The Brooklyn Rail
Critical Perspectives on Art, Politics and Culture
JUNE 2010
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WALKING THE ROCKAWAYS
by Dave KimLocal
It’s 9:30 a.m. on March 27, 2010. Matt Green of Bay Ridge straddles the shoreline of Rockaway Beach, shivering.
Letter from the Gulf: The View from Plaquemines Parish
by Vanessa TolinoExpress
While driving down from New Orleans to Venice, “ground zero” of BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil spill, I heard Parish President Billy Nungesser on a local radio show.
Vija Celmins with Phong Bui
by Phong BuiArt
On the occasion of her recent exhibit Vija Celmins: New Paintings, Objects, and Prints (April 29 – June 25, 2010) at David McKee Gallery, the painter welcomed Rail Publisher Phong Bui to her studio/loft in SoHo to talk about her life and work.
Robert Hullot-Kentor with Fabio Akcelrud Durão
by Fabio Akcelrud DurãoArt
The Brazilian literary theorist, Fabio Akcelrud Durão, returned to pay another visit to the home of Robert Hullot-Kentor in Manhattan to renew a conversation they began in the Rail in 2008.
The View from New Orleans
by Vincent RossmeierExpress
By now, you’ve seen the photos, read the news stories, and heard the measured—and not so measured—opinions of experts focusing on the April 20 BP explosion at the Deepwater Horizon rig, where oil continues to gush into the Gulf of Mexico.
- JILL MOSER New Paintings and prints by Michael Straus
- High Plains Curators-IN CONVERSATION: Brendt Berger with Jim Long by Jim Long
- Railing Opinion: Right on Time by David Levi Strauss
- Artbooks in Review: TYPE A by Maxwell Heller
- A Bright Future and a Dark History by Shane McAdams
- Vilhelm Hammershøi by Anthony Rudolf
- Tracks: Expanding Utopia by Sharon L. Butler
- Carmen Herrera at Frederico Sève by Joan Waltemath
- EDWARD KIENHOLZ Roxys by Kara L. Rooney
- PENELOPE UMBRICO As Is by Patricia Milder
- Dorothea Tanning: Early Designs for the Stage by Valery Oisteanu
- KATHY BUTTERLY Pantyhose and Morandi by John Yau
- JASPER JOHNS Ink on Plastic by John Yau
- Miroslav Tichý by John Yau
- EVA AND FRANCO MATTES AKA 0100101110101101.ORG Reality is Overrated by Cora Fisher
- Feeling what no longer is by Sophie Landres
- ACT II: RIPE FOR REDISCOVERY by James Kalm
- SIGNS OF SEX WITHIN A SEXLESS (PHANTASMAGORICAL) VOID by Robert C. Morgan
- HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON The Modern Century by David St.-Lascaux
In Conversation
Margrit Lewczuk with Phong Bui
by Phong BuiArt
One Sunday afternoon in mid-May Rail Publisher Phong Bui paid a visit to the painter Margrit Lewczuk’s studio in Williamsburg, Brooklyn to talk about her life and work.
THE EARTH WILL DIE SCREAMING
by Sarahjane BlumFilm
If you somehow have never seen Doctor Who since it debuted on November 23, 1963 (the day after the Kennedy assassination), now is a good time to start.
FICTION: THE WELLES WE DIG
by Jon Dozier-EzellBooks
With an early history of fantastic projects like the radio broadcast of War of the Worlds and his directorial debut in Citizen Kane, Welles emerged as prodigy, genius, Hollywood darling.
THE MARKET HOTEL SHUTS DOWN, GROWS UP
by Mimi LuseMusic
Less than a month after the Market Hotel’s forced closing for serving alcohol without a license, the managers of the popular Bushwick DIY venue have announced plans to reopen the space as a nonprofit—an all-ages community space run partially by a board of governors that will include members of the New York-area arts community.
Two
by Aimé CésairePoetry
Aimé Césaire published Soleil cou coupé (Solar Throat Slashed) with K éditeur in Paris in 1948. The collection contained 72 poems.
