March 2014
The “March 2014” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on March 4, 2014.
Editor's Message
The Demolition Game
– By Carlos Brillembourg
Publisher's Message
Dear friends and readers,
– By Phong Bui
Art
Poem Beginning with a Line from Robert Ashley
– By Raphael RubinsteinIDEALLY THIS INTERVIEW WOULD ANSWER ALL OF YOUR QUESTIONS
LAURE PROUVOST with Jarrett EarnestFRAN LEBOWITZ with Phong Bui
LAURIE SIMMONS with Phong Bui
THE POETIC POLITICS OF SPACE
REBECCA SOLNIT with Jarrett EarnestTHE HELD ESSAYS ON VISUAL ART
In Defense of Faking It– By Blake GopnikA Memory Jug For Terry Adkins
(1953–2014)– By Sarah GoffsteinRemembering Nancy Holt
– By Jack Flam
ArtSeen
New Originals at Gallery HO
– By Jonathan GoodmanFolk Couture: Fashion and Folk Art
– By Oona Haas"What the world looks like when it is loved": JOSEPHINE HALVORSON Facings
– By Jarrett EarnestMingei: Are You Here?
– By Michael StrausFlorence and Daniel Guerlain Donation
– By William CorwinMoira Dryer Project
– By David RhodesKEITH SONNIER Elysian Plain + Early Works
– By Charles SchultzRepresenting Rainbows
– By Lisa Corinne DavisPHILIP PEARLSTEIN
JUST THE FACTS, 50 Years of Looking and Drawing and Painting– By Robert BerlindALFREDO GISHOLT Canto General
– By Kara L. RooneyMATTHEW BARNEY & JONATHAN BEPLER
River of Fundament (2014)– By Nicola RicciardiJULIA ROMMEL The Little Match Stick
– By Alex BaconSTRANGE INTIMACIES
– By Alana Shilling-JanoffLORI ELLISON
– By Taney RonigerMAY DAY IN MARCH
AUSTIN THOMAS Utopian– By Joan WaltemathA SPECIFIC IMAGINATION
SHIRIN NESHAT Our House is on Fire– By Anna TomeDOUG WHEELER
– By Ann McCoyCLARE GRILL Comb
– By Sara ChristophSOCIAL RADIANT
Alex Katz / Dara Friedman– By Phong BuiWHERE ARE WE
RICHARD TUTTLE
Looking for the Map– By Phong BuiImages of Passengers, Memories of Thirst
– By Andrew Stefan WeinerMEL KENDRICK Water Drawings
– By Pac Pobric
Critics Page
Joanna Pousette-Dart & David Novros
Distant Musings on MoMA's Folk Art Dilemma: What, Who & How It Represents
– By Ted LandrumA.F.A.M./MOMA
– By Stephen RustowThe Specific Museum
– By Antonio Sergio BessaAbove the Crowds
– By Joe FyfeModern Versus Modern
– By Deborah GansDemolition Style: Big Art, Small Architecture, and the Dust of Daily Life
– By Peter WheelwrightLet Us Start by Identifying Differing Ends
– By Saul OstrowTear Down on 53rd Street
– By Peter Scott
Books
Echoes and Traces
– By Casey MurphySecond Life
– By Katharina SmundakSUBTERRANEAN FRESHNESS
Rane Arroyo and His Poems– By Tony LeuzziStardust Memory
– By Noah Isenberg"News" Under the Sun
– By Leigh Kamping-CarderThe Author Would Go On To Repeat Herself
– By Ashley P. TaylorDISMAY AS REVELATION: CHRISTOPHER MERKNER with Matt Bell
The Incidental Physicists
– By Katie Rolnick and Geoffrey Young
Music
ALL MUSIC IS CHURCH
Choral Music In New York– By Pete MatthewsLet's Talk About Love: Why Other People Have Such Bad Taste
– By Kurt GottschalkOuttakes
– By Steve DalachinskyMATTER REHEARSED
Thoughts on the New York Philharmonic's Open Rehearsal– By Daniel GoldJHEREK BISCHOFF
Composed at St. Ann's Warehouse– By Marshall YarbroughDiary of a Mad Composer
– By George Grella
Film
THE CINEMA OF CRUELTY
The Missing Picture (L'image Manquante) by Rithy Panh– By Genevieve YueRUNNING THE GAMUT
An Overdue Spotlight on Richard Fleischer– By Danny KingCAPTURING UPHEAVAL
MoMA's Documentary Fortnight 2014– By Ela Bittencourt
Theater
The Norwegians
Busting Outta Permafrost with C. Denby Swanson– By Janet Allard"You Say You Want a Revolution..."
A Glimpse into NYC's Independent Producing Scene– By Crystal Skillman
Fiction
from Miransù
–SIX PIECES BY
Dino Buzzati–Arrowschmitt!!
– By Arryan DecaturHermetic
– By Joe PavelkaTragic Strip
– By Tom Motleyfrom DNA
– By Johannah RogersA diary of mysterious difficulties...
– By Laura Raicovichan extract from Theories of Forgetting
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Poetry
Two Excerpts
– By Jennifer BartlettFive
– By Valerie DeusFour
– By Jessica Smithfrom State of the Union
– By Susan LewisThree
– By Chris Hoseafrom Slow Poetry in America
– By Dale Martin Smith
Art Books
Under the Sign of [sic]: Sturtevant's Volte-Face
– By T Clutch FleischmannA Life in Books: The Rise and Fall of Bleu Mobley
– By Robert BerlindWritings and Conversations
– By Craig Stockwell
LastWords
An Uphill Battle for Legal Services in Brooklyn
– By Eleanor J. Bader