Coney Island History Project Preserves the Past for Future Generations
By Eleanor J. BaderIn 1965, Charles Denson, then a 12-year-old kid living in a Coney Island housing project, saw a map of his community in the New York Daily News and learned that the area had once been separated from mainland Brooklyn. “At that point I became fascinated with the history of the place,” he says.
South America's China Syndrome
By Nikolas Kozloff"Right now South America is trying to recover from the social catastrophe of the past twenty years and sees China as a convenient market for its raw resources."
Art In Conversation
NANCY SPERO with Phong Bui
On the occasion of her traveling retrospective, Nancy Spero: Dissidances (currently on view at the Museu d' Art Contemporani in Barcelona), the artist recently sat down with Rail publisher Phong Bui at her home on LaGuardia Place.
Art In Conversation
Robert Hullot-Kentor in Conversation with Fabio Akcelrud Durão
One recent afternoon, Fabio Akcelrud Durão, a Brazilian literary theorist, paid a visit to the home of Robert Hullot-Kentor in Manhattan. The following is the result of their discussion of Adorno’s theory of a “web of unknowing,” psychoanalysis and politics, apocalypse, what words not to use, the gratuitous plural, and what art is.
Art In Conversation
Richard Artschwager in Conversation with John Yau & Eve Aschheim
Shortly after Richard Artschwager’s exhibition of paintings and sculptures opened at Gagosian Gallery (January 24–March 8, 2008) the Rail Art Editor John Yau and his wife, the painter Eve Aschheim visited the artist in his Manhattan apartment and home in Upstate New York to discuss his work.
Film In Conversation
Harmony Korine in Conversation with Amy Taubin
Harmony Korine, best known for his screenplay Kids in 1995 (written in a matter of weeks when he was twenty-two) and the experimental provocation of Gummo from 1997, and Julian Donkey-Boy in 1999, has made his third feature Mister Lonely over the course of ten years.
¡Divertido! Dan Zanes’s ¡Nueva York! Brings a Guerilla Groove to Family Music
By KK KozikFun is not a word commonly understood to spearhead subversive politics. Yet when Dan Zanes discusses life and music it becomes clear that fun is the sword with which he fights the good fight.
Editor's Message From The Editor
Men of La Mancha
By Theodore HammFor most of us who grew up in the 20th century, two things seemed certain never to happen in our lifetime: a black person getting elected president of the U.S., or the Cubs winning the World Series.
ArtSeen
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Frida Kahlo
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Meeting Imi and Blinky at Dia: Beacon
– By Sharon L. Butler -
Charles Juhasz-Alvarado Complicated Stories
– By Cora Fisher -
Dumitru Gorzo In the Corner of My Eye
– By Valery Oisteanu -
Asplundher Syndicate A Nelson Loses Three Heads... Apparently
– By Warren Fry -
Erica Svec Same Enemy Rainbow
– By Craig Olson -
Sigur Rós
– By Jed Lipinski -
The Breakaway Republic of Bushwick
– By Hrag Vartanian -
Francisco de Goya y Lucientes The Disasters of War
– By Thomas Micchelli -
Philip Guston Works on Paper
– By John Yau -
Darina Karpov Infinitely Small Disasters
– By Shane McAdams -
Absence and the Continuum of Nature
– By Robert C. Morgan -
Brooklyn Dispatches: Cool Island and Garden of Chill
– By James Kalm -
Mark Fox Paper Bulls
– By Lynn Crawford -
TRACKS: More Than a Pretty View
– By James Trimarco
Table of Contents
Editor's Message
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Men of La Mancha
– By Theodore Hamm
Local
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Almost Famous
– By Will Bredderman -
Chasing New York City's Waterfalls
– By Nadia Chaudhury -
Glee Club: How an elementary school choir found global fame.
