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Brooklyn Food Coalition Helps Gardens Grow
By Eleanor J. Bader
UnionDocs Brings Auteurs Together
By Lisa Riordan Seville

Express

Questions for Tariq Ali
THE ACCIDENTAL COP
By Doug Cordell
Mexico City: A Safe Haven?
By Michael Miller
TRANS SIBERIA
By Greta Hansen, Cheryl Wing-Zi Wong, and Warm Engine
Waygooks: Stories from Korea: Compiled and Edited by J. Scott Burgeson
Tibet’s Continuing David and Goliath Story: Tenzing Sonam and Ritu Sarin with Williams Cole
By Williams Cole
A Rebel and His Causes
By Michael Sandlin
It’s Elementary…
By Dylan Byers
What the Wild Things Do
By Christopher Michel
Should Jackets Be Required?
By Victoria Marini

Art

RAIMUND ABRAHAM (1933-2010)
By Lebbeus Woods, Peter Noever, and Massimo Scolari
A SALUTE TO MARINA ABRAMOVIĆ
By Carol Becker, Kate Gilmore, and Tehching Hsieh
AFTERTHOUGHTS TO A CONVERSATION WITH SASHA SUDA
By Willibald Sauerländer
A SALUTE TO CAROLEE SCHNEEMANN
By Jonas Mekas, Irving Sandler, and Patricia Cronin
MARK GREENWOLD WITH JOHN YAU
SHIRLEY JAFFE WITH RAPHAEL RUBINSTEIN
URSULA VON RYDINGSVARD WITH IRVING SANDLER & JOHN YAU
David Reed In Conversation with Phong Bui
Greetings, Friends! (with apologies to Roger Angell)
By Michael Straus
Martin Wilner WITH PHONG BUI

ArtSeen

YUN-FEI JI Mistaking Each Other for Ghosts
By Ben La Rocco
ROBERT GROSVENOR
By Greg Lindquist
READYMADES REMADE (AFTER CONSUMPTION): DETRITUS AS ART
By Robert C. Morgan
DEAN MONOGENIS Above the Railing, Above the World
By Shane McAdams
KEITH HARING: 20TH ANNIVERSARY
By Hrag Vartanian
JAMES CASTLE: A RETROSPECTIVE
By Tessa DeCarlo
JONATHAN GAMS (1951-2009)
By Raphael Rubinstein
MICHAEL MAZUR (1935-2009)
By John Yau
WHITNEY BIENNIAL 2010
By Sophie Landres
WHITNEY BIENNIAL 2010
By Patricia Milder
GLIMPSES OF A POST-ANXIETY ERA: TURNING OVER THE WHITNEY BIENNIAL
By Joan Waltemath
BRUCENNIAL 2010: MISEDUCATION
By Thomas Micchelli
DOROTHEA ROCKBURNE Astronomy Drawings
By Joan Waltemath
Letter from TOKYO, GERHARD RICHTER New Overpainted Photographs
By Terry R. Myers
SKIN FRUIT: SELECTIONS FROM THE DAKIS JOANNOU COLLECTION
By Kara L. Rooney
JEFF KEOUGH Skullscapes
By Phong Bui
Letter from NAPLES, BAROCK-ART, SCIENCE, FAITH, AND TECHNOLOGY IN THE CONTEMPORARY AGE
By Gilbert Hsiao
TRACKS: ALLYSON MITCHELL, RADICAL CRAFT
By Anne Swartz
BILL JENSEN CHEIM & READ|FEBRUARY 18–MARCH 27, 2010
By Phong Bui
OTTO DIX NEUE GALERIE MARCH 11–AUGUST 30, 2010
By Dore Ashton
BILL ALBERTINI Space Frame Redux
By David St.-Lascaux
PLAYING WITH PICTURES: THE ART OF VICTORIAN PHOTOCOLLAGE
By Valery Oisteanu
DONALD JUDD AND 1O1 SPRING STREET
By Phong Bui

Books

ABSOLUTE WILL
By William S. Niederkorn
PRAISE THE BARD
By John Reed
SELF POSSESSION, SELF INVENTION
By Scott Hightower
SMALL WONDER
By Nicolle Elizabeth
STAKES LOW, DROWNS SLOW
By B.C. Edwards
FOE FLOW
By John Madera
EVERYTHING WHERE?
By Kseniya Melnik
THE KINDNESS OF NEIGHBORS
By Polly Rosenwaike
RAPID TRANSIT
By Jeffrey Cyphers Wright

