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New York City, LLC
By Theodore Hamm and Williams ColeIt is by now commonplace to say that the city has a “new C.E.O.” Hardly a day has passed during Michael Bloomberg’s fist two months in office without the introduction of some sort of new “efficiency” or “downsizing” initiative, cloaked in management-speak, and presented by one or another nicely-suited new city officials.
Letter from Buenos Aires, part 3: Now & Then: Argentina chokes on neoliberal economics
By Alan LockwoodDecember’s violence in Argentina got airplay worldwide: a concentrated social convulsion that brought about the government’s collapse.
Art In Conversation
In Conversation with Robert C. Morgan
By Joan WaltemathIt seems to me that we are in an era now where it is not enough to be from Zimbabwe, Nigeria, or Indonesia or Mongolia, but you have to somehow take what that culture is about, and your own experiences within that culture, and to make it palatable on the level of a kind of global system of exchange.
Art In Conversation
In Conversation with Robert Storr
By Daniel BairdDaniel Baird (Rail): One of the things that most surprised me about the Richter retrospective is its continuity and coherence, especially given the diversity of Richter’s practice.
Notes on Albert Pinkham Ryder
By Bill JensenIntroduction A curator of a small university museum I met through an exhibit I curated two years ago in Greenpoint Brooklyn, Homage to Albert Pinkham Ryder, spoke often of expanding the project to greater significance.
A Matter of Conscience
By Tim MarchmanIt is impossible to learn overnight what one has spent a lifetime in ignorance of, and so it was perhaps not shocking to see demonstrators at a recent protest against the military action in Afghanistan hoisting placards reading U.S. OUT OF THE MIDDLE EAST, apparently unaware that Afghanistan is in fact in Central Asia.
Moms Just Want to Have Fun
By Joe MaggioSet against the underground music and avant-garde art scene in New York, Margarita Happy Hour Focuses on the lives of five disreputable women who meet in the afternoon to drink and compare notes on love, sex and motherhood.
Editor's Message
All Aboard!
By Theodore HammDon’t blink. You may have missed another Rail event. Our most dazzling art show, “Made in Brooklyn: Selection 1,” curated by our publisher, Phong Bui, just closed in early March.
ArtSeen
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Tim Wilson: PG-13
– By Peter Eleey -
Marek Cecula: Interface
– By Suzanne De Vegh -
Wim Delvoye: Cloaca
– By Peter Eleey -
Ruth Miller
– By Deborah Everett -
Making China
– By Megan Heuer -
Kim Jones: "New Work"
– By John Hawke -
Judith Rothschild: Image and Abstraction
– By Rachel Youens -
Claude Carone
– By Rex Auchincloss -
Angela Wyman and Leslie Roberts: Eyewash
– By Rachel Youens -
Andrea Claire, Karen Dow, Kirsten Hassenfeld: Frigid; Adam Cvijanovic: Disko Bay
– By Megan Heuer
Table of Contents
Editor's Message
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All Aboard!
– By Theodore Hamm
Local
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Judge Not…A Viewers’ Guide to the Kings County Courthouse Scandal
– By Jonas Salganik -
New Skool Journalism
– By Anne Donlon, Libby Gills, Yasmine Farhang, Claire Jimenez, Dean Mejia, and Meghan McDermott -
The Brooklyn Tabernacle Moves On Up
– By Emily Votruba -
New York City, LLC
– By Theodore Hamm and Williams Cole -
Economy: That Kenny Boy, He Sure Is Good People!
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WIM DELVOYE Cloaca
– By Cathy Nan Quinlan -
My Vagina Says Hey
– By Coleman Hough -
The Starry Skies Above
– By Naomi Foyle -
Slice: A Question of Style
– By Josh Franklin
Express
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A Poor Man's Chateanuef
– By Neil Rosen -
Are You a Grand Old Flag?
– By Patricia J. Chui -
Letter from Buenos Aires, part 3: Now & Then: Argentina chokes on neoliberal economics
– By Alan Lockwood -
Opinions
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Save the School Boards!
– By Miriam Thompson and Julie Thompson Keane -
Saying No to “Culture”
– By David Vine -
The Depot: Letters and Announcements
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War’s Future? Destiny’s Child: A Coming U.S.-China Confrontation?
– By Howard Harrington -
War’s Past: The Teeth of War
– By William Rossa Cole
Art
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Breakthroughs in Light: The Work of Tony Martin
– By Ellen Pearlman -
Gerhard Richter: Forty Years of Painting
– By Daniel Baird -
In Conversation with Robert C. Morgan
– By Joan Waltemath -
Notes on Albert Pinkham Ryder
– By Bill Jensen -
In Conversation with Robert Storr
– By Daniel Baird
ArtSeen
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Tim Wilson: PG-13
– By Peter Eleey -
Marek Cecula: Interface
– By Suzanne De Vegh -
Wim Delvoye: Cloaca
– By Peter Eleey -
Ruth Miller
– By Deborah Everett -
Making China
– By Megan Heuer -
Kim Jones: "New Work"
– By John Hawke -
Judith Rothschild: Image and Abstraction
– By Rachel Youens -
Claude Carone
– By Rex Auchincloss -
Angela Wyman and Leslie Roberts: Eyewash
– By Rachel Youens -
Andrea Claire, Karen Dow, Kirsten Hassenfeld: Frigid; Adam Cvijanovic: Disko Bay
– By Megan Heuer
Books
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A Matter of Conscience
– By Tim Marchman -
A Story for Big Girls
– By Laura Bradford -
In Conversation with D. Nurkse
– By Margot Farrington -
Newfield’s New York
– By Theodore Hamm -
The Art of Booklyn
– By Cricket Heinze -
The Race of Architecture
– By Tia Blassingame -
There’s Still Hope for Utopia
– By Jim Feast -
With Us, Without Us: In Memoriam W.G. Sebald
– By Alan Lockwood
Music
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Exiting Purgatory
– By Grant Moser
Dance
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Moving on Gravity’s Rainbow
– By Alan Lockwood
Film
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Cusp at A.I.R Gallery, Written and directed by Ruth Sergel
– By Deborah Everett -
Moms Just Want to Have Fun
– By Joe Maggio -
Outtakes: On Movies: Australians and a Southerner are Pulling Hollywood Through
– By Golden Williams -
Paul Verhoeven: A Tribute
– By John Woods
Theater
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In Dialogue: A Dream of Making Plays
– By Gary Winter -
Love is Colder Than Death: Wax Factory at the New York Center for Media Arts
– By Karyn Riegel -
Non-Stop Foreman
– By Ellen Pearlman
Fiction
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Death in the Wasteland
– By Nikolai Bokov -
Excerpt from: The Golden Triangle
– By Susan Daitch -
The Most Beautiful Word
– By Linh Dinh -
The Fox Hole
– By Linh Dinh -
Room
– By Patrick Oliver
Poetry
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DESTINY for FL, for VH
– By Angelo Verga -
Fear as a Machine
– By Mónica de la Torre -
Omens at Fajardo (1993)
– By Angelo Verga -
Greed
– By Sandy Florian -
The Script
– By Mónica de la Torre -
Rendezvous in Providence
– By D. Nurkse -
We Believed in the End of the World
– By D. Nurkse
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