FEB 2012 – The Brooklyn Rail

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Editor's Message

All Painting Only Painting
– By Vincent Katz, February Art Editor

Local

The N.Y.P.D. Clamps Down on Jazz
– By Liliana Segura
Burlesque, Beer, and PowerPoint
– By Mary Mann
CITYNOTES Fear of the First Amendment
– By Theodore Hamm
REPORT CARD The Privatized Mind
– By Liza Featherstone
Music that Picks You Up
– By Eleanor J. Bader
The Brief Histories & Modern Journey of a Vinyl Record
– By Sean Cooper

Express

AMATEUR NIGHT A fragment from Isolate Flecks: An Anatomy
– By Forrest Hylton
LETTER FROM THE TRAIL: Atwater’s Ghost
– By Michael Terry
A Festival of Reason and the Art of Common Sense
– By Christopher Moylan
Kristeva’s Top-Down Critique
– By R. H. Lossin
Emma’s Lyricism
– By Courtney Fiske
American Ringstrasse
– By David Wescott
WR: The Wanderings of a Lost Soul
– By David Rosen

Art

ArtSeen

DAVID DRISKELL Creative Spirit: Five Decades
– By Bridget Goodbody
DAINA HIGGINS New Paintings
– By Charles Schultz
LOIS DODD New Panel Paintings
– By Sharon L. Butler
Unlikely Friends: JAMES BROOKS & DAN FLAVIN
– By Greg Lindquist
DAMIEN HIRST The Complete Spot Paintings 1986 – 2011
– By Corina Larkin
LORI ELLISON
– By Corina Larkin
GEORGES HUGNET The Love Life of the Spumifers
– By Valery Oisteanu
Dark Christmas
– By Bradley Rubenstein
ELLSWORTH KELLY Schwarz & Weiss
– By David Rhodes
MALCOLM MORLEY Another Way to Make an Image, Monotypes
– By Robert Storr
Five Works from the Collection of Albert Murray: ROMARE BEARDEN and NORMAN LEWIS
– By Charles Schultz
THE RONALD S. LAUDER COLLECTION: Selections from the 3rd Century BC to the 20th Century / Germany, Austria, and France
– By Charles Schultz
Anonymous Tantra Paintings
– By Noah Dillon
SANGRAM MAJUMDAR New Work
– By Kara L. Rooney
GUDMUNDUR THORODDSEN Father’s Father
– By Paolo Javier
SOTO Paris and Beyond, 1950 – 1970
– By Cora Fisher
JESS Paintings
– By Phong Bui
GEORGE MCNEIL
– By Robert Berlind
VICTOR MATTHEWS
– By Vincent Katz
LOLA MONTES SCHNABEL Love Before Intimacy
– By David Markus
THOMAS WOODRUFF The Four Temperament Variations
– By Kara L. Rooney
MARTHA CLIPPINGER Hopscotch
– By Robert Berlind
PETER GALLO
– By Jonathan Goodman
Connected
– By Noah Dillon
KANDINSKY's “Painting with White Border”
– By Susan Bee
BARBARA SANDLER Straight On Till Morning
– By Robert Berlind
December (Organized by Howie Chen)
– By Nathan Kernan
EDWIN DICKINSON In Retrospect
– By Robert Berlind
JOSÉ RIVERA
– By Nathan Kernan
REMBRANDT’S WORLD: Dutch Drawings from the Clement C. Moore Collection
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JOSEPH MONTGOMERY Velveteen
– By Linnea Kniaz
The Renaissance Portrait from Donatello to Bellini
– By Mira Schor
BOSCO SODI Ubi Sunt
– By Jonathan Goodman
DOUG WADA Americana
– By Lilly Wei
Mind the Gap
– By Anne Sherwood Pundyk
BILL JENSEN
– By Ben La Rocco
WITHIN/WITHOUT: A Studio Visit With SHOSHANA DENTZ
– By Zachary Wollard
SUSANNA HELLER’s Studio
– By Robert Berlind
STUDIO VISIT: JOYCE PENSATO
– By William Corwin
Making American Taste: Narrative Art for a New Democracy
– By Shane McAdams
Letter from BERLIN
– By David Rhodes
JOSEPH MARIONI Eye to Eye
– By Robert C. Morgan
GORDON MOORE
– By Joan Waltemath
Aggregate (Clare Gasson, Nick Hornby, Connor Linskey)
– By Kathy Battista
Master Bill at MoMA
– By Irving Sandler

