JUNE 2012

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A Field of One’s Own
By Mary Mann
REPORT CARD A Philadelphia Story
By Liza Featherstone
Footsteps into a New Life
By Eleanor J. Bader

Express

Docs in Sight: Blood and Silence on La Frontera Bernardo Ruiz with Williams Cole
Goofing Off
By William Rossa Cole
Earthship, New Mexico
By Samara Reigh
OUR NADA WHO ART IN NADA: Notes on Suicide
By Jonah Raskin
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST: A Dispatch from Athens
By Katerina Triantafillou
A QUI LE QUÉBEC? Scenes from the Maple Spring
By MJ Thompson
ARTS AND LETTERS: The Sequel A fragment from Isolate Flecks: An Anatomy
By Forrest Hylton
Not So Wild About Wild
By Orli Van Mourik
Deviant Reflections: A Voice for Sexual Freedom
By David Rosen

Art

What is the Miami Rail?
By Phong Bui
YAN PEI-MING with Charles Schultz
JIM LEEDY with Kara Rooney
DANA SCHUTZ with Jarrett Earnest
Writing from Nowhere
By Timothy R. Quigley
FRANK STOUT (1926 – 2012)
By Robert Hullot-Kentor

ArtSeen

AARON CURRY Buzz Kill
By Jonathan Goodman
Restrictions, Limitations, Confinements
By Dan Tarnowski
VARDA CAIVANO / YAEL DAVIDS
By David Rhodes
SHURA CHERNOZATONSKAYA Raw/Cooked
By Veronika Sheer
EARLY CONCEPTUAL ART: Documents, Installations, and Related Manifestations
By Robert C. Morgan
DAN FLAVIN’s Altering Light
By Greg Lindquist
N. DASH
By Michael Straus
ELLEN PHELAN Encyclopedia of Drawing, 1964 – 2012
By Phong Bui
CUI FEI & TACA SUI Origins
By Charles Schultz
THE PARADE: Nathalie Djurberg with Music by Hans Berg
By Kara L. Rooney
Ascent for Myron Stout and Ralph Ellison
By Ben LaRocco
SAM GORDON trompe l’oeil
By Gail Victoria Braddock Quagliata
JOSEPH NECHVATAL nOise anusmOs
By Robert C. Morgan
MARTIN PURYEAR New Sculpture
By Phong Bui
TAYLOR DAVIS
By David St.-Lascaux
Time-Lapse
By Corina Larkin
Letter from TOKYO
By Terry R. Myers
FRANCESCA DIMATTIO Table Setting and Flower Arranging
By Erin Yerby
Letter from LEEDS Windows and Doors
By William Corwin
KELLY JAZVAC Thermoloaded
By R. H. Lossin
ANDRÉ MASSON The Mythology of Desire: Masterworks from 1925 to 1945
By Valery Oisteanu

Books

Close to the Edge: In Search of the Global Hip Hop Generation
By Jesse Tangen-Mills
BOA EDITIONS with Aspen Matis
CHRISTOPHER BRAM with Scott Cheshire
BIOGRAPHY East Was Eden
By Jeremy Lybarger
FICTION Drugs and Other Loves
By Jim Feast
FICTION THE OTHER WORLD
By Ashley K. Nelson
MEMOIR Writing ‘Not the Whole Story’ History
By Matt Reeck
FICTION Educated, Civilized, and Utterly Lost
By James Leon Suffern
RAPID TRANSIT
By Jeffrey Cyphers Wright
JENINE HOLMES with Rebecca Walker
A Counterfeit Tale, Full of Value
By James Leon Suffern
Little Bit Sick
By Luis Jaramillo

Music

The Raw and the Cooked
By Andrew Cappetta
Music of the Sphere
By David St.-Lascaux
The Constellar Sounds and Stories of Shelley Hirsch
By Holly Tavel
On Blunderbuss and Jack White's Lonesome Mass Appeal
By Joseph Klarl
Forever’s No Time at All
By David Shirley
Outtakes
By Steve Dalachinsky

Dance

DAVID GORDON with Nancy Dalva Beginning of the End of the Beginning Of.
Closer, Please
By Siobhan Burke
Intimate Gatherings
By Christine Shan Shan Hou

Film

MATTHEW AKERS with Joseph Klarl
AFTEREFFECTS: Mapping the experimental ethnography of Juan Downey in The Invisible Architect
By Amalia Cordova
Two Reviews
By Troy Swain
NARRATIVES OF ISOLATION: JACQUELINE GOSS with Benjamin Schultz-Figueroa

Theater

How to be a Feminist and Still Get Laid: Gina Gionfriddo’s Rapture, Blister, Burn
By Kathryn Walat
So. Seven playwrights, five directors, and four producers sit down to write a play…
By Various Authors
Noor Theatre Blazes New Light: Food and Fadwa at NYTW
By Ginny Mohler
At Wrest in the Middle of Time with Will Eno
By Ben Gassman
Chimichangas and Zoloft with Fernanda Coppel
By Cusi Cram

Fiction

Tragic Strip
By T. Motley
The Diary of Martín Santomé: A Novel
By Mario Benedetti
3 stories
By Anna Mockler
from Clèves
By Marie Darrieussecq, Translated from the French by Linda Coverdale
from The Secret Life of Objects
By Dawn Raffel

Poetry

Five
By Marina Lazzara
Four
By Leopoldine Core
Two
By Jon Leon
Minced Pollock
By Judah Rubin

Art Books

CARSTEN HÖLLER: Artist's Portfolio
By Hamilton Morris
Vestiarium Scoticum
By Sandeep Bhuller
BENJAMIN MARRA with Ashok Kondabolu

