JUNE 2014

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Art

Living Under Sick Machines PETER LAMBORN WILSON /HAKIM BEY with Jarrett Earnest
SAM MOYER with Alex Bacon
Into a Future of His Choice: Catching Up with Frank O’Hara
By Tim Keane
ROBERT FEINTUCH with Phong Bui
What Will Have Been: Interviews on A People's Archive of Sinking and Melting
By Dana Kopel
My Heart is Full of Futurity MIGUEL GUTIERREZ with Jarrett Earnest
THINK HARDER An exchange between David Ostrowski and Alex Bacon

ArtSeen

Pontormo and Rosso Fiorentino: Diverging Paths of Mannerism
By David Carrier
THOMAS HIRSCHHORN: Flamme éternelle (Eternal Flame)
By Julie Higonnet
CLINT JUKKALA Cosmic Trigger
By Hearne Pardee
HOWARDENA PINDELL Paintings, 1974-1980
By Jessica Holmes
LEBBEUS WOODS Architect
By Jonathan Goodman
JORINDE VOIGT Codification of Intimacy: Works on Nikolas Luhmann
By Alana Shilling-Janoff
ISA GENZKEN Retrospective
By Terry R. Myers
KIM JONES mountain girl door
By Tom McGlynn
KATIE HOLTEN and MARIATERESA SARTORI Linea
By William Corwin
ADRIANA VAREJÃO
By Sara Roffino
LISI RASKIN Recuperative Tactics
By Juliet Helmke
HED: FRAGMENTED HISTORY ZHANG HUAN Evoking Tradition
By Heather Corcoran
STOP, LOOK AND LISTEN! MEL BOCHNER Strong Language
By Richard Kalina
GUILLERMO KUITCA This Way
By Georgia Phillips-Amos
LYGIA CLARK The Abandonment of Art, 1948–1988
By The Editors
Martin Kippenberger Raft of the Medusa
By Anna Tome

Critics Page

Wellsprings Reconsidered
Guest Critic: Ann McCoy
The Cracks in the Pavement
By Marina Warner
Cubist, as in Cuba
By Enrique Pardo
Dreamscripts in the Waking World
By William Kiesel
No More Hidden Order of Art
By Donald Kuspit
Cindy and Andy on the Ancient Unconscious
By Richard Fletcher
A NEW JERSEY WITCH IN JOHN CALVIN’S COURT Excerpts from an interview with Khem Caigan, conducted, edited, and composed
by Linda Weintraub
To Plow the Sea: A Note on the Unconscious
By Carter Ratcliff
Everything’s All Right
By Lesley Dill
“Vespers Pool” (1999 – 2000)
By Carolee Schneeman
Sigmar Polke’s Photographic Unconscious
By Maika Pollack
The Unconscious
By Lenore Malen
The Matriarch’s Rhapsody
By Jacolby Satterwhite
VISUALIZING MADNESS A Long History of Madness, 2012 – Present
By Mieke Bal and Michelle Williams Gamaker
MICHAEL ZANSKY (Documentation for the Works of Art)
By Michael Zansky
RICHARD SMITH
By Steven Poser
This is Not the Article, Just Coffee Talk…
By Barnaby Ruhe
…Saying These Things, I Went to Sleep…
By Brian Cotnoir
The Warp and the Woof
By Mira Schor
SUSAN BEE
KIKI SMITH
NALINI MALANI
Mutable and Immutable Divides
By Joan Waltemath
Faith & the Devil
By Lesley Dill
Artists-of-the-Dream: Harbingers of Social Change
By Patricia Ariadne
Why I Went from the Visual Arts to Theater
By Michael F. Bergmann
Sometimes it takes an Outsider artist to remind us how the unconscious serves not only as a powerful source of inspiration but the only source that results in truly compelling art…
By Peter Hastings Falk
“Even the Dumbest Dream Can Astound Us with its Art”
By Nor Hall
Kris-Crossing
By Ellen Handler Spitz
FORREST BESS A Visionary Artist’s Journey into Madness
By Steven Poser
Psyche
By Anita Sieff

