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Brooklyn Eagle, July 14, 1897 DELUGE FROM SEA AND SKY RAIN AND HIGH TIDES CAUSE DAMAGE ON THE ISLAND. GRAIN AND HAY CROPS INJURED.
AFTER SANDY, the People’s Relief Grows in Coney
By Williams Cole
The Brown Girl of Bed-Stuy’s Brownstones
By Ron Howell
In the Beginning, All Need the Word
By Eleanor J. Bader
When the Drumming Stops
By Steve Wishnia

Express

The Brooklyn Rail’s Player-of-the-Year, 2012
By Theodore Hamm
My Wounded Constitution
By Jason Flores-Williams
A VIEW FROM THE EAST PANKAJ MISHRA with Hirsh Sawhney
Reading Eugene Genovese in the Age of Occupy
By Stuart Schrader
Searching for the “I” in History
By Abby Margulies
His Mother’s Son
By Greg Ryan
Twentieth-Century Blues
By Kathy Smundak
America’s First Foodie
By Orli Van Mourik

Art

Herbie Vogel
By Lucio Pozzi
Time is an Emotional Muscle BARBARA HAMMER with Jarrett Earnest
BIRDHEAD with Charles Schultz
A letter from JOSEPH CORNELL to DOROTHEA TANNING
By Robert Kelly
ALICE CHANNER with Barry Schwabsky
Living a Revolution
By Ariella Azoulay
Figuring It Out: Bard’s Low-Residency M.F.A. Program
By Steel Stillman

ArtSeen

The Diagnostic Essay
By Alex Bacon
Everything That Matters
By Daniel Baird
“Is There a Crisis in Art Criticism?”* Response from Marek Bartelik
Dress Trope
By Bill Berkson
Responses for Irving Sandler (A Later Seizure), November 21
By Bill Berkson
Re: Art Criticism Today
By Robert Berlind
Dear Irving
By Phong Bui
How it Appears
By Jarrett Earnest
Post-Critical
By Hal Foster
If Picasso Is So Sexy, Why Is No One On TV Talking About Art?
By Christopher French
The Incredible Shrinking Art Critic
By Eleanor Heartney
Irving:
By Dave Hickey
Popcorn Manifesto
By David Humphrey
Critical Acts
By Richard Kalina
The Four Corners of Painting
By Richard Kalina
Three Crises
By Pepe Karmel
The Persistence of Art Criticism
By Vincent Katz
A Fork in the Linguistic Road
By Max Kozloff
Dear Irving
By David Levi Strauss
Re: Art Criticism Today
By Kim Levin
The End of Reading
By Jonathan T.D. Neil
What’s So Important About Criticism?
By Barbara A. MacAdam
Re: Art Criticism Today
By Jed Perl
Middlebrow? Smile When You Say That
By Peter Plagens
Performance Anxiety
By Nancy Princenthal
Thanks for the Memory
By Barbara Rose
Renewable Energy for Criticism
By Raphael Rubinstein
What’s Lost is What I Want
By Ed Schad
Criticism and Self-Criticism
By Barry Schwabsky
Re: Art Criticism Today
By Martha Schwendener
Ars Critica
By Robert Storr
Art Criticism & Social Media
By Phyllis Tuchman
The World Out There
By Amei Wallach
Crit Lit
By Lilly Wei
A Good Painting is Better and More Interesting Than a Stick in the Eye
By Stephen Westfall
Re: Art Criticism Today
By Karen Wilkin
Quarterdeck Reflections
By Alexi Worth
Re: Art Criticism Today
By Christian Viveros-Faune
EYEWITNESS: Reflections on Richard Artschwager’s “Untitled,” 1971
By Michael Torlen
BERNINI: Sculpting in Clay
By Brandt Junceau
TOM BURCKHARDT Pretty Little Liars
By Corina Larkin
Devin Powers, Paintings
By Jonathan Goodman
FERDINAND HODLER View to Infinity
By Chloé Rossetti
The escape from the banal everyday life to the world of the ideal
By Kara L. Rooney
MICHAL ROVNER Topography
By Robert C. Morgan
JOSEF SUDEK The Legacy of a Deeper Vision
By David Carrier
PICASSO Black and White
By Valery Oisteanu
ALINA SZAPOCZNIKOW Sculpture Undone, 1955-1972
By William Corwin

Books

A Compelling, If Foggy Debut
By Rayyan Al-Shawaf
A Second Birth
By Larissa Zimberoff
Against the Law
By Gabriel Don
Pain on Both Sides
By Kenan Trebincevic
JOSHUA HENKIN with Hirsh Sawhney
BLAKE BUTLER, VANESSA PLACE, and CHRISTOPHER HIGGS with S. Tremaine Nelson
DEBRA DIBLASI and SAM WITT of Jaded Ibis Press with Liz Axelrod
On the Road Again
By Jim Feast
Against a narcotic culture whose primary desire is stupefaction Andrea Scrima talks to Rainer J. Hanshe, founder of Contra Mundum Press
On Board with The Atavist
By Christopher Carbone

