THE HELD ESSAYS ON VISUAL ART
Avant-Garde Folk Art
By David Robbins
Why oh why are we interested in celebrities? As a phenomenon, celebrity takes up an ever-increasing amount of cultural real estate. It rudely elbows aside far more dignified pursuits, has failed to launch much of substance from territory already annexed, and can hardly be said to appeal to our higher instincts.
Undiscovered Lands
By George GrellaIn this issue, we explored far and wide to bring you a group of talented artists, each with strong and unique voices, who deserve to be heard and known by larger audiences—enjoy this guide to our discoveries.
Books In Conversation
SERIAL WANNABE
LEE KLEIN with Matthew Vollmer
Every time, I think oh boy, not because I don’t admire Lee’s work (I do) but because I have generally have enough to read as it is, but then curiosity gets the best of me and I open the document and start scrolling and find it difficult to stop. His latest book, which also seemed to come out of nowhere, arrived in the mail a couple months ago; I devoured it nearly in one sitting.
Film In Conversation
CHRISTOPHER WILLIAMS with David Gregory Lawson
This summer’s career retrospective of Christopher Williams at the Museum of Modern Art (through November 2) includes a marquee-ready photograph that is remarkable in its conceptual simplicity—unpretentious and tactile.
Israel Lund's Analog JPEGs
By Alex BaconIsrael Lund has always been interested in the innumerable translations images go through as they circulate through various networks, taking on diverse forms as they do so—including, but far from limited to, that of a zine, a Tumblr post, or a painting.
From the Publisher & Artistic Director
Dear Friends and Readers,
By Phong BuiHow can we encourage individuals to rise above their own limitations and old habits that were dictated by their various upbringings, while working to transform the Rail into a post-Beuysian social sculpture, an artwork?
Editor's Message Guest Critic
“There Is a Certain Slant of Light”
By Ed SchadI was asked by the Rail to provide an L.A. perspective, and in order to do that, I wanted to do something unusual. I want to take the pressure off the New York/Los Angeles split, not worrying about describing what is going on in Los Angeles for those that may not know.
Critics Page
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When I See a Train, I Want to Take It in My Arms
– By Andrew Berardini -
Learning from Mike Kelley
– By Holly Myers -
My Lozano (Not Letting Go)
– By Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer -
Perpetual Conceptual
– By Catherine Wagley -
My Preoccupation with Piero Manzoni
– By Alma Ruiz -
Goo-Gone
– By Michael Ned Holte -
Not Interested in That Sort of Thing
– By Jonathan Griffin -
Meditations on a Diptych
– By Travis Diehl -
MOJAVE IN ME: Noah Purifoy On My Mind
– By Yael Lipschutz
ArtSeen
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CLAIRE SHERMAN Sempervirens
– By Sarah Goffstein -
BEAUTIES UNINTENTIONAL, ACCIDENTAL ISABEL NOLAN An Answer About the Sky
– By Alana Shilling-Janoff -
MARSDEN HARTLEY The German Paintings 1913 – 1915
– By Terry R. Myers -
DEREK FORDJOUR The Big Game
– By Jonathan Goodman -
TOMER ALUF Thirteen
– By Nora Griffin -
WILLEM VAN GENK Mind Traffic
– By Alana Shilling-Janoff -
ZIPORA FRIED I Hope the Moon Explodes
– By Taney Roniger -
TERESA SOLAR ABBOUD Foreign Office
– By Michael McCanne -
MARCEL DZAMA Une Danse Des Bouffons (or A Jester’s Dance)
– By Paula Burleigh -
For a Love of His People: The Photography of Horace Poolaw
– By Christopher Green -
ERIC WESLEY Daily Progress Status Report
– By Lucy Li -
Back to Eden: Contemporary Artists Wander the Garden
– By David Carrier -
NICHOLAS KRUSHENICK Early Paintings
– By Ben La Rocco -
BILL LYNCH
– By Jessica Holmes -
FRANCESCA CAPONE Oblique Archive
– By Charles Schultz -
MIKE CLOUD Bad Faith and Universal Techique
– By William Corwin -
MATTHEW RITCHIE Ten Possible Links
– By Corina Larkin -
AMY FELDMAN High Sign
– By David Rhodes -
Mind Games: James Siena’s typewriter drawings
– By Joan Waltemath -
HELEN MIRRA Waulked
– By Alexander Shulan
Table of Contents
Publisher's Message
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Dear Friends and Readers,
– By Phong Bui
Editor's Message
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“There Is a Certain Slant of Light”
– By Ed Schad
Art
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JAMES BISHOP with Alex Bacon & Barbara Rose
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ANTHONY MCCALL with Jarrett Earnest
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THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY ELIZABETH JAEGER with Jarrett Earnest
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What to Do With the Ghost of James Lee Byars When He Is Dead and His Body Buried?
