DEC 09-JAN 10 – The Brooklyn Rail

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Editor's Message

Help Haiti Now
– By Theodore Hamm

Local

The Church of the Divine Heckle
– By Reverend Billy
ON THE ISLE OF ROCKS
– By Sabine Heinlein
JOSHUA DERR: Bearing Witness to Gentrification
– By Eleanor J. Bader

Express

The Brooklyn Rail’s Player of the Year 2009
– By Theodore Hamm
Report from Jacmel
– By Jacques Africot
A Rookie Quarterback, Columnist, and Two Footballs
– By Jill Magi
FALLOUT
– By Katy Bolger
Dreams
– By Toni Cela
RUDY WURLITZER with Theodore Hamm
– By Theodore Hamm
Dreams From Obama
– By Richard Wells
Inside The Hive Mind
– By Christopher G. Moore
Your Words Have Iron in Them
– By Jason Flores-Williams
A Rotten Legacy?
– By Stuart Schrader
Docs in Sight: Coming to a Theater Near You—but Only for One Night
– By Williams Cole
In Mammon We Trust
– By Daniel Colucciello Barber
At the Crossroads
– By Riddhi Shah
Laying the Groundwork
– By Jenny Hendrix
Inside the Inbox
– By Alex Gallo-Brown
The Chabon Method
– By Kaitlin Bell
Cut Him Off
– By Christopher Michel

Art

ArtSeen

Roni Horn aka Roni Horn
– By R. H. Lossin
WALID RAAD: Scratching on Things I Could Disavow: A History of Art in the Arab World/Part 1_Volume 1_Chapter 1 (Beirut: 1992-2005)
– By Kara L. Rooney
RAILING OPINION: Batman, Bernini and Young Romantics
– By Lisa Corinne Davis
NICOLE EISENMAN
– By John Yau
Letter from BERLIN: FRANK BADUR, Why Pattern?
– By David Rhodes
Letter from LONDON: JON THOMPSON, Paintings from The Toronto Cycle
– By Sherman Sam
MARILYN MINTER, Regen Projects, Los Angeles
– By Terry R. Myers
SAARINEN: ONE OF US?
– By Joseph Masheck
ALBERS’ RECORD JACKETS: Doing an Artful Job
– By Joseph Masheck
Picasso and the Allure of Language
– By Kimberly Lamm
ARSHILE GORKY: A Retrospective
– By Emily Warner
ANNE TRUITT: Perception and Reflection
– By Anne Byrd
NORMAN BLUHM: A Retrospective of Works on Paper, 1948-1998
– By Craig Olson
THE BAUHAUS IDEA: How To Live with Art
– By Robert C. Morgan
FOOTLOOSE AMONG THE FUNCTORS
– By Shane McAdams
Metamorphosis Victorianus
– By Valery Oisteanu
Alias Man Ray
– By Ben La Rocco
URS FISCHER: Marguerite de Ponty
– By Kathleen Massara
Social Curiosities: An exhibition of new work by the 2008-2009 Fellows of the New York Academy of Art
– By Sharon L. Butler

Books

FICTION: Tragedy with a Gentle Hand
– By Bruce Seymour
FICTION: Soviet Caesars and State Raincoats
– By Kseniya Melnik
NON-FICTION: The Head Dead
– By Christopher Vola
FICTION: Stairs and Flourishes
– By John Madera
NON-FICTION: Down for Account
– By Christopher Vola
FICTION: It Was Better Not to Be Born at All
– By Cole Larsen
RAPID TRANSIT
– By Jeffrey Cyphers Wright
TOKENS
– By Tatiaana Laine, Renee E. D'Aoust, Nils Stolpe, Cody Upton, and Amber Benham
In Conversation with H. M. Naqvi
NONFICTION: Are We Cool?
– By Anis Shivani

Music

The 2009 New Yorker Festival: A MINI-MUSIC SAMPLER
– By Daniel J. Kushner
“HOW WILL I GET PAID?” Music Industry Execs Discuss Payment Models, Pirates, and Monetization at the CMJ Music Marathon
– By Mimi Luse
MET 2.0
– By George Grella
The Ouija Board of Sonic Energy Douglas Henderson: “MUSIC FOR 100 CARPENTERS” at Pierogi Gallery
– By Jamian Juliano-Villani
Outsider Looking In DANIEL JOHNSTON: IS AND ALWAYS WAS (Eternal Yip Eye)
– By Katy Henriksen
More Songs About Love, Desire, and Restlessness PAOLO CONTE: PSICHE (ECM Records)
– By Alessandro Cassin
MAYER HAWTHORNE: Not Through Playin' the Fool for Love
– By Audrea Lim

Dance

PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE: A Celebration of Dance at the 92nd Street Y
– By Evan Namerow
BILL T. JONES: Serenade/The Proposition
– By Dalia Ratnikas
HIP-HOP CARNY: Teaching New Dancers Old Tricks
– By Joey Lico
CAVE New York Butoh Festival—The Butoh-Kan Phase October 23–November 25, 2009
– By Erika Eichelberger
ONWARD TO 2010
– By Mary Love Hodges
A Man's World: CHARLIE’S ANGELS AT THE KITCHEN, October 22-24
– By L.J. Sunshine
Preview THE GOOD DANCE—DAKAR/BROOKLYN AT BAM, December 16th-19th
– By Dalia Ratnikas
Traveling in Time, to the Pear Garden: HAN-TANG YUEFU ENSEMBLE’S THE FEAST OF HAN XIZAI AT THE JOYCE THEATER, November 3-8
– By David St.-Lascaux
Replay as Revivification: PARADES & CHANGES, REPLAYS AT DANCE THEATER WORKSHOP, PERFORMA 09, November 18th, 2009
– By Thom Donovan

Film

DEPTH IN A DECADE OF DISTRACTION: The Twenty Best Films
– By David N. Meyer
When Men Were Thin
– By Sarahjane Blum
BAD MOVIE, SILLY LIEUTENANT
– By Malcolm Wyer
BEYOND THE ABSURD: Roland Tavel and Andy Warhol
– By Mary Hanlon
CINEPHILIA: Port of Call Busan
– By Christopher Bourne

Theater

Out of Body Experiments: LISA D’AMOUR AND KATIE PEARL with Erin Courtney
– By Erin Courtney
LEN JENKIN’S THE DREAM EXPRESS: The Outlaw Lounge Act Returns
– By Gary Winter
Why Are We Sitting in the Same Room? CHAUTAUQUA!
– By Trish Harnetiaux
The Personal Historical: ROGER GUENVEUR SMITH
– By Kathryn Walat
The Excellent Fopperies of the World: YOUNG JEAN LEE TAKES ON LEAR
– By Alan Lockwood

Fiction

RERUNS REZOOMED: a serial novel
– By Jonathan Baumbach
VLAD
– By David Varno
OLD MAN
– By Nancy Lynn Weber
Tragic Strip
– By T. Motley

Poetry

hrzn
– By Marcella Durand
Silent Pictures Recognize the World II
– By Wanda Phipps
Two
– By Robert Hershon
geese
– By Evan Kennedy
Los Angeles Series
– By Joshua Baldwin
Motherfuckerless Brooklyn
– By Ron Singer

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