Local Retailers Sing Recession Blues
By Eleanor J. BaderIf 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?
By Paul MattickIt’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
By Salwa Al NeimiSome 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
By 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
By Alan LockwoodWithout a pianist at the bench, pianos can foray into wildly perplexing terrain.
The Good Citizen
By Jolie GorchovThere 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
By Theodore HammAmidst the rightful popular outrage against the continued handouts to Wall Street, one man has stood defiant—the mayor of New York City.
ArtSeen
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Jim Lee: Paranoid
– By Craig Olson -
Philip-Lorca diCorcia: Thousand
– By Cora Fisher -
Allison Katz: You Talk Greasily
– By David Markus -
Amy Pleasant: Tight Shot
– By Shane McAdams -
Corpus Extremus (Life +)
– By Emily Warner -
Rebecca Smith, Mildred Beltre, and Rana Khoury
– By Greg Lindquist -
The Mood Back Home
– By Sharon L. Butler -
Burning Down the House: Building a Feminist Art Collection
– By Kimberly Lamm -
Xylor Jane: N.D.E.
– By John Yau -
Thomas Scheibitz: Missing link in Delphi
– By John Yau -
Leon Kossoff: From the Early Years - 1957-1967
– By Thomas Micchelli -
Ellen K. Levy
– By Ellen Pearlman -
1st Annual Hoo-Rah Marginal Arts Festival Parade
– By Warren Fry -
Carolee Schneemann: Painting, What It Became
– By Valery Oisteanu -
Bruce High Quality Foundation: Empire
– By Maxwell Heller
Table of Contents
Editor's Message
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Fair is Foul
– By Theodore Hamm
Local
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Local Retailers Sing Recession Blues
– By Eleanor J. Bader -
New Yorkers Blow the Whistle on Dirty Coal
– By Nicole Greenfield -
I’ll Take My Chances on the Nightshift
– By Russell Leigh Sharman and Cheryl Harris Sharman -
A Filmmaker’s Journey: Brooklyn’s Lisa Russell
– By Cheree Franco
Express
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What Is to Be Done?
– By Paul Mattick -
The Proof of the Honey
– By Salwa Al Neimi -
The Perils of a Young Fixer in Afghanistan: Ian Olds in conversation with Williams Cole
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Iraq: A Game of Craps
– By Michael Busch -
Children of Genocide
– By Elizabeth Monaghan -
Notes from Rio
– By Theodore Hamm
Art
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ALFREDO JAAR with Phong Bui, Dore Ashton, and David Levi Strauss
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Matvey Levenstein with Phong Bui
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Roberta Smith with Irving Sandler
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Letter From LONDON
– By Sherman Sam -
Brooklyn Dispatches:Williamsburg, Ready for Your Close-Up? The Premier of Brooklyn DIY
– By James Kalm -
Detritus and Drawings: The Art of Dineo Seshee Bopape
– By Kathleen Massara -
Where’s the Matter?: On the Sculpture of Kenneth Snelson
– By Robert C. Morgan -
Virgil Grotfeldt, 1948-2009: A Tribute
– By Stephanie Buhmann
ArtSeen
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Jim Lee: Paranoid
– By Craig Olson -
Philip-Lorca diCorcia: Thousand
– By Cora Fisher -
Allison Katz: You Talk Greasily
– By David Markus -
Amy Pleasant: Tight Shot
– By Shane McAdams -
Corpus Extremus (Life +)
– By Emily Warner -
Rebecca Smith, Mildred Beltre, and Rana Khoury
– By Greg Lindquist -
The Mood Back Home
– By Sharon L. Butler -
Burning Down the House: Building a Feminist Art Collection
– By Kimberly Lamm -
Xylor Jane: N.D.E.
– By John Yau -
Thomas Scheibitz: Missing link in Delphi
– By John Yau -
Leon Kossoff: From the Early Years - 1957-1967
– By Thomas Micchelli -
Ellen K. Levy
– By Ellen Pearlman -
1st Annual Hoo-Rah Marginal Arts Festival Parade
– By Warren Fry -
Carolee Schneemann: Painting, What It Became
– By Valery Oisteanu -
Bruce High Quality Foundation: Empire
– By Maxwell Heller
Books
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FICTION: What Do You Want and Why Do You Love Me?
– By Jim Feast -
FICTION: Hugs Last Too Long
– By Bruce Seymour -
PHOTOGRAPHY: Step Right Up
– By Brooke Chroman -
POETRY: High Noon
– By Ben Mirov -
FICTION: The New Global Novel of Disorientation
– By Anis Shivani -
MEMOIR: A Bomb in One Hand, Shelter in the Other
– By David Varno -
RAPID TRANSIT
– By Jeffrey Cyphers Wright -
TOKENS
– By Dan Fall, Paul Charles Griffin, Rami Shamir, Paul Devlin, and Dan Fall
Music
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Remember Yourself?
– By B-Squad -
A Mash Note Written in a Foreign Language
– By Alex Littlefield -
Remembering Early American Electronic Music
– By Richard Kostelanetz -
Sounds in the Dark: Two New Late-Night Talk Shows Embody Old-Time Radio in the Digital Age
– By Jed Lipinski -
The Thrill of Confinement: Bonnie "Prince" Billy
– By Katy Henriksen -
Don’t Shoot the Player Piano: Céleste Boursier-Mougenot Taps into Unplayed Musical Realms
– By Alan Lockwood -
A Good Bad Trip: Meshuggah, Cynic, and the Faceless at the Fillmore
– By Joseph Schafer -
Telepathe’s Plea for You to “Dance, Mother”
– By Paula Crossfield
Dance
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Give Me Gaga
– By Dalia Ratnikas -
Limbo En Route to the Afterlife
– By Hillary Brenhouse -
West Side Story Revival Hits Broadway
– By Emily Macel -
Done Into Pictures: A New Graphic Biography Celebrates Isadora Duncan’s Feminism
– By Mary Love Hodges -
Choir Praxis: On Daria Fain’s and Robert Kocik’s Phoneme Choir Movement Research Festival, Judson Memorial Church, May 4, 2009
– By Thom Donovan -
Think Punk, Think Again: Karole Armitage Celebrates 30 Years in New York
– By April Greene -
In Search of Duende in New York
– By Mary Staub -
Deborah Slater and LAVA Offer Different Visions of Inspiration and Realization
– By Mary Love Hodges
Film
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When You Lose All Hope, You Live For The Present
– By David N. Meyer -
What Passes for Booklearning
– By Sarahjane Blum -
When the Outside World Crashes Within
– By Lu Chen -
Shinjuku Ectsasy: Independent Films From The Art Theatre Guild Of Japan
– By Ethan Spigland -
Polis is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place
– By Elyssa East -
The Chelsea Hotel on Film
– By Mary Hanlon
Theater
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The Voyage In
– By Sonya Sobieski -
Welcome to Lona’s World
– By Michael Soussan -
Mark Armstrong on Directing, Producing & Love with Trista Baldwin
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The Perfect Mix: Assembling Angela’s Mixtape: Playwright Eisa Davis with Tommy Smith
– By Tommy Smith
Fiction
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The Good Citizen
– By Jolie Gorchov -
Penis Learns How To Sing
– By Ted Pelton -
The Childhood of Despair
– By Evan Harris -
Reruns Rezoomed: a Serial Novel
– By Jonathan Baumbach -
Tragic Strip
– By T. Motley
Poetry
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Simon Pettet
– By Roger Van Voorhees
LastWords
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A Monster, a Genius, or Both
– By Lester Pimentel
