RNC Turns the Screws on NYC
By Christian Roselund and Michael CarpioAs the city gears up for the Republican invasion, and the prospects for massive protests loom, the NYC 2004 Host Committee is scrambling to get ready.
Express In Conversation
The Beast with No Name: Mark Achbar and Joel Bakan with Williams Cole
The Corporation, a film directed by Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott, and written by Joel Bakan, recently premiered in New York City after breaking box office records for a documentary in Canada. The Rail’s Williams Cole sat down with Mr. Achbar and Mr. Bakan (who also wrote the book The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Power and Profit, published earlier this year by the Free Press).
Express In Conversation
A View from Latin America: Jorge Ramos with Hirsh Sawhney
More incisive than Dan Rather, more charming than Peter Jennings, Mexican-born Jorge Ramos is Spanish-language television’s celebrity talking head. An anchor at Univision, the fifth most-watched television network in the United States, Ramos is also a columnist and the author of several books, including The Latino Wave: How Hispanics Will Choose the Next President
Express In Conversation
An Anarchist in the Hudson Valley: Peter Lamborn Wilson with Jennifer Bleyer
It’s been nearly ten years since Peter Lamborn Wilson—née Hakim Bey—looked at the pitiably state-bound, rule-bound world around him and asked: "Are we who live in the present doomed never to experience autonomy, never to stand for one moment on a bit of land ruled only by freedom?
Art In Conversation
Christo and Jeanne-Claude with Praxis
Christo and Jeanne-Claude are one of the most well-known collaborative art teams in the world. Unlike any other artists of the present or past, they fabricate large-scale work that is at once enigmatic and simple.
Film Docs In Sight
Can Archival Footage Change the World?
By Williams ColeAnyone who has seen the record-breaking political documentary Fahrenheit 9/11 knows that much of the rhetorical punch of the film comes from all the footage of W. & Co. that Michael Moore’s production team collected.
Theater In Dialogue
In Dialogue: A Poetics of Terror: Ken Urban
By Jason GroteThe world of Ken Urban’s plays is extraordinarily complex. It evokes the globalized world, where exotic, fearsome jungles of terrorism and ethnic cleansing coexist with banal landscapes of turnpikes, strip malls and subdivisions.
Hank Thompson’s Blues
By Theodore HammYou might not remember me, and if you did, you’d probably rather forget me. Most days, I’d rather forget myself. Problem is, I can’t.
Editor's Messsage
Send in the Clowns...
By Theodore HammLike it or not, the Republicans are indeed coming to town. At first thought, exactly what achievements they will be celebrating may seem elusive, but here are my speculations.
ArtSeen
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Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China
– By Robert C. Morgan and Nick Stillman
ICP -
Tony Smith & Anish Kapoor
– By Michael Brennan -
Sarah Beddington and Fritz Welch
– By Roger White -
Andrea Fraser and Friedrich Petzel
– By Katie Stone -
South Brooklyn Galleries
– By James Kalm -
Robert Ryman
– By Tomassio Longhi -
Crits' Pix
– By Shane McAdams -
WMD Front Room Gallery July 2004
– By William Powhida -
Janet Cardiff Her Long Black Hair Public Art Fund July 2004
– By Sonya Shrier -
Ann Hamilton, Corpus MassMoCA July 2004
– By Stephanie Buhmann -
Symbolic Space and Repetition Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art July 2004
– By Cynthia Cox -
Modigliani: Beyond the Myth The Jewish Museum July 2004
– By Valery Oisteanu
Table of Contents
Editor's Message
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Send in the Clowns...
– By Theodore Hamm
Local
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RNC Turns the Screws on NYC
– By Christian Roselund and Michael Carpio -
The Brooklyn Admirals: Lacrosse in Brooklyn?
– By Karen B. Song -
The Dreamland Artist Club
– By Andrew Hodges -
Imagining a Different RNC
– By Dan Bell
Express
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The Beast with No Name: Mark Achbar and Joel Bakan with Williams Cole
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The Passion of Michael Moore
– By Randolph Lewis -
Rocks from the Sky
– By Rick Karr -
A View from Latin America: Jorge Ramos with Hirsh Sawhney
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The Continuous Decline of the West
– By Norman Kelley -
Liberals vs. The Left: Learning From Identity Politics
– By Francois Cusset -
Keeping Alive the French and Indian War
– By Madeleine Baran -
An Anarchist in the Hudson Valley: Peter Lamborn Wilson with Jennifer Bleyer
Art
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Strange, Dark Places
– By Ellen Pearlman -
Ed Ruscha
– By Daniel Baird -
Christo and Jeanne-Claude with Praxis
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Agnes Martin: "...going forward into unknown territory..."
– By Joan Waltemath -
Larry Sultan's The Valley
– By Tessa DeCarlo -
Hope Kurtz (1959–2004)
– By Christina Hung
ArtSeen
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Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China ICP
– By Robert C. Morgan and Nick Stillman -
Tony Smith & Anish Kapoor
– By Michael Brennan -
Sarah Beddington and Fritz Welch
– By Roger White -
Andrea Fraser and Friedrich Petzel
– By Katie Stone -
South Brooklyn Galleries
– By James Kalm -
Robert Ryman
– By Tomassio Longhi -
Crits' Pix
– By Shane McAdams -
WMD Front Room Gallery July 2004
– By William Powhida -
Janet Cardiff Her Long Black Hair Public Art Fund July 2004
– By Sonya Shrier -
Ann Hamilton, Corpus MassMoCA July 2004
– By Stephanie Buhmann -
Symbolic Space and Repetition Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art July 2004
– By Cynthia Cox -
Modigliani: Beyond the Myth The Jewish Museum July 2004
– By Valery Oisteanu
Books
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Culture: A Peculiar Place
– By Priya Jain -
A View from Queens
– By Hirsh Sawhney -
The Savage Glitter of Downtown
– By Daniel Morris -
Off the Shelves by Bookstaff
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Music
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The Archduke’s Revenge: Franz Ferdinand Takes Williamsburg
– By Todd Simmons -
TrebleLive Series
– By Bethany Ryker -
Drumfolk
– By David Pleasant
Dance
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Still Falling for the Bad Boy
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Dancing on the Rail
– By Vanessa Manko
Film
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Los Angeles Plays Itself
– By Michael Joshua Rowin -
Ken Jacobs-Star Spangled to Death
– By Jonas Mekas -
Two Lone Swordsmen: Hero by Zhang Yi Mou and Zatoichi by Takeshi "Beat" Kitano
– By David N. Meyer -
In the Belly of the Beast
– By Saul Austerlitz -
Can Archival Footage Change the World?
– By Williams Cole
Theater
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In Dialogue: A Poetics of Terror: Ken Urban
– By Jason Grote -
The Booth Variations
– By Brook Stowe -
On the Radio: Splendor and Death of Porfirio Rubirosa
– By Douglas Singleton
Fiction
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Excerpt from Never Again
– By Doug Nufer -
The Belly Dance
– By Robert Pinget
Poetry
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The Proteins
– By Marcella Durand -
four short poems
– By Edmund Berrigan -
Today We're Going to Conjure a House
– By Boni Joi -
shortcomings
– By Adam Pollock
LastWords
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Hank Thompson’s Blues
– By Theodore Hamm
