Tenants Fight McMansions, Challenging Landlords to Keep Their Homes
By Eleanor J. BaderThe cliché tells us that home is where the heart is. But it is more than that. Just ask someone who is threatened with losing theirs, like Evelyn Suarez.
Walkin to New Orleans
By Jason Flores-WilliamsI was representing a 19-year-old homeboy who had beaten up an eight-year-old for his bicycle. He was late to court so I had to beg the judge not to issue an arrest warrant. He walked in like a total thug, but with his girlfriend following him holding his new baby.
Art In Conversation
Katherine Bradford with Chris Martin and Peter Acheson
While preparing for her solo exhibition of new paintings at Edward Thorp Gallery, which will be on view until June 2nd, Katherine Bradford took time to welcome painters Peter Acheson and Chris Martin to her Williamsburg studio to talk about her life and work.
Art In Conversation
Wolf Kahn with David Kapp and Robert Berlind
On the occasion of Wolf Kahns new exhibit at Ameringer & Yohe Fine Art, which will be on view till May 26th, painters David Kapp and Robert Berlind paid a visit to the artists Chelsea studio to talk about his life and work.
Against the Grain of Unconventionality
By Sergei TcherepninAmerican composer David Del Tredici, often referred to as the father of Neo-Romanticism, writes music that is full of sentiment and humor. A masterful orchestrator and a wizard at setting music to text, he composes with a clarity of ideas, both musical and social. His music is at times subtle and refined, at others blatantly over-the-top.
A Black and White Movie
By Guy GreenbergLa Haine is the hate of forgotten young men. Hubert, Saïd, and Vinz are no Benetton poster. African, Arab and Jewish, they connect decisively through hip-hop and the constant threat of the racist state.
Eye on the Prize
By Tessa DeCarloRed Road starts off like a revenge thriller with a sophisticated visual style. Jackie (Kate Dickie), wearing the butch shirt-and-tie uniform of law enforcement, sits in a dark room in front of a huge bank of television screens, her eyes scanning an endless array of nothing in particular.
Editor's Message
From Blacksburg to Baghdad...
By Theodore HammFrom Blacksburg to Baghdad, April was indeed the cruelest month. After buying a Glock 19 and a Walther 22 in nearby Roanoke, Cho Seung-Hui went on a senseless rampage at Virginia Tech. Less than 48 hours later, 183 people died when car bombs exploded in a crowded Baghdad market.
ArtSeen
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Stephanie Campos, Lady Shadow: Grid Machine
– By Nora Griffin -
Rick Klauber: Shim Paintings
– By Cassandra Neyenesch -
Ann Mikolowski: Two Ways of Looking in a Mirror
– By Natalie Haddad -
Brooklyn Dispatches
– By James Kalm -
Jo Baer
– By Carrie Moyer -
Olga Chernysheva: Isle Of Sparks
– By Jen Schwarting -
Lincoln Capla
– By Ben La Rocco -
Tala Madani: Smoke and Mirrors
– By Robert C. Morgan -
Dana Schutz
– By Jeremy Sigler -
Andrea Belag: New Paintings
– By Craig Olson -
Philip Pearlstein
– By James Kalm -
Richard Oelze: Paintings & Drawings from the 1950s & 1960s
– By Valery Oisteanu -
Victoria Neel
– By Stephanie Buhmann -
Liz Deschenes: Registration
– By Shane McAdams -
50 years of Helvetica
– By Hrag Vartanian -
Lee Bontecou: Vacuum-formed Sculptures and Related Drawings
– By Stephanie Buhmann -
Prelude to a "Criticism" of the Future
– By David Markus -
Susan Bee
– By Geoffrey Cruickshank-Hagenbuckle -
Picasso, Braque and Early Film in Cubism
– By Thomas Micchelli -
Letter from London
– By Sherman Sam
Table of Contents
Editor's Message
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From Blacksburg to Baghdad...
