NOTES FROM TEXAS This is What Oligarchy Looks Like
– By Stephen Amberg

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