THE HELD ESSAYS ON VISUAL ART
Troubled Sleep, Sugar High
By Siona Wilson
I’m not the first to comment on the selfie-mania that accompanied last summer’s most popular New York art-world event, Kara Walker’s A Subtlety.
2014/15 Winter Reading List: Literary Revisitations
By Phong BuiMost of us have, at least once, had the strange sensation of opening a great text or otherwise reputable book only to find it impenetrable and unprofitable––sometimes flatly unreadable. We may also have had the more pleasant sensation of picking that same book up again, sometimes years later, to find that it has changed somehow: the book really is great. This reading list is devoted to the sensation of revisiting a book to find it transformed.
Rethinking Duchamp
By Barbara RoseMarcel Duchamp: La Peinture, Meme, the current exhibition at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, is a refreshing new look at Duchamp with many surprises. The title is fittingly a double entendre.
Stealing Time: Emma Bee Bernstein
By Michele Gerber KleinThe daughter of artist Susan Bee and poet Charles Bernstein and sister of artist and writer Felix Bernstein, Emma Bee Bernstein, was a beautiful, brilliant, and prolific third-generation artist whose mysterious suicide at 23 in the Peggy Guggenheim Museum in Venice, Italy, in 2008 shocked and saddened her friends and family and the New York art world.
Critics Page In Conversation
RIDE IT, OR GO UNDER
HENRY THREADGILL AND JASON MORAN with George Grella and Raymond Foye
Jazz, at its best and most essential, is a way of making music that is embodied in the musicians, in what they are imagining and playing in the moment. A fundamentally oral tradition, and one of the most sophisticated of its kind, jazz is far less ably served by written and recorded documents than almost any other kind of creative human activity. Jazz is the players; know jazz by following them, seeing them, hearing them.
The Ten Best Art Books of 2014
The Rail’s selection of the best art books of 2014.
Art In Conversation
JUSTIN VIVIAN BOND with Jarrett Earnest
Justin Vivian Bond is a writer and singer who became famous in the 1990s as Kiki DuRane, half of the cabaret duo Kiki and Herb.
From the Publisher & Artistic Director
Dear Friends and Readers,
By Phong BuiHow can ecological and social forces be transformative? In her recent AICA-USA Distinguished Critics Lecture, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev explored this question through the lens of Lacan’s fascination with topology and the creation of chain relations or knots.
Editor's Message Guest Critic
A Tree With Roots
By Raymond FoyeWhen Phong Bui asked me to edit the Critics Page of the Brooklyn Rail I felt I could not refuse, since it’s the only art magazine I read anymore. Ezra Pound said culture is news that stays news, and for me the Brooklyn Rail is the news.
Critics Page
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IN MEMORIAM
– By Raymond Foye
Rene Ricard
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Massachusetts Avenue
– By Rene Ricard -
Poems
– By Rene Ricard -
Introducing Eric Walker
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WILL EPSTEIN with Marshall Yarbrough
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from Hoodo Metaphysics
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Shiv Mirabito on Shivastan Publishing
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RIDE IT, OR GO UNDER
HENRY THREADGILL AND JASON MORAN with George Grella and Raymond Foye -
“It’s a glorious thing if you don’t expect an explanation.”
