JUL-AUG 2011

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Windows of the World Workers Stay United
By Dania Rajendra
No Place for Walmart
By Diane Krauthamer
Redemption in Bushwick
By Eleanor J. Bader
UNITY: A desperate plea for adult supervision
By Brian J. Carreira
REPORT CARD
By Liza Featherstone
No Escape
By Nicholas Jahr
Aboard the Big Red Bus
By Dave Kim

Express

Inside the Tropic of Chaos: CHRISTIAN PARENTI with Theodore Hamm
After the Twister
By Brian Awehali
RED MEMORIES: WALTER BERNSTEIN with Gregory Zucker and Molly Rose Ávila
Red Legacies
By Michael Terry
THE GOOD OLD ’70S: The End of the Amerian Century
By David Rosen
LASTING IMPRESSIONS Three Reviews
By Christopher Michel
Smoke and Mirrors in Pursuit of Suez’s Striking Workers
By Robert S. Eshelman

Art

TRACEY EMIN Love Is What You Want
By Vincent Katz
MATTHEW DAY JACKSON with Charles Schultz
RICHARD SERRA with Phong Bui
DOROTHEA ROCKBURNE with David Levi Strauss and Christopher Bamford
JENNIFER BARTLETT with Phong Bui
WOLF KAHN In Latter-Day Focus Color & Consequence
By Lucio Pozzi
In Memoriam CY TWOMBLY (1928–2011)
By Claire Daigle
Readings From the Vast Unread
By Phong Bui and Robert Hullot-Kentor

ArtSeen

:)
By Gail Quagliata
MARK DI SUVERO at Governor’s Island
Whose Modernism is it Anyway?
By Edward M. Gómez
FRANCIS ALŸS: A Story of Deception
By Kara L. Rooney
DONALD JUDD
By Greg Lindquist
Sea Worthy
By Charles Schultz
The Peripheterists
By Cora Fisher
7 New York Painters
By Ben La Rocco
The Ecstasy of Saint Herzog
By Shane McAdams
Geometry: Selected Works from the Estate of MARY ANN UNGER
By Kara L. Rooney
DANIEL DOUKE Bytes of Reality
By John Yau
Letter from BERLIN
By David Rhodes
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN Savage Beauty
By Anne Sherwood Pundyk
MELANIE BAKER: Feast
By Phong Bui
JOHN O’CONNOR What is Toronto???
By Charles Schultz
Under Destruction II
By Jen Schwarting
LOUIS I. KAHN Building a View STEPHEN ANTONAKOS Spaces
By Aldrin Valdez
WE ARE PRIMITIVE: Apichatpong’s Ineffable Experience of Nabua
By Aily Nash
Feelers
By Linnea Kniaz
BROOKLYN DISPATCHES: Making the Trains Run on Time
By James Kalm
Does Nordic Art Exist? A Lesson In Transculture
By Robert C. Morgan
GEORGE GITTOES: Witness to a War
By Noah Dillon
LEE UFAN: The Art of Present Reality
By Robert C. Morgan
ALLORA & CALZADILLA: Gloria
By David St.-Lascaux
The 54th Venice Biennale
By Emily Warner
Artists in Bushwick
By Stephen Truax
Bushwick Open Studios Continues to Grow but at What Cost?
By Hrag Vartanian
PICASSO and MARIE-THÉRÈSE: L’Amour Fou
By Cassandra Neyenesch
JASPER JOHNS New Sculpture and Works on Paper
By John Yau
BILL RICE Paintings & Works on Paper
By John Yau

Books

Canonizer’s Feast
By William S. Niederkorn
Coming of Age in Child Soldier Literature
By Hawa Allan
SIRI HUSTVEDT with Molly Gallentine
Echo’s Accent
By Michael Leong
Anthology Review
By Nicolle Elizabeth
Memoir Review
By Rosemary Bailey
RAPID TRANSIT or A SUMMARY OF SOME SUMMER PAGES
By Jeffrey Cyphers Wright
Palma’s Artful Web
By Marie Bacigalupo
Fiction Review
By Jim Feast
Remembering Everything
By Rochelle Melton
Fiction Review
By Connie Aitcheson

Music

Songs for Swinging Babies
By George Grella
Further Out of Time
By Marshall Yarbrough
Outtakes
By Steve Dalachinsky
Visitation Rites
By Katy Henriksen
Shamanic Rites on Wall Street
By David St.-Lascaux
Embracing A New, Unforgotten Future
By Justin Vellucci
It Became Part of My Rock ’n’ Roll Fantasy
By Billups Allen

