Visions of a Tragedy, 9/11
By Emily DeVoti, Carlos Vásquez, Álvaro Figueroa, and Michael BubbThe day was clear and the air a bit warmer than usual. The sound of sirens, helicopters and fighter jets all were new for us, or rather unusual. Confusion took over quickly and even though there were many signs that something was going to happen, no one believed it could happen to us, in our own country.
Against the Giuliani Legacy
By Williams ColeThe first two installments of “Against the Giuliani Legacy” challenged deep-seated definitions like “quality of life” and “decency” as defined the Giuliani cabal.
Street Work: Globalizing Resistance From Brooklyn to Inanda
By Rachel NeumannIn the large black township of Inanda, in Durban, South Africa, most people live in sloping tin shacks without any means of waste disposal. The lucky ones live in square cement homes with a water faucet outside.
Art In Conversation
In Conversation with Terry Winters
By Peter EleeyRail (Peter Eleey): I was hoping that we could speak a bit about some of the collaborative projects you’ve been involved with recently. When did the Trisha Brown [Dance Company] piece [“El Trilogy”] go up? Terry Winters: It had its New York premier in July, but it actually started a couple of years ago.
Artist in Residence
By Chris MartinRichard Gorcoff has been creating intricately typed art works on paper for thirty years. He has invented a distinct language of numbers, letters, punctuation, figures and complex designs created entirely out of typewriter symbols.
Buchloh’s Neo-Avantgarde
By Daniel BairdContemporary visual art is often slick and narcissistic and bears a disturbing resemblance to sophisticated advertising and music videos. Ugo Rondinone’s coolly smoldering slow-motion videos might well be promoting a new line of perfume, and Piplotti Rist’s hallucinatory work, which was featured on an immense screen hovering over Times Square, evokes fashion shoots and designer clothes for sassy, hipster girls.
Letter from Buenos Aires
By Alan LockwoodAt the end of August, the IMF approved $5 billion in loans to Argentina, simultaneously pulling the beleaguered economy from the brink of meltdown and deepening the nation’s already enormous international debt.
How to Pick a Tomato
By Cathy Nan QuinlanSome days, the act of painting seems so, well, useless. One is muse-less, headachy, hung-over, or distracted. It is then that I find it useful to pretend that I am a farmer. In my fantasy they get up early, quite early in the morning since the cows have to be milked and the growing season is short.
Editor's Message
Out of the Ashes
By Theodore HammOur compass has been reoriented. For residents of Brooklyn through North Jersey, the Twin Towers no longer define Lower Manhattan; and as a nation, we are being told to prepare for a prolonged conflict in Central Asia.
ArtSeen
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A Quiet Incursion in Queens: Public Art as Infiltrator and Saboteur
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THOMAS PIHL Paintings
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Willem de Kooning and John Chamberlain: Influence and Transformation
– By Rachel Youens -
If you lived here you would be dead now
– By Daniel Baird -
MARC SWANSON At First Sight
– By Jeffrey Cyphers Wright -
MIES VAN DER ROHE Mies in Berlin
– By Phillipe Baumann -
MIES VAN DER ROHE Mies in America
– By Karl Jensen -
NANCY DAVIDSON
– By Rachel Youens -
MY REALITY: CONTEMPORARY ART AND THE CULTURE OF JAPANESE ANIMATION
– By Art Aské -
PHIL FROST Litany
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WARD SHELLEY The Cube
– By Lori Ortiz -
SHARON HORVATH Recent Paintings
– By Megan Heuer -
Printed Works: Terry Winters at the Metropolitan Museum of New York
– By Daniel Baird -
The Painting Center: Repetition in Discourse
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TODT: Exurbia
– By Rachel Gordon
Table of Contents
Editor's Message
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Out of the Ashes
– By Theodore Hamm
Local
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How to Pick a Tomato
– By Cathy Nan Quinlan -
Where the Girls Are
– By Tysha Pryor -
King Me Mayor of NYC
– By Jonas Salganik -
Is Starbucks Stealing Our Mojo?
– By Grant Moser -
Brooklyn Sweatshops
– By Patrick Gallahue -
Demography is not Destiny: Campaign for Fiscal Equity, Inc. vs. State of New York
– By Meghan McDermott and Julie Callahan -
Visions of a Tragedy, 9/11
– By Emily DeVoti, Carlos Vásquez, Álvaro Figueroa, and Michael Bubb -
Zoning Out: The Politics of North Brooklyn
– By Robin Rogers-Dillon -
Against the Giuliani Legacy
– By Williams Cole
Express
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Editorials
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OPINIONS: Deitchland uber alles? Deitch Projects comes to Williamsburg
– By Justin McGuirk -
RESPONSE: A Tribute, of Sorts
– By Shelley Pasnik -
Street Work: Globalizing Resistance From Brooklyn to Inanda
– By Rachel Neumann -
Memories of the Good Fight
– By Robert Steck -
Soap and Civilization
– By C. Layman
Art
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Artist in Residence
– By Chris Martin -
In Conversation with Terry Winters
– By Peter Eleey
ArtSeen
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A Quiet Incursion in Queens: Public Art as Infiltrator and Saboteur
– By Peter Eleey -
THOMAS PIHL Paintings
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Willem de Kooning and John Chamberlain: Influence and Transformation
– By Rachel Youens -
If you lived here you would be dead now
– By Daniel Baird -
MARC SWANSON At First Sight
– By Jeffrey Cyphers Wright -
MIES VAN DER ROHE Mies in Berlin
– By Phillipe Baumann -
MIES VAN DER ROHE Mies in America
– By Karl Jensen -
NANCY DAVIDSON
– By Rachel Youens -
MY REALITY: CONTEMPORARY ART AND THE CULTURE OF JAPANESE ANIMATION
– By Art Aské -
PHIL FROST Litany
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WARD SHELLEY The Cube
– By Lori Ortiz -
SHARON HORVATH Recent Paintings
– By Megan Heuer -
Printed Works: Terry Winters at the Metropolitan Museum of New York
– By Daniel Baird -
The Painting Center: Repetition in Discourse
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TODT: Exurbia
– By Rachel Gordon
Books
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Buchloh’s Neo-Avantgarde
– By Daniel Baird -
On the Waterfront in Revolutionary Mexico
– By Michael Snodgrass -
Reflections on Motherhood
– By Jill Clateman -
Postcards from Mencken
– By Phong Bui
Music
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Letter from Buenos Aires
– By Alan Lockwood
Film
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On Love and Sexy Beast
– By Stephan Altevogt
Theater
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Mysteries of the Vernacular
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Spalding Gray on Zen and the Downtown Theater Scene
– By Ellen Pearlman -
Excerpt from I, the Undersigned Cardiac Case (1981)
– By Sony Labou Tansi
Poetry
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A Hermit Pets a Cat, While Thinking About the Ocean
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Tailor-Made
– By John Hollander -
In Memory of Bill Cole
– By Seamus Heaney
