The Brooklyn Rail http://brooklynrail.org/images/rail-logotype.png The Brooklyn Rail http://brooklynrail.org brooklynrail.org rss feed http://brooklynrail.org Arts and Culture Copyright (c) 2005-2012, The Brooklyn Rail <![CDATA[ROSALIND KRAUSS with Yve-Alain Bois - by Yve-Alain Bois]]> http://www.brooklynrail.org/2012/02/art/rosalind-krauss-with-yve-alain-bois http://www.brooklynrail.org/2012/02/art/rosalind-krauss-with-yve-alain-bois 2012-2-01T12:00:00Z
On the occasion of her recent publication Under Blue Cup (MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England) Yve-Alain Bois visited Rosalind Krauss's SoHo loft/home to talk about the genesis that led to this particular volume and more.
]]> <![CDATA[LINDA MARY MONTANO with Charles Duncan - by Charles Duncan]]> http://www.brooklynrail.org/2012/02/art/linda-mary-montano-with-charles-duncan http://www.brooklynrail.org/2012/02/art/linda-mary-montano-with-charles-duncan 2012-2-01T12:00:00Z

On the occasion of her exhibition From Chakras to Glands at the Muroff Kotler Visual Arts Gallery, SUNY Ulster (October 13 – November 11, 2011) and the release of her video Starved Survivors, performance and video artist Linda Mary Montano spoke with Charles Duncan about her current work, Catholic reawakening, and aging.