Dance

Hangman Takuzo
By Yasuko Yokoshi
Editor’s Note
By Claudia La Rocco
An Imaginary Education in the History of Written Dances
By Aynsley Vandenbroucke
Blackfish
By Emily Johnson
Kennis Hawkins
By Kennis Hawkins
Some Experiments, Curiously Intertwined, on Time, the Body, and the Nature of What I Do Over Here
By Kathryn Enright
Four drawing/collages for duet with Kayvon
By Juliette Mapp
The Minotaur
By Karinne Keithley Syers
Electric Midlife
By Beth Gill
All the Props in My Basement
By Annie-B Parson

Film

ADOLFAS MEKAS (1925–2011)
Notes on W.C. Fields (for Jim Gardner)
By Jim Supanick
PURE AMERICAN CRAZY: Errol Morris’s Tabloid
By Jacob Mikanowski
ONCE UPON A TIME, THE PRINCESS WOKE UP: Catherine Breillat’s Sleeping Beauty
By Anya Jaremko-Greenwold
BLURRED BOUNDARIES: Selections from Migrating Forms 2011
By Colin Beckett and Jason Livingston

Theater

Margraff’s Got the Greek Blues
By Kathryn Walat
TAKE IT TO THE STREETS: Site-Specific Theater Hits NYC
By Jen Taher
Kara Lee Corthron’s Julius by Design
By Kia Corthron
Balm in Brooklyn: A Case Study
By Stephanie Fleischmann

Fiction

Girl
By E. Hampton
Special Friend
By Lewis Warsh
Lost Time
By Lewis Warsh
FÉDER or the Gilded Husband the final installment from an unfinished novella
By Stendhall , translated from the French by Brian Evenson
The Roses at the Hospital
By Can Xue, translated from the Chinese by Karen Gernant and Chen Zeping
The Face
By Laird Hunt
Tragic Strip
By T. Motley
Character and Fitness: Chapters 13 and 14
By Jason Flores-Williams

Poetry

two from "Insurgentes"
By Marc Nasdor
The Word for World is Forest Poem
By Laura Neuman
While Drinking Coffee at Zingerman's
By Clayton Eshleman
from “147 Million Orphans: A Haybun”
By Eileen Tabios

Art Books

The Positive News About Negative Thinking
By Abbe Schriber
SMOKE AND MIRRORS: Fashion and Socialist Politics
By Eugenie Dalland
A Time When No Budget, Unlimited Time and Resourcefulness Shaped Counter-Culture
By Greg Lindquist
The Problem with the Nightmare
By Natasha Stagg

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JUL-AUG 2011

Find the RAIL in print

Subscribe now

Local

Windows of the World Workers Stay United
By Dania Rajendra
No Place for Walmart
By Diane Krauthamer
Redemption in Bushwick
By Eleanor J. Bader
UNITY: A desperate plea for adult supervision
By Brian J. Carreira
REPORT CARD
By Liza Featherstone
No Escape
By Nicholas Jahr
Aboard the Big Red Bus
By Dave Kim

Express

Inside the Tropic of Chaos: CHRISTIAN PARENTI with Theodore Hamm
After the Twister
By Brian Awehali
RED MEMORIES: WALTER BERNSTEIN with Gregory Zucker and Molly Rose Ávila
Red Legacies
By Michael Terry
THE GOOD OLD ’70S: The End of the Amerian Century
By David Rosen
LASTING IMPRESSIONS Three Reviews
By Christopher Michel
Smoke and Mirrors in Pursuit of Suez’s Striking Workers
By Robert S. Eshelman

Art

TRACEY EMIN Love Is What You Want
By Vincent Katz
MATTHEW DAY JACKSON with Charles Schultz
RICHARD SERRA with Phong Bui
DOROTHEA ROCKBURNE with David Levi Strauss and Christopher Bamford
JENNIFER BARTLETT with Phong Bui
WOLF KAHN In Latter-Day Focus Color & Consequence
By Lucio Pozzi
In Memoriam CY TWOMBLY (1928–2011)
By Claire Daigle
Readings From the Vast Unread
By Phong Bui and Robert Hullot-Kentor