– By Theodore Hamm
Local
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Tenants Fight McMansions, Challenging Landlords to Keep Their Homes
– By Eleanor J. Bader -
The Alameda-Weehawken Burrito Tunnel
– By Maciej Ceglowski -
West Brighton Beach Memoirs
– By Samantha Berkley -
Schooling Alone Together
– By Amanda Darrach Filippone
Express
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On Imus and the Airwaves
– By Ken Freedman -
Walkin to New Orleans
– By Jason Flores-Williams -
RANT RHAPSODY: Memories of San Quentin
– By Theodore Hamm -
Notes on Fallujah
– By Dore Ashton -
Rudy Giuliani in Drag Smooching Donald Trump: Perspective on a Clip Gone Wild
– By Williams Cole -
The Grassroots Video Pioneers
– By Dara Greenwald -
Bolivian Noir: Juan de Recacoechea with Caitlin Esch
Art
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Katherine Bradford with Chris Martin and Peter Acheson
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A Tribute to Sol Lewitt (1928-2OO7)
– By Dorothea Rockburne -
Wolf Kahn with David Kapp and Robert Berlind
ArtSeen
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Stephanie Campos, Lady Shadow: Grid Machine
– By Nora Griffin -
Rick Klauber: Shim Paintings
– By Cassandra Neyenesch -
Ann Mikolowski: Two Ways of Looking in a Mirror
– By Natalie Haddad -
Brooklyn Dispatches
– By James Kalm -
Jo Baer
– By Carrie Moyer -
Olga Chernysheva: Isle Of Sparks
– By Jen Schwarting -
Lincoln Capla
– By Ben La Rocco -
Tala Madani: Smoke and Mirrors
– By Robert C. Morgan -
Dana Schutz
– By Jeremy Sigler -
Andrea Belag: New Paintings
– By Craig Olson -
Philip Pearlstein
– By James Kalm -
Richard Oelze: Paintings & Drawings from the 1950s & 1960s
– By Valery Oisteanu -
Victoria Neel
– By Stephanie Buhmann -
Liz Deschenes: Registration
– By Shane McAdams -
50 years of Helvetica
– By Hrag Vartanian -
Lee Bontecou: Vacuum-formed Sculptures and Related Drawings
– By Stephanie Buhmann -
Prelude to a "Criticism" of the Future
– By David Markus -
Susan Bee
– By Geoffrey Cruickshank-Hagenbuckle -
Picasso, Braque and Early Film in Cubism
– By Thomas Micchelli -
Letter from London
– By Sherman Sam
Books
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Fiction: Runes of Ruins
– By Marina Budhos -
Florence Falk with Erica Wetter
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The Life and Death of Translation
– By Sabrina Seelig -
Fiction: Haunted Man
– By Brandon Proia -
Nonfiction: Killer Dreams
– By John G. Rodwan Jr. -
Fiction: Song of the Post-Colonial Self
– By Vijay Seshadri
Music
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Against the Grain of Unconventionality
– By Sergei Tcherepnin -
Limping with the Stooges in Washington Heights
– By Todd Simmons -
Battles: Biting the Masters Hand
– By Paula Crossfield -
Newer, Weirder America:
– By Katy Henriksen -
Time, Loss, and the Blues
– By Peter Watrous
Dance
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DTWS The Nothing Festival: Not Much
– By Krista Miranda -
Tharp/Sugar Salon/Gwirtzman at the Miller Theater
– By Carley Petesch
Film
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Eye on the Prize
– By Tessa DeCarlo -
Transgression aGo-Go
– By David N. Meyer -
Brute Force 1947 Criterion Collection
– By David Wilentz -
A Black and White Movie
– By Guy Greenberg -
True Confessions
– By Karl O'Toole -
Machuca
– By Naomi Daremblum
Theater
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A Ripe Time: Rachel Dickstein's Betrothed
– By Eliza Bent -
Funny, Strange, Provocative: Seven Plays from Clubbed Thumb
– By Jason Grote -
Something Old, Something New: Lisa D’Amour and Katie Pearl’s Bird Eye Blue Print
– By Justin Boyd -
"The Fat Lady Will Sing with Bells On": Jenny Schwartz's God's Ear
– By Heidi Schreck
Fiction
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The Accidental Oracle
– By Kurt Strahm -
The Josephus Problem
– By Jacques Roubaud -
Flushing Av
– By Tony Antoniadis -
THE CARCASSES
– By Raymond Federman
Poetry
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Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!
– By Nicholas Bredie -
Poetry
– By Alex Lemon -
Nine Poems
– By Angela Jaeger -
Diary/Blog
– By Tan Lin
LastWords
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The Divine Plan: Notes for an Unperformable Mise-en-Scène
– By Andrew Farkas