FEB 2011

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A message from Phong Bui
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REPORT CARD: Dubious Standards for Charter Schools
By Liza Featherstone
Brooklyn Business Proves That HOM is Where the Heart Is
By Eleanor J. Bader
Ruminations on Duane Reade
By Williams Cole
Spirits of Red Hook
By Thomas Kerr
On the Job Hunt
By Mary Mann
"Blind Date, Brooklyn"
By Robin Grearson

Express

The Still Lives of Wells Tower
By Paul Maliszewski
MORE THAN GORE: Ghita Schwarz’s Holocaust Stories
By Bec Zajac
from Nina Revoyr’s Wingshooters
By Nina Revoyr
Bottoms-Up American History
By David Rosen
Thanks for the Memories
By Michael Terry
Deception Points
By Allen Wilcox
An Accidental Memoir
By Christopher Michel

Art

LOIS DODD with John Yau
CHRISTOPHER KNIGHT with Patricia Milder
JOE BRADLEY with Phong Bui

ArtSeen

23 Hours at the Wintering Spiral Jetty
By Greg Lindquist
The Slow Ascent: Death and Resurrection of the Art Fair
By Kara L. Rooney
EDWARD KRASINSKI AND EUSTACHY KOSSAKOWSKI J’ai Perdu La Fin!!!
By Cora Fisher
JENNIFER BARTLETT’S Recitative: Fractions Between Concept and Decorum
By Robert C. Morgan
ON BECOMING AN ARTIST: ISAMU NOGUCHI and His Contemporaries, 1922–1960
By Stephanie Buhmann
Ace of Spades
By Charles Schultz
KATRIN SIGURDARDOTTIR at the Met
By Michael Straus
MARIA LASSNIG
By John Yau
DAVID RABINOWITCH Birth of Romanticism: New Works on Paper
By Thomas Micchelli
KURT KNOBELSDORF Postcard from Florida
By John Yau
Brooklyn in the Extreme
By James Kalm
Letter from BERLIN: MANFRED KUTTNER A – Z
By David Rhodes
IRVIN MORAZAN Temple of the Bearded Man
By Gail Victoria Braddock Quagliata
Painters and Poets
By Valery Oisteanu
Winter Break
By David St.-Lascaux
JOSEPH BERNARD BASEDONATRUESTORY!, Parts 1 & 2
By Vince Carducci
ART BOOKS IN REVIEW: Gerhard Richter is Speechless
By Benjamin Gottlieb
GILLIAN JAGGER’s Reality—and Welcome to It
By Edward M. Gómez
ELLEN LANYON
By Martica Sawin
ADAM MARNIE, TOM THAYER, and RUBY SKY STILER
By Anne Sherwood Pundyk
The MARK BRADFORD Show
By Maxwell Heller
JAKE BERTHOT
By Ben La Rocco
The Talent Show
By Jen Schwarting

Books

KIRI BLAKELEY with Alyssa Pinsker
Complete Cosmicology
By Barry Schwabsky
From Whatever Was Left of Their Authentic Selves
By Andrea Scrima
Rose Alley
By John Madera
Bartleby, At Bat
By Christopher Grimes
Bummer, Defined
By Mac Barrett
Clandestine in Chile: The Adventures of Miguel Littín
By Jesse Tangen-Mills
Stamps and Beats
By Ellen Pearlman
Poetica
By Nicolle Elizabeth
Lethal Warriors
By Connie Aitcheson
Obsessive Compulsive
By Maxine Case
RAPID TRANSIT: A Final Kiss To 2010
By Jeffrey Cyphers Wright

Music

Fluid Improvisation
By David St.-Lascaux
Boulevards of Broken Dreams
By Dann Baker
Driving Lonely, Across the State
By Kate Silver
Fast-Forwarding Through Classic Arts Showcase
By Richard Kostelanetz
Outtakes
By Steve Dalachinsky

Dance

Editor's Note
By Claudia La Rocco
Keeping it Realness
By Patricia Milder
All the City’s a Stage
By Meagan Bruskewicz
Drawing with the Body
By Siobhan Burke
On Blind Faith...
By Christine Hou
BIRD BRAIN: Reflecting on Black Swan, and Ballet’s Maybe Moment
By Evan Namerow
An Excerpt From An Attempt to Understand My Socio-Political Disposition Through Artistic Research on Personal Identity in Relationship to the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict, Part One
By Tarek Halaby

Film

THE 11 BEST FILMS OF 2O1O +1
By David N. Meyer
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, THE ROLLING STONES
By David N. Meyer
MINERVA’S OWL
By Ethan Spigland
THE THIN RED LINE
By David N. Meyer

Theater

FREQUENT FLIER: Kyoung Park Gets disOriented
By Aurin Squire
FOOTBALL: why these chicks are the future of the game
By Trish Harnetiaux
LAUGH TIL YOU DON’T: Dorota Maslowska’s A Couple of Poor, Polish-Speaking Romanians
By Alan Lockwood

Fiction

FÉDER or the Gilded Husband
By Stendhall , translated from the French by Brian Evenson
from FIVE TOPOGRAPHIES
By Yasmine Alwan
from NOTES FROM THE PENTHOUSE
By Yorgos Lamprakos
Tragic Strip
By T. Motley
Character and Fitness: Chapter 3
By Jason Flores-Williams
Character and Fitness: Chapter 4
By Jason Flores-Williams

Poetry

Three Poems
By Pierre Joris
From: Caesura
By Habib Tengour, translated by Pierre Joris
Unto the House of Words
By David St.-Lascaux