]]> <![CDATA[DAVID HOCKNEY with William Corwin - by William Corwin]]> http://www.brooklynrail.org/2012/02/art/david-hockney-with-william-corwin http://www.brooklynrail.org/2012/02/art/david-hockney-with-william-corwin 2012-2-01T12:00:00Z
William Corwin visited David Hockney in his studio in Bridlington, Yorkshire, to discuss the paintings, iPad drawings, and videos that form the core of his show A Bigger Picture at the Royal Academy in London (January–April 9, 2012).
]]> <![CDATA[CARL ANDRE with Michèle Gerber Klein and Phong Bui - by Phong Bui and Michèle Gerber Klein]]> http://www.brooklynrail.org/2012/02/art/carl-andre-with-michle-gerber-klein-and-phong-bui http://www.brooklynrail.org/2012/02/art/carl-andre-with-michle-gerber-klein-and-phong-bui 2012-2-01T12:00:00Z
On the occasion of Carl Andre's monograph Carl Andre: Things in Their Elements by Alistair Rider (Phaidon, 2011), and his forthcoming retrospective at Dia Art Foundation (March – December 2013), the sculptor/poet welcomed contributing editor Michèle Gerber Klein and publisher Phong Bui to his West Village home to talk about his life and work.
]]> <![CDATA[BILL JENSEN with Peter Brock - by Peter Brock]]> http://www.brooklynrail.org/2012/02/art/bill-jensen-in-conversation-with-peter-brock http://www.brooklynrail.org/2012/02/art/bill-jensen-in-conversation-with-peter-brock 2012-2-01T12:00:00Z
On the occasion of the painter's recent exhibition at Cheim & Read, Bill Jensen welcomed the painter/contributing writer Peter Brock to his Williamsburg studio to talk about the new direction that has occurred in his work and more.
]]> <![CDATA[THE 99% BAT-SIGNAL: A Cry from the Heart of the World - by Mark Read]]> http://www.brooklynrail.org/2011/12/local/the-99-bat-signal-a-cry-from-the-heart-of-the-world http://www.brooklynrail.org/2011/12/local/the-99-bat-signal-a-cry-from-the-heart-of-the-world 2011-12-01T12:00:00Z
"We need a bat-signal," Hero said. "We need a bat-signal."
]]> <![CDATA[OCCUPY GO ROUND: The Dimensional Nature of the Movement - by Paul McLean]]> http://www.brooklynrail.org/2011/12/express/occupy-go-round-the-dimensional-nature-of-the-movement http://www.brooklynrail.org/2011/12/express/occupy-go-round-the-dimensional-nature-of-the-movement 2011-12-01T12:00:00Z
When the protest began on 9/17, there was no concentric circle model for #OWS. There didn't have to be. People can rely on concentric instincts when they get together to do, say, or envision something important.
]]> <![CDATA[UNHAPPY DAYS IN THE ART WORLD?De-skilling Theater, Re-skilling Performance - by Claire Bishop]]> http://www.brooklynrail.org/2011/12/art/unhappy-days-in-the-art-worldde-skilling-theater-re-skilling-performance http://www.brooklynrail.org/2011/12/art/unhappy-days-in-the-art-worldde-skilling-theater-re-skilling-performance 2011-12-01T12:00:00Z
Ideally, the dialectic of de- and re-skilling should allow artists, directors, and choreographers to creatively rethink their output, and in ways that go beyond a mere swapping of context.
]]> <![CDATA[John Elderfield, Jennifer Field, Lauren Mahony, and Delphine Huisinga with Phong Bui - by Phong Bui]]> http://www.brooklynrail.org/2011/12/art/john-elderfield-jennifer-field-lauren-mahoney-and-delphine-huisinga-with-phong-bui http://www.brooklynrail.org/2011/12/art/john-elderfield-jennifer-field-lauren-mahoney-and-delphine-huisinga-with-phong-bui 2011-12-01T12:00:00Z
John Elderfield, Chief Curator Emeritus of Painting and Sculpture at MoMA, who organized de Kooning: A Retrospective (September 18, 2011 – January 9, 2012) along with his associates Jennifer Field, Lauren Mahony, and Delphine Huisinga, paid a visit to Art International Radio to talk with publisher Phong Bui about the remarkable life and work of Willem de Kooning.
]]> <![CDATA[RITA ACKERMANN with Anne Sherwood Pundyk - by Anne Sherwood Pundyk]]> http://www.brooklynrail.org/2011/12/art/rita-ackermann-with-anne-sherwood-pundyk http://www.brooklynrail.org/2011/12/art/rita-ackermann-with-anne-sherwood-pundyk 2011-12-01T12:00:00Z
Late in October, when I entered painter Rita Ackermann's studio in Brooklyn's Navy Hill, she was working on three works on paper on the floor, pouring thinned cerulean blue paint, stopping, looking, working the paint into forms with a wide brush, then stopping and looking again.
]]> <![CDATA[BONNIE MARRANCA with Patricia Milder - by Patricia Milder]]> http://www.brooklynrail.org/2011/12/art/bonnie-marranca-with-patricia-milder http://www.brooklynrail.org/2011/12/art/bonnie-marranca-with-patricia-milder 2011-12-01T12:00:00Z
On the occasion of the 100th issue of PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, Bonnie Marranca, editor and publisher, and author of three collections of essays, met Rail Managing Art Editor Patricia Milder to discuss the journal, as well as her life and work
]]> <![CDATA[CHARM LIKE A DRUGMAURIZIO CATTELAN with Jarrett Earnest - by Jarrett Earnest]]> http://www.brooklynrail.org/2011/12/art/charm-like-a-drugmaurizio-cattelan-with-jarrett-earnest http://www.brooklynrail.org/2011/12/art/charm-like-a-drugmaurizio-cattelan-with-jarrett-earnest 2011-12-01T12:00:00Z
In the late 1980s Maurizio Cattelan emerged on the international art circuit with sculptures that appeared equal parts sight-gag and natural history diorama. Combining taxidermied animals, wax figures, and the tears of a clown, he has reigned as court jester of the art fair set for the better part of two decades.
]]> <![CDATA[ALEX WATERMAN with Timothy Nassau - by Timothy Nassau]]> http://www.brooklynrail.org/2011/12/music/alex-waterman-with-timothy-nassau http://www.brooklynrail.org/2011/12/music/alex-waterman-with-timothy-nassau 2011-12-01T12:00:00Z

Vidas Perfectas, a new Spanish-language production of Perfect Lives, Robert Ashley's visionary television opera from 1983, will premiere December 15 through 17 at Brooklyn's Irondale Theater, with performances of the first three episodes of seven.

]]> <![CDATA[George Kuchar's Otherworldly Humanity - by Charles Bernstein and Susan Bee]]> http://www.brooklynrail.org/2011/12/film/george-kuchars-otherworldly-humanity http://www.brooklynrail.org/2011/12/film/george-kuchars-otherworldly-humanity 2011-12-01T12:00:00Z

George Kuchar (1942–2011) was one of the most creative, original, and influential filmmakers of our time, straddling two generations of North American iconoclasts, from Stan Brakhage, Ken Jacobs, Rudy Burckhardt, Kenneth Anger, and Michael Snow to Warren Sonbert, Ernie Gehr, Abigail Child, and Henry Hills.