Books

A Crisis of Faith
By Brian Gresko
Many States of America
By Jack Finnegan
Noble Deceit
By Geoffrey Young
Through the Body of the Storm
By Joyelle McSweeney
This Instance of Entrance
By Steve Fellner
The Writer and the Raptor
By Casey Murphy
Anatomization of a Marriage
By Elizabeth Eslami
Enlarging the Perception of Beauty
By J. C. Hallman
All of us in the Gutter: D. FOY in conversation with Matt Bell
By Matt Bell
An Unexpected Collaboration: KENAN TREBINCEVIC and SUSAN SHAPIRO in conversation with Rob Williams
By Rob Williams
Mrs. Brown's Furniture
By Ashley P. Taylor
Occasional Instances of Confession: TONY LEUZZI with David Groff
By David Groff

Music

Call it Punk Rockhausen: Excepter
By Taylor Dafoe
Brooklyn Rail Highly Selective Music Events
Steve Lehman Makes History
By George Grella
MATA YOUTH, 2014 EDITION
By George Grella
MATA April 16, 2014 Uusinta
By Jeff Tompkins
MATA April 17, 2014 That Which Remains
By Stephanie Del Rosso
MATA April 18, 2014 Lives in Miniature
By George Grella
MATA April 19, 2014 Oscar Bianchi’s Matra
By Christopher Nelson
MATA April 20, 2014 Neue Vocalsolisten American Premieres
By Marshall Yarbrough
MATA April 21, 2014 Of Circles and Motions of the Others
By Susan Scheid
Outtakes
By Steve Dalachinsky

Dance

In Rehearsal with DD Dorvillier
By Stormy Budwig
THIERRY THIEÛ NIANG with Ivan Talijancic
a Natural dance
By Jaime Shearn Coan

Film

Interior Life: Place in the Films of Joanna Hogg
By Rachael Rakes
Docs in Sight: A Plague of Money: Citizen Koch’s Concrete Tale of Cash and Politics
By Williams Cole
OBERHAUSEN TURNS SIXTY International Short Film Festival Oberhausen
By Aily Nash
SHAINA ANAND with Xin Zhou
THE THIRST FOR ANNIHILATION
William Friedkin’s Sorcerer
By Jason LaRivière
PAWEL PAWLIKOWSKI with Joshua Sperling

Theater

A Different Invitation Queer Performance on the Road
By Alexis Clements
The Howls and Sounds of our Little-Kiss Lives: Ariel Stess’s I’m Pretty Fucked Up
By Ben Gassman

Fiction

Blue is a cold number #1
By Matt Nelson
On Von Chiffon
By Alec Niedenthal
Our Mother, Come to Find
By J. A. Tyler
from Miransù
by Monica Sarsini, translated from the Italian by Maryann De Julio
Remembering Gabriel García Márquez (1927-2014)
By Catherine Rendón
The Selected Correspondence of Louis-Ferdinand Céline
translated from the French by Mitch Abidor, with an introduction by Pascal Ifri
Arrowschmitt!!!
By Arryan Decatur
To Make This Thing With Better Flow or: One of the Ones Who Got Away
an OKComix collaboration by Molly Roth
Aline the Alien
By Tom Motley
Keeping Time
by Alexander Rothman
Avenge Me, Eavesdropper
by Paul K. Tunis

Poetry

from Daydreams
By James La Marre
from Back on Earth
By Brent Cunningham
Three
By Rae Armantrout
Vaporative
By Layli Long Soldier
Das Wirbelsäulen Orakel für Meret Oppenheim / The Vertebrae Oracle for Meret Oppenheim
By Rebecca Horn
from sleep as information/the fountain is a water feature
By Ed Steck
In Conversation with Ed Steck

Art Books

Words for Art
By Barbara Rose

Field Notes

Much Ado About Something
By Paul Mattick
EDUCATION REFORM Beneath the Surface Part II: Marketizing School Reform
By John Garvey
BITCOIN A Digital Alternative?
By Tony Norfield
BOXING COMBINATIONS Rocky on Broadway
By David Hancock Turner
NOTES FROM TEXAS This is What Oligarchy Looks Like
By Stephen Amberg

