Mayor in the Middle?
By Theodore HammThe Mayor hates politics. Oxymoronic as that statement sounds, it in many ways should have been clear from the get-go.
Isaiah Berlin and Meyer Schapiro: An Exchange
Isaiah Berlin and Meyer Schapiro, the eminent philosopher and the great art historian, first met in the 1940s, either at one of Schapiros invited lectures at Oxford or during Berlins brief employment with the British governments Information Services in Washington, D.C. Schapiro had later attended Berlins six famous Mellon Lectures on Romanticism at the National Gallery of Art in Washington in 1965.
Art In Conversation
Rackstraw Downes
By Phong BuiEarly one July morning, the Rails publisher Phong Bui visited the painter Rackstraw Downes at his loft on the top floor of an old Fluxus-converted building on Greene Street.
A Tribute to Leon Golub (19222004)
By Phong Bui, David Levi Strauss, and Clayton EshlemanRemembering Golub by David Levi Strauss; Leon Golub 19222004 by Clayton Eshelman; A Tribute: Leon Golub by Phong Bui
Lee Bontecou: A Retrospective
By Daniel BairdIn a soot drawing from 1958, executed with an oxyacetylene torch, brightly highlighted, tendon-like shapes rise up to a gaping, muscle-ringed hole from which stares a blank eyeball.
Books In Conversation
Brian Kim Stefans with Mónica de la Torre
The first time I heard about /ubu books was after a reading by Mike Scharf at the Bowery Poetry Club. I paid $5 for Verité, a printout of the pdf on UbuWeb.
Books In Conversation
Matthew Sharpe with Erinne Dobson
Matthew Sharpe is the author of Stories From the Tube, a short-story collection, and Nothing Is Terrible, a novel, both published by Villard. His breakout novel, The Sleeping Father, was published last winter by Soft Skull Press and quickly won him accolades, including being made a Today Show selection.
Theater In Conversation
Diane Torr with Sonya Sobieski
This September, New Georges theater company will produce Manfest, a festival geared to challenge gender assumptions and spark conversations extending far beyond the events two week duration.
ArtSeen
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Curious Crystal of Unusual Purity
– By Roger White -
German Drawings and Prints from the Weimar Republic (191933)
– By Stephanie Buhmann -
Karel Funk
– By Nick Stillman -
Six From the Seventies: The Last Years of Modern Photography and Evidence of Impact: Art and Photography 1963-1978
– By Farrah Karapetian -
Counter Culture New Museum of Contemporary Art
– By Sonya Shrier -
Darren Bader Rivington Arms
– By Ben La Rocco -
Yeardly Leonard Elizabeth Dee
– By Tomassio Longhi -
Bush League Roebling Hall
– By Ben LaRocco -
Joanna Pousette-Dart
– By Michael Brennan -
Field: Science, Technology, and Nature Socrates Sculpture Park
– By Tom Johnson -
Margrit Lewczuk All of Me Maier Museum of Art, Lynchburg, Virginia
– By James Kalm -
DoDo Jin Ming
– By Jonas Mekas -
Seeing Other People Marianne Boesky Gallery
– By William Powhida
Table of Contents
Local
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Mayor in the Middle?
– By Theodore Hamm -
A Home for Elephants?
– By Williams Cole -
A Mini-Guide to the RNC
– By Williams Cole and Heather Rogers -
Republicans: A Prose Poem
– By Eliot Weinberger -
One Immigrants Journey: Chasing the Dream in NYC
– By Gabriel Thompson -
In re: Atlantic Yards
– By Velmanette Montgomery, Major Owens, and Letitia James
Express
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Are Heterosexuals Worthy of Marriage?
– By Michael Parenti -
Beggars' Banquet
– By Paul Mattick -
The Strange Odyssey of Pierre Mac Orlan
– By Andy Merrifield -
Isaiah Berlin and Meyer Schapiro: An Exchange
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Art
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Unbroken Kilometers
– By John Hawke -
Lee Bontecou: A Retrospective
– By Daniel Baird -
Railing Opinion
– By Dore Ashton -
Ana Mendieta: Earth Body, Sculpture and Performance
– By Megan Heuer -
Rackstraw Downes
– By Phong Bui -
A Tribute to Leon Golub (19222004)
– By Phong Bui, David Levi Strauss, and Clayton Eshleman
ArtSeen
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Curious Crystal of Unusual Purity
– By Roger White -
German Drawings and Prints from the Weimar Republic (191933)
– By Stephanie Buhmann -
Karel Funk
– By Nick Stillman -
Six From the Seventies: The Last Years of Modern Photography and Evidence of Impact: Art and Photography 1963-1978
– By Farrah Karapetian -
Counter Culture New Museum of Contemporary Art
– By Sonya Shrier -
Darren Bader Rivington Arms
– By Ben La Rocco -
Yeardly Leonard Elizabeth Dee
– By Tomassio Longhi -
Bush League Roebling Hall
– By Ben LaRocco -
Joanna Pousette-Dart
– By Michael Brennan -
Field: Science, Technology, and Nature Socrates Sculpture Park
– By Tom Johnson -
Margrit Lewczuk All of Me Maier Museum of Art, Lynchburg, Virginia
– By James Kalm -
DoDo Jin Ming
– By Jonas Mekas -
Seeing Other People Marianne Boesky Gallery
– By William Powhida
Books
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How the Other Half Lives
– By Mirium Parker -
On Michael Lally
– By Hirsh Sawhney -
Brian Kim Stefans with Mónica de la Torre
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Matthew Sharpe with Erinne Dobson
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Off the Shelves
– By Book Staff
Music
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The Thing Itself: The Gram Parsons Project
– By David N. Meyer -
The Rebirth of DJ Spooky
– By Ellen Pearlman -
Let the Wave Wash You Over
– By Grant Moser
Dance
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The Art of Pure Movement
– By Rebecca Stenn -
Dancing on the Rail
– By Vanessa Manko
Film
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Gillo Pontecorvos Burn!
– By David N. Meyer -
Telling Time: Essays of a Visionary Filmmaker
– By Gragory Zucker -
Docs in Sight
– By Williams Cole -
Two Memories of Alexander-Sasha Hammid
– By Jonas Mekas -
Notes from the Fun Factory
– By Doug Cordell
Theater
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RNC: Fight or Flight?
– By Brook Stowe -
Siting NYC:
– By Jason Grote
Six Nights in September -
Quincy Longs People Be Heard
– By Justin Boyd -
Diane Torr with Sonya Sobieski
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Real People in Crisis Bushwicks Youth Theater Struggles to Survive
– By Douglas Singleton -
A Williamsburg Neverland: Straight on Til Morning
– By Emily DeVoti
Fiction
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Deadline
– By Jonathan Baumbach -
excerpt: Dahlias IrisSecret Autobiography and Fiction
– By Leslie Scalapino -
excerpt: Thumbs Up
– By Peter Spielberg -
A Visit
– By Jessica Treat -
Untitled
– By R.M. Berry
Poetry
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Epistle to Ignatz
– By Monica Youn -
Ignatz Incarcerated
– By Monica Youn -
Afterwards Ignatz
– By Monica Youn -
from Imaginary Journals
– By Dan Machlin