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YOU CAN’T PUT A LANGUAGE IN A ZOO: Bob Holman and Endangered Languages
By Stephanie Nikolopoulos
From Brooklyn to Park City: Keith Miller’s Welcome to Pine Hill
By Angela Wagner
Hookah Crackdown in Bay Ridge
By Aparna Narayanan
THE 99% BAT-SIGNAL: A Cry from the Heart of the World
By Mark Read
#OWS: Images from the Day of Eviction (11/15) and the Day of Action (11/17)
REPORT CARD Here Comes Success
By Liza Featherstone
At Home in the Chelsea Hotel
By Eleanor J. Bader
Why Cooper Union Matters
By Litia Perta

Express

The Rail’s 2011 Player of the Year
By Theodore Hamm
OCCUPY GO ROUND: The Dimensional Nature of the Movement
By Paul McLean
Going to the Mat in Baghdad
By Matthew Igoe
THE NEW ERA OF PUBLISHING? Williams Cole Checks in Again with John B. Thompson
Language and Its Discontents
By Courtney Fiske
The Great American Swindle
By Ross Barkan
City of God
By Allen Wilcox
Such a Good War
By Pehr Englen

Art

John Elderfield, Jennifer Field, Lauren Mahony, and Delphine Huisinga with Phong Bui
RITA ACKERMANN with Anne Sherwood Pundyk
Missing Vita
By Bill Jensen
BONNIE MARRANCA with Patricia Milder
OverRuled Performance by Shirin Neshat
By Eleanor Heartney
CHARM LIKE A DRUG MAURIZIO CATTELAN with Jarrett Earnest
SARAH CANRIGHT Curated by Nic Nicosia
By Phong Bui
UNHAPPY DAYS IN THE ART WORLD? De-skilling Theater, Re-skilling Performance
By Claire Bishop

ArtSeen

DANA SCHUTZ If the Face Had Wheels
By Kara L. Rooney
SHERRIE LEVINE Mayhem
By R. H. Lossin
DAVID SMITH Cubes and Anarchy
By Jonathan Goodman
BROOKLYN DISPATCHES Birth of a Notion
By James Kalm
NAN GOLDIN Scopophilia
By David St.-Lascaux
CLIFFORD OWENS Anthology
By Cora Fisher
AJ FOSIK Time Kills All Gods
By Gail Victoria Braddock Quagliata
WHAT A (SELF) PORTRAIT CAN DO Picturing South Africa in New York
By Maxwell Heller
GABRIELE EVERTZ Rapture
By Robert C. Morgan
Algorithmic Unconscious
By David St.-Lascaux
REBECCA PURDUM and MATTHEW FISCHER
RICHARD POUSETTE-DART East River Studio
By Robert C. Morgan
WILL COTTON Cockaigne
By William Corwin
JOAN MITCHELL The Last Paintings
By Greg Lindquist
AMY SILLMAN Thumb Cinema
By David Rhodes
RICO GATSON Three Trips Around the Block
By Charles Schultz

Books

NONFICTION Beyond the Previously Known Bard
By William S. Niederkorn
ELISSA SCHAPPELL with Jenine Holmes
FICTION This Young Girl Passing
By Jeff McConaghy
Lost with Phone
By Chris Campanioni
FICTION To Assume a Pleasing Shape
By Liz Axelrod
Body Variations
By Mark Snyder
FICTION Downward Spiral
By Christopher Vola
POETRY Poetry as Alchemy
By Marietta Abrams
FICTION Hooked on Interest
By Mark Snyder
NONFICTION The Makings of An American
By Justin Mitchell
JUSTIN TORRES with Jenine Holmes
RAPID TRANSIT
By Jeffrey Cyphers Wright
POETRY Blog Posts from an American Poet
By Nicolle Elizabeth
THE EDITORS OF THE COFFIN FACTORY with Aspen Matis
MAX WINTER AND LISA LUBASCH with Megan Gillin-Schwartz

Music

The Return of the Brooklyn Philharmonic
By George Grella
Sun-Bleached Hand of the Man
By Dominic Umile
ALEX WATERMAN with Timothy Nassau
A LITTLE BRAIN SURGERY: Sonic Festival
By David St.-Lascaux
Tom Waits Takes His Old Fans For a New Ride
By Dmitry Kiper
The WKCR Bach Marathon
By Richard Kostelanetz
OUTTAKES
By Steve Dalachinsky