– By Sophie Gilbert -
Coney Island History Project Preserves the Past for Future Generations
– By Eleanor J. Bader -
Taking Back the Streets
– By Aparna Narayanan -
McCarren Park Pool
– By Trish Harnetiaux -
Transgenders Push Past Pageantry, Into Advocacy
– By Caroline Jackson
Express
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Why I Am Going To Iran
– By Rev. Osagyefo Uhuru Sekou -
A Day at the Races The Belmont
– By Sam Ferri -
WEB EXCLUSIVE: Why I am going to Iran
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Bloomberg’s Blockin’ Out the Sun
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Inside the American Ruling Class: John Kirby And Libby Handros in conversation with Williams Cole
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Gonzo: The Life and Death of the Last American Patriot
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South America's China Syndrome
– By Nikolas Kozloff -
The Deal That Wasn’t
– By Omair Ahmad -
Inside India
– By Leigh Kamping-Carder -
Hope Amidst the Rubble
– By Abby Margulies -
The Right to a Fair Trial
– By James Arnett -
2009 is Not the End
– By Vincent Rossmeier -
Art and Lies
– By Karen Shimizu
Art
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NANCY SPERO with Phong Bui
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A Tribute to Anne D'Harnoncourt (1943-2008)
– By Phong Bui -
Robert Hullot-Kentor in Conversation with Fabio Akcelrud Durão
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Richard Artschwager in Conversation with John Yau & Eve Aschheim
ArtSeen
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Frida Kahlo
– By Tessa DeCarlo -
Meeting Imi and Blinky at Dia: Beacon
– By Sharon L. Butler -
Charles Juhasz-Alvarado Complicated Stories
– By Cora Fisher -
Dumitru Gorzo In the Corner of My Eye
– By Valery Oisteanu -
Asplundher Syndicate A Nelson Loses Three Heads... Apparently
– By Warren Fry -
Erica Svec Same Enemy Rainbow
– By Craig Olson -
Sigur Rós
– By Jed Lipinski -
The Breakaway Republic of Bushwick
– By Hrag Vartanian -
Francisco de Goya y Lucientes The Disasters of War
– By Thomas Micchelli -
Philip Guston Works on Paper
– By John Yau -
Darina Karpov Infinitely Small Disasters
– By Shane McAdams -
Absence and the Continuum of Nature
– By Robert C. Morgan -
Brooklyn Dispatches: Cool Island and Garden of Chill
– By James Kalm -
Mark Fox Paper Bulls
– By Lynn Crawford -
TRACKS: More Than a Pretty View
– By James Trimarco
Books
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Photography: A World to Warhol
– By Ellen Pearlman -
Poetry Roundup
– By Jeffrey Cyphers Wright -
Poetry: Rounding Out the Edges
– By Jim Feast -
Poetry: Before- And After-Image
– By Ben Tripp -
Fiction: Illness as Metallurgy
– By Joseph Salvatore -
Fiction: Two Halves of a Whole
– By Hana Malia -
Fiction: Who, You?
– By Jessica Stults -
Nonfiction: Legends from the Levant
– By Mia Eaton -
Nonfiction: Beauty, Old Faithful
– By Marcela Silva -
Nonfiction: The Cold Hard Facts of Home
– By Meghan Roe -
Nonfiction: How a Stroke Became Genius
– By Robert Blaisdell -
Prose Roundup
– By Ben Mirov, Mayra David, Jackson Taylor, and Tatiaana Laine
Music
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Middle-Aged Jesus: Lydia Lunch’s Second Coming
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Fleet Foxes: Pastoral Melodies
– By Laura Flierl -
¡Divertido! Dan Zanes’s ¡Nueva York! Brings a Guerilla Groove to Family Music
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In with the Out Crowd
– By Peter Holslin -
Cyrill Schläpfer with Bart Plantenga
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Outtakes
– By Steve Dalachinsky -
Baye Kouyaté
– By Aaron Lake Smith
Dance
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Denby and Balanchine: A Dance Critic’s Work
– By Margaret Fuhrer -
Postcard from Montréal: Festival TransAmériques, May 22–June 5
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It's What You Say and How You Say It
– By April Greene
Film
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The Wackness is Dopeness
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Languid Winds and Daring Kimonos
– By David Wilentz -
Tatsuya Nakadai Retrospective
– By David Wilentz -
The Ennobling Embittering Struggle
– By David N. Meyer -
(Native) American Neo-Realism
– By David N. Meyer -
Smother Love
– By Tessa DeCarlo -
Cyd Charisse: 1921-2008
– By Sarahjane Blum -
Real and Imagined Kurdistan
– By Camila de Onís -
Sci-fi thriller? Slasher movie? Comedy? No, its M. Night Shyamalan’s latest flop…
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Harmony Korine in Conversation with Amy Taubin
Theater
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The Meltdown Should Be Televised
– By Justin Boyd -
You Will Remember What it Looks Like: Karinne Keithley
– By Amber Reed -
A Play at Poolside: Caridad Svich's 12 Ophelias
– By David G. Schultz -
Crease Patterns: Rajiv Joseph's Animals Out of Paper
– By Kristoffer Diaz -
On Innocence and Depravity
– By Jason Grote
Fiction
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The Envy of Nations
– By Michael Washburn -
Tragic Strip
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FICT/IONS
– By Richard Kostelanetz -
The Anxiety of Influence
– By David Brody
Poetry
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Historiography
– By Cassandra Pantuso -
Nary a Soul
– By Macgregor Card
LastWords
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Bloomberg’s Blockin’ Out the Sun
– By Matthew Vaz