Music

BAM Next Wave, Part I
By George Grella
World Music in the Cradle of (Someone’s) Democracy
By George Sempepos
Hell, Set to Music
By David St.-Lascaux
“WE TALK REAL FUNNY DOWN HERE” Randy Newman’s “Birmingham” as Ironic Southern Anthem
By Marshall Yarbrough
Outtakes
By Steve Dalachinsky
Reading and Listening with Listener
By Nicolle Elizabeth

Dance

Bring in Da Boise
By Ryan Wenzel
ELIZABETH STREB: An Introduction
By Nancy Dalva
KYLE ABRAHAM with Ryan Wenzel

Film

Plus ça devient vieux, Plus ça devient bête The European Bourgeoisie in Michael Haneke’s Amour
By Jaap Verheul
NIHIL UNBOUND Rick Alverson’s The Comedy
By Jason LaRivière
RETURNING THE FOURTH WALL Reenactment as Recursion at CPH:DOX
By Rachael Rakes
A HOLLIS FRAMPTON ODYSSEY
By Leo Goldsmith
FACES Middle of Nowhere and Nothing But A Man
By Katie Rogin
THE OUTER LIMITS First Look at Museum of the Moving Image
By Leo Goldsmith

Theater

When Machines Fail: Paula Vogel and A Civil War Christmas
By Jessica Dickey
Madness and Martyrdom in La Divina Caricatura LEE BREUER with Kyoung H. Park
Uptown to the Grand Canyon and Onward to the Sea SETH NUMRICH with Libby Woodbridge
Jesus in India: Finding Out Who We Are with Lloyd Suh
By Matthew Paul Olmos

Fiction

When the Time Comes
By Josef Winkler
Excerpted from CITY OF ANGELS: or The Overcoat of Dr. Freud, A NOVEL
By Christa Wolf, translated from the German by Damion Searls
Arrowschmitt!!!
By Arryan Decatur
Tragic Strip
By T. Motley
New England
By Matthew Thurber
Extracts from the 65th Anniversary Edition of Raymond Queneau's Exercises In Style
By Raymond Queneau, Harry Mathews, Shane Jones, and Chris Clarke

Poetry

Two
By Allan M. Jalon
The Answers to the Questions
By Robert Hershon
Three
By Sandra Simonds
Four
By Jim Behrle

Art Books

Another Language
By Adam Bell
Rookie Yearbook One
By Maura M. Lynch

DEC 12-JAN 13 Issue

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Brooklyn Eagle, July 14, 1897 DELUGE FROM SEA AND SKY RAIN AND HIGH TIDES CAUSE DAMAGE ON THE ISLAND. GRAIN AND HAY CROPS INJURED.
AFTER SANDY, the People’s Relief Grows in Coney
By Williams Cole
The Brown Girl of Bed-Stuy’s Brownstones
By Ron Howell
In the Beginning, All Need the Word
By Eleanor J. Bader
When the Drumming Stops
By Steve Wishnia

Express

The Brooklyn Rail’s Player-of-the-Year, 2012
By Theodore Hamm
My Wounded Constitution
By Jason Flores-Williams
A VIEW FROM THE EAST PANKAJ MISHRA with Hirsh Sawhney
Reading Eugene Genovese in the Age of Occupy
By Stuart Schrader
Searching for the “I” in History
By Abby Margulies
His Mother’s Son
By Greg Ryan
Twentieth-Century Blues
By Kathy Smundak
America’s First Foodie
By Orli Van Mourik

Art

Herbie Vogel
By Lucio Pozzi
Time is an Emotional Muscle BARBARA HAMMER with Jarrett Earnest
BIRDHEAD with Charles Schultz
A letter from JOSEPH CORNELL to DOROTHEA TANNING
By Robert Kelly
ALICE CHANNER with Barry Schwabsky
Living a Revolution
By Ariella Azoulay
Figuring It Out: Bard’s Low-Residency M.F.A. Program
By Steel Stillman