Dance

Editor’s Note
By Claudia La Rocco
Merce Notes
By Christian Wolff
Correspondence
By Carolyn Brown
Material Man
By Lise Friedman
SIDEBAR FROM BAM: The Complete Works MERCE CUNNINGHAM
By Nancy Dalva
Nine Goodbyes
By Siobhan Burke
Walking the Line
By Robert Swinston, as told to Claudia La Rocco
Cold Storage and New Brightness:The Merce Cunningham Acquisition at the Walker Art Center
By Abigail Sebaly
Fond Farewells
By David Vaughan
SILAS RIENER and RASHAUN MITCHELL with Claudia La Rocco

Film

A Glance at First Look: Overlooked Essentials in the Museum of the Moving Image's New International Showcase
By Anna Bak-Kvapil
THE AESTHETIC AND THE THERAPEUTIC
By Ricky D'Ambrose
George Kuchar’s Otherworldly Humanity
By Charles Bernstein and Susan Bee
RE-ENTRY: Thoughts on Jordan Belson: 1926–2011
By Gregory Zinman
Is This What You Were Born For?
By Jim Supanick
EVENT HORIZON: Roy Lichtenstein’s Three Landscapes
By Tom McCormack

Theater

The Great Play Download: Indie Theater Now
By Loren Noveck
Superhero Clubhouse: the Call to Grow Theater
By Melissa F. Moschitto
lifting the Curtain Costume Designers Melissa Schlachtmeyer, Normandy Sherwood, and Jessica Pabst with Gary Winter
LIN HIXSON and MATTHEW GOULISH with Carol Becker

Fiction

The Diary of Martín Santomé: A Novel
By Mario Benedetti
Tragic Strip
By T. Motley
Kurt Vonnegut at the Writers’ Workshop
By Suzanne McConnell

Poetry

Three
By Michael Ruby
Wall Street Teenager
By Allan M. Jalon
Abstract Painting
By Rachel Hurn

Art Books

The Death-Ray
By Bill Kartalopoulos
John Gould: The Family of Toucans
By Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa
Redheaded Peckerwood
By Adam Bell

LastWords

from The Revolution Of Everyday Life
By Raoul Vaneigem, A new translation from the French by Donald Nicholson-Smith

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DEC 11-JAN 12

Find the RAIL in print

Subscribe now

A message from Phong Bui
Publisher and Artistic Director

Local

YOU CAN’T PUT A LANGUAGE IN A ZOO: Bob Holman and Endangered Languages
By Stephanie Nikolopoulos
From Brooklyn to Park City: Keith Miller’s Welcome to Pine Hill
By Angela Wagner
Hookah Crackdown in Bay Ridge
By Aparna Narayanan
THE 99% BAT-SIGNAL: A Cry from the Heart of the World
By Mark Read
#OWS: Images from the Day of Eviction (11/15) and the Day of Action (11/17)
REPORT CARD Here Comes Success
By Liza Featherstone
At Home in the Chelsea Hotel
By Eleanor J. Bader
Why Cooper Union Matters
By Litia Perta

Express

The Rail’s 2011 Player of the Year
By Theodore Hamm
OCCUPY GO ROUND: The Dimensional Nature of the Movement
By Paul McLean
Going to the Mat in Baghdad
By Matthew Igoe
THE NEW ERA OF PUBLISHING? Williams Cole Checks in Again with John B. Thompson
Language and Its Discontents
By Courtney Fiske
The Great American Swindle
By Ross Barkan
City of God
By Allen Wilcox
Such a Good War
By Pehr Englen

Art

John Elderfield, Jennifer Field, Lauren Mahony, and Delphine Huisinga with Phong Bui
RITA ACKERMANN with Anne Sherwood Pundyk
Missing Vita
By Bill Jensen
BONNIE MARRANCA with Patricia Milder
OverRuled Performance by Shirin Neshat
By Eleanor Heartney
CHARM LIKE A DRUG MAURIZIO CATTELAN with Jarrett Earnest
SARAH CANRIGHT Curated by Nic Nicosia
By Phong Bui
UNHAPPY DAYS IN THE ART WORLD? De-skilling Theater, Re-skilling Performance
By Claire Bishop