JUNE 2014 Issue

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JUNE 2014

Find the RAIL in print

Subscribe now

A message from Phong Bui
Publisher and Artistic Director

Art

Living Under Sick Machines PETER LAMBORN WILSON /HAKIM BEY with Jarrett Earnest
SAM MOYER with Alex Bacon
Into a Future of His Choice: Catching Up with Frank O’Hara
By Tim Keane
ROBERT FEINTUCH with Phong Bui
What Will Have Been: Interviews on A People's Archive of Sinking and Melting
By Dana Kopel
My Heart is Full of Futurity MIGUEL GUTIERREZ with Jarrett Earnest
THINK HARDER An exchange between David Ostrowski and Alex Bacon

ArtSeen

Pontormo and Rosso Fiorentino: Diverging Paths of Mannerism
By David Carrier
THOMAS HIRSCHHORN: Flamme éternelle (Eternal Flame)
By Julie Higonnet
CLINT JUKKALA Cosmic Trigger
By Hearne Pardee
HOWARDENA PINDELL Paintings, 1974-1980
By Jessica Holmes
LEBBEUS WOODS Architect
By Jonathan Goodman
JORINDE VOIGT Codification of Intimacy: Works on Nikolas Luhmann
By Alana Shilling-Janoff
ISA GENZKEN Retrospective
By Terry R. Myers
KIM JONES mountain girl door
By Tom McGlynn
KATIE HOLTEN and MARIATERESA SARTORI Linea
By William Corwin
ADRIANA VAREJÃO
By Sara Roffino
LISI RASKIN Recuperative Tactics
By Juliet Helmke
HED: FRAGMENTED HISTORY ZHANG HUAN Evoking Tradition
By Heather Corcoran
STOP, LOOK AND LISTEN! MEL BOCHNER Strong Language
By Richard Kalina
GUILLERMO KUITCA This Way
By Georgia Phillips-Amos
LYGIA CLARK The Abandonment of Art, 1948–1988
By The Editors
Martin Kippenberger Raft of the Medusa
By Anna Tome

Critics Page

Wellsprings Reconsidered
Guest Critic: Ann McCoy
The Cracks in the Pavement
By Marina Warner
Cubist, as in Cuba
By Enrique Pardo
Dreamscripts in the Waking World
By William Kiesel
No More Hidden Order of Art
By Donald Kuspit
Cindy and Andy on the Ancient Unconscious
By Richard Fletcher
A NEW JERSEY WITCH IN JOHN CALVIN’S COURT Excerpts from an interview with Khem Caigan, conducted, edited, and composed
by Linda Weintraub
To Plow the Sea: A Note on the Unconscious
By Carter Ratcliff
Everything’s All Right
By Lesley Dill
“Vespers Pool” (1999 – 2000)
By Carolee Schneeman
Sigmar Polke’s Photographic Unconscious
By Maika Pollack
The Unconscious
By Lenore Malen
The Matriarch’s Rhapsody
By Jacolby Satterwhite
VISUALIZING MADNESS A Long History of Madness, 2012 – Present
By Mieke Bal and Michelle Williams Gamaker
MICHAEL ZANSKY (Documentation for the Works of Art)
By Michael Zansky
RICHARD SMITH
By Steven Poser
This is Not the Article, Just Coffee Talk…
By Barnaby Ruhe
…Saying These Things, I Went to Sleep…
By Brian Cotnoir
The Warp and the Woof
By Mira Schor
SUSAN BEE
KIKI SMITH
NALINI MALANI
Mutable and Immutable Divides
By Joan Waltemath
Faith & the Devil
By Lesley Dill
Artists-of-the-Dream: Harbingers of Social Change
By Patricia Ariadne
Why I Went from the Visual Arts to Theater
By Michael F. Bergmann
Sometimes it takes an Outsider artist to remind us how the unconscious serves not only as a powerful source of inspiration but the only source that results in truly compelling art…
By Peter Hastings Falk
“Even the Dumbest Dream Can Astound Us with its Art”
By Nor Hall
Kris-Crossing
By Ellen Handler Spitz
FORREST BESS A Visionary Artist’s Journey into Madness
By Steven Poser
Psyche
By Anita Sieff

