The Brooklyn Rail’s Player-of-the-Year, 2012

Express

Volumes of horse race punditry notwithstanding, the 2012 presidential campaign seemed like anything but a day at the track.

A Brand Called Brooklyn

Local

If the new arena could speak, its first word would be “Brooklyn.”

WITHERED AND BURNED: Some Lessons from Texas

Express

Until recently, Americans thought ecological threats occurred in faraway places.

End of the Line in the ICU

Express

Some first-hand observations of a place where there are few gentle good nights.

DAVID HUMPHREY with Phong Bui

Art

The painter David Humphrey welcomed Rail publisher Phong Bui to his Chelsea studio to talk about the recent work, which will be featured at his one-person exhibit David Humphrey: New Paintings at Fredericks and Freiser (November 28 – December 22, 2012).

ABCs for/of Richard Tuttle
An epistolary interview with Jarrett Earnest, pt. 2 “H–O”

Art

“Fire lives the death of air, and air lives the death of fire; water lives the death of earth, earth that of water.”

PATRICIA CRONIN with Phong Bui

Art

While preparing for her forthcoming solo show Dante: The Way of All Flesh at fordProject (November 8 – December 21, 2012) Patricia Cronin welcomed Rail publisher Phong Bui to her Gowanus studio one late Sunday morning to view the new body of work and to discuss her art and life.

A Note to Our Readers

I believe we will all rise above this time with a greater purpose in life and art.

The Politics of Art

Reviewing current art, both locally and globally, it appears that much of it has or purports to have a political content.

ROBERT LAZZARINI with Jonathan T. D. Neil

Art

Jonathan T. D. Neil and Robert Lazzarini met at the Brooklyn Rail’s headquarters in mid-October to discuss the artist’s newest body of work, (damage), which will go on view at Marlborough Chelsea on November 15.

In the Thick of Things

ArtSeen

The first thing one sees upon entering the Yale University Art Gallery—which re-opens fully to the public in December after a 10-year incremental renovation—is a Sol LeWitt wall drawing.

AN AMERICAN REVIVALIST: Dom Flemons and the Return of the African-American String Band

Music

During the height of the Depression, folklorist Alan Lomax persuaded his employers at the Library of Congress to send him across the South to collect folk music.

No One is Done Nothing is Over: Jackie Sibblies Drury’s We Are Proud To Present…

Theater

Playwright Jackie Sibblies Drury didn’t set out to write a play about the German genocide on the Herero of Namibia in Southwest Africa around the turn of the 20th century.

CHEMICAL SUNDOWNS
PHIL SOLOMON with Leo Goldsmith

Film

This fall has seen two New York premieres of recent works by experimental filmmaker Phil Solomon. “EMPIRE,” which screened at this year’s Views from the Avant-Garde, wittily recreates Andy Warhol’s film of the same name.

from I am the Robert Walser

Poetry

Mina Pam Dick is the author of Delinquent (Futurepoem books, 2009). Recently, she has been making out and off with Hölderlin, Trakl, Nietzsche, and Büchner in hybrid translit.