Rebel with a Lens: Neighborhood Preservation in the Darkroom of Clayton Patterson
By Jericho ParmsInside, Clayton Patterson sits among boxes. Artwork rests propped against the walls or hangs in the darkened eaves of the room.
Express In Conversation
From Brooklyn to DC: Kevin Powell with Theodore Hamm
"Hip-hop values include making something out of nothing, winning on your own terms. That's why I'm running for Congress," says Powell.
Art In Conversation
Chuck Close with Phong Bui
The following conversation between Chuck Close and Rail Publisher Phong Bui was initially held at The Marie Walsh Sharpe Art FoundationThe Space Program in its new location at 20 Jay Street, D.U.M.B.O., Brooklyn, of whom both are members of the Artists Advisory Committeethen carried further at the painters West Village home last Sunday.
Art In Conversation
Wynn Kramarsky with William Corbett
Wynn Kramarskys collection of contemporary works on paper consists of more than 3,000 drawings amassed over the last 50 years. His interests focus on the work of Minimalist and Post-Minimalist artists.
Art In Conversation
David Novros with Phong Bui
Since his last exhibition of six copper paintings at Earl McGrath Gallery in 2000, David Novros has been working on five monumental paintings which can be seen as his synthesis of early shaped canvas and fresco paintings. On a sunny afternoon this Spring, Rail Publisher Phong Bui paid a visit to the painters studio to talk about his life and work.
Gamblin with the Ice Machine
By Jed Lipinski"Gambling is a nihilistic endeavor, Graham Watling, aka Ice Machine, says on a recent Monday night in Atlantic City, leaning over a $5-minimum roulette table at the Tropicana Casino. And I see making music as basically a nihilistic endeavor.
New York Asian Film Festival
By David N. Meyer and Lu ChenSummer means Asian Films Are Go. The New York Asian Film Festival will present its wild selection of the most recent and most curious films culled from the current crop of Asian pop cinema.
Angrier Every Night
By Sarahjane BlumIn one of his most straightforward magazine articles, True Love: Groping for the Holy Grail, science fiction legend Harlan Ellison signs up with a dating serviceGreat Expectationswhich in the 1970s, was both technically cutting edge, and a cultural throwback. Utilizing five-minute video interviews, people were able to anonymously size up potential lovers and safely set up dates.
Shapeshifting
By Jonathan BaumbachWe had always considered Joel crazy, but not, to put a fine point on it, crazy crazy. There is a difference. For Joel, who got off on being the center of attention, craziness was a form of self-presentation.
Editor's Message
One War Comes to an End...
When I saw Obama speak at Washington Square in late September of last year, I really didnt think he would pull it off. He was charismatic, of course, but he seemed a bit blaséit was almost as if he really didnt think he could topple the House of Clinton, either.
ArtSeen
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Gert & Uwe Tobias: der osten im norden des westens
– By Stephanie Buhmann -
Mel Bochner
– By David Markus -
David Ford: White Like Me
– By Jillian Steinhauer -
We Are The Seahorses
– By Warren Fry -
Le Radeau: Bruce High Quality Foundation Lands in Chelsea
– By Maxwell Heller -
Milton Resnick: A Question of Seeing
– By Thomas Micchelli -
Notes from Underground
– By Geoffrey Cruickshank-Hagenbuckle -
Prefabricated Art, Undesirable Surreality
– By Valery Oisteanu -
Take Your Time: Olafur Eliasson
– By Josh Morgenthau -
Tomory Dodge
– By Shane McAdams -
Catherine Murphy
– By Greg Lindquist -
Rebecca Horn: Cosmic Maps
– By Joan Waltemath -
Paul Chan
– By William McManus -
Weltanschauung and Abstract Painting
– By Robert C. Morgan -
Steve DiBenedetto Chaoticus
– By John Yau -
Nicolas Carone: Recent Paintings
– By John Yau
Table of Contents
Editor's Message
Local
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Rebel with a Lens: Neighborhood Preservation in the Darkroom of Clayton Patterson
– By Jericho Parms -
"Union Square is Not For Sale" Declare Activists
– By Ben Shepard -
Contaminated Education? Toxic Schools and the Leasing Loophole
– By Renata Perri Silberblatt -
Lost and Found
– By Rev. Dr. Donna Schaper -
Emergency Food Programs Feed Brooklyn's Hungry
– By Eleanor J. Bader
Express
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From Brooklyn to DC: Kevin Powell with Theodore Hamm
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Inside the Tenderloin
– By Erick Lyle -
Nobody's Safe in Cyberspace
– By David Shankbone -
Amstetten: Notes on a Catastrophe
– By Lydia Stryk -
Does It Catch Mice, a story by Omair Ahmad
– By Omair Ahmad -
Something is Happening There
– By Michael Busch -
Ask Not...