Books

A Crisis of Faith
By Brian Gresko
Many States of America
By Jack Finnegan
Noble Deceit
By Geoffrey Young
Through the Body of the Storm
By Joyelle McSweeney
This Instance of Entrance
By Steve Fellner
The Writer and the Raptor
By Casey Murphy
Anatomization of a Marriage
By Elizabeth Eslami
Enlarging the Perception of Beauty
By J. C. Hallman
All of us in the Gutter: D. FOY in conversation with Matt Bell
By Matt Bell
An Unexpected Collaboration: KENAN TREBINCEVIC and SUSAN SHAPIRO in conversation with Rob Williams
By Rob Williams
Mrs. Brown's Furniture
By Ashley P. Taylor
Occasional Instances of Confession: TONY LEUZZI with David Groff
By David Groff

Music

Call it Punk Rockhausen: Excepter
By Taylor Dafoe
Brooklyn Rail Highly Selective Music Events
Steve Lehman Makes History
By George Grella
MATA YOUTH, 2014 EDITION
By George Grella
MATA April 16, 2014 Uusinta
By Jeff Tompkins
MATA April 17, 2014 That Which Remains
By Stephanie Del Rosso
MATA April 18, 2014 Lives in Miniature
By George Grella
MATA April 19, 2014 Oscar Bianchi’s Matra
By Christopher Nelson
MATA April 20, 2014 Neue Vocalsolisten American Premieres
By Marshall Yarbrough
MATA April 21, 2014 Of Circles and Motions of the Others
By Susan Scheid
Outtakes
By Steve Dalachinsky

Dance

In Rehearsal with DD Dorvillier
By Stormy Budwig
THIERRY THIEÛ NIANG with Ivan Talijancic
a Natural dance
By Jaime Shearn Coan

Film

Interior Life: Place in the Films of Joanna Hogg
By Rachael Rakes
Docs in Sight: A Plague of Money: Citizen Koch’s Concrete Tale of Cash and Politics
By Williams Cole
OBERHAUSEN TURNS SIXTY International Short Film Festival Oberhausen
By Aily Nash
SHAINA ANAND with Xin Zhou
THE THIRST FOR ANNIHILATION
William Friedkin’s Sorcerer
By Jason LaRivière
PAWEL PAWLIKOWSKI with Joshua Sperling

Theater

A Different Invitation Queer Performance on the Road
By Alexis Clements
The Howls and Sounds of our Little-Kiss Lives: Ariel Stess’s I’m Pretty Fucked Up
By Ben Gassman

Fiction

Blue is a cold number #1
By Matt Nelson
On Von Chiffon
By Alec Niedenthal
Our Mother, Come to Find
By J. A. Tyler
from Miransù
by Monica Sarsini, translated from the Italian by Maryann De Julio
Remembering Gabriel García Márquez (1927-2014)
By Catherine Rendón
The Selected Correspondence of Louis-Ferdinand Céline
translated from the French by Mitch Abidor, with an introduction by Pascal Ifri
Arrowschmitt!!!
By Arryan Decatur
To Make This Thing With Better Flow or: One of the Ones Who Got Away
an OKComix collaboration by Molly Roth
Aline the Alien
By Tom Motley
Keeping Time
by Alexander Rothman
Avenge Me, Eavesdropper
by Paul K. Tunis

Poetry

from Daydreams
By James La Marre
from Back on Earth
By Brent Cunningham
Three
By Rae Armantrout
Vaporative
By Layli Long Soldier
Das Wirbelsäulen Orakel für Meret Oppenheim / The Vertebrae Oracle for Meret Oppenheim
By Rebecca Horn
from sleep as information/the fountain is a water feature
By Ed Steck
In Conversation with Ed Steck

Art Books

Words for Art
By Barbara Rose

Field Notes

Much Ado About Something
By Paul Mattick
EDUCATION REFORM Beneath the Surface Part II: Marketizing School Reform
By John Garvey
BITCOIN A Digital Alternative?
By Tony Norfield
BOXING COMBINATIONS Rocky on Broadway
By David Hancock Turner
NOTES FROM TEXAS This is What Oligarchy Looks Like
By Stephen Amberg

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