LastWords

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

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JUNE 2012

Find the RAIL in print

Subscribe $50 annually

Local

A Field of One’s Own
By Mary Mann
REPORT CARD A Philadelphia Story
By Liza Featherstone
Footsteps into a New Life
By Eleanor J. Bader

Express

Docs in Sight: Blood and Silence on La Frontera Bernardo Ruiz with Williams Cole
Goofing Off
By William Rossa Cole
Earthship, New Mexico
By Samara Reigh
OUR NADA WHO ART IN NADA: Notes on Suicide
By Jonah Raskin
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST: A Dispatch from Athens
By Katerina Triantafillou
A QUI LE QUÉBEC? Scenes from the Maple Spring
By MJ Thompson
ARTS AND LETTERS: The Sequel A fragment from Isolate Flecks: An Anatomy
By Forrest Hylton
Not So Wild About Wild
By Orli Van Mourik
Deviant Reflections: A Voice for Sexual Freedom
By David Rosen

Art

What is the Miami Rail?
By Phong Bui
YAN PEI-MING with Charles Schultz
JIM LEEDY with Kara Rooney
DANA SCHUTZ with Jarrett Earnest
Writing from Nowhere
By Timothy R. Quigley
FRANK STOUT (1926 – 2012)
By Robert Hullot-Kentor

ArtSeen

AARON CURRY Buzz Kill
By Jonathan Goodman
Restrictions, Limitations, Confinements
By Dan Tarnowski
VARDA CAIVANO / YAEL DAVIDS
By David Rhodes
SHURA CHERNOZATONSKAYA Raw/Cooked
By Veronika Sheer
EARLY CONCEPTUAL ART: Documents, Installations, and Related Manifestations
By Robert C. Morgan
DAN FLAVIN’s Altering Light
By Greg Lindquist
N. DASH
By Michael Straus
ELLEN PHELAN Encyclopedia of Drawing, 1964 – 2012
By Phong Bui
CUI FEI & TACA SUI Origins
By Charles Schultz
THE PARADE: Nathalie Djurberg with Music by Hans Berg
By Kara L. Rooney
Ascent for Myron Stout and Ralph Ellison
By Ben LaRocco
SAM GORDON trompe l’oeil
By Gail Victoria Braddock Quagliata
JOSEPH NECHVATAL nOise anusmOs
By Robert C. Morgan
MARTIN PURYEAR New Sculpture
By Phong Bui
TAYLOR DAVIS
By David St.-Lascaux
Time-Lapse
By Corina Larkin
Letter from TOKYO
By Terry R. Myers
FRANCESCA DIMATTIO Table Setting and Flower Arranging
By Erin Yerby
Letter from LEEDS Windows and Doors
By William Corwin
KELLY JAZVAC Thermoloaded
By R. H. Lossin
ANDRÉ MASSON The Mythology of Desire: Masterworks from 1925 to 1945
By Valery Oisteanu

Books

Close to the Edge: In Search of the Global Hip Hop Generation
By Jesse Tangen-Mills
BOA EDITIONS with Aspen Matis
CHRISTOPHER BRAM with Scott Cheshire
BIOGRAPHY East Was Eden
By Jeremy Lybarger
FICTION Drugs and Other Loves
By Jim Feast
FICTION THE OTHER WORLD
By Ashley K. Nelson
MEMOIR Writing ‘Not the Whole Story’ History
By Matt Reeck
FICTION Educated, Civilized, and Utterly Lost
By James Leon Suffern
RAPID TRANSIT
By Jeffrey Cyphers Wright
JENINE HOLMES with Rebecca Walker
A Counterfeit Tale, Full of Value
By James Leon Suffern
Little Bit Sick
By Luis Jaramillo

Music

The Raw and the Cooked
By Andrew Cappetta
Music of the Sphere
By David St.-Lascaux
The Constellar Sounds and Stories of Shelley Hirsch
By Holly Tavel
On Blunderbuss and Jack White's Lonesome Mass Appeal
By Joseph Klarl
Forever’s No Time at All
By David Shirley
Outtakes
By Steve Dalachinsky

Dance

DAVID GORDON with Nancy Dalva Beginning of the End of the Beginning Of.
Closer, Please
By Siobhan Burke
Intimate Gatherings
By Christine Shan Shan Hou

Film

MATTHEW AKERS with Joseph Klarl
AFTEREFFECTS: Mapping the experimental ethnography of Juan Downey in The Invisible Architect
By Amalia Cordova
Two Reviews
By Troy Swain
NARRATIVES OF ISOLATION: JACQUELINE GOSS with Benjamin Schultz-Figueroa

Theater

How to be a Feminist and Still Get Laid: Gina Gionfriddo’s Rapture, Blister, Burn
By Kathryn Walat
So. Seven playwrights, five directors, and four producers sit down to write a play…
By Various Authors
Noor Theatre Blazes New Light: Food and Fadwa at NYTW
By Ginny Mohler
At Wrest in the Middle of Time with Will Eno
By Ben Gassman
Chimichangas and Zoloft with Fernanda Coppel
By Cusi Cram

Fiction

Tragic Strip
By T. Motley
The Diary of Martín Santomé: A Novel
By Mario Benedetti
3 stories
By Anna Mockler
from Clèves
By Marie Darrieussecq, Translated from the French by Linda Coverdale
from The Secret Life of Objects
By Dawn Raffel

Poetry

Five
By Marina Lazzara
Four
By Leopoldine Core
Two
By Jon Leon
Minced Pollock
By Judah Rubin

Art Books

CARSTEN HÖLLER: Artist's Portfolio
By Hamilton Morris
Vestiarium Scoticum
By Sandeep Bhuller
BENJAMIN MARRA with Ashok Kondabolu

LastWords

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

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