From the Inside Out
By Sabine HeinleinAs our luxury coach speeds up Interstate 87, Pablo Santos remembers sitting on a bus in shackles. There were guards, and bars on the windows, and he was not allowed to speak.
Brooklyn No More
By Christopher KetchamIn the 1980s, when I was a kid, the section of Court Street where it meets Atlantic Avenue was broken-down and unhappy and full of crazy old men stumbling out of bars and nothing shined and you could get a plate of yellow rice with a half-chicken on the rotisserie for three dollars with a forty of St. Ides for a dollar more. I have a real nostalgie de la boue for it, which is unhealthy and self-deluding and I admit this freely.
Art In Conversation
Brian O’ Doherty with Phong Bui
On the occasion of his retrospective, Beyond the White Cube at Grey Art Gallery, which will be on view till July 14th, the artist Brian O’Doherty—also known as Patrick Ireland—came to visit the Rail’s Headquarters to discuss his life and work.
Art In Conversation
Robert Ryman with Phong Bui
After his last show, No Title Required, at Pace Gallery uptown, painter Robert Ryman welcomed Rail Publisher Phong Bui to his West Village studio to talk about his recent paintings and other related work.
Letter from Iran
By Robert C. MorganHaving recently traveled to Iran to jury an “international” sculpture symposium, it was difficult to match what I saw and felt with the kinds of reports being generated by the corporate “entertainment” media back home.
How I Got Here, I Can't Recall
By Jim Knipfel“The sixties crowd is always trying to monopolize how good the music was,” says Leif Solem. “It’s just not the case. There’s a lot of shit going on all the time. It doesn’t stop.”
Film In Conversation
More Freedom and More Shocking
By David WilentzDirector Kazuo Hara is known for raw, transgressive documentaries that boldly attack the repressive mores of Japan.
A New Spin on an Old Tradition
By Marie CarterComing to the rescue at a laundromat near you is the Dirty Laundry: Loads of Prose reading series, which runs about once a month at various laundromats across the city.
Editor's Message
Make a Better NYC
By Theodore HammNow seems like the right time to imagine a better New York City. Everybody’s doing it. Bloomberg has his PlaNYC. It’s time for Rail readers to create their own blueprint, too.
ArtSeen
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Jim Lee Altamont
– By Craig Olson -
Tony Cragg
– By Robert C. Morgan -
Nicolas Carone Sculpture
– By Thomas Micchelli -
Larry Miller Homage to Nam June Paik
– By Warren Fry -
Trouble and the B-Keepers You Are Here: A Maze
– By Warren Fry -
Melissa Pokorny there/there
– By Cassandra Neyenesch -
Comic Abstraction
– By Ben La Rocco -
The Male Gaze
– By Hrag Vartanian -
Joan Mitchell
– By Jennifer Riley -
William Powhida
– By James Kalm
This Is A Work Of Fiction -
Brandon Lattu 4 Models
– By Jeremy Sigler -
Shana Moulton Whispering Pines
– By Jen Schwarting -
Katherine Bradford By Life & By Land, Recent Paintings
– By John Yau -
China Blue, Carol Salmanson
– By Jill Conner -
Gregory Amenoff Facing North
– By John Yau -
Kristen Schiele Gothicolor
– By Shane McAdams -
Reuben Kadish’s Holocaust Sculpture
– By Jill Conner -
Dreaming of a Speech Without Words: The Paintings and Early Objects of H.C. Westerman
– By Thomas Micchelli
Will Barnet: Recent Work -
Carroll Dunham
– By John Yau -
Abby Leigh The Eye is the First Circle
– By Ben La Rocco -
Nicholas Krushenick
– By John Yau -
Eric Holzman Drawings, 1990–2007
– By Greg Lindquist
Table of Contents
Editor's Message
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Make a Better NYC
– By Theodore Hamm
Local
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A New Spin on an Old Tradition
– By Marie Carter -
From Brooklyn to Bourbon Street
– By Eleanor J. Bader -
The Time? Antiquated. The View? Awesome.
