RNC Turns the Screws on NYC
by Christian Roselund and Michael CarpioLocal
As 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.

The Beast with No Name: Mark Achbar and Joel Bakan with Williams Cole
Express
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 Rails 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).
A View from Latin America: Jorge Ramos with Hirsh Sawhney
Express
More incisive than Dan Rather, more charming than Peter Jennings, Mexican-born Jorge Ramos is Spanish-language televisions 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

An Anarchist in the Hudson Valley: Peter Lamborn Wilson with Jennifer Bleyer
Express
Its been nearly ten years since Peter Lamborn Wilsonnée Hakim Beylooked 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?

Christo and Jeanne-Claude with Praxis
Art
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.
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Dear Friends and Readers,
by Phong BuiWhat have we learned from the horrendous political situation in our society, where noise is a weapon to slay our focus and deceive our reason? What have we learned from technological “progress,” and its consuming production and exploitation?

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.
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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

Can Archival Footage Change the World?
by Williams ColeFilm
Anyone 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.
In Dialogue: A Poetics of Terror: Ken Urban
by Jason GroteTheater
The world of Ken Urbans 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 Thompsons Blues
by Theodore HammLastWords
You might not remember me, and if you did, youd probably rather forget me. Most days, Id rather forget myself. Problem is, I cant.
Editor's Message
- Send in the Clowns... by Theodore Hamm
Local
- 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
- The Beast with No Name: Mark Achbar and Joel Bakan with Williams Cole
- 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
- 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
- Strange, Dark Places by Ellen Pearlman
- Ed Ruscha by Daniel Baird
- Christo and Jeanne-Claude with Praxis
- Agnes Martin: "...going forward into unknown territory..." by Joan Waltemath
- Larry Sultan's The Valley by Tessa DeCarlo
- Hope Kurtz (19592004) by Christina Hung
ArtSeen
- 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
- 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
Music
- The Archdukes Revenge: Franz Ferdinand Takes Williamsburg by Todd Simmons
- TrebleLive Series by Bethany Ryker
- Drumfolk by David Pleasant
Dance
- Still Falling for the Bad Boy
- Dancing on the Rail by Vanessa Manko
Film
- 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
- 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
- Excerpt from Never Again by Doug Nufer
- The Belly Dance by Robert Pinget
Poetry
- 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
- Hank Thompsons Blues by Theodore Hamm