ArtSeen

:)
By Gail Quagliata
MARK DI SUVERO at Governor’s Island
Whose Modernism is it Anyway?
By Edward M. Gómez
FRANCIS ALŸS: A Story of Deception
By Kara L. Rooney
DONALD JUDD
By Greg Lindquist
Sea Worthy
By Charles Schultz
The Peripheterists
By Cora Fisher
7 New York Painters
By Ben La Rocco
The Ecstasy of Saint Herzog
By Shane McAdams
Geometry: Selected Works from the Estate of MARY ANN UNGER
By Kara L. Rooney
DANIEL DOUKE Bytes of Reality
By John Yau
Letter from BERLIN
By David Rhodes
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN Savage Beauty
By Anne Sherwood Pundyk
MELANIE BAKER: Feast
By Phong Bui
JOHN O’CONNOR What is Toronto???
By Charles Schultz
Under Destruction II
By Jen Schwarting
LOUIS I. KAHN Building a View STEPHEN ANTONAKOS Spaces
By Aldrin Valdez
WE ARE PRIMITIVE: Apichatpong’s Ineffable Experience of Nabua
By Aily Nash
Feelers
By Linnea Kniaz
BROOKLYN DISPATCHES: Making the Trains Run on Time
By James Kalm
Does Nordic Art Exist? A Lesson In Transculture
By Robert C. Morgan
GEORGE GITTOES: Witness to a War
By Noah Dillon
LEE UFAN: The Art of Present Reality
By Robert C. Morgan
ALLORA & CALZADILLA: Gloria
By David St.-Lascaux
The 54th Venice Biennale
By Emily Warner
Artists in Bushwick
By Stephen Truax
Bushwick Open Studios Continues to Grow but at What Cost?
By Hrag Vartanian
PICASSO and MARIE-THÉRÈSE: L’Amour Fou
By Cassandra Neyenesch
JASPER JOHNS New Sculpture and Works on Paper
By John Yau
BILL RICE Paintings & Works on Paper
By John Yau

Books

Canonizer’s Feast
By William S. Niederkorn
Coming of Age in Child Soldier Literature
By Hawa Allan
SIRI HUSTVEDT with Molly Gallentine
Echo’s Accent
By Michael Leong
Anthology Review
By Nicolle Elizabeth
Memoir Review
By Rosemary Bailey
RAPID TRANSIT or A SUMMARY OF SOME SUMMER PAGES
By Jeffrey Cyphers Wright
Palma’s Artful Web
By Marie Bacigalupo
Fiction Review
By Jim Feast
Remembering Everything
By Rochelle Melton
Fiction Review
By Connie Aitcheson

Music

Songs for Swinging Babies
By George Grella
Further Out of Time
By Marshall Yarbrough
Outtakes
By Steve Dalachinsky
Visitation Rites
By Katy Henriksen
Shamanic Rites on Wall Street
By David St.-Lascaux
Embracing A New, Unforgotten Future
By Justin Vellucci
It Became Part of My Rock ’n’ Roll Fantasy
By Billups Allen

Dance

Hangman Takuzo
By Yasuko Yokoshi
Editor’s Note
By Claudia La Rocco
An Imaginary Education in the History of Written Dances
By Aynsley Vandenbroucke
Blackfish
By Emily Johnson
Kennis Hawkins
By Kennis Hawkins
Some Experiments, Curiously Intertwined, on Time, the Body, and the Nature of What I Do Over Here
By Kathryn Enright
Four drawing/collages for duet with Kayvon
By Juliette Mapp
The Minotaur
By Karinne Keithley Syers
Electric Midlife
By Beth Gill
All the Props in My Basement
By Annie-B Parson

Film

ADOLFAS MEKAS (1925–2011)
Notes on W.C. Fields (for Jim Gardner)
By Jim Supanick
PURE AMERICAN CRAZY: Errol Morris’s Tabloid
By Jacob Mikanowski
ONCE UPON A TIME, THE PRINCESS WOKE UP: Catherine Breillat’s Sleeping Beauty
By Anya Jaremko-Greenwold
BLURRED BOUNDARIES: Selections from Migrating Forms 2011
By Colin Beckett and Jason Livingston

Theater

Margraff’s Got the Greek Blues
By Kathryn Walat
TAKE IT TO THE STREETS: Site-Specific Theater Hits NYC
By Jen Taher
Kara Lee Corthron’s Julius by Design
By Kia Corthron
Balm in Brooklyn: A Case Study
By Stephanie Fleischmann

Fiction

Girl
By E. Hampton
Special Friend
By Lewis Warsh
Lost Time
By Lewis Warsh
FÉDER or the Gilded Husband the final installment from an unfinished novella
By Stendhall , translated from the French by Brian Evenson
The Roses at the Hospital
By Can Xue, translated from the Chinese by Karen Gernant and Chen Zeping
The Face
By Laird Hunt
Tragic Strip
By T. Motley
Character and Fitness: Chapters 13 and 14
By Jason Flores-Williams

Poetry

two from "Insurgentes"
By Marc Nasdor
The Word for World is Forest Poem
By Laura Neuman
While Drinking Coffee at Zingerman's
By Clayton Eshleman
from “147 Million Orphans: A Haybun”
By Eileen Tabios

Art Books

The Positive News About Negative Thinking
By Abbe Schriber
SMOKE AND MIRRORS: Fashion and Socialist Politics
By Eugenie Dalland
A Time When No Budget, Unlimited Time and Resourcefulness Shaped Counter-Culture
By Greg Lindquist
The Problem with the Nightmare
By Natasha Stagg

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