The Brooklyn Rail

Table of Contents

Editor's Message

• WATCH THE CLOSING DOORS

  – By Theodore Hamm

Local

• Brooklyn Food Coalition Helps Gardens Grow

  – By Eleanor J. Bader

• UnionDocs Brings Auteurs Together

  – By Lisa Riordan Seville

Express

• Questions for Tariq Ali

• THE ACCIDENTAL COP

  – By Doug Cordell

• Mexico City: A Safe Haven?

  – By Michael Miller

• TRANS SIBERIA

  – By Greta Hansen, Cheryl Wing-Zi Wong, and Warm Engine

• Waygooks: Stories from Korea: Compiled and Edited by J. Scott Burgeson

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• Tibet’s Continuing David and Goliath Story: Tenzing Sonam and Ritu Sarin with Williams Cole

  – By Williams Cole

• A Rebel and His Causes

  – By Michael Sandlin

• It’s Elementary…

  – By Dylan Byers

• What the Wild Things Do

  – By Christopher Michel

• Should Jackets Be Required?

  – By Victoria Marini

Art

• RAIMUND ABRAHAM (1933-2010)

  – By Lebbeus Woods, Peter Noever, and Massimo Scolari

• A SALUTE TO MARINA ABRAMOVIĆ

  – By Carol Becker, Kate Gilmore, and Tehching Hsieh

• AFTERTHOUGHTS TO A CONVERSATION WITH SASHA SUDA

  – By Willibald Sauerländer

• A SALUTE TO CAROLEE SCHNEEMANN

  – By Jonas Mekas, Irving Sandler, and Patricia Cronin

• MARK GREENWOLD WITH JOHN YAU

• SHIRLEY JAFFE WITH RAPHAEL RUBINSTEIN

• URSULA VON RYDINGSVARD WITH IRVING SANDLER & JOHN YAU

• David Reed In Conversation with Phong Bui

• Greetings, Friends! (with apologies to Roger Angell)

  – By Michael Straus

• Martin Wilner WITH PHONG BUI

ArtSeen

• YUN-FEI JI Mistaking Each Other for Ghosts

  – By Ben La Rocco

• ROBERT GROSVENOR

  – By Greg Lindquist

• READYMADES REMADE (AFTER CONSUMPTION): DETRITUS AS ART

  – By Robert C. Morgan

• DEAN MONOGENIS Above the Railing, Above the World

  – By Shane McAdams

• KEITH HARING: 20TH ANNIVERSARY

  – By Hrag Vartanian

• JAMES CASTLE: A RETROSPECTIVE

  – By Tessa DeCarlo

• JONATHAN GAMS (1951-2009)

  – By Raphael Rubinstein

• MICHAEL MAZUR (1935-2009)

  – By John Yau

• WHITNEY BIENNIAL 2010

  – By Sophie Landres

• WHITNEY BIENNIAL 2010

  – By Patricia Milder

• GLIMPSES OF A POST-ANXIETY ERA: TURNING OVER THE WHITNEY BIENNIAL

  – By Joan Waltemath

• BRUCENNIAL 2010: MISEDUCATION

  – By Thomas Micchelli

• DOROTHEA ROCKBURNE Astronomy Drawings

  – By Joan Waltemath

• Letter from TOKYO, GERHARD RICHTER New Overpainted Photographs

  – By Terry R. Myers

• SKIN FRUIT: SELECTIONS FROM THE DAKIS JOANNOU COLLECTION

  – By Kara L. Rooney

• JEFF KEOUGH Skullscapes

  – By Phong Bui

• Letter from NAPLES, BAROCK-ART, SCIENCE, FAITH, AND TECHNOLOGY IN THE CONTEMPORARY AGE

  – By Gilbert Hsiao

• TRACKS: ALLYSON MITCHELL, RADICAL CRAFT

  – By Anne Swartz

• BILL JENSEN CHEIM & READ|FEBRUARY 18–MARCH 27, 2010

  – By Phong Bui

• OTTO DIX NEUE GALERIE MARCH 11–AUGUST 30, 2010

  – By Dore Ashton

• BILL ALBERTINI Space Frame Redux

  – By David St.-Lascaux

• PLAYING WITH PICTURES: THE ART OF VICTORIAN PHOTOCOLLAGE

  – By Valery Oisteanu

• DONALD JUDD AND 1O1 SPRING STREET

  – By Phong Bui

Books

• ABSOLUTE WILL

  – By William S. Niederkorn

• PRAISE THE BARD

  – By John Reed

• SELF POSSESSION, SELF INVENTION

  – By Scott Hightower

• SMALL WONDER

  – By Nicolle Elizabeth

• STAKES LOW, DROWNS SLOW

  – By B.C. Edwards

• FOE FLOW

  – By John Madera

• EVERYTHING WHERE?

  – By Kseniya Melnik

• THE KINDNESS OF NEIGHBORS

  – By Polly Rosenwaike

• RAPID TRANSIT

  – By Jeffrey Cyphers Wright

Music

• REGARDING HENRY

  – By George Grella

• SECRET BEDROOM RECORDINGS REVEALED! WHITE HINTERLAND: KAIROS (DEAD OCEANS)

  – By Katy Henriksen

• A PRECARIOUS FLAG IS PLANTED: AMERICAN (INDIE) SONGBOOK AT LINCOLN CENTER

  – By Daniel J. Kushner

• OUTTAKES

  – By Steve Dalachinsky

• THE ONLY ONE WHO KNOWS WHERE HE GOES WHEN HE PARKS HIS CAR

  – By Justin Vellucci

Dance

• SIMONE FORTI with Claudia La Rocco

• PERFORMANCE MIX FESTIVAL, NOW IN ITS 24th YEAR

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• WHIRLWIND WORKOUT IN A TIGHT SPACE: BACKHAUSDANCE AT JOYCE SOHO

  – By David St.-Lascaux

• IN IT FOR THE DURATION: PERFORMANCE AT MOMA

  – By L.J. Sunshine

• Father Figure: Hasselhoff and America in David Neumann's BIG EATER

  – By Patricia Milder

• CONTINUAL REDUNDANCY

  – By Christine Hou

Film

• IRKSOME BUT COMPELLING

  – By David N. Meyer

• NAZIS? CHECK!

  – By Tessa DeCarlo

• FRAGMENTS AND MYSTERIOUS CONNECTIONS

  – By Lu Chen

• HUNGER

  – By Sarahjane Blum

Theater

• 10 Years of Big Art Group

  – By Justin Bond

• Excerpt from MILK by Emily DeVoti

  – By Emily DeVoti

• In the COOLER with Gary Winter

  – By Kristen Palmer

• Waterlogged in Red Hook with Polybe + Seats

  – By Hillary Miller

Fiction

• Away Alone

  – By Fran Gordon

• Natural History of Dissolution

  – By Anna Mockler

• In the Fierce Light that Beats Upon the Throne

  – By Anna Mockler

• Tragic Strip

  – By T. Motley

• An excerpt from The Last Patriarch By Najat El Hachmi Translated from the Catalan by Peter Bush

  – By Najat El Hachmi and Peter Bush

Poetry

• Two sections from DISTANCE DECAY

  – By Cathy Eisenhower

• Two Poems from IMMERSION KICK

  – By Jeremy Hoevenaar

• TWO

  – By Filip Marinovich

• MATVEI YANKELEVICH with Geoffrey Cruickshank-Hagenbuckle

  – By Geoffrey Cruickshank-Hagenbuckle

• If I Could Say This With My Body, Would I. I Would

  – By Anne Waldman and Kiki Smith