– By Raymond Foye and Jordan Belson
Jordan Belson on his Art -
Stroke
– By Charles Stein -
PHILIP TAAFFE with Charles Stein
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The Liberation of the Knots
– By Jack Hirschman
ArtSeen
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IN MEMORIAM
– By Joan Grubin
Thoughts about Jane Freilicher (1924 - 2014)
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ZIN HELENA SONG:
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LOUISE BOURGEOIS Suspension
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Letter from Copenhagen
– By Terry R. Myers -
LILIANE TOMASKO Into the Darkness
– By David Carrier -
JAMES HOFF Skywiper
– By Charles Schultz -
GILLIAN WEARING We Are Here
– By Shana Beth Mason -
CARY SMITH and DON VOISINE Orthogonal and Diagonal
– By Joan Waltemath -
NEO RAUCH At the Well
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ANETA GRZESZYKOWSKA Selfie
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MICHELLE GRABNER
– By Kate Liebman -
CHRIS OFILI Night and Day
– By Alexander Shulan -
TOM OTTERNESS Creation Myth
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RICHARD POUSETTE-DART
– By Phong Bui -
BETTINA BLOHM
– By Jonathan Goodman -
FRANCESCO VEZZOLI Teatro Romano
– By Samuel Feldblum -
THE SECRET LIFE OF A FAKE UTOPIANIST DAN ALLENDE Humans: The Secret Life of Martin Handford
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XU BING Phoenix: Xu Bing at the Cathedral
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RICHARD JACOBS: SOUL DELAY
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JULIAN STANCZAK From Life
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ALEKSANDAR DURAVCEVIC
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MOURNING HABITS
– By Adele Tutter
Death Becomes Her: A Century of Mourning Attire -
MOBY Innocents
– By William Corwin -
SADE Attacking the Sun
– By John Galbraith Simmons
Table of Contents
Publisher's Message
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Dear Friends and Readers,
– By Phong Bui
Editor's Message
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A Tree With Roots
– By Raymond Foye
Art
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2014/15 Winter Reading List: Literary Revisitations
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ALANNA HEISS with David Carrier and Joachim Pissarro, with the assistance of Gaby Collins-Fernandez
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Rethinking Duchamp
– By Barbara Rose -
ROBERT GOBER with Jarrett Earnest
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ALEXANDER ROSS with Will Corwin
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Stealing Time: Emma Bee Bernstein
– By Michele Gerber Klein -
Casa Wabi
– By Lucía Hinojosa and Diego Gerard -
No Room for Artists
– By Darragh McNicholas -
THE HELD ESSAYS ON VISUAL ART Troubled Sleep, Sugar High
– By Siona Wilson -
JUSTIN VIVIAN BOND with Jarrett Earnest
ArtSeen
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IN MEMORIAM Thoughts about Jane Freilicher (1924 - 2014)
– By Joan Grubin -
ZIN HELENA SONG: Beyond Color
– By Jonathan Goodman -
LOUISE BOURGEOIS Suspension
– By Phong Bui -
Letter from Copenhagen
– By Terry R. Myers -
LILIANE TOMASKO Into the Darkness
– By David Carrier -
JAMES HOFF Skywiper
– By Charles Schultz -
GILLIAN WEARING We Are Here
– By Shana Beth Mason -
CARY SMITH and DON VOISINE Orthogonal and Diagonal
– By Joan Waltemath -
NEO RAUCH At the Well
– By Tom McGlynn -
ANETA GRZESZYKOWSKA Selfie
– By David Rhodes -
MICHELLE GRABNER
– By Kate Liebman -
CHRIS OFILI Night and Day
– By Alexander Shulan -
TOM OTTERNESS Creation Myth
– By William J. Simmons -
RICHARD POUSETTE-DART
– By Phong Bui -
BETTINA BLOHM
– By Jonathan Goodman -
FRANCESCO VEZZOLI Teatro Romano
– By Samuel Feldblum -
THE SECRET LIFE OF A FAKE UTOPIANIST DAN ALLENDE Humans: The Secret Life of Martin Handford
– By Aron K. Yama -
XU BING Phoenix: Xu Bing at the Cathedral
– By Taney Roniger -
RICHARD JACOBS: SOUL DELAY
– By Sarah Goffstein -
JULIAN STANCZAK From Life
– By Tatiana Istomina -
ALEKSANDAR DURAVCEVIC
– By Phong Bui -
MOURNING HABITS Death Becomes Her: A Century of Mourning Attire
– By Adele Tutter -
MOBY Innocents
– By William Corwin -
SADE Attacking the Sun
– By John Galbraith Simmons
Critics Page
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IN MEMORIAM Rene Ricard (1946 – 2014)
– By Raymond Foye -
Massachusetts Avenue
– By Rene Ricard -
Poems
– By Rene Ricard -
Introducing Eric Walker
– By Raymond Foye -
WILL EPSTEIN with Marshall Yarbrough
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from Hoodo Metaphysics
– by Peter Lamborn Wilson, drawings by Tamara Gonzales -
Shiv Mirabito on Shivastan Publishing
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RIDE IT, OR GO UNDER HENRY THREADGILL AND JASON MORAN with George Grella and Raymond Foye
