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Local Retailers Sing Recession Blues

If you're not convinced that the economic downturn is a crisis writ large, walk down any commercial street in Brooklyn and count the vacant storefronts or signs advertising 70%-off sales.

What Is to Be Done?

It’s hard to imagine a more stunning demonstration of the theoretical bankruptcy of economics as a putative science than the ongoing discussion of the current economic situation.

The Proof of the Honey

Some people conjure spirits. I conjure bodies. I have no knowledge of my soul or of the souls of others. I know only my body and theirs.

Art In Conversation

ALFREDO JAAR with Phong Bui, Dore Ashton, and David Levi Strauss

"It's too easy to blame Kevin Carter for being the vulture, where in fact we are the vultures, the vulture is us," says Jaar.

Art In Conversation

Matvey Levenstein with Phong Bui

While preparing for his forthcoming one-person exhibition at Larissa Goldston Gallery, on view from April 2nd to May 9th, the painter Matvey Levenstein stopped by the Rail’s Headquarters to talk to Publisher Phong Bui about his life and work.

Art In Conversation

Roberta Smith with Irving Sandler

"I believe in individual taste, but taste-making is a kind of fiction. It's just a way to organize things that as time passes are going to fall apart again," says Smith.

The Perfect Mix: Assembling Angela’s Mixtape: Playwright Eisa Davis with Tommy Smith

"The play is about the Angela Davis I knew from growing up with her until I was about 19," says Eisa Davis.

Don’t Shoot the Player Piano: Céleste Boursier-Mougenot Taps into Unplayed Musical Realms

Without a pianist at the bench, pianos can foray into wildly perplexing terrain.

The Good Citizen

There is a section of the 110 freeway in Los Angeles that drops into downtown and at night it feels like you are driving through the skyscrapers, lit up like a big carnival on the edge of the city.

Editor's Message From The Editor

Fair is Foul

Amidst the rightful popular outrage against the continued handouts to Wall Street, one man has stood defiant—the mayor of New York City.

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APRIL 2009

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