RNC Turns the Screws on NYC

by Christian Roselund and Michael Carpio

Local

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.

INCONVERSATION

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 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).

INCONVERSATION

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 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

INCONVERSATION

An Anarchist in the Hudson Valley: Peter Lamborn Wilson with Jennifer Bleyer

Express

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?

INCONVERSATION

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.

FROMTHE
PUBLISHER&ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

Dear Friends and Readers,

by Phong Bui

What 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?

FROMTHEEDITOR

Send in the Clowns...

by Theodore Hamm

Like 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

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

DOCSINSIGHT

Can Archival Footage Change the World?

by Williams Cole

Film

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.

INDIALOGUE

In Dialogue: A Poetics of Terror: Ken Urban

by Jason Grote

Theater

The 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.