ArtSeen

DANA SCHUTZ If the Face Had Wheels
By Kara L. Rooney
SHERRIE LEVINE Mayhem
By R. H. Lossin
DAVID SMITH Cubes and Anarchy
By Jonathan Goodman
BROOKLYN DISPATCHES Birth of a Notion
By James Kalm
NAN GOLDIN Scopophilia
By David St.-Lascaux
CLIFFORD OWENS Anthology
By Cora Fisher
AJ FOSIK Time Kills All Gods
By Gail Victoria Braddock Quagliata
WHAT A (SELF) PORTRAIT CAN DO Picturing South Africa in New York
By Maxwell Heller
GABRIELE EVERTZ Rapture
By Robert C. Morgan
Algorithmic Unconscious
By David St.-Lascaux
REBECCA PURDUM and MATTHEW FISCHER
RICHARD POUSETTE-DART East River Studio
By Robert C. Morgan
WILL COTTON Cockaigne
By William Corwin
JOAN MITCHELL The Last Paintings
By Greg Lindquist
AMY SILLMAN Thumb Cinema
By David Rhodes
RICO GATSON Three Trips Around the Block
By Charles Schultz

Books

NONFICTION Beyond the Previously Known Bard
By William S. Niederkorn
ELISSA SCHAPPELL with Jenine Holmes
FICTION This Young Girl Passing
By Jeff McConaghy
Lost with Phone
By Chris Campanioni
FICTION To Assume a Pleasing Shape
By Liz Axelrod
Body Variations
By Mark Snyder
FICTION Downward Spiral
By Christopher Vola
POETRY Poetry as Alchemy
By Marietta Abrams
FICTION Hooked on Interest
By Mark Snyder
NONFICTION The Makings of An American
By Justin Mitchell
JUSTIN TORRES with Jenine Holmes
RAPID TRANSIT
By Jeffrey Cyphers Wright
POETRY Blog Posts from an American Poet
By Nicolle Elizabeth
THE EDITORS OF THE COFFIN FACTORY with Aspen Matis
MAX WINTER AND LISA LUBASCH with Megan Gillin-Schwartz

Music

The Return of the Brooklyn Philharmonic
By George Grella
Sun-Bleached Hand of the Man
By Dominic Umile
ALEX WATERMAN with Timothy Nassau
A LITTLE BRAIN SURGERY: Sonic Festival
By David St.-Lascaux
Tom Waits Takes His Old Fans For a New Ride
By Dmitry Kiper
The WKCR Bach Marathon
By Richard Kostelanetz
OUTTAKES
By Steve Dalachinsky

Dance

Editor’s Note
By Claudia La Rocco
Merce Notes
By Christian Wolff
Correspondence
By Carolyn Brown
Material Man
By Lise Friedman
SIDEBAR FROM BAM: The Complete Works MERCE CUNNINGHAM
By Nancy Dalva
Nine Goodbyes
By Siobhan Burke
Walking the Line
By Robert Swinston, as told to Claudia La Rocco
Cold Storage and New Brightness:The Merce Cunningham Acquisition at the Walker Art Center
By Abigail Sebaly
Fond Farewells
By David Vaughan
SILAS RIENER and RASHAUN MITCHELL with Claudia La Rocco

Film

A Glance at First Look: Overlooked Essentials in the Museum of the Moving Image's New International Showcase
By Anna Bak-Kvapil
THE AESTHETIC AND THE THERAPEUTIC
By Ricky D'Ambrose
George Kuchar’s Otherworldly Humanity
By Charles Bernstein and Susan Bee
RE-ENTRY: Thoughts on Jordan Belson: 1926–2011
By Gregory Zinman
Is This What You Were Born For?
By Jim Supanick
EVENT HORIZON: Roy Lichtenstein’s Three Landscapes
By Tom McCormack

Theater

The Great Play Download: Indie Theater Now
By Loren Noveck
Superhero Clubhouse: the Call to Grow Theater
By Melissa F. Moschitto
lifting the Curtain Costume Designers Melissa Schlachtmeyer, Normandy Sherwood, and Jessica Pabst with Gary Winter
LIN HIXSON and MATTHEW GOULISH with Carol Becker

Fiction

The Diary of Martín Santomé: A Novel
By Mario Benedetti
Tragic Strip
By T. Motley
Kurt Vonnegut at the Writers’ Workshop
By Suzanne McConnell

Poetry

Three
By Michael Ruby
Wall Street Teenager
By Allan M. Jalon
Abstract Painting
By Rachel Hurn

Art Books

The Death-Ray
By Bill Kartalopoulos
John Gould: The Family of Toucans
By Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa
Redheaded Peckerwood
By Adam Bell

LastWords

from The Revolution Of Everyday Life
By Raoul Vaneigem, A new translation from the French by Donald Nicholson-Smith

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