June 2011
The “June 2011” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on June 3, 2011.
Local
When Parents are Upstate...
– By Eleanor J. BaderREPORT CARD: The Great Technology Scam
– By Liza FeatherstoneBROOKLYN'S ONGOING BATTLE
MICHAEL GALINSKY & SUKI HAWLEY with Williams ColeFive Boroughs Ladies Arm Wrestling is Born on a Stage
– By Lilly BechtelGil Scott-Heron Remembered
– By Theodore Hamm and Don Geesling
Express
THE ECONOMIC CRISIS IN FACT AND FICTION: PAUL MATTICK with John Clegg and Aaron Benanav
THE STATE AS UTOPIAN GESAMTKUNSTWERK
A Summary of the First NSK Citizens' Congress in Berlin– By Conor McGradyUnburdened
– By Rehan AnsariThe Bookseller of Chennai
– By Scott ShermanChina Syndromes
– By James ArnettCan We Save Media?
– By Ross BarkanFuture Shocks
– By Michael TerryBLOOD, BONES, BUTTER-- Love in the Time of Prune
– By Douglas Singleton
Art
MARY FRANK with John Yau
THE PLEASURES OF ART: PETER SELZ with Jarrett Earnest
UTOPIAN STRATEGIES: Artists Anticipate their Audiences
– By Carol BeckerDRAWING AND ITS DOUBLE: Selections from the Instituto Nazionale per la Grafica
– By Aldrin ValdezCONRAD MARCA-RELLI
City to Town– By Phong H. BuiAlchemy & Inquiry
– By Noah DillonDARK COSMOPOLITISM: A Scandinavian Sampler
North by New York: New Nordic Art– By Jarrett EarnestSHAHRAM KARIMI The Rose of Remembrance
– By Phong H. BuiPainted Places and Patronage
– By David Novros
ArtSeen
SANNA KANNISTO Fieldwork
– By Alexis ClementsJOHN CHAMBERLAIN New Sculpture
– By Michael StrausMICHAEL E. SMITH
– By Lynn CrawfordBYE BYE KITTY!!!
– By Gail QuagliataRYOJI IKEDA Goes Big, Really Big
– By Erin LindholmDAVID DEUTSCH Nothing Real
– By Charles SchultzØYSTEIN AASAN
– By David RhodesMORE THAN THAT: Films by Kevin Jerome Everson
– By Cora FisherINFLUENCE OR AFFINITY? Case in Paint: Soutine and Bacon
– By Robert C. MorganBrooklyn Dispatches
– By James KalmGILLIAN WEARING People
– By Kara L. RooneyMATTHEW MILLER
"The magic black of an open barn door on a really sunny summer day, when you just cannot see into it."– By Cassandra NeyeneschALAN SHIELDS
Something Goin' On & On– By Anne Sherwood PundykDIY Bushwick
JUDY LEDGERWOOD April Showers
– By John YauABSTRACT PAINTING: The New Casualists
– By Sharon L. ButlerJAMES FRANCO Collage
– By Patricia MilderWEBBED OUT
Cory Arcangel Goes Old School– By Allese Thomson BakerELLEN HARVEY in Dust to Settle
– By David St.-LascauxSINGAPORE BIENNALE 2011: Open House
– By Sherman Sam
Books
POETRY: THE SUBLIME IN THE MIDDLE AGES
– By Scott HightowerCHARLES BERNSTEIN with Adam Fitzgerald
EXIGENT DEMANDS
DISCIPLESHIP EXAMINED
RAINER J. HANSHE with Audrey GrayMOLLY JONG-FAST with Susan Marque
When Everything Stinks of Decay
– By Andrea ScrimaMaking it New (Again)
– By Justin MitchellReclaiming Intimacy One Film at a Time
And the Son Coughed Up the Son
– By Nicolle ElizabethWhen We Danced on Water
– By Randy RosenthalFalling Sideways
– By Winston LenThe Architect of Flowers: Stories
– By Nicole LantzDon Juan: His Own Version
– By Tatiaana L. LaineBlank
– By John ReedToward You
– By Matthew ResignolaRapid Transit
– By Jeffrey Cyphers WrightThe FSG Book of Twentieth-Century Latin American Poetry
– By Lynne Lawner
Music
Weirdness, New and Old
– By Marshall YarbroughSHARON VAN ETTEN: Serendipity and Survival in Brooklyn
– By Katy HenriksenROOTS? WE CALL IT FILTHY LIVING
Holly Golightly and the Brokeoffs at the Knitting Factory– By Billups AllenADVANCED CONCEPTS IN THE VOCAL ETHER
Quince Vocal Ensemble and Parias Ensemble– By David St.-LascauxOuttakes
– By Steve Dalachinsky
Dance
BRIAN ROGERS with Claudia La Rocco
Letter from Manhattan
– By Nancy DalvaWhat to Throw Away, What to Keep
– By Patricia MilderObjects of Comfort
Class Consciousness
– By Siobhan BurkeInstead of Back Up
– By Thom Donovan
Film
THAI FUSION Uruphong Raksasad's Agrarian Utopia and Stories from the North
– By Colin BeckettUNKNOWN PLEASURES
Pacific Film Archive's Radical Light– By Gregory ZinmanDON'T YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT WE ARE TRYING TO DO HERE?
Lynn Hershman Leeson's Meta-Project– By Jarrett EarnestBODY AND SOUL
Frederick Wiseman's Boxing Gym– By Caroline Koebel
Theater
ANOTHER PLANET
The Berlin Theatertreffen– By Lydia StrykSTAGE MANGERS Lloyd Davis Jr., Cole Bonenberger, and Martha Donaldson with Gary Winter
CRYSTAL SKILLMAN on THE COMIC BOOK THEATER FESTIVAL!
– By Crystal SkillmanHow to Build a Forest with Pearl D'Amour and Shawn Hall
– By Lizzie OleskerBRINGING BACK THE BIG New Gerges's The Germ Project
– By Charise Castro Smith
Fiction
Jesus' Dog
– By M.G. StephensFÉDER or the Gilded Husband
– By Stendhall , translated from the French by Brian EvensonThe Blind Dates
– By Susan BernofskyCharacter and Fitness: Chapter 11
– By Jason Flores-WilliamsCharacter and Fitness: Chapter 12
– By Jason Flores-WilliamsTragic Strip
– By T. Motley
Poetry
Moments Without Vision
– By Jennifer MoxleyIn Media Res
– By Jennifer MoxleyA Gaze
– By Brenda Coultasfrom "147 Million Orphans: A Haybun"
– By Eileen Tabios
Art Books
Light Out for the Territory
– By John GanzArchitectural Specters of the Eastern Bloc
– By Greg Lindquist