Letters to the Mayor
By Theodore Hamm(11-15-11) The argument that its the Occupy Wall Street protesters who are the ones violating the First Amendment is a truly novel claimperhaps even a prize-winning work of legal fiction.
In the Battle of the Open Heart
By Jason Flores-WilliamsAn old music can be heard in Zuccotti Park that hasnt been heard around these parts in a very long timeits the music of human dignity, solidarity, and individuals being transformed into one.
Capitalism Makes Me Sick
By Ina P.Capitalism makes me sick. Im not just talking about moral revulsion, nor speaking metaphorically: I am actually sick.
Art In Conversation
KEN JOHNSON with Irving Sandler
On the occasion of the New York Times art critic, and contributing editor at Art in America, Ken Johnsons recent publication Are You Experienced? How Psychedelic Consciousness Transformed Modern Art, consulting editor Irving Sandler welcomes the author to his West Village home to talk about his life, work, and more.
Art In Conversation
RICHARD VAN BUREN with John Yau
After Hurricane Irene prevented them from meeting at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art in Rockport, Maine, where a selection of his sculptures was on exhibition, Richard Van Buren and John Yau met in New York to discuss his work and his upcoming show at Gary Snyder Gallery (November 10 December 17, 2011).
Art In Conversation
ROSAMOND BERNIER with Phong Bui
On the occasion of her 95th birthday and the publication of her memoir Some of My Lives (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), Rosamond Bernier, founder/editor of LOEIL magazine (19551971) and lecturer extraordinaire, welcomed publisher Phong Bui to her Upper East Side home to talk about her life and work.
Art In Conversation
JOSEPHINE HALVORSON with Phong Bui
A few days after the opening reception of her exhibit What Looks Back at Sikkema Jenkins & Co. (October 21December 4, 2011), the painter Josephine Halvorson stopped by the Rails headquarters to talk with publisher Phong Bui about her life and work.
FICTION
Seven Days in Rio
By Benjamin Gottlieb
Before Francis Levy launches into the narrative proper of Seven Days in Rio, a hundred-odd-page bromide-heavy sexual fantasia, an authors note appeals its case to the reader in a rare, self-conscious nod to the works guilelessly inflammatory inclinations; its tack is less conciliatory than defensive, with the vague hint of a threat.
FORESTS OF UNCERTAINTY
The Contentious Nonfiction of Robert Gardner
By Rachael Rakes
Since his widely celebrated ethnographic documentary Dead Birds was released in 1964, Robert Gardner has served as a bit of a punching bag for great numbers of anthropologists and nonfiction filmmakers.
Which side are you on boys, which side are you on?
Canal Park Playhouses revival of Joe Rolands On the Line
By Michelle Memran
As weve gone into rehearsal here, the Occupy Wall Street protests have happened almost around the corner, Kipp Osborne, owner of the Canal Park Inn and Playhouse, tells me. We never could have planned such a thing, but its so connected to itits like the forces of society are wanting to hear this play.
THIS TIME WE ARE EVERYTHING
Reflections On Clark Coolidge
By Vincent Katz
Beginning, for the sake of argument, with Pound, or for sake of argument, with Apollinaire, or with Stein, linearity was exploded. We have lived all our lives with this, and Clark Coolidge is one of our stellar exemplars. In an astounding number of books published since his first in 1966, Coolidge has proven to be restless, consistent, and prolific.
From The Revolution Of Everyday Life
By Raoul Vaneigem, A new translation from the French by Donald Nicholson-SmithUntil now tyranny has merely changed hands. By virtue of their like respect for the principle of the ruler, antagonistic powers have always contained the seeds of their future coexistence. (When the organizer of the game assumes the power of a leader, the revolution dies along with the revolutionaries.)
From the Publisher & Artistic Director
Note from the Publisher
By Phong BuiWe are most grateful to John Yau for his unyielding and selfless commitment and for the vision he has shared with us in the last seven years, and it is with sadness that we announce his resignation as Art Editor.
ArtSeen
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The Work of Stephen Mueller (1947 2011)
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HOKUSAI Retrospective
– By David Rhodes -
The Black Power Mixtape 19671975
– By Gail Victoria Braddock Quagliata -
THE LIMITS OF LANGUAGE:
– By Jason Stopa
New Works by ANRI SALA -
TAMARA ZAHAYKEVICH Hey Harmonica!
– By Linnea Kniaz -
BRIAN JUNGEN
– By David St.-Lascaux -
BARBARA TAKENAGA New Paintings
– By John Yau -
NICOLA LÓPEZ Landscape X: Under Construction
– By Noah Dillon -
JOANNE GREENBAUM 1612
– By John Yau -
JOSEPHINE HALVORSON What Looks Back
– By John Yau -
KATHARINA GROSSE One Floor Up More Highly
– By Kara L. Rooney -
LARI PITTMAN
– By Terry R. Myers -
G.T. PELLIZZI Transitional
– By Charles Schultz -
Cover Me with Turtles (after Amy Cutler*)
– By Patricia Milder -
Can BOB DYLAN Paint?