Music

REGARDING HENRY
By George Grella
SECRET BEDROOM RECORDINGS REVEALED! WHITE HINTERLAND: KAIROS (DEAD OCEANS)
By Katy Henriksen
A PRECARIOUS FLAG IS PLANTED: AMERICAN (INDIE) SONGBOOK AT LINCOLN CENTER
By Daniel J. Kushner
OUTTAKES
By Steve Dalachinsky
THE ONLY ONE WHO KNOWS WHERE HE GOES WHEN HE PARKS HIS CAR
By Justin Vellucci

Dance

SIMONE FORTI with Claudia La Rocco
PERFORMANCE MIX FESTIVAL, NOW IN ITS 24th YEAR
WHIRLWIND WORKOUT IN A TIGHT SPACE: BACKHAUSDANCE AT JOYCE SOHO
By David St.-Lascaux
IN IT FOR THE DURATION: PERFORMANCE AT MOMA
By L.J. Sunshine
Father Figure: Hasselhoff and America in David Neumann's BIG EATER
By Patricia Milder
CONTINUAL REDUNDANCY
By Christine Hou

Film

IRKSOME BUT COMPELLING
By David N. Meyer
NAZIS? CHECK!
By Tessa DeCarlo
FRAGMENTS AND MYSTERIOUS CONNECTIONS
By Lu Chen
HUNGER
By Sarahjane Blum

Theater

10 Years of Big Art Group
By Justin Bond
Excerpt from MILK by Emily DeVoti
By Emily DeVoti
In the COOLER with Gary Winter
By Kristen Palmer
Waterlogged in Red Hook with Polybe + Seats
By Hillary Miller

Fiction

Away Alone
By Fran Gordon
Natural History of Dissolution
By Anna Mockler
In the Fierce Light that Beats Upon the Throne
By Anna Mockler
Tragic Strip
By T. Motley
An excerpt from The Last Patriarch By Najat El Hachmi Translated from the Catalan by Peter Bush
By Najat El Hachmi and Peter Bush

Poetry

Two sections from DISTANCE DECAY
By Cathy Eisenhower
Two Poems from IMMERSION KICK
By Jeremy Hoevenaar
TWO
By Filip Marinovich
MATVEI YANKELEVICH with Geoffrey Cruickshank-Hagenbuckle
By Geoffrey Cruickshank-Hagenbuckle
If I Could Say This With My Body, Would I. I Would
By Anne Waldman and Kiki Smith

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APR 2010

Find the RAIL in print

Subscribe now

Local

Brooklyn Food Coalition Helps Gardens Grow
By Eleanor J. Bader
UnionDocs Brings Auteurs Together
By Lisa Riordan Seville

Express

Questions for Tariq Ali
THE ACCIDENTAL COP
By Doug Cordell
Mexico City: A Safe Haven?
By Michael Miller
TRANS SIBERIA
By Greta Hansen, Cheryl Wing-Zi Wong, and Warm Engine
Waygooks: Stories from Korea: Compiled and Edited by J. Scott Burgeson
Tibet’s Continuing David and Goliath Story: Tenzing Sonam and Ritu Sarin with Williams Cole
By Williams Cole
A Rebel and His Causes
By Michael Sandlin
It’s Elementary…
By Dylan Byers
What the Wild Things Do
By Christopher Michel
Should Jackets Be Required?
By Victoria Marini

Art

RAIMUND ABRAHAM (1933-2010)
By Lebbeus Woods, Peter Noever, and Massimo Scolari
A SALUTE TO MARINA ABRAMOVIĆ
By Carol Becker, Kate Gilmore, and Tehching Hsieh
AFTERTHOUGHTS TO A CONVERSATION WITH SASHA SUDA
By Willibald Sauerländer
A SALUTE TO CAROLEE SCHNEEMANN
By Jonas Mekas, Irving Sandler, and Patricia Cronin
MARK GREENWOLD WITH JOHN YAU
SHIRLEY JAFFE WITH RAPHAEL RUBINSTEIN
URSULA VON RYDINGSVARD WITH IRVING SANDLER & JOHN YAU
David Reed In Conversation with Phong Bui
Greetings, Friends! (with apologies to Roger Angell)
By Michael Straus
Martin Wilner WITH PHONG BUI

