Billions for BrooklynNo Questions Asked
By David VineA 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 HammThe 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.
Art In Conversation
Fred Tomaselli
By Chris MartinThe 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.
Art In Conversation
Marina Abramović
By Delia Bajo and Brainard CareyMarina 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 BuiProbably 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.
Matthew Ritchie
By Jennifer CoatesMatthew 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.
Film In Conversation
Jonas Mekas
By Raimund AbrahamJonas 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 ReedRecently, 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.
ArtSeen
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Gary Simmons
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Jo Baer: The Minimalist Years, 19651975
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Lennart Anderson
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Yes Yes Yall: The Birth of Hip Hop
– By Megan Heuer -
Bjørn Melhus
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Alessandro Pessoli
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Matthew Ritchie
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John J. OConnor
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Watercolor
– By Rachel Youens -
Evan Lintermans
– By Hrag Vartanian -
Hungry Eyes
– By Sarah Hollenberg -
Don Gummer
– By James Kalm -
James Castle
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Graf 3000
– By James Kalm -
Elizabeth Josephson
– By Tomassio Longhi -
Lael Marshall and DeWitt Godfrey
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Letter from London
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Curating on the Margin
– By Yasmeen Siddiqui and Hrag Vartanian
Table of Contents
Local
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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 -
Dining Car- Organic Visions
– By Claire Hoffman
Express
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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
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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
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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 -
Bjørn 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 Yasmeen Siddiqui and Hrag Vartanian
Books
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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
Music
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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 -
The Astral Sounds of Greg Weeks
– By Fred Cisterna
Dance
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Waltz Toward the Apocalypse
– By Vanessa Manko
Film
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Jonas Mekas
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Outtakes: On MoviesThe Gyllenhaals
– By Galen Williams -
Dubious Honors
– By Lisa Rosman -
Unknown Director, Familiar Pleasures: Jia Zhangkes Past, Present, and Uncertain Future
– By Valerie Jaffe
Theater
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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
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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
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Cruelty and Conquest
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Self-criticism; Reported Missing
– By Lewis Warsh -
Sherman Alexie
– By Sherman Alexie -
Dreaming in Syndication
– By Photios Giovanis -
This Just In
– By Jerome Sala