]]> <![CDATA[A Glance at First Look: Overlooked Essentials in the Museum of the Moving Image's New International Showcase - by Anna Bak-Kvapil]]> http://www.brooklynrail.org/2011/12/film/a-glance-at-first-look-overlooked-essentials-in-the-museum-of-the-moving-images-new-international-showcase http://www.brooklynrail.org/2011/12/film/a-glance-at-first-look-overlooked-essentials-in-the-museum-of-the-moving-images-new-international-showcase 2011-12-01T12:00:00Z
As blessed as New York filmgoers are, each year a legion of excellent films that are feted at Cannes, Venice, Locarno, Toronto, and Berlin somehow never make it here. First Look, a new showcase at the Museum of the Moving Image, attempts to fill in the gaps that other festivals and series in town have neglected.
]]> <![CDATA[LIN HIXSON and MATTHEW GOULISH with Carol Becker - by Carol Becker]]> http://www.brooklynrail.org/2011/12/theater/lin-hixson-and-matthew-goulish-with-carol-becker http://www.brooklynrail.org/2011/12/theater/lin-hixson-and-matthew-goulish-with-carol-becker 2011-12-01T12:00:00Z

Director and writer Lin Hixson and performer, writer, and dramaturg Matthew Goulish, both based in Chicago, spent 20 years working with the company Goat Island. That company developed and performed nine unique pieces over 20 years in locations around the world. After a two-year process of marking the end, the company disbanded.

]]> <![CDATA[The Diary of Martín Santomé: A Novel - by Mario Benedetti]]> http://www.brooklynrail.org/2011/12/fiction/the-diary-of-martn-santom-a-novel http://www.brooklynrail.org/2011/12/fiction/the-diary-of-martn-santom-a-novel 2011-12-01T12:00:00Z
This is the second English translation of the novel, La Tregua by Mario Benedetti that was first published by Editorial Nueva Imagen, S.A. in 1960. Originally translated by Benjamin Graham and published in 1969 by Harper & Row as The Truce, the novel is long out of print in English. The Rail will be serializing this Benedetti masterpiece over the winter and into the spring of 2012.
]]> <![CDATA[Note from the Publisher - by Phong Bui]]> http://www.brooklynrail.org/2011/12/publishersmessage/note-from-the-publisher-1 http://www.brooklynrail.org/2011/12/publishersmessage/note-from-the-publisher-1 2011-12-01T12:00:00Z
"What I have always tried to do is think in ways that allow me to become an interesting person, like how I am always attracted to inner-resting [Delmore Schwartz's pronunciation] people. Whatever else follows is a matter of luck."
]]> <![CDATA[The Rail's 2011 Player of the Year - by Theodore Hamm]]> http://www.brooklynrail.org/2011/12/editorsmessage/the-rails-2011-player-of-the-year-ednote http://www.brooklynrail.org/2011/12/editorsmessage/the-rails-2011-player-of-the-year-ednote 2011-12-01T12:00:00Z
The Rail's Player of the Year Award annually goes to the most surprisingly influential performer on the political stage. This year's candidates include a testy lawman, a horny congressman, and Swing State actuaries.
]]> <![CDATA[In the Battle of the Open Heart - by Jason Flores-Williams]]> http://www.brooklynrail.org/2011/11/local/in-the-battle-of-the-open-heart http://www.brooklynrail.org/2011/11/local/in-the-battle-of-the-open-heart 2011-11-01T12:00:00Z
An old music can be heard in Zuccotti Park that hasn't been heard around these parts in a very long time--it's the music of human dignity, solidarity, and individuals being transformed into one.
]]> <![CDATA[Capitalism Makes Me Sick - by Ina P.]]> http://www.brooklynrail.org/2011/11/express/capitalism-makes-me-sick http://www.brooklynrail.org/2011/11/express/capitalism-makes-me-sick 2011-11-01T12:00:00Z
Capitalism makes me sick. I'm not just talking about moral revulsion, nor speaking metaphorically: I am actually sick.
]]> <![CDATA[ZELIG OF THE LEFT: BILL ZIMMERMAN with Lawrence Weschler - by Lawrence Weschler]]> http://www.brooklynrail.org/2011/11/express/zelig-on-the-left-bill-zimmerman-with-lawrence-weschler http://www.brooklynrail.org/2011/11/express/zelig-on-the-left-bill-zimmerman-with-lawrence-weschler 2011-11-01T12:00:00Z
"One thing I learned in the early '60s--and it's very pertinent to what is going on now--is how it's always difficult to see over the horizon, to see the consequences of present actions," says Zimmerman.
]]> <![CDATA[From The Revolution Of Everyday Life - by Raoul Vaneigem<br>A new translation from the French by Donald Nicholson-Smith ]]> http://www.brooklynrail.org/2011/11/lastwords/the-revolution-of-everyday-life http://www.brooklynrail.org/2011/11/lastwords/the-revolution-of-everyday-life 2011-11-01T12:00:00Z
Until now tyranny has merely changed hands. By virtue of their like respect for the principle of the ruler, antagonistic powers have always contained the seeds of their future coexistence. (When the organizer of the game assumes the power of a leader, the revolution dies along with the revolutionaries.)
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