June 2008
The “June 2008” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on June 7, 2008.
Local
Rebel with a Lens: Neighborhood Preservation in the Darkroom of Clayton Patterson
– By Jericho Parms"Union Square is Not For Sale" Declare Activists
– By Ben ShepardContaminated Education? Toxic Schools and the Leasing Loophole
– By Renata Perri SilberblattLost and Found
– By Rev. Dr. Donna SchaperEmergency Food Programs Feed Brooklyn's Hungry
– By Eleanor J. Bader
Express
From Brooklyn to DC: Kevin Powell with Theodore Hamm
Inside the Tenderloin
– By Erick LyleNobody's Safe in Cyberspace
– By David ShankboneAmstetten: Notes on a Catastrophe
– By Lydia StrykDoes It Catch Mice, a story by Omair Ahmad
– By Omair AhmadSomething is Happening There
– By Michael BuschAsk Not...
– By Katie RolnickDocs in Sight: A Spring Round-Up
– By Williams Cole, Williams Cole, and Shahnaz HabibWhere Have All the Film Critics Gone?
– By Vincent RossmeierLouise Bourgeois: The Spider, The Mistress, and The Tangerine
– By Laura Hunt
Art
James Harithas with Raphael Rubinstein
Mowry Baden's "Leisure Monuments"
– By Robert Hullot-KentorChuck Close with Phong Bui
David Novros with Phong Bui
Wynn Kramarsky with William Corbett
Tribute to Robert Rauschenberg (1925–2008)
– By Dorothea Rockburne and Nan RosenthalLost In Space: Art Post-Studio
– By Sharon L. ButlerBrooklyn Dispatches
– By James KalmThe Mind-Body Problem: Courbet, Poussin and Contemporary Art
– By Ben La RoccoAt Rest, in Peace: Farewell to Patrick Ireland
– By Whitney Rugg
ArtSeen
Gert & Uwe Tobias: der osten im norden des westens
– By Stephanie BuhmannMel Bochner
– By David MarkusDavid Ford: White Like Me
– By Jillian SteinhauerWe Are The Seahorses
– By Warren FryLe Radeau: Bruce High Quality Foundation Lands in Chelsea
– By Maxwell HellerMilton Resnick: A Question of Seeing
– By Thomas MicchelliNotes from Underground
– By Geoffrey Cruickshank-HagenbucklePrefabricated Art, Undesirable Surreality
– By Valery OisteanuTake Your Time: Olafur Eliasson
– By Josh MorgenthauTomory Dodge
– By Shane McAdamsCatherine Murphy
– By Greg LindquistRebecca Horn: Cosmic Maps
– By Joan WaltemathPaul Chan
– By William McManusWeltanschauung and Abstract Painting
– By Robert C. MorganSteve DiBenedetto Chaoticus
– By John YauNicolas Carone: Recent Paintings
– By John Yau
Books
Judith Donath with Colleen Asper
Rivka Galchen with David Varno
Fiction: Strange Fruit
– By Meghan RoeNonfiction: You Can Never Be Too Paranoid
Nonfiction: Willful Hedonism
– By Mia EatonPoetry: New Verses from Long Ago
– By Joseph DonahueAnthology: Art is Politics is Life
– By Rachel BalikNonFiction: Stalin Was Right?
– By James TrimarcoPoetry Roundup
– By Jeffrey Cyphers WrightProse Roundup
– By Erin Heath, Ben Mirov, Katrina Brewer, and Mayra David
Music
Gamblin' with the Ice Machine
– By Jed LipinskiOuttakes
– By Steve DalachinskyStrapping Young Men Singer at the Knitting Factory Tap Bar 4/29 and Glasslands Gallery 4/30
– By Paula CrossfieldBrought to You by the Letter G
– By Grant MoserPoised to Take Flight Becca Stevens Band: Tea Bye Sea
– By Sharon Mesmer
Dance
Sick of Dance? Never! The 2008 New York Dance Parade
– By April GreeneMomix Passion: A Review
– By Carley PeteschGeraldCaselDance: A Review
– By Margaret Fuhrer
Film
New York Asian Film Festival
– By David N. Meyer and Lu ChenAngrier Every Night
– By Sarahjane BlumSex and the City (AKA Cinderella Spoof, AKA SKYY Vodka Commercial) Hits New York Hard
– By Makenna GoodmanTravelogue, Poot Style
– By David N. MeyerIndiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
– By Rachel BalikCelebrating the Earth: The Films of Franco Piavoli
– By Mary Hanlon
Theater
All our tomorrows: TR Warszawa brings Macbeth to DUMBO
– By Alan LockwoodInto the LAByrinth: The Life of an Acting Writer
– By Cusi CramProcess and Production: Summerworks 2008 at Clubbed Thumb
– By Justin BoydBig Break: Annie Baker's Body Awareness
– By Alexis Clements
Fiction
Ulysses 3
– By Barrett O'SullivanShapeshifting
– By Jonathan BaumbachTragic Strip
– By T. Motley
Poetry
As A Miner
– By Ann StephensonHow Could It Be
– By Ann StephensonThe Fallout
– By Ann StephensonDead Black Men
– By Paul KillebrewFor Beth Ward
– By Paul Killebrew
LastWords
A Dark Forecast
– By James Arnett