Save Our City
By Theodore HammThe battle lines have been drawn. From the West Side of Manhattan to downtown Brooklyn, from Harlem to Long Island City, and from Red Hook to here in Williamsburg, large developers—with help from their many, many friends in city government—are getting to build exactly what they want.
George W. Bush’s Redemption Song
By Norman KelleyIf the black political agenda of the post–civil rights era has been to influence the machinery of the federal government to black advantage, moving from protest to politics, the reelection of George W. Bush has shown that this agenda has failed.
The Eye of the Storm:
Works in situ by Daniel Buren
By Daniel Baird
Upon entering the ground floor atrium of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Guggenheim Museum, its massive concrete ramps spiraling up toward the skylight, one encounters a towering mirror-covered cube supported by scaffolding elaborately rigged to one side of the museum.
Art In Conversation
Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe with Joan Waltemath
Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe: I was born in the south of England and went to art school and then to London University Institute of Education for a year before coming to America, in 1968, first to study at Florida State and then to New York, where I first showed a painting in a group show at O.K. Harris in 1971.
Books In Conversation
Robert Polito with Erinne Dobson
As a part of the Brooklyn Rail’s continuing series on writers and teaching, Erinne Dobson recently spoke with acclaimed poet and biographer Robert Polito, who has been the director of the writing program at the New School since 1992.
From Mambo to Salsa Part One: The New York Sound
By Alan LockwoodNew York’s Latin music today sounds like a front for producer-phenoms, its acts panting to cross over, perhaps because their top voices got their start singing club music in English.
Dancing on the Rail: May Brooklyn-based and Beyond
By Vanessa MankoMay offers a chance to see both works honed in Brooklyn neighborhoods and other works by choreographers far outside of New York—Australia to be exact.
Good Times Today, Stupor Tomorrow
By David N. MeyerThreatening to throw someone off a yet to-be-completed skyscraper in a British gangster movie is to indulge in British noir neoclassicism at its finest. Like everything else in Britain, Brit noir has traditions to be observed, touchstones to be honored.
Theater In Dialogue
Tea in the Desert with Julia Cho
I fell in love with Julia Cho last summer in Oregon. She and I were both writers in the Just Add Water/West Festival at Portland Center Stage, where her plangent, bristling, and very funny play BFE was being workshopped.
My Body and I
By Rene CrevelDinner is served early and eaten quickly in the small hotels in the mountains.
The World You Wanted
By Kurt StrahmI went to Sunday School as a child. As an unhappy and sensitive youth, I should have been easy prey for an alternate reality, but it didn’t take; I spent most of my time in class reading the maps at the end of my bright green New Testament.
Editor's Message From The Editor
A New City of Towers
“In 10 years, I can’t imagine what Williamsburg-Greenpoint is going to look like,” City Council Land Use Committee Chair Melinda Katz said of the area’s rezoning the other day.
ArtSeen
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Greater New York 2005
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Edge of Desire
– By Ben La Rocco -
Magnus von Plessen
– By Roger White -
Scott Lewis and the Art of the Vibrantly Desperate
– By Gary Winter -
Angela Strassheim
– By Thomas Micchelli -
William Bailey
– By Tomassio Longhi -
Eric Fischl: Total Artwork or Just a Few Paintings?
– By Francis Raven -
Nicola Lopez
– By Roger Kamholz -
Travel Agents
– By William Powhida -
Harriet Shorr
– By Hrag Vartanian -
Out of Bounds
– By Ben La Rocco -
Max Ernst: A Retrospective
– By Valery Oisteanu
Table of Contents
Editor's Message
Local
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Save Our City
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Brooklyn’s Organ Transplant
– By Kristina Alda -
A Developer Wants to Take My Tax Money to Destroy My Neighborhood and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt
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Ambulatory's Many Obstacles
– By Eleanor J. Bader -
The Brand New Same Old Hustle
– By Matthew Vaz -
On Politics and the Dailies
– By Richard Wells -
March for Peace, Pay for War
– By Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg -
Letter to Mayor Bloomberg and the City Council
– By Jane Jacobs
Express
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George W. Bush’s Redemption Song
– By Norman Kelley -
A Brief History of Plastic
– By Heather Rogers -
American Medicine’s Perfect Storm
– By John Abramson -
An Oration on Secession
– By Jason Flores-Williams -
If it Ain’t Here, it Ain’t Anywhere
– By Ryan Grim -
Options, But Not Solutions: Thomas De Zengotita with Williams Cole
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The Left and Air America: Danny Goldberg with Theodore Hamm
Art
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The Eye of the Storm: Works in situ by Daniel Buren
– By Daniel Baird -
The Meaning of Silence
– By Robert C. Morgan -
This Is a Collection of Information
– By Antony Hudek -
Railing Opinion: Curb Your Dogma
– By James Kalm -
Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe with Joan Waltemath
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Excerpt: Burning and Shining
– By Eric Gottesman
ArtSeen
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Greater New York 2005
– By William Powhida -
Edge of Desire
– By Ben La Rocco -
Magnus von Plessen
– By Roger White -
Scott Lewis and the Art of the Vibrantly Desperate
– By Gary Winter -
Angela Strassheim
– By Thomas Micchelli -
William Bailey
– By Tomassio Longhi -
Eric Fischl: Total Artwork or Just a Few Paintings?
– By Francis Raven -
Nicola Lopez
– By Roger Kamholz -
Travel Agents
– By William Powhida -
Harriet Shorr
– By Hrag Vartanian -
Out of Bounds
– By Ben La Rocco -
Max Ernst: A Retrospective
– By Valery Oisteanu
Books
Music
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From Mambo to Salsa Part One: The New York Sound
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“World Music:” The Last, Best Hope for Rock and Roll? (If Anyone Still Cares)
– By George Sempepos -
Robin Nolan Trio: Live at Langley
– By Todd Simmons
Dance
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Dancing on the Rail: May Brooklyn-based and Beyond
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Trisha Brown with Vanessa Manko
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Feedback at the Flea
– By Emily Larocque -
Memories of the Revolution
– By Nicole Pope
Film
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Good Times Today, Stupor Tomorrow
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Filial Documentaries
– By Williams Cole -
Sophistication, Perversity & Technicolor
– By David N. Meyer
Theater
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Tea in the Desert with Julia Cho
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On the Art of Sticking Out: Clubbed Thumb
– By Brook Stowe -
Hold onto your Bowlers: Clowning Around at HERE
– By Sonya Sobieski -
Myth and La MaMa: Ellen Stewart
– By David Kilpatrick
Fiction
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My Body and I
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Telegrams of the Soul
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Poetry
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Probes of Near-Field Optical Microscopy
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Hero of the Local: Robert Creeley and the Persistence of American Poetry
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Road Atlas; (Broken Free, the Mourning Cloak Butterfly Seeks the Swaddling of Its Cocoon.); Chimneys Impregnate the Clouds
– By Jenny Boully -
From A’s Degeneracy
– By Shanxing Wang
LastWords
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The World You Wanted
– By Kurt Strahm