– By Robert C. Morgan -
LORI SIKORSKI
– By Jonathan Goodman -
AD REINHARDT
– By Michael Corris
Works from 19351945 -
CIVIC ACTION: A Vision for Long Island City
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LISA YUSKAVAGE
– By Greg Lindquist -
MARTHA WILSON and the Well-Examined Female Self
– By Edward M. Gómez
Table of Contents
Publisher's Message
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Note from the Publisher
– By Phong Bui
Local
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In the Battle of the Open Heart
– By Jason Flores-Williams -
A Poem for a Sunday Occupational Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club (10.16.2011)
– By Paul McLean -
REPORT CARD Education for the 99 Percent
– By Liza Featherstone -
OWS, From A-Z
– By Theodore Hamm -
Letters to the Mayor
– By Theodore Hamm -
Poets Before Profits
– By Eleanor J. Bader -
Gentlemen Close Your Legs
– By Chavisa Woods
Express
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Capitalism Makes Me Sick
– By Ina P. -
ZELIG OF THE LEFT: BILL ZIMMERMAN with Lawrence Weschler
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Filming Occupy Wall Street
– By Williams Cole -
Arthur Phillips Stole My Bike
– By John Reed -
Moral Memory
– By Allen Wilcox -
After the Revolutions
– By Michael Terry -
Coup D'Medias
– By Pehr Englen -
What Mexico Doesn't Need
– By Andrew G. Wood -
Back to Square One
– By Sara Versluis
Art
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KEN JOHNSON with Irving Sandler
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RICHARD VAN BUREN with John Yau
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ROSAMOND BERNIER with Phong Bui
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JOSEPHINE HALVORSON with Phong Bui
ArtSeen
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The Work of Stephen Mueller (1947 2011)
– By Stephanie Buhmann -
HOKUSAI Retrospective
– By David Rhodes -
The Black Power Mixtape 19671975
– By Gail Victoria Braddock Quagliata -
THE LIMITS OF LANGUAGE: New Works by ANRI SALA
– By Jason Stopa -
TAMARA ZAHAYKEVICH Hey Harmonica!
– By Linnea Kniaz -
BRIAN JUNGEN
– By David St.-Lascaux -
BARBARA TAKENAGA New Paintings
– By John Yau -
NICOLA LÓPEZ Landscape X: Under Construction
– By Noah Dillon -
JOANNE GREENBAUM 1612
– By John Yau -
JOSEPHINE HALVORSON What Looks Back
– By John Yau -
KATHARINA GROSSE One Floor Up More Highly
– By Kara L. Rooney -
LARI PITTMAN
– By Terry R. Myers -
G.T. PELLIZZI Transitional
– By Charles Schultz -
Cover Me with Turtles (after Amy Cutler*)
– By Patricia Milder -
Can BOB DYLAN Paint?
– By Robert C. Morgan -
LORI SIKORSKI
– By Jonathan Goodman -
AD REINHARDT Works from 19351945
– By Michael Corris -
CIVIC ACTION: A Vision for Long Island City
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LISA YUSKAVAGE
– By Greg Lindquist -
MARTHA WILSON and the Well-Examined Female Self
– By Edward M. Gómez
Books
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FICTION Seven Days in Rio
– By Benjamin Gottlieb -
POETRY Three Sea Monsters: Our History of Whose Image
– By John Olson -
REBECCA WOLFF with Jade Sharma
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ANTHOLOGY Fantastic Women: 18 tales of the surreal and the sublime from Tin House
– By Eliyanna Kaiser -
FICTION She or the unknown person
– By Jim Feast -
FICTION Broken Irish
– By Zachary Slingsby -
NONFICTION Welcome to Utopia: Notes From a Small Town
– By Mani Parcham -
FICTION Mostly Redneck
– By Nicolle Elizabeth -
RAPID TRANSIT
– By Jeffrey Cyphers Wright -
TRANSLATION Inferno
– By Julia Guez
Music
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Slum Gods of the Lower East Side
– By David Shirley -
There Ought to Be Fireworks
– By Dr. Shathley Q. -
Ambient Alienation and Structured Freedom
– By Marshall Yarbrough -
We Vibrate Occasionally
– By Billups Allen
Dance
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I See Myself In You
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Manipulative Tendencies
– By Christine Hou -
Gravity and Gravity
– By Thom Donovan -
DERICK GRANT with L.J. Sunshine
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A Tale of Two Dances
– By Jeremy Finch -
Going Forward, Going Back
– By Siobhan Burke
Film
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FORESTS OF UNCERTAINTY The Contentious Nonfiction of Robert Gardner
– By Rachael Rakes -
POSTCARD FROM THE AVANT-GARDE Highlights from the 49th NYFFs Views
– By Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa and Aily Nash -
FRAGMENTED SCREENS: Archival Appropriation in Arab Experimental Film and Video at MoMAs Mapping Subjectivity
– By Leo Goldsmith -
AN INJURY TO ONE
– By Jason Livingston
Theater
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Superhero Clubhouse: the Call to Grow Theater
– By Melissa F. Moschitto -
The Edge of Togetherness in Carla Ching
– By Matthew Paul Olmos -
Which side are you on boys, which side are you on? Canal Park Playhouses revival of Joe Rolands On the Line
– By Michelle Memran -
Supernatural Wife Anne Carson and Big Dance Theater Make Euripides Move
– By Cassandra Csencsitz
Fiction
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The Plastic Factory
– By Ron Kolm -
A Supposer
– By Jacques Jouet Translated by Emily Gogolak -
Tragic Strip
– By T. Motley
Poetry
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THIS TIME WE ARE EVERYTHING Reflections On Clark Coolidge
– By Vincent Katz -
Four
– By Vincent Katz -
from Matlike
– By Mary Burger -
Blue Rain Morning
– By Jamey Jones -
Evel Knievel
– By Jamey Jones
Art Books
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My Life in a Column
– By Natasha Stagg -
READING DOUBLE: The Book of Ruth
– By Cora Fisher -
CORRESPONDENCE COURSE An Epistolary History of Carolee Schneemann and Her Circle
– By Jarrett Earnest -
JAMES CASTLE: Show and Store
– By John Ganz
LastWords
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From The Revolution Of Everyday Life
– By Raoul Vaneigem, A new translation from the French by Donald Nicholson-Smith