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FEB 2011

Find the RAIL in print

Subscribe $50 annually

A message from Phong Bui
Publisher and Artistic Director

Local

REPORT CARD: Dubious Standards for Charter Schools
By Liza Featherstone
Brooklyn Business Proves That HOM is Where the Heart Is
By Eleanor J. Bader
Ruminations on Duane Reade
By Williams Cole
Spirits of Red Hook
By Thomas Kerr
On the Job Hunt
By Mary Mann
"Blind Date, Brooklyn"
By Robin Grearson

Express

The Still Lives of Wells Tower
By Paul Maliszewski
MORE THAN GORE: Ghita Schwarz’s Holocaust Stories
By Bec Zajac
from Nina Revoyr’s Wingshooters
By Nina Revoyr
Bottoms-Up American History
By David Rosen
Thanks for the Memories
By Michael Terry
Deception Points
By Allen Wilcox
An Accidental Memoir
By Christopher Michel

Art

LOIS DODD with John Yau
CHRISTOPHER KNIGHT with Patricia Milder
JOE BRADLEY with Phong Bui

ArtSeen

23 Hours at the Wintering Spiral Jetty
By Greg Lindquist
The Slow Ascent: Death and Resurrection of the Art Fair
By Kara L. Rooney
EDWARD KRASINSKI AND EUSTACHY KOSSAKOWSKI J’ai Perdu La Fin!!!
By Cora Fisher
JENNIFER BARTLETT’S Recitative: Fractions Between Concept and Decorum
By Robert C. Morgan
ON BECOMING AN ARTIST: ISAMU NOGUCHI and His Contemporaries, 1922–1960
By Stephanie Buhmann
Ace of Spades
By Charles Schultz
KATRIN SIGURDARDOTTIR at the Met
By Michael Straus
MARIA LASSNIG
By John Yau
DAVID RABINOWITCH Birth of Romanticism: New Works on Paper
By Thomas Micchelli
KURT KNOBELSDORF Postcard from Florida
By John Yau
Brooklyn in the Extreme
By James Kalm
Letter from BERLIN: MANFRED KUTTNER A – Z
By David Rhodes
IRVIN MORAZAN Temple of the Bearded Man
By Gail Victoria Braddock Quagliata
Painters and Poets
By Valery Oisteanu
Winter Break
By David St.-Lascaux
JOSEPH BERNARD BASEDONATRUESTORY!, Parts 1 & 2
By Vince Carducci
ART BOOKS IN REVIEW: Gerhard Richter is Speechless
By Benjamin Gottlieb
GILLIAN JAGGER’s Reality—and Welcome to It
By Edward M. Gómez
ELLEN LANYON
By Martica Sawin
ADAM MARNIE, TOM THAYER, and RUBY SKY STILER
By Anne Sherwood Pundyk
The MARK BRADFORD Show
By Maxwell Heller
JAKE BERTHOT
By Ben La Rocco
The Talent Show
By Jen Schwarting

Books

KIRI BLAKELEY with Alyssa Pinsker
Complete Cosmicology
By Barry Schwabsky
From Whatever Was Left of Their Authentic Selves
By Andrea Scrima
Rose Alley
By John Madera
Bartleby, At Bat
By Christopher Grimes
Bummer, Defined
By Mac Barrett
Clandestine in Chile: The Adventures of Miguel Littín
By Jesse Tangen-Mills
Stamps and Beats
By Ellen Pearlman
Poetica
By Nicolle Elizabeth
Lethal Warriors
By Connie Aitcheson
Obsessive Compulsive
By Maxine Case
RAPID TRANSIT: A Final Kiss To 2010
By Jeffrey Cyphers Wright

Music

Fluid Improvisation
By David St.-Lascaux
Boulevards of Broken Dreams
By Dann Baker
Driving Lonely, Across the State
By Kate Silver
Fast-Forwarding Through Classic Arts Showcase
By Richard Kostelanetz
Outtakes
By Steve Dalachinsky

Dance

Editor's Note
By Claudia La Rocco
Keeping it Realness
By Patricia Milder
All the City’s a Stage
By Meagan Bruskewicz
Drawing with the Body
By Siobhan Burke
On Blind Faith...
By Christine Hou
BIRD BRAIN: Reflecting on Black Swan, and Ballet’s Maybe Moment
By Evan Namerow
An Excerpt From An Attempt to Understand My Socio-Political Disposition Through Artistic Research on Personal Identity in Relationship to the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict, Part One
By Tarek Halaby

Film

THE 11 BEST FILMS OF 2O1O +1
By David N. Meyer
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, THE ROLLING STONES
By David N. Meyer
MINERVA’S OWL
By Ethan Spigland
THE THIN RED LINE
By David N. Meyer

Theater

FREQUENT FLIER: Kyoung Park Gets disOriented
By Aurin Squire
FOOTBALL: why these chicks are the future of the game
By Trish Harnetiaux
LAUGH TIL YOU DON’T: Dorota Maslowska’s A Couple of Poor, Polish-Speaking Romanians
By Alan Lockwood

Fiction

FÉDER or the Gilded Husband
By Stendhall , translated from the French by Brian Evenson
from FIVE TOPOGRAPHIES
By Yasmine Alwan
from NOTES FROM THE PENTHOUSE
By Yorgos Lamprakos
Tragic Strip
By T. Motley
Character and Fitness: Chapter 3
By Jason Flores-Williams
Character and Fitness: Chapter 4
By Jason Flores-Williams

Poetry

Three Poems
By Pierre Joris
From: Caesura
By Habib Tengour, translated by Pierre Joris
Unto the House of Words
By David St.-Lascaux

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