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“It’s a glorious thing if you don’t expect an explanation.” Jordan Belson on his Art
– By Raymond Foye and Jordan Belson -
Stroke
– By Charles Stein -
PHILIP TAAFFE with Charles Stein
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The Liberation of the Knots
– By Jack Hirschman
Books
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End of an Era
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The Myth of a Post-Racial America
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Inconclusion
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MOTHER TONGUE LEORA SKOLKIN-SMITH with Andrea Scrima
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Fall’s Picks for Younger Readers
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WARM CORE: The Unusually Associative Cyclonic System of Ben Lerner’s 10:04
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WHY ARE THERE NO FOUNDING MOTHERS? KATHLEEN ROONEY with Rachel Slotnick
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Arms in the Air
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Pure Art
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WRITTEN AT THE BODY CHRISTINE WERTHEIM with Alexandra Chasin
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The Long View Back to the Gardens: Politics as Dissident Polis in Jonathan Lethem's Dissident Gardens
– By Benjamin Hollander -
To Articulate the Daily Miraculous
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DREAM MACHINE SADE MURPHY with Laura Stokes
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A WAY I COULD BE KATE BERNHEIMER with Matt Bell
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Fragments of Feminism: Four New Books
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A Vaccine for Death Itself Eludes Us Yet
– By Ben Pfeiffer
Music
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Brooklyn Rail Highly Selective Music Events
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CONSIDER THE CRITIC Dispatch from the CMJ Music Marathon
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The Code from Beneath Drives the Lines
– By Marshall Yarbrough -
The Beautiful Weirdness of Javier Cohen
– By Geoffrey Clarfield -
George Clinton
– By Kurt Gottschalk -
Outtakes
– By Steve Dalachinsky -
Anthems in the Afternoon
– By Andrea Gordillo -
10 LISTENS REVIEW: Philip White's Documents
– By Michael Durek
Dance
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APPARITION OF A FACE IN A CROWD Eiko’s First Solo Performance In Philadelphia’s 30th Street Station
– By Madison Mainwaring -
Lives of (Xavier Le Roy’s) Performers: Retrospective by Xavier Le Roy
– By Jaime Shearn Coan -
This Interview
– By Stormy Budwig -
BEYOND “FORMAL” Complicating Categorizations and Preserving Street Dance With Rep Your Style
– By Ali Rosa-Salas
Film
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ABDERRAHMANE SISSAKO with Joshua Sperling
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Towards a Complete Order
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Super-Realism: Observations on the New York Film Festival
– By Matt Peterson
Theater
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Aggressive Inefficiency: from Stage to Page with Rachel Chavkin and Alec Duffy
– By Frank Boudreaux -
Body Blows David Anzuelo and the Creation of Violence
– By Sarah Shaefer -
Scenes From a Life IVO VAN HOVE with Kristin Meyer
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A BEAUTIFUL DAY IN NOVEMBER ON THE BANKS OF THE GREATEST OF THE GREAT LAKES Lee Sunday Evans with Sam Pinkleton
– By Sam Pinkleton
Fiction
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Somebody’s Got to Sweep the Floors
– By Craig Garrett -
Born Man
– By Lisa Gunn -
from Miransù
– by Monica Sarsini, translated from the Italian by Maryann De Julio -
Two Extracts from Aline and Valcour
– by the Marquis de Sade, translated from the French by Jocelyne Geneviève Barque and John Galbraith Simmons
Poetry
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Two
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Dromomania
– By Divya Victor -
Four
– By Julien Poirier
Art Books
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The Ten Best Art Books of 2014
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Events Ashore
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Eight Begin: Artists' Memories of Starting Out
– By Nathlie Provosty
Field Notes
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WHITHER THE REPUBLICAN PARTY? The 2014 Election and the Future of Capital’s “A-Team”
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THE REVOLUTION IS BEING TELEVISED BRANDON JOURDAN OF GLOBAL UPRISINGS with Paul Mattick
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FIGHTING FOR THE FOREST Ecological Activism in France
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Are we really feeling healthier or just dying less? Questions for José Tapia
– By Jose A. Tapia
