The Brooklyn Rail

Table of Contents

Editor's Message

• We’ve only just begun…

  – By Theodore Hamm

• A Self-Evident Truth

  – By Phong Bui

Local

• Rutabaga, Mache, and Salsify Unearthing Winter’s Bounty at the Greenmarkets

  – By Amanda Darrach Filippone

• Urban Boarding Schools Offer Twist on the Elite

  – By Eleanor J. Bader

• Bumming It on Manhattan Avenue

  – By Sabine Heinlein

• Thoughts on Atlantic Yards

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• An Endless Cycle

  – By James Angelos

• The Ghost Bike Project

  – By Mark Read

• Playing Bingo in Purgatory

  – By Katie Clancy

• Sleep With Your Mouth Closed

  – By Marjory Garrison

• Bloodlust at Red Bull: The Revenger’s Tragedy

  – By Wendy Weisman

• Poems by Elena Alexander

  – By Elena Alexander

• LOCAL STOP Brooklyn in the Fringe

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Express

• Oaxaca, the Warning Sign

  – By Fernando Gálvez de Aguinaga

• An Afternoon with Enrique

  – By Gabriel Thompson

• The Experimental Geography of Trevor Paglen

  – By Jen Itzenson

• The Privatization of War: Colombia as Laboratory and Iraq as Large-Scale Application

  – By Dario Azzellini and Lize Mogel

• Iraq and the Problems of Pulling Out

  – By Nicholas Jahr

• The Black Plague?

  – By Alex Féthière

• The Specter of Nader

  – By Williams Cole

• Play the Game: Grand Theft Desire

  – By Stephen Duncombe

Art

• Jasper Johns with John Yau

• Katy Siegel and David Reed with Phong Bui

• Bill Jensen with Chris Martin

• Constantly Blue Sky, Never a Cloud: On Rudolf De Crignis, 1948 - 2006

  – By John Zinsser

• Marcia Tucker 1940–2006

  – By Carol Becker

• The Press Preview of the New Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Boston

  – By Vicki Goldberg

• The Photographer Who Satisfied His Hunger

  – By Vicki Goldberg

• A Critical Week in Chile

  – By David Levi Strauss, Adriana Valdés, Pablo Chiuminatto, Rodrigo Zúñiga, Sandra Accatino, Bruno Cuneo, and Ana María Risco

ArtSeen

• John Newsom Allegory of Nations

  – By Robert C. Morgan

• Railing Opinion: A Call to Art Critics

  – By Jill Conner, Irving Sandler, John Adams Griefen, John Perreault, and Alan Brilliant

• Letter from London

  – By Sherman Sam

• Letter from GERMANY

  – By Stephanie Buhmann

• ART BASEL MIAMI BEACH 2006

  – By James Kalm and Ben LaRocco

• Candida Hofer

  – By Geoffrey Cruickshank-Hagenbuckle

• Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt

  – By James Kalm

• Thornton Willis and James O. Clark

  – By Craig Olson

• John Sonsini

  – By Jeremy Sigler

• Keiko Narahashi

  – By Jennifer Riley

• Stephen G. Rhodes

  – By Lauren Ross

• Thomas Kiesewetter

  – By Cassandra Neyenesch

• Robert Irwin

  – By Ben LaRocco

• Glitter and Doom: German Portraits from the 1920s

  – By Carrie Moyer

• John Evans

  – By Valery Oisteanu

• Gayleen Aiken

  – By Shane McAdams

• Ayreen Anastas and Rene Gabri

  – By Lynn Love

• Richard Bosman and Peter Acheson

  – By Craig Olson

• TRACKS In/Visible: The Drawings of Maria Bussmann

  – By Thomas Micchelli

• Toadhouse

  – By John Yau

Books

• Technocrats of the Mind

  – By Ben Gore

• Ellis Avery and Sharon Marcus with Cassandra Neyenesch

• Everyone Wants their Two Minutes

  – By Erica Wetter

• Hippo Hooray

  – By Fran Gordon

• Looking for Lethe

  – By James O'Connor

• Nonfiction: Road Rollins

  – By John G. Rodwan Jr.

• David Shapiro: The Poem

  – By Maxwell Heller

• Fiction: Two Swamps for the Money

  – By Jim Feast

Music

• A Box of Delights

  – By Holly Tavel

• Addicted to Sound: An Interview with Michael Gira

  – By Jim Knipfel

• Herky-Woogie

  – By Paul Grimstad

• More Voices from the Graveyard Shift

  – By Todd Simmons

• Twenty-First Century Exoticism: Taymor Does the Magic Flute

  – By Betty Leigh Hutcheson

• With One Eye Closed and One Ear Shut

  – By Kate Crane

Dance

• Too Much of a Good Thing

  – By Vanessa Manko

• Bill T. Jones’

  – By Carley Petesch

Film

• PERVERSE AUTEURS VS THE SELF-AGGRANDIZING WANK The 10 Best Films of 2006

  – By David N. Meyer

• Snitch Culture

  – By Tessa DeCarlo

• WATERMELON TIME! The Plastic Fantastic Universe of Tsai Ming Liang

  – By David Wilentz

• WASSUP ROCKERS (First Look Studios)

  – By Sarahjane Blum

• Monsters and Madmen box

  – By David Wilentz

• Double Life of Veronique (Criterion)

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• Yojimbo/Sanjuro: Two Films by Akira Kurosawa (Criterion Collection)

  – By David Wilentz

Theater

• YOU GIVE ME FEVER The Audience and Wallace Shawn

  – By Eliza Bent

• Staying Alive in a Dying City Christopher Shinn with Mark Armstrong

• Michael Domitrovich with Alina Troyano

• Wrighting Home with Richard Nelson

  – By Cristina Pippa

Fiction

• The Accidental Oracle

  – By Kurt Strahm

• Mondongo

  – By Amiri Baraka

Poetry

• In the Still Cave of the Witch Poesy

  – By Geoffrey Cruickshank-Hagenbuckle

• A Mania, More or Less; Immeasurable, Fervor; Lost Mouth

  – By Garrett Kalleberg

• Revival, Naked Ladies with Cranes and Crows

  – By Mary Donnelly

LastWords

• The most important five minutes or free diving

  – By Geneviève Brisac