Campaign 2005: Parole Call
By Marjory GarrisonBefore crack, before Meghans Law and before 2.1 million people crowded U.S. prisons and jails, the reality of prisoner re-entry still held true: most prisoners come back. Back to the blocks they grew up on, to the kids they left behind, to no job, few prospects, and a weekly appointment with their parole officer.
Express In Conversation
Hearts and Minds of Darkness: Garrett Scott In Conversation with Williams Cole
Occupation: Dreamland, a chilling documentary directed by Garrett Scott and Ian Olds about the Fallujah in January 2004, just prior to the U.S. siege, opens on September 23 at Cinema Village. The Rails Williams Cole recently sat down with Scott.
Art In Conversation
The Art of Parrying: Wilfried Dickhoff in conversation with Joan Waltemath
Wilfried Dickhoff is an independent critic, curator, and publisher who lives in Cologne and New York. He has taught at several art academies in Europe and recently at Princeton University. Currently, he is working on monograph books, e.g. on Albert Oehlen and Rosemarie Trockel, and a new international art magazine, which will be published out of Istanbul.
Art In Conversation
Philip Pearlstein In Conversation with Phong Bui
In the midst of preparations for his new exhibit at the Betty Cuningham Gallery, Philip Pearlstein took the time to sit down with Rail publisher Phong Bui to talk about his life and work at his loft studio in Hells Kitchen, where he and his wife Dorothy have lived since 1982.
Al Held (1928-2005)
By Chris Martin, Rackstraw Downes, William Conlon, and Judy PfaffI first met Al Held as an undergraduate at Yale. I remember seeing him with a group of graduate students playing cards in the Art and Architecture building.
Werner Herzog & the CMV
By David N. MeyerAnyone who makes nature films for a living will tell you that its impossible to get funding without a CMV.
What's for Dinner
By Marjory GarrisonAs part of an ongoing series, The Rail will be visiting dinner tables throughout the borough to examine how economics, culture and taste influence what for most remains the principal meal of the day.
Editor's Message
Editor's Message
Mayor Bloomberg may not see the war in Iraq as a local issue, but most reasonable people disagree. From Cindy Sheehans Crawford to right here in our very own New York City, opposition to Mr. Bushs war has never been greater.
ArtSeen
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Andrew Demirjian
– By Hrag Vartanian -
Fresh Paint
– By Francis Raven -
Homomuseum: Heroes and Moments
– By Hrag Vartanian -
Killing Me Softly
– By Stephanie Buhmann -
Material Witness: The Selected Letters of Fairfield Porter
– By William Corbett -
Aernaut Mik
– By Jason Murison -
The Sign of Paradise
– By Roger Kamholz -
Remote Viewing
– By Stephen Maine -
Leslie Roberts
– By James Kalm -
War/Hell Master Prints by Otto Dix and Max Beckmann
– By Thomas Micchelli -
We Could Have Invited Everyone
– By Francis Raven
Table of Contents
Editor's Message
Local
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Campaign 2005: Parole Call
– By Marjory Garrison -
What's for Dinner
– By Marjory Garrison -
Bruce Ratner: Powerman, the Eroica, and Atlantic Yards
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Express
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Hearts and Minds of Darkness: Garrett Scott In Conversation with Williams Cole
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Letter From London
– By Megha Bahree -
Mexico City Punk
– By Jason Flores-Williams -
Session PLAN B: the Scottish Model
– By Peter Lamborn Wilson -
You May Never Have Heard of Leo Strauss, but His Ideas Are Dominating the World
– By Norman Kelley
Art
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Al Held (1928-2005)
– By Chris Martin, Rackstraw Downes, William Conlon, and Judy Pfaff -
Ancestry & Innovation African American Art, From the American Folk Art Museum, Through September 4
– By Daniel Baird -
Displaced Histories: The Art of Banks Violette
– By Katie Stone Sonnenborn -
Letter from Bruce Conner
– By Bruce Conner -
The Art of Parrying: Wilfried Dickhoff in conversation with Joan Waltemath
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Philip Pearlstein In Conversation with Phong Bui
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Railing Opinion: Dore Ashton and Carlos Brillembourg on Post 9/11
– By Dore Ashton and Carlos Brillembourg
ArtSeen
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Andrew Demirjian
– By Hrag Vartanian -
Fresh Paint
– By Francis Raven -
Homomuseum: Heroes and Moments
– By Hrag Vartanian -
Killing Me Softly
– By Stephanie Buhmann -
Material Witness: The Selected Letters of Fairfield Porter
– By William Corbett -
Aernaut Mik
– By Jason Murison -
The Sign of Paradise
– By Roger Kamholz -
Remote Viewing
– By Stephen Maine -
Leslie Roberts
– By James Kalm -
War/Hell Master Prints by Otto Dix and Max Beckmann
– By Thomas Micchelli -
We Could Have Invited Everyone
– By Francis Raven
Books
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Julian Barnes with James McCloskey
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Fiction : An Experiment in Pleasure
– By Robert Clark Young -
Mama Knew Best
– By Ashley Williams -
Mixed Media: Utopian Schemes
– By Johanna Drucker -
Writing in the Dark: The Story of Irene Nemirovsky
– By Erin Durant -
Fiction : Desperate Housewives, Japan-style
– By Corrie Pikul -
Poetry : Our Poet of the Plains
– By Alexander Nazaryan -
Art: Picturing the Un-picturesque
– By Robert Berlind
Music
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Park Slope Cosmopolitan: Las Rubias del Norte play the music of South American cowboys and Cuban lounge-lizards
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Notes on Quantum
– By Basil Kirchin -
“i want to see your face in the reflection of my bedroom stereo”
– By Grant Moser
Dance
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Dancing on the Rail: Let the Festivals Begin
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Impure Movement: Cunningham, O'Connor and the Task of Saying Something by MJ Thompson
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Notes from the Fringe
– By Emily Larocque and Nicole Pope
Film
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Isn’t There a Little Bit More to Life?
– By Gragory Zucker -
Werner Herzog & the CMV
– By David N. Meyer -
Remembering Omer Kavur
– By Robert A. Haller -
Punk Rock Docs
– By Williams Cole -
The Romance of Revolution
– By Nona Willis-Aronowitz -
SAMURAI FLASHBACK
– By David Wilentz
Theater
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Excerpt: Commedia del Smartass
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A Life in the Theater: Orson's Shadow
– By Emily DeVoti -
In Dialogue: Stepping into Darkness with Will Eno
– By Jake Hooker -
Up from Off-Off: Prelude '05 Redefining "Downtown" Theater
– By Brook Stowe
Fiction
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The Forest is in the Euphrates River (a work in progress) For the sculptor Petah Coyne, and for poet Judith Goldman
– By Leslie Scalapino
Poetry
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I Do Not Tire Quickly
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Bush Poem, City Poem, Hospital Poem
– By Harvey Shapiro -
Ape Ancestry, My Refinery
– By Jeremy Sigler
LastWords
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NOISE
– By Kurt Strahm