– By Matthew L. Levy -
From the Inside Out
– By Sabine Heinlein -
Maison d'Ordure
– By Liz Maestri -
The Habitat of the Human Freak
– By Brian Childs -
Visions of Coney Island
– By An Xiao
Express
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Brooklyn No More
– By Christopher Ketcham -
The “Greening” of New York City
– By Richard Wells -
Inside Kashmir
– By Justine Hardy -
Coca Adds Life to the Bolivian Economy
– By Caitlin Esch -
Bringing the War Home
– By B. Colby Hamilton -
RANT RHAPSODY: Girl, Lightly Medicated
– By Katherine Sharpe -
Docs in Sight: A Spring Festival Doc Roundup
– By Williams Cole and Pamela Grossman
Art
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James Beck, Gadfly (1930-2007)
– By Thomas Micchelli -
Letter from London
– By Sherman Sam -
Letter from Germany:It's Not About Representation, It’s About Production Interview with Roger Buergel and Ruth Noack
– By Clare Carolin -
Letter from Iran
– By Robert C. Morgan -
Robert Ryman with Phong Bui
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Brian O’ Doherty with Phong Bui
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Letter from China
– By Ellen Pearlman -
Brooklyn Dispatches
– By James Kalm
ArtSeen
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Jim Lee Altamont
– By Craig Olson -
Tony Cragg
– By Robert C. Morgan -
Nicolas Carone Sculpture
– By Thomas Micchelli -
Larry Miller Homage to Nam June Paik
– By Warren Fry -
Trouble and the B-Keepers You Are Here: A Maze
– By Warren Fry -
Melissa Pokorny there/there
– By Cassandra Neyenesch -
Comic Abstraction
– By Ben La Rocco -
The Male Gaze
– By Hrag Vartanian -
Joan Mitchell
– By Jennifer Riley -
William Powhida This Is A Work Of Fiction
– By James Kalm -
Brandon Lattu 4 Models
– By Jeremy Sigler -
Shana Moulton Whispering Pines
– By Jen Schwarting -
Katherine Bradford By Life & By Land, Recent Paintings
– By John Yau -
China Blue, Carol Salmanson
– By Jill Conner -
Gregory Amenoff Facing North
– By John Yau -
Kristen Schiele Gothicolor
– By Shane McAdams -
Reuben Kadish’s Holocaust Sculpture
– By Jill Conner -
Dreaming of a Speech Without Words: The Paintings and Early Objects of H.C. Westerman Will Barnet: Recent Work
– By Thomas Micchelli -
Carroll Dunham
– By John Yau -
Abby Leigh The Eye is the First Circle
– By Ben La Rocco -
Nicholas Krushenick
– By John Yau -
Eric Holzman Drawings, 1990–2007
– By Greg Lindquist
Books
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Poetry Roundup
– By Jeffrey Cyphers Wright -
Mamapalooza: Marjorie Tesser with Cassandra Neyenesch
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Fiction Lyrically Feral
– By Adrian Jiménez -
Nonfiction Peace Long Ago
– By Naomi Karavani -
Nonfiction Looking for Utopia
– By Erica Wetter -
Nonfiction No Pain, No Game(space)
– By Laura Stokes -
Nonfiction Hitchens in Love
– By John G. Rodwan Jr. -
Literature Wordplay
– By Anna Wainwright
Music
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How I Got Here, I Can't Recall
– By Jim Knipfel -
Yam Sacs and Unicorn Sounds:
– By Kate Crane -
The Return of the MC
– By Claire McTaggart -
(Arcade) Fire and Brimstone at the United Palace
– By Todd Simmons -
Because we said so
– By Grant Moser and Scott Damell
Dance
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Ohad Naharin with Susan Yung
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Michael Helland’s The Dress Up Show
– By Krista Miranda -
The Medievalist and the Minimalist
– By Emily Larocque -
Chameckilerners Exit at the Kitchen
– By Carley Petesch
Film
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More Freedom and More Shocking
– By David Wilentz -
Easy. Good. Pick One.
– By Tessa DeCarlo -
Let the Punishment Begin
– By Jesi Khadivi -
Herzog: (Non)Fiction
– By Jed Lipinski
Theater
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Saving Their Tales
– By Valerie Work -
Having Their Cake, and Meaning It Too
– By Jacob Gallagher-Ross -
BRING A WEASEL AND A PINT OF YOUR OWN BLOOD
– By Trish Harnetiaux -
So Many Players
– By Miriam Felton-Dansky
Fiction
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The Accidental Oracle
– By Kurt Strahm -
The Conception of Despair
– By Evan Harris -
RATS
– By Daniels Parseliti
Poetry
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the man who ate himself
– By Roberto Harrison -
from Poem Noir
– By Doug Nufer -
from Hyper glossia
– By Stacy Szymaszek
LastWords
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The Beast with Two Backs
– By Brian Childs
