The Price of Ratner's Hoopla: Brooklyn Stadium a Money Loser
By Johannah RodgersThe much-anticipated report on the financial feasibility of the proposed Atlantic Yards project was released on May 1, 2004, and the message was not only stark, but considering the fact that the study was commissioned by Ratner & Co., rather startling.
Express In Conversation
Inside Al Jazeera: Samir Khader
By Mridu Chandra and Rehan AnsariWhen Al Jazeeras Senior Producer Samir Khader was recently in town for the theatrical release of Control Room, we met him at the Roosevelt Hotel. Born and raised in Baghdad but now living in Jordan, Khader seems right out of the world of American film noir hes like a Bogart character who has recognized a moral imperative and struggles with his fear of self and the world.
Express In Conversation
Life in the O.T.: Anat Biletzki
By Eyal DanieliRecently, Eyal Danieli, a Brooklyn-based artist, spoke to Anat Biletzki, who teaches philosophy at Tel Aviv University and is Chairperson of the board of BTselem, a human rights organization in the occupied territories. The interview took place at the Rails office in Greenpoint.
Art In Conversation
Istvan Kantor with Daniel Baird
Since moving to Canada in 1977, Hungarian-born artist Istvan Kantor has created an enormous and controversial body of work which has encompassed mail art, sculpture, installation, noise music, both individual and collective performance, and video.
Film In Conversation
Jehane Noujaim
By Mridu ChandraControl Room gives us an account of the first 6 weeks of the war in Iraq from the inside of Al Jazeera, the satellite news network based in Qatar and watched by millions in the Arab world.
Matteson at Symphony Space
By Shanti CrawfordThe Bessie-award winning choreographer Paul Matteson, together with friendsmostly fellow David Dorfman company membersoffered an evening of adventurous dance at Symphony Space (May).
Theater In Dialogue
Down the Rabbit Hole with Lynn Nottage
By Sonya SobieskiUndine: No one seems troubled by the actual charges against me. No, the crime isnt being a criminal, its being broke. Its apparently against the law to be a poor black woman in New York City.
Theater In Conversation
Trusting in Theatre with JON FOSSE
By Caridad SvichJon Fosse is Norways pre-eminent playwright. Regularly seen across Europe, his theatrical writing is considered to be some of the finest to be found on the Western stage.
Editor's Message
Summer of Fear?
By Theodore HammThis summer is in many ways shaping up as a scary one. As Attorney General Ashcroft and FBI Director Mueller recently warned, everyone and everything could be the target of a terrorist attack, which could happen at any time. Rightly skeptical as one may be of any statement coming from a Bush administration official, only a fool would deny that these are indeed dangerous days.
ArtSeen
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Digital Avant-Garde: Celebrating 25 Years of Ars Electronica
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Fred Wilson: Objects and Installations: 19792000
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Terrorvision: Exit Art
– By Nick Stillman -
Xiomara De Oliver: Scarlets in Ghent
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Klaus Weber
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Andreas Gursky: Matthew Marks Gallery
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Lee Bontecou: Drawings 1958-1999
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Two enter and one leaves: YEAR
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Bradley Wester: When In Rome
– By Ben La Rocco -
The Free Library: The Riviera
– By Sonya Shrier -
Crossing the Bridge
– By Ben La Rocco -
Jon Kessler: Global Village Idiot
– By Tomassio Longhi -
Carol Peligian: The Seductive Quality of the Impossible
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Willem de Kooning: Gagosian, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, and Richard Gray
– By Jim Long
Table of Contents
Editor's Message
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Summer of Fear?
– By Theodore Hamm
Local
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Letter to a Third Grader
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Envisioning the Gowanus
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Housing vs. the RNC: A Question of Priorities
– By Williams Cole -
Prospect Heights: Ratners Secret Deals Wont Stop the Fight
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The Price of Ratner's Hoopla: Brooklyn Stadium a Money Loser
– By Johannah Rodgers
Express
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The Last Arab
– By Norman Kelley -
Inside Al Jazeera: Samir Khader
– By Mridu Chandra and Rehan Ansari -
Life in the O.T.: Anat Biletzki
– By Eyal Danieli -
What Makes News, News
– By Ryan Grim
Art
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Daniel Richter
– By Daniel Baird -
Alone and Together on The Stage of The World
– By John Yau -
Istvan Kantor with Daniel Baird
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Portraits in Richmond
– By Robert C. Morgan
ArtSeen
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Digital Avant-Garde: Celebrating 25 Years of Ars Electronica
– By Ellen Pearlman -
Fred Wilson: Objects and Installations: 19792000
– By Stephanie Buhmann -
Terrorvision: Exit Art
– By Nick Stillman -
Xiomara De Oliver: Scarlets in Ghent
– By James Kalm -
Klaus Weber
– By Katie Stone -
Andreas Gursky: Matthew Marks Gallery
– By Farrah Karapetian -
Lee Bontecou: Drawings 1958-1999
– By Tomassio Longhi -
Two enter and one leaves: YEAR
– By William Powhida -
Bradley Wester: When In Rome
– By Ben La Rocco -
The Free Library: The Riviera
– By Sonya Shrier -
Crossing the Bridge
– By Ben La Rocco -
Jon Kessler: Global Village Idiot
– By Tomassio Longhi -
Carol Peligian: The Seductive Quality of the Impossible
– By John Hawke -
Willem de Kooning: Gagosian, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, and Richard Gray
– By Jim Long
Books
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On Gertrude Stein
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The Provocations of Arthur Cravan
– By Andy Merrifield -
Off the Shelves
– By Book Staff
Music
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The Holger Czukay Academy of Spontaneous Music
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Review: Dallam-Dougous New Destiny (Jumbie Records)
– By John Reed -
No Golden Throat: Lizzy Mercier Descloux (1956–2004)
– By Holly Tavel -
Zeb: Alien with Extraordinary Abilities
– By Lucas Graves
Dance
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Reviews
– By Jessica Weiss -
Dancing on the Rail
– By Vanessa Manko -
Matteson at Symphony Space
– By Shanti Crawford
Film
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The Filmmakers a Clown
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Bukowski: Born Into This
– By Williams Cole -
Jehane Noujaim
– By Mridu Chandra -
Docs in Sight: The New Dawn of the Profitable Political Film
– By Williams Cole -
Yvonne Rainer: Dancing in the U.S. Interstices of Experimental Film
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Everyday People
– By Theodore Hamm
Theater
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Down the Rabbit Hole with Lynn Nottage
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Trusting in Theatre with JON FOSSE
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The Neo-Futurists Land in Brooklyn
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Review: Gimme Shelter
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Don Quixote: Suffering Fools Wisely
– By Emily DeVoti
Fiction
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Hotbed
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from Long Day, Counting Tomorrow
– By Jim Feast
Poetry
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Carolee Schneemann Like Totally Like
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Poems by Luis Felipe Fabre
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Excerpts from Beauty (Is the New Absurdity)
– By Jennifer Scappettone
LastWords
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Thursday Story
– By Kenji Jasper