Books

Interview with Poet Jerry Williams "Gamblin' Man"
– By Adam Fitzgerald
NONFICTION OCCUPYING W. S.
– By William S. Niederkorn
FICTION Conquering the Third Reich
– By Ariell Cacciola
NONFICTION Snapshots of the Artist
– By Chris Campanioni
POETRY Lo and Behole
– By Alex Estes
POETRY Road to Nowhere
– By Jerome Murphy
The Stuart Sherman Spectacle
– By Liz Axelrod
FICTION SUI GENERIS
– By Jim Feast
POETRY Answers Without Questions
– By Jerome Murphy
ANTHOLOGY The Burqa Unveiled
– By John Emrys Eller
MEMOIR Extravagant Blooms
– By Jenine Holmes
A PORNOGRAPHER BARES ALL SAM BENJAMIN with Winston Len
– By Winston Len
FICTION Double Jackpot
– By Jenine Holmes
The Dreaming Girl
– By Suzanne McConnell

Music

Breaking Down the Fourth Wall—Again
– By Andrew Cappetta
Translation As Erasure In Leonard Cohen's Songs From A Room
– By Marshall Yarbrough
Riffing On Schoenberg: Fieldwork's Hypnotic Virtuosity
– By David St.-Lascaux
Outtakes
– By Steve Dalachinsky

Dance

That's All She Wrote Edited
– By Claudia La Rocco
Feminist Killjoys
– By Christine Shan Shan Hou
Adventures In Realness
– By Siobhan Burke

Film

A Little Heap for Dara Greenwald
– By Rachael Rakes
NOT RECONCILED: Ben Wheatley's Kill List
– By Phil Coldiron
COUNTER PROJECTIONS: PAUL SHARITS at Greene Naftali Gallery
– By Benjamin Schultz-Figueroa

Theater

Naked in Yosemite with Daniel Talbott
– By Laura Eason
Tense Change: Leave the Balcony Open by Maya Macdonald
– By Karen Hartman
Set Designers Peter Ksander and Mimi Lien with Gary Winter
– By Gary Winter
Mother of All Collaborations: The Theatre of a Two-Headed Calf Debuts a Chamber Opera
– By Jessica Del Vecchio
The Penultimate P: Erin Courtney with Madeleine George
– By Madeleine George and Erin Courtney
Nellie Tinder Sets Fire to Evelyn
– By Trish Harnetiaux
Excerpt from Evelyn
– By Julia May Jonas
DIVIDING DIVISIONS: What's at Stake in the Theater vs. Visual Arts Debate
– By Alexis Clements

Fiction

The Diary of Martín Santomé: A Novel
– By Mario Benedetti
The Weather in Fritz Bemelmans Park
– By Holly Tavel
Tragic Strip
– By T. Motley
A Scrupulous Fidelity, On Thomas Bernhard’s The Loser
– By Douglas Glover
On the Furtiveness of Kurtz
– By Jeremy M. Davies

Poetry

Nigerian Spammer
– By Adam Fitzgerald
Four
– By Brett Price
Two
– By Brendan Lorber
Two
– By Laura Henriksen
from We Are Here
– By Kristen Gallagher

Art Books

PETER DOWNSBROUGH: Two Reviews
– By Joseph Masheck
Bubbles: Spheres, Volume I: Microspherology
– By John Ganz
Is That All There Is?
– By Bill Kartalopoulos
Believing is Seeing: Observations on the Mysteries of Photography
– By Ela Bittencourt

LastWords

from The Revolution Of Everyday Life
– By Raoul Vaneigem, A new translation from the French by Donald Nicholson-Smith

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