ArtSeen

The Diagnostic Essay
By Alex Bacon
Everything That Matters
By Daniel Baird
“Is There a Crisis in Art Criticism?”* Response from Marek Bartelik
Dress Trope
By Bill Berkson
Responses for Irving Sandler (A Later Seizure), November 21
By Bill Berkson
Re: Art Criticism Today
By Robert Berlind
Dear Irving
By Phong Bui
How it Appears
By Jarrett Earnest
Post-Critical
By Hal Foster
If Picasso Is So Sexy, Why Is No One On TV Talking About Art?
By Christopher French
The Incredible Shrinking Art Critic
By Eleanor Heartney
Irving:
By Dave Hickey
Popcorn Manifesto
By David Humphrey
Critical Acts
By Richard Kalina
The Four Corners of Painting
By Richard Kalina
Three Crises
By Pepe Karmel
The Persistence of Art Criticism
By Vincent Katz
A Fork in the Linguistic Road
By Max Kozloff
Dear Irving
By David Levi Strauss
Re: Art Criticism Today
By Kim Levin
The End of Reading
By Jonathan T.D. Neil
What’s So Important About Criticism?
By Barbara A. MacAdam
Re: Art Criticism Today
By Jed Perl
Middlebrow? Smile When You Say That
By Peter Plagens
Performance Anxiety
By Nancy Princenthal
Thanks for the Memory
By Barbara Rose
Renewable Energy for Criticism
By Raphael Rubinstein
What’s Lost is What I Want
By Ed Schad
Criticism and Self-Criticism
By Barry Schwabsky
Re: Art Criticism Today
By Martha Schwendener
Ars Critica
By Robert Storr
Art Criticism & Social Media
By Phyllis Tuchman
The World Out There
By Amei Wallach
Crit Lit
By Lilly Wei
A Good Painting is Better and More Interesting Than a Stick in the Eye
By Stephen Westfall
Re: Art Criticism Today
By Karen Wilkin
Quarterdeck Reflections
By Alexi Worth
Re: Art Criticism Today
By Christian Viveros-Faune
EYEWITNESS: Reflections on Richard Artschwager’s “Untitled,” 1971
By Michael Torlen
BERNINI: Sculpting in Clay
By Brandt Junceau
TOM BURCKHARDT Pretty Little Liars
By Corina Larkin
Devin Powers, Paintings
By Jonathan Goodman
FERDINAND HODLER View to Infinity
By Chloé Rossetti
The escape from the banal everyday life to the world of the ideal
By Kara L. Rooney
MICHAL ROVNER Topography
By Robert C. Morgan
JOSEF SUDEK The Legacy of a Deeper Vision
By David Carrier
PICASSO Black and White
By Valery Oisteanu
ALINA SZAPOCZNIKOW Sculpture Undone, 1955-1972
By William Corwin

Books

A Compelling, If Foggy Debut
By Rayyan Al-Shawaf
A Second Birth
By Larissa Zimberoff
Against the Law
By Gabriel Don
Pain on Both Sides
By Kenan Trebincevic
JOSHUA HENKIN with Hirsh Sawhney
BLAKE BUTLER, VANESSA PLACE, and CHRISTOPHER HIGGS with S. Tremaine Nelson
DEBRA DIBLASI and SAM WITT of Jaded Ibis Press with Liz Axelrod
On the Road Again
By Jim Feast
Against a narcotic culture whose primary desire is stupefaction Andrea Scrima talks to Rainer J. Hanshe, founder of Contra Mundum Press
On Board with The Atavist
By Christopher Carbone

Music

BAM Next Wave, Part I
By George Grella
World Music in the Cradle of (Someone’s) Democracy
By George Sempepos
Hell, Set to Music
By David St.-Lascaux
“WE TALK REAL FUNNY DOWN HERE” Randy Newman’s “Birmingham” as Ironic Southern Anthem
By Marshall Yarbrough
Outtakes
By Steve Dalachinsky
Reading and Listening with Listener
By Nicolle Elizabeth

Dance

Bring in Da Boise
By Ryan Wenzel
ELIZABETH STREB: An Introduction
By Nancy Dalva
KYLE ABRAHAM with Ryan Wenzel

Film

Plus ça devient vieux, Plus ça devient bête The European Bourgeoisie in Michael Haneke’s Amour
By Jaap Verheul
NIHIL UNBOUND Rick Alverson’s The Comedy
By Jason LaRivière
RETURNING THE FOURTH WALL Reenactment as Recursion at CPH:DOX
By Rachael Rakes
A HOLLIS FRAMPTON ODYSSEY
By Leo Goldsmith
FACES Middle of Nowhere and Nothing But A Man
By Katie Rogin
THE OUTER LIMITS First Look at Museum of the Moving Image
By Leo Goldsmith

Theater

When Machines Fail: Paula Vogel and A Civil War Christmas
By Jessica Dickey
Madness and Martyrdom in La Divina Caricatura LEE BREUER with Kyoung H. Park
Uptown to the Grand Canyon and Onward to the Sea SETH NUMRICH with Libby Woodbridge
Jesus in India: Finding Out Who We Are with Lloyd Suh
By Matthew Paul Olmos

Fiction

When the Time Comes
By Josef Winkler
Excerpted from CITY OF ANGELS: or The Overcoat of Dr. Freud, A NOVEL
By Christa Wolf, translated from the German by Damion Searls
Arrowschmitt!!!
By Arryan Decatur
Tragic Strip
By T. Motley
New England
By Matthew Thurber
Extracts from the 65th Anniversary Edition of Raymond Queneau's Exercises In Style
By Raymond Queneau, Harry Mathews, Shane Jones, and Chris Clarke

Poetry

Two
By Allan M. Jalon
The Answers to the Questions
By Robert Hershon
Three
By Sandra Simonds
Four
By Jim Behrle

Art Books

Another Language
By Adam Bell
Rookie Yearbook One
By Maura M. Lynch

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