The Brooklyn Rail

Table of Contents

Editor's Message

• What’s New?

  – By Elizabeth C. Baker

Local

• Bucking Brooklyn’s Machine LINCOLN RESTLER with Williams Cole

• OCCUPY and 350.ORG—You Come Down Here and Embrace!

  – By Reverend Billy

• REPORT CARD The Dumbass Factor

  – By Liza Featherstone

• Court of No Return

  – By Eleanor J. Bader

• CITYNOTES: A Real Relic

  – By Theodore Hamm

• Summer Means Hibernation for Coney Island’s Polar Bears

  – By Lauren Keating

Express

• Giving it All for Ron Paul

  – By Michael Terry

• Big Oil vs. The Little Folks

  – By Polly Brewster

• The Strange Case of Charles Taylor

  – By Nicholas Jahr

• STANLEY ARONOWITZ with Gregory Smulewicz-Zucker

• Goodbye, Babylon

  – By Seb Doubinsky

• BUSHWICK BOUNCE A fragment from Isolate Flecks: An Anatomy

  – By Forrest Hylton

• PORN WARS: The F.B.I.’s Hidden Campaign to Police Morality

  – By David Rosen

• Interested Parties

  – By Allen Wilcox

• Back On The Couch

  – By Courtney Fiske

Art

• HOLLY ZAUSNER with Raphael Rubinstein

• JOAN SIMON with Anne Sherwood Pundyk

• Absolutely-Too-Much

  – By Simon Critchley

• DAN GRAHAM with Carlos Brillembourg

• BLESS with Barry Schwabsky

• Why didn’t Lucio Fontana use my sewing machine?

  – By Elena Berriolo

• Suggestions for Summer Reading: Unspeakable Origins

  – By Robert Hullot-Kentor

ArtSeen

• AVANT-GARDE INK IN CHINA Beyond Pop and Expressionism

  – By Robert C. Morgan

• How Newness Enters the Art World

  – By Eleanor Heartney

• BUSHWICK OPEN STUDIOS
  June 1–3, 2012 JUNG AH KIM’s Studio 56 Bogart Street

  – By Anne Sherwood Pundyk

• Paving Paradise Part I

  – By James Kalm

• WHITNEY CLAFLIN As Long As You Get To Be Somebody’s Slave, Too

  – By Jonathan Goodman

• ULRICH GEBERT The Negotiated Order

  – By Charles Schultz

• RACHEL KNEEBONE Regarding Rodin

  – By Desiree Gonzalez

• Made in L.A. 2012

  – By Terry R. Myers

• SHANA MOULTON The line where your appearance flips over into reality

  – By Eve Perry

• SYLVIA PLIMACK MANGOLD Recent Works

  – By Robert Berlind

• MICHELLE SEGRE Lost Songs of the Filament

  – By Sharon L. Butler

• Inaugural Show

  – By Charles Schultz

• SVEN LUKIN

  – By Raphael Rubinstein

• MARGARET LANZETTA Reign Marks DAVID PACKER Les Bidons

  – By Carol Schwarzman

• Lightness, Being

  – By Charles Schultz

• “FRESH FOR(U)MS” Garden Party/Arts

  – By Kara L. Rooney

• Material Tak

  – By Jonathan Goodman

• JAIME DAVIDOVICH Re: PLAY

  – By Gail Victoria Braddock Quagliata

• HELEN VERHOEVEN Stage Disasters

  – By David Markus

• PROFILE: JACOLBY SATTERWHITE & The New Human Body

  – By Maxwell Heller

• FRANK STELLA Black, Aluminum, Copper Paintings

  – By David Rhodes

• ALEX KATZ Prints

  – By Phong Bui

• Is Newness Still New?

  – By Greg Lindquist

• Congratulations

Books

• THAD ZIOLKOWSKI with Mindy Cardozo

• ELLEN PEARLMAN with Jade Sharma

• TIMOTHY NOAH with Annie Juergens Behr

• FICTION Cave Art

  – By Aditi Sriram

• FICTION Breaking the Frozen Sea of the Soul: Clarice Lispector

  – By Audrey Schomer

• FICTION The Invisible Woman

  – By Tatiaana L. Laine

• FICTION A Complete and Lucid Whole

  – By Andrea Scrima

• FICTION Bridge to Brooklyn, and Blues Song

  – By Stephanie Spiro

• FICTION Clean Cole

  – By Diane T. Masucci

• NONFICTION Hop Global

  – By Jesse Tangen-Mills

• RAPID TRANSIT Wisdom, Truth, and Beauty—Who Could Ask for More?

  – By Jeffrey Cyphers Wright

• FICTION Scars to Jar

  – By Aditi Sriram

Music

• Cecil Taylor, Home At Last

  – By George Grella

• (Indie) Rock School

  – By Kristy Eldredge

• Just Add Rain

  – By David St.-Lascaux

• When Worlds Don’t Collide

  – By Marshall Yarbrough

• “If I Make It Out Alive From Hollywood and Vine”

  – By Todd Simmons

• OUTTAKES

  – By Steve Dalachinsky

Dance

• MARK MORRIS with Nancy Dalva

• Queer Expectations

  – By Christine Shan Shan Hou

• JASON SAMUELS SMITH with L. J. Sunshine

Film

• SCISSOR SPECULATIONS Cut & Paste: Contemporary Collage Animation From North America at Anthology Film Archives

  – By Benjamin Schultz-Figueroa

• Like Being in a Rainbow: Gregory Markopoulos and the Temenos

  – By Rebekah Rutkoff

• UNSEEN VOICES: Caroline Martel WITH JIM SUPANICK

• SKETCHES OF REVOLT: Ali Samadi Ahadi’s The Green Wave

  – By Steve MacFarlane

• PASTORAL: Emmanuel Gras’s Bovines at Rooftop Films

  – By Daniel Walber

Theater

• The Imminent Implosion of 13P

  – By Ben Gassman

• Music is her Muse: Quiara Alegría Hudes and her Path to the Pulitzer

  – By Marcus Gardley

• Welcome to the Fearless Indie Theater Universe. Population? Not Just You

  – By Crystal Skillman

• The Penitents of MAGDALEN: Erin Layton and Julie Kline with Zack Calhoon

Fiction

• The Diary of Martín Santomé: A Novel

  – By Mario Benedetti

• Mr. Colostomy

  – By Matthew Thurber

• Months

  – By Leah Hayes

• Deals Made Behind Closed Doors

  – By Benjamin Marra

• Arrowschmitt!!!

  – By Arryan Decatur

• Tragic Strip

  – By T. Motley

• An excerpt from Prehistoric Times

  – By Eric Chevillard
  translated from the French by Alyson Waters
  out now from Archipelago Books

Poetry

• Particulars of Place

  – By Richard O. Moore

• Apartment 5D

  – By Edwin Torres

Art Books

• Draw It With Your Eyes Closed: The Art of the Art Assignment

  – By Norm Paris

• Alice Neel: Late Portraits and Still Lifes

  – By Lily Koto Olive

• Nature

  – By Wendy Vogel

LastWords

• from The Revolution Of Everyday Life

  – By Raoul Vaneigem
  A new translation from the French by Donald Nicholson-Smith