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One-Sided Debate Over the Stadium… Continues

by Brian J. Carreira

Local

On November 29, residents of Prospect Heights and the surrounding areas were presented with an “informational meeting” hosted by Community Boards 2, 6, and 8 about Forest City Ratner’s proposed $2.5 billion Atlantic Yards Development.

Inconvenient Evidence: The Effects of Abu Ghraib

by David Levi Strauss

Express

The following talk, illustrated with forty sets of slides, was given at The Great Hall at Cooper Union in Manhattan on November 9, 2004 to begin a conversation with Seymour Hersh, Luc Sante, and David Levi Strauss, moderated by Brian Wallis.

Local Activists Vow to Keep Fighting the Good Fights

by Aimee Molloy

Express

Now that the election is over and the votes have been aptly counted (or not, depending on who you believe), New Yorkers are hesitantly accepting the harsh reality that George W. Bush is still our President.

Richard Tuttle

by Chris Martin

Art

Throughout his impressive forty-year career, Richard Tuttle has pursued an artistic practice that is not easily categorized, incorporating drawing, painting, and sculpture into an idiosyncratic, intensely personal hybrid.

David Reed

by Michael Brennan

ArtSeen

David Reed is a grand master—no painter has contributed as much in terms of expanding the vocabulary of abstract painting and maintaining its relevance during this era of marginalization—although there are many in New York who currently enjoy greater status.

David Reed by Michael Brennan
Milton Avery by Roger White
Field of Color: Tantra Drawings From India by Joan Waltemath
Dannielle Tegeder by Katie Stone
The Ballot Show by James Kalm
Aron Namenwirth by Ben La Rocco
Joan Snyder by Rachel Youens
Jason Cole Mager, Michael Yinger, and Jeffery Kilmer by William Powhida
Christine Hiebert by Joan Waltemath
Carroll Dunham by Tomassio Longhi
Arlingon Weithers and Matt Freedman by Ben La Rocco
Sheri Warshauer by Sonya Shrier
Christian Jankowski by Denise Frimer
Giorgio Morandi by Thomas Micchelli
Isamu Noguchi: Master Sculptor by Valery Oisteanu

Suketu Mehta with Hirsh Sawhney

by Hirsh Sawhney

Books

Brooklyn-based Suketu Mehta, a graduate of the Iowa Writer’s Workshop, spent the late 1990s becoming intimate with the gangsters and zealots responsible for the violence, as well as the slum dwellers, cops, bar girls, and movie stars who make India’s thriving commercial capital function.

Sounds Like Now: Still Pushing Boundaries

by Fred Cisterna

Music

While twentysomething indie rockers were busily toying around with various retro (and once innovative) styles, performers/composers old enough to be their parents—or grandparents—were still pushing boundaries.

Child’s Play

by MJ Thompson

Dance

Look. I’m part of the crowd gathering at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Howard Gilman Opera House on a warm November night. The orchestra is flush with excitement; there are no little expectations here. We’ve come to see an institution: German choreographer Pina Bausch, the leading figure of the late twentieth-century avant-garde, master of malaise and non sequitur, producer of such iconic works as Café Müller (1978) and Nelken (1982).

A Sublime So Familiar

by David N. Meyer

Film

Jean-Luc Godard—like Andrei Tarkovsky—makes you peer more intently at the screen. Their films seldom wash over you; they contain you, sweep you along (or lose you entirely), demand that you watch more closely, pay more attention.

The Ladies of Liberty

by Kyle Thomas Smith

Theater

On Inauguration Day, Dubya’s rabbit eyes are about to shift into their dopiest state of confusion yet when he sees Lila Rose Kaplan’s Ladies of Liberty stomping up to triangulate DuPont Circle in DC. Arm in Arm with comedic escorts Billionaires for Bush, this bilious band of 19th Century battleaxes plans to hammer its croquet mallets straight into the groin of the president’s administration as it makes its way up its batty belfry to sound the death knell for women’s reproductive rights.

The Tree Kings

by Chet Kozlowski

Fiction

I sell trees. I’m not only a seller of trees. In the past five years I’ve been a carpenter and a plumber and a house painter. I can be a handyman and a dishwasher and a short-order cook. Now I sell trees. It’s now what I do.

With or Without Music, Bent Orbit, Found in Translation

by Elaine Equi

Poetry

A man snatches/off his glasses/like a brazen/murder suspect…

New Skool Travels to Crown Heights

by Knox Robinson and Meghan McDermott

Streets

The 2004 session of the New Skool Journalism Workshop went to Crown Heights, where our team of young journalists worked to capture scenes of daily life that exist beneath the various stereotypes by which the place is known.