The Brooklyn Rail

Table of Contents

Editor's Message

• Vocabulary of the Possible

  – By Christopher French

Local

• A Maestro At The Met

  – By Eleanor J. Bader

• WARNING: Vultures Eyeing NYCHA

  – By Ari Paul

• Welcome to Nyack

  – By Bill Batson

• Seaside Stories

  – By Saskia Kahn

Express

• Notes on a Fallen Star

  – By Theodore Hamm

• Excerpts from J.-B. Pontalis’s Brother of the Above

  – By J.-B. Pontalis, translated from the French by Donald Nicholson-Smith (International Psychoanalytic Books, 2012)

• A Pack of Damn Lies

  – By Matt Igoe

• A Letter to Attorney General Holder

  – By the Whistleblower Defense League

Art

• Ethical Criticism

  – By Martha Schwendener

• JOCK REYNOLDS with Phong Bui

• FRANCESCO CLEMENTE with Alex Bacon

• VINCENT KATZ with Phong Bui

• Blighted Luminance UGO RONDINONE with Jarrett Earnest

ArtSeen

• MICHAEL PORTNOY 27 Gnosis

  – By Chloé Rossetti

• Wait, Later This Will Be Nothing: Editions by Dieter Roth

  – By Becky Brown

• GORDON MATTA-CLARK Above and Below

  – By David Rhodes

• SANFORD WURMFELD Light & Dark

  – By Margaret Graham

• JOEL SHAPIRO Sculpture and Drawings, 1969-1972

  – By Alex Bacon

• ZHANG XIAOGANG

  – By Robert C. Morgan

• DANH VO’s Portentous Art  Mother Tongue and I M U U R 2

  – By Bansie Vasvani

• Art Criticism That Made A Difference

  – By David Carrier

• Words To Live By

  – By Darren Jones

• Jean-Michel Basquiat Commented On Your Status

  – By Noah Becker

• Criticism After Utopian Politics

  – By Pac Pobric

• Criticism on the Spot

  – By Christina Schmid

• DAVID DIAO TMI

  – By Robert Berlind

• 12 Paintings by LAURA OWENS

  – By Terry R. Myers

• BEN LA ROCCO Fugue State

  – By Corina Larkin

• JOHN MOORE Portals

  – By Robert Berlind

• SERGEI TCHEREPNIN Ear Tone Box

  – By Kara L. Rooney

• The Artful Recluse: Painting, Poetry, and Politics in 17th-Century China

  – By Ann McCoy

• CORDY RYMAN Adaptive Radiation

  – By Alex Bacon

• MARY LUCIER New Installation Works

  – By Corina Larkin

• CLAES OLDENBURG The Street and The Store and Mouse Museum/Ray Gun Wing

  – By Valery Oisteanu

• POIGNANCY ON VIEW Giosetta Fioroni: L’Argento

  – By Alana Shilling-Janoff

• SUSANNA HELLER Phantom Pain

  – By Jonathan Goodman

• Edo Pop: The Impact of Japanese Prints

  – By Gail Victoria Braddock Quagliata

• KATE TEALE The Sea Is All Around Us

  – By Tom McGlynn

• TED STAMM Paintings

  – By Pac Pobric

• SOMEDAY IS NOW: The Art of Corita Kent

  – By Michael Duncan

• ANDREW KUO You Say Tomato

  – By Ryan Lee Wong

• Painting Advanced

  – By Matthew Shen Goodman

Books

• Lyrics for Love and Loss

  – By J.W. McCormack

• RAPID TRANSIT

  – By Jeffrey Cyphers Wright

• BILL CHENG with Scott Cheshire

• Fractured Knowledge

  – By Orli Van Mourik

• Divided We Fall

  – By Amy Cavanaugh

• A Classless Education

  – By Katie Rolnick

• Frederick & Fyodor

  – By Rayyan Al-Shawaf

• World Without End

  – By Katharina Smundak

Music

• Electronic Engagement

  – By Marshall Yarbrough

• Lonnie Holley’s Past, Present, and Future

  – By Christopher Nelson

• The Producer As Critic

  – By George Grella

• Outtakes

  – By Steve Dalachinsky

Dance

• SOON THE EARTH WILL BE IN THE SQUARE JILL SIGMAN with Siobhan Burke

Film

• THE PRESENT GENERATION Chinese Realities/Documentary Visions at MoMA

  – By Jason Fox

• THE COMMUNARDS OF WALL STREET On Zoe Beloff’s The Days of the Commune

  – By Jason Livingston

• DESCRIPTION OF A STRUGGLE Straub-Huillet’s Class Relations

  – By Jonathan Andrews

Theater

• Being Walt Disney: Lucas Hnath and the Theater of Celebrity

  – By Heidi Schreck

• Delusion to Delusion to Delusion: How I Wrote a Movie and Then Got it Made

  – By Halley Feiffer

• Perché No Pass a Night Formal You at the Hotel Colors?

  – By Ben Gassman

• What It Means To Disappear Here: UglyRhino comes to Port Royal

  – By Susan Soon He Stanton

Fiction

• When the Time Comes

  – By Josef Winkler

• Love and the Demonstration

  – By Mahmoud Saeed, translated from the Arabic by William M. Hutchins

• ARROWSCHMITT!!!

  – By Arryan Decatur

• excerpt from The Raw Edge - Issue 01

  – By Devin Clark

• Tragic Strip

  – By T. Motley

• from Demian

  – By Hermann Hesse

Poetry

• Three

  – By Drew Gardner

• Two

  – By Patricia Spears Jones

• Eight

  – By Cliff Fyman

• Heavy Sublimation

  – By Leonard Schwartz

• EILEEN MYLES and Noel Black

Art Books

• Corrected Slogans: Reading and Writing Conceptualism

  – By Courtney Fiske