Full Contents
Local
- NEGES Foundation: Building a Brooklyn Bridge to Haiti by Eleanor J. Bader
- LETTER FROM THE BRONX: Authenticity and Arthur Avenue by Rosemary Sitler
- Iris Rides Away by Katy Bolger
- WALKING THE ROCKAWAYS by Dave Kim
- CITY NOTES: THE CUOMO AGENDA, LINDSAY’S NEW YORK by Theodore Hamm
Express
- Will I Have Anything to Re-say About Sports?: The NBA/NHL/MLS/World Cup and Cable TV by Jill Magi
- The View from New Orleans by Vincent Rossmeier
- Letter from the Gulf: The View from Plaquemines Parish by Vanessa Tolino
- WE AIN’T SEEN NOTHING YET: Gwynne Dyer, In Conversation with Robert S. Eshelman by Robert S. Eshelman
- A New Lesson Plan by Richard Greenwald
- Vollmann Goes East by Adam P. Frederick
- ARCHIVES: Best of a Decade by Theodore Hamm and Williams Cole
- The Happiest Uprising on Earth by Ryan Grim
- Message from My Uncle Peter by Williams Cole
- Happy Trails, Sort of by Chris Michel
Art
- Margrit Lewczuk with Phong Bui by Phong Bui
- Vija Celmins with Phong Bui by Phong Bui
- Robert Hullot-Kentor with Fabio Akcelrud Durão by Fabio Akcelrud Durão
ArtSeen
- JILL MOSER New Paintings and prints by Michael Straus
- High Plains Curators-IN CONVERSATION: Brendt Berger with Jim Long by Jim Long
- Railing Opinion: Right on Time by David Levi Strauss
- Artbooks in Review: TYPE A by Maxwell Heller
- A Bright Future and a Dark History by Shane McAdams
- Vilhelm Hammershøi by Anthony Rudolf
- Tracks: Expanding Utopia by Sharon L. Butler
- Carmen Herrera at Frederico Sève by Joan Waltemath
- EDWARD KIENHOLZ Roxys by Kara L. Rooney
- PENELOPE UMBRICO As Is by Patricia Milder
- Dorothea Tanning: Early Designs for the Stage by Valery Oisteanu
- KATHY BUTTERLY Pantyhose and Morandi by John Yau
- JASPER JOHNS Ink on Plastic by John Yau
- Miroslav Tichý by John Yau
- EVA AND FRANCO MATTES AKA 0100101110101101.ORG Reality is Overrated by Cora Fisher
- Feeling what no longer is by Sophie Landres
- ACT II: RIPE FOR REDISCOVERY by James Kalm
- SIGNS OF SEX WITHIN A SEXLESS (PHANTASMAGORICAL) VOID by Robert C. Morgan
- HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON The Modern Century by David St.-Lascaux
Books
- FICTION: THE WELLES WE DIG by Jon Dozier-Ezell
- REDEEMING ACCESSIBLE by Cassandra Neyenesch
- FICTION: NOT CRYING by Raina Lipsitz
- The Letter from Death by Kseniya Melnik
- TOKENS by Nicolle Elizabeth, Tatiaana L. Laine, Michael Cohn-Geltner, and Jon Dozier-Ezell
- RAPID TRANSIT by Jeffrey Cyphers Wright
Music
- FUTURE SOUNDS OF LONDON by Dominic Umile
- LIKE A BULLET LOVES THE SKY by Kate Silver
- THE MARKET HOTEL SHUTS DOWN, GROWS UP by Mimi Luse
- SUBLIMINAL SEDUCTION by Ellen Pearlman
- AIDE-MEMOIRE FOR CONTEMPORARY MUSIC LOVERS by Dave Mandl
- OUTTAKES by Steve Dalachinsky
Dance
- MASKED MAN Looking Behind George Stamos’ New Work
- THE CHOREOGRAPHER IS PRESENT: TRISHA BROWN AT DIA:BEACON by Patricia Milder
- TRIBHANGI, MUDRA, NATYAM, NAUTCH: A SOUTH ASIAN DANCE LEXICON by David St.-Lascaux
- CELEBRATING THE MAGIC OF NIK by Evan Namerow
- NECESSARY WEATHER IN REVIVAL by L.J. Sunshine
- UNDRESSING THE BODY by Christine Hou
- DANCE MY RELIGION: MELINDA RING’S X by Mary Love Hodges
Film
- Without Men, Without Women, Without Roots by Julia Sirmons
- THE EARTH WILL DIE SCREAMING by Sarahjane Blum
- WILD BOARS RUN AMOK: THE 2010 NY ASIAN FILM FESTIVAL by David Wilentz
- NOT OF OUR TIME by Julia Sirmons
Theater
- The Elaborate Theater of Kristoffer Diaz by Matthew Paul Olmos
- THE SHIPWRECKED EXPERIMENTS OF MADELEINE GEORGE by Mallery Avidon
- Hudson to China: Toy Theater in a Concrete Temple by Amy Rose Marsh
Fiction
- MICROMOSAICS by Shira Dentz
- from EVENT FACTORY by Renee Gladman
- ASTRAY by Andrew Farkas
- Tragic Strip by T. Motley
Poetry
- Two by Aimé Césaire
- Entries from Not An Exit by Bill Berkson