ArtSeen

YUN-FEI JI Mistaking Each Other for Ghosts
By Ben La Rocco
ROBERT GROSVENOR
By Greg Lindquist
READYMADES REMADE (AFTER CONSUMPTION): DETRITUS AS ART
By Robert C. Morgan
DEAN MONOGENIS Above the Railing, Above the World
By Shane McAdams
KEITH HARING: 20TH ANNIVERSARY
By Hrag Vartanian
JAMES CASTLE: A RETROSPECTIVE
By Tessa DeCarlo
JONATHAN GAMS (1951-2009)
By Raphael Rubinstein
MICHAEL MAZUR (1935-2009)
By John Yau
WHITNEY BIENNIAL 2010
By Sophie Landres
WHITNEY BIENNIAL 2010
By Patricia Milder
GLIMPSES OF A POST-ANXIETY ERA: TURNING OVER THE WHITNEY BIENNIAL
By Joan Waltemath
BRUCENNIAL 2010: MISEDUCATION
By Thomas Micchelli
DOROTHEA ROCKBURNE Astronomy Drawings
By Joan Waltemath
Letter from TOKYO, GERHARD RICHTER New Overpainted Photographs
By Terry R. Myers
SKIN FRUIT: SELECTIONS FROM THE DAKIS JOANNOU COLLECTION
By Kara L. Rooney
JEFF KEOUGH Skullscapes
By Phong Bui
Letter from NAPLES, BAROCK-ART, SCIENCE, FAITH, AND TECHNOLOGY IN THE CONTEMPORARY AGE
By Gilbert Hsiao
TRACKS: ALLYSON MITCHELL, RADICAL CRAFT
By Anne Swartz
BILL JENSEN CHEIM & READ|FEBRUARY 18–MARCH 27, 2010
By Phong Bui
OTTO DIX NEUE GALERIE MARCH 11–AUGUST 30, 2010
By Dore Ashton
BILL ALBERTINI Space Frame Redux
By David St.-Lascaux
PLAYING WITH PICTURES: THE ART OF VICTORIAN PHOTOCOLLAGE
By Valery Oisteanu
DONALD JUDD AND 1O1 SPRING STREET
By Phong Bui

Books

ABSOLUTE WILL
By William S. Niederkorn
PRAISE THE BARD
By John Reed
SELF POSSESSION, SELF INVENTION
By Scott Hightower
SMALL WONDER
By Nicolle Elizabeth
STAKES LOW, DROWNS SLOW
By B.C. Edwards
FOE FLOW
By John Madera
EVERYTHING WHERE?
By Kseniya Melnik
THE KINDNESS OF NEIGHBORS
By Polly Rosenwaike
RAPID TRANSIT
By Jeffrey Cyphers Wright

Music

REGARDING HENRY
By George Grella
SECRET BEDROOM RECORDINGS REVEALED! WHITE HINTERLAND: KAIROS (DEAD OCEANS)
By Katy Henriksen
A PRECARIOUS FLAG IS PLANTED: AMERICAN (INDIE) SONGBOOK AT LINCOLN CENTER
By Daniel J. Kushner
OUTTAKES
By Steve Dalachinsky
THE ONLY ONE WHO KNOWS WHERE HE GOES WHEN HE PARKS HIS CAR
By Justin Vellucci

Dance

SIMONE FORTI with Claudia La Rocco
PERFORMANCE MIX FESTIVAL, NOW IN ITS 24th YEAR
WHIRLWIND WORKOUT IN A TIGHT SPACE: BACKHAUSDANCE AT JOYCE SOHO
By David St.-Lascaux
IN IT FOR THE DURATION: PERFORMANCE AT MOMA
By L.J. Sunshine
Father Figure: Hasselhoff and America in David Neumann's BIG EATER
By Patricia Milder
CONTINUAL REDUNDANCY
By Christine Hou

Film

IRKSOME BUT COMPELLING
By David N. Meyer
NAZIS? CHECK!
By Tessa DeCarlo
FRAGMENTS AND MYSTERIOUS CONNECTIONS
By Lu Chen
HUNGER
By Sarahjane Blum

Theater

10 Years of Big Art Group
By Justin Bond
Excerpt from MILK by Emily DeVoti
By Emily DeVoti
In the COOLER with Gary Winter
By Kristen Palmer
Waterlogged in Red Hook with Polybe + Seats
By Hillary Miller

Fiction

Away Alone
By Fran Gordon
Natural History of Dissolution
By Anna Mockler
In the Fierce Light that Beats Upon the Throne
By Anna Mockler
Tragic Strip
By T. Motley
An excerpt from The Last Patriarch By Najat El Hachmi Translated from the Catalan by Peter Bush
By Najat El Hachmi and Peter Bush

Poetry

Two sections from DISTANCE DECAY
By Cathy Eisenhower
Two Poems from IMMERSION KICK
By Jeremy Hoevenaar
TWO
By Filip Marinovich
MATVEI YANKELEVICH with Geoffrey Cruickshank-Hagenbuckle
By Geoffrey Cruickshank-Hagenbuckle
If I Could Say This With My Body, Would I. I Would
By Anne Waldman and Kiki Smith

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