Billions for BrooklynNo Questions Asked
by David VineLocal
A half-century ago, Robert Moses audaciously promised that his plans for a downtown Civic Center would be "to Brooklyn what the great cathedrals and opera plazas are to European cities." Today, the boroughs leading developers promises are just as inflated, with visions of Flatbush Avenue as Brooklyns Champs Elysées and the arch at Grand Army Plaza as its Arc de Triomphe.
Will There Be Another FDR?
by Theodore HammExpress
The prevailing wisdom among left-liberal critics is that the Democratic Party needs to restore the New Deal to the center of its agenda. With an economy teetering on the brink of depression, a government abdicating any responsibility for the well-being of societys least well-off, and an opposition party groping for direction, it does seem like the early 1930s all over again.
Fred Tomaselli
by Chris MartinArt
The Brooklyn Rail visited Fred Tomasellis studio in the heart of Williamsburg on a cold November afternoon. Up one flight of stairs off Driggs Avenue, the studio is modest and efficient, like a serious medieval workshop. Three new paintings lined one wall.
Marina Abramović
by Delia Bajo and Brainard CareyArt
Marina Abramović may be best known for her historically pivotal performances of the 1970s. In 1974, for example, she created the now famous "Rhythm O," where she stood in a gallery space for six hours, leaving instructions to those who entered to use one of 72 objects placed on the table on her person in any way they wished.
Matta, 1912 2002
by Phong BuiArt
Probably one of the very last remaining Surrealist artists, Roberto Sebastian Antonio Matta Echaurren, otherwise known as Matta, died on Saturday at his home in Tarquinia, Italy, on November 23rd, a day after an opening of his new works in Rome.
- Gary Simmons by Megan Heuer
- Jo Baer: The Minimalist Years, 19651975 by Jim Long
- Lennart Anderson by Rachel Youens
- Yes Yes Yall: The Birth of Hip Hop by Megan Heuer
- Bjorn Melhus by William Powhida
- Alessandro Pessoli by Jennifer Coates
- Matthew Ritchie by Jennifer Coates
- John J. OConnor by John Hawke
- Watercolor by Rachel Youens
- Evan Lintermans by Hrag Vartanian
- Hungry Eyes by Sarah Hollenberg
- Don Gummer by James Kalm
- James Castle by Paul Mattick
- Graf 3000 by James Kalm
- Elizabeth Josephson by Tomassio Longhi
- Lael Marshall and DeWitt Godfrey by Tomassio Longhi
- Letter from London by Katie Stone
- Curating on the Margin by Hrag Vartanian and Yasmeen Siddiqui
Matthew Ritchie
by Jennifer CoatesArtSeen
Matthew Ritchie is a visionary thinker who makes decorative, diagrammatic paintings where pictorial information spills from its rectangular boundaries and commandeers real space. In his latest show at Andrea Rosen Gallery, Matthew Ritchie: After Lives, he sought to detail a transformational cycle that encompassed birth, death, solidity, and liquidity.
Jonas Mekas
by Raimund AbrahamFilm
Jonas Mekas: I think I need to make an introduction to this conversation. We are here on the roof of a building at 32 Second Avenue. Formerly a courthouse, now it is Anthology Film Archives headquarters. The occasion for this conversation is our need to construct adjacent to this buildingin a space that is twelve feet by one hundred feeta library for our paper materials, of which we have a lot.
Shitty Mickey
by John ReedFiction
Recently, I was afforded the opportunity of interviewing Mickey Mouse at his Chelsea art complex. In a spartan loft of 6,000 square feet, the Marlon Brando of the mouse world sat in a warm buttermilk bath and sipped papaya smoothies (evidently excellent for the bowels) while we discussed his most recent body of work, which surrounded us.
Full Contents
Local
- Billions for BrooklynNo Questions Asked by David Vine
- Fighting for the Peoples Firehouse by Dan Schneider
- Williamsburg Pentecostals Feel the Spirit by Claire Hoffman
- Hope for Public Housing by Mo-Yain Tham
- the other boroughs: Manhattan by Clay Risen
- Organic Visions by Claire Hoffman
- Some Rules for the Conduct of Young Gentlemen, Part 2 by William Rossa Cole
- The Starry Skies Above: Astro-Reports by Naomi Foyle
Express
- Marilyn Gittell by Julie Thompson Keane
- Hope Rises for Progressive 3rd Parties by Williams Cole
- Win Locally, Lose Nationally by Ryan Grim
- Will There Be Another FDR? by Theodore Hamm
- The Roots of Carnival in Veracruz, Mexico* by Andrew Grant Wood
Art
- Fred Tomaselli by Chris Martin
- Marina Abramović by Delia Bajo and Brainard Carey
- Drawing Now: Eight Propositions by Daniel Baird
- Matta, 1912 2002 by Phong Bui
- How To Speak With Strangers by Vincent Falivene
ArtSeen
- Gary Simmons by Megan Heuer
- Jo Baer: The Minimalist Years, 19651975 by Jim Long
- Lennart Anderson by Rachel Youens
- Yes Yes Yall: The Birth of Hip Hop by Megan Heuer
- Bjorn Melhus by William Powhida
- Alessandro Pessoli by Jennifer Coates
- Matthew Ritchie by Jennifer Coates
- John J. OConnor by John Hawke
- Watercolor by Rachel Youens
- Evan Lintermans by Hrag Vartanian
- Hungry Eyes by Sarah Hollenberg
- Don Gummer by James Kalm
- James Castle by Paul Mattick
- Graf 3000 by James Kalm
- Elizabeth Josephson by Tomassio Longhi
- Lael Marshall and DeWitt Godfrey by Tomassio Longhi
- Letter from London by Katie Stone
- Curating on the Margin by Hrag Vartanian and Yasmeen Siddiqui
Books
- Something Happened Here by Paul McLeary
- White Line Highway by Christian Parenti
- Breaking Open His Head by Ellen Pearlman
- Sparks in Nevada by Ellen Pearlman
- Bohemian Rhapsody by Jim Feast
- Middlesex: A Dissent by Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow
- Sherman Alexie in conversation with Williams Cole by Williams Cole
Music
- Blasts from the Present by Grant Moser
- The Sun City Girls Schizophrenic Universe by Nick Stillman
- Eddie Durham: Forgotten Guitar Pioneer by Dann Baker
- Notes from (the Pop) Underground by Dave Mandl
Dance
- Waltz Toward the Apocalypse by Vanessa Manko
Film
- Jonas Mekas by Raimund Abraham
- Outtakes: On MoviesThe Gyllenhaals by Galen Williams
- Dubious Honors by Lisa Rosman
Theater
- Pity and Terror in the Parlors of the Mighty by Madeleine George
- Beckett in the living room, Beckett up your earhole by Alan Lockwood
- New York Theaters Against War by Emily DeVoti
- BRIC by BRIC: Experimental Theater Grows in Brooklyn by Gary Winter
Fiction
- Detroit 1972 by Barbara Henning
- excerpt: Dark Property by Brian Evenson
- Three Secrets by Lewis Warsh
- Shitty Mickey by John Reed
- Mamie and Z by Blake Radcliffe
- Pink by Panio Gianopoulos
Poetry
- Cruelty and Conquest by Kristin Prevallet
- Self-criticism; Reported Missing by Lewis Warsh
- Sherman Alexie by Sherman Alexie
- Dreaming in Syndication by Photios Giovanis
- This Just In by Jerome Sala