– By Katie Rolnick -
Where Have All the Film Critics Gone?
– By Vincent Rossmeier -
Docs in Sight: A Spring Round-Up
– By Williams Cole and Shahnaz Habib -
Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, The Mistress, and The Tangerine
– By Laura Hunt
Art
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James Harithas with Raphael Rubinstein
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Mowry Baden's "Leisure Monuments"
– By Robert Hullot-Kentor -
Chuck Close with Phong Bui
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David Novros with Phong Bui
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Wynn Kramarsky with William Corbett
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Tribute to Robert Rauschenberg (19252008)
– By Dorothea Rockburne and Nan Rosenthal -
Lost In Space: Art Post-Studio
– By Sharon L. Butler -
Brooklyn Dispatches
– By James Kalm -
The Mind-Body Problem: Courbet, Poussin and Contemporary Art
– By Ben La Rocco -
At Rest, in Peace: Farewell to Patrick Ireland
– By Whitney Rugg
ArtSeen
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Gert & Uwe Tobias: der osten im norden des westens
– By Stephanie Buhmann -
Mel Bochner
– By David Markus -
David Ford: White Like Me
– By Jillian Steinhauer -
We Are The Seahorses
– By Warren Fry -
Le Radeau: Bruce High Quality Foundation Lands in Chelsea
– By Maxwell Heller -
Milton Resnick: A Question of Seeing
– By Thomas Micchelli -
Notes from Underground
– By Geoffrey Cruickshank-Hagenbuckle -
Prefabricated Art, Undesirable Surreality
– By Valery Oisteanu -
Take Your Time: Olafur Eliasson
– By Josh Morgenthau -
Tomory Dodge
– By Shane McAdams -
Catherine Murphy
– By Greg Lindquist -
Rebecca Horn: Cosmic Maps
– By Joan Waltemath -
Paul Chan
– By William McManus -
Weltanschauung and Abstract Painting
– By Robert C. Morgan -
Steve DiBenedetto Chaoticus
– By John Yau -
Nicolas Carone: Recent Paintings
– By John Yau
Books
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Judith Donath with Colleen Asper
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Rivka Galchen with David Varno
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Fiction: Strange Fruit
– By Meghan Roe -
Nonfiction: You Can Never Be Too Paranoid
– By Jim Feast -
Nonfiction: Willful Hedonism
– By Mia Eaton -
Poetry: New Verses from Long Ago
– By Joseph Donahue -
Anthology: Art is Politics is Life
– By Rachel Balik -
NonFiction: Stalin Was Right?
– By James Trimarco -
Poetry Roundup
– By Jeffrey Cyphers Wright -
Prose Roundup
– By Erin Heath, Ben Mirov, Katrina Brewer, and Mayra David
Music
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Gamblin with the Ice Machine
– By Jed Lipinski -
Outtakes
– By Steve Dalachinsky -
Strapping Young Men Singer at the Knitting Factory Tap Bar 4/29 and Glasslands Gallery 4/30
– By Paula Crossfield -
Brought to You by the Letter G
– By Grant Moser -
Poised to Take Flight Becca Stevens Band: Tea Bye Sea
– By Sharon Mesmer
Dance
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Sick of Dance? Never! The 2008 New York Dance Parade
– By April Greene -
Momix Passion: A Review
– By Carley Petesch -
GeraldCaselDance: A Review
– By Margaret Fuhrer
Film
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New York Asian Film Festival
– By David N. Meyer and Lu Chen -
Angrier Every Night
– By Sarahjane Blum -
Celebrating the Earth: The Films of Franco Piavoli
– By Mary Hanlon -
Sex and the City (AKA Cinderella Spoof, AKA SKYY Vodka Commercial) Hits New York Hard
– By Makenna Goodman -
Travelogue, Poot Style
– By David N. Meyer -
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
– By Rachel Balik
Theater
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All our tomorrows: TR Warszawa brings Macbeth to DUMBO
– By Alan Lockwood -
Into the LAByrinth: The Life of an Acting Writer
– By Cusi Cram -
Process and Production: Summerworks 2008 at Clubbed Thumb
– By Justin Boyd -
Big Break: Annie Baker's Body Awareness
– By Alexis Clements
Fiction
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Ulysses 3
– By Barrett O'Sullivan -
Shapeshifting
– By Jonathan Baumbach -
Tragic Strip
– By T. Motley
Poetry
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As A Miner
– By Ann Stephenson -
How Could It Be
– By Ann Stephenson -
The Fallout
– By Ann Stephenson -
Dead Black Men
– By Paul Killebrew -
For Beth Ward
– By Paul Killebrew
LastWords
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A Dark Forecast
– By James Arnett