– By Thyrza Nichols Goodeve -
PHYLLIS TUCHMAN with Joyce Beckenstein
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A Tribute to Marilena Bonomo (1928 – 2014)
– By Carol LeWitt and Naomi S. Antonakos -
CAO FEI with Charles Schultz
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Israel Lund's Analog JPEGs
– By Alex Bacon -
THE HELD ESSAYS ON VISUAL ART Avant-Garde Folk Art
– By David Robbins
ArtSeen
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CLAIRE SHERMAN Sempervirens
– By Sarah Goffstein -
BEAUTIES UNINTENTIONAL, ACCIDENTAL ISABEL NOLAN An Answer About the Sky
– By Alana Shilling-Janoff -
MARSDEN HARTLEY The German Paintings 1913 – 1915
– By Terry R. Myers -
DEREK FORDJOUR The Big Game
– By Jonathan Goodman -
TOMER ALUF Thirteen
– By Nora Griffin -
WILLEM VAN GENK Mind Traffic
– By Alana Shilling-Janoff -
ZIPORA FRIED I Hope the Moon Explodes
– By Taney Roniger -
TERESA SOLAR ABBOUD Foreign Office
– By Michael McCanne -
MARCEL DZAMA Une Danse Des Bouffons (or A Jester’s Dance)
– By Paula Burleigh -
For a Love of His People: The Photography of Horace Poolaw
– By Christopher Green -
ERIC WESLEY Daily Progress Status Report
– By Lucy Li -
Back to Eden: Contemporary Artists Wander the Garden
– By David Carrier -
NICHOLAS KRUSHENICK Early Paintings
– By Ben La Rocco -
BILL LYNCH
– By Jessica Holmes -
FRANCESCA CAPONE Oblique Archive
– By Charles Schultz -
MIKE CLOUD Bad Faith and Universal Techique
– By William Corwin -
MATTHEW RITCHIE Ten Possible Links
– By Corina Larkin -
AMY FELDMAN High Sign
– By David Rhodes -
Mind Games: James Siena’s typewriter drawings
– By Joan Waltemath -
HELEN MIRRA Waulked
– By Alexander Shulan
Critics Page
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When I See a Train, I Want to Take It in My Arms
– By Andrew Berardini -
Learning from Mike Kelley
– By Holly Myers -
My Lozano (Not Letting Go)
– By Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer -
Perpetual Conceptual
– By Catherine Wagley -
My Preoccupation with Piero Manzoni
– By Alma Ruiz -
Goo-Gone
– By Michael Ned Holte -
Not Interested in That Sort of Thing
– By Jonathan Griffin -
Meditations on a Diptych
– By Travis Diehl -
MOJAVE IN ME: Noah Purifoy On My Mind
– By Yael Lipschutz
Books
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SERIAL WANNABE LEE KLEIN with Matthew Vollmer
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Matter of Factual
– By Katharina Smundak -
The Strangling Fruit
– By Daniel Levine -
Philosophy Express
– By Allen Guy Wilcox -
Bloody Sunday
– By Casey Murphy
Music
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Brooklyn Rail Highly Selective Music Events
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Trumpet Tones, City Streets
– By Paula Matthusen -
A Vital Pulse: The Philip Glass Ensemble and Steve Reich and Musicians at BAM
– By Paul Grimstad -
Undiscovered Lands
– By George Grella -
Undiscovered Lands
– By Marshall Yarbrough -
Undiscovered Lands
– By Andrea Gordillo -
Undiscovered Lands
– By Christopher Nelson -
JIM WHITE: An Acquired Taste
– By KK Kozik -
NEBLUNG PRICE Jewels of the Jetpack Malice
– By Dann Baker -
Outtakes
– By Steve Dalachinsky
Dance
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The Body as Semi-transparent Envelope1
– By Madison Mainwaring -
On and with Effie Bowen
– By Leslie Allison -
REBECCA BROOKS: Hopeful Grief
– By Cassie Peterson -
WHAT THE BODY SAYS: An Appreciation of Simon Courchel
– By Risa Shoup -
LYDIA OKRENT: The Work I Do Is Performing, Is Mine
– By Jaime Shearn Coan -
Six Nights and Seven Sizes Later
– By Jaime Shearn Coan -
Choreographic Wizardry of Yanira Castro
– By Ivan Talijancic -
Additional Dancers of Note
– by the Rail's Dance Section
Film
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ACCOMPLICES MATÍAS PIÑEIRO with Paul Felten
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CHRISTOPHER WILLIAMS with David Gregory Lawson
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ON THE ROAD Pier Paolo Pasolini, St. Paul
– By Cathy Lee Crane -
JOHN PAIZS with Rumsey Taylor
Theater
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PRELUDE2014 CHLOË BASS, JACKIE SIBBLIES DRURY, SARAH ROSE LEONARD, and ALLISON LYMAN with Frank Hentschker
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Whiskey, Thelonious Monk, and Other Spirits Dave Malloy’s Ghost Quartet Comes to The Bushwick Starr
– By Susan Soon He Stanton -
“Holding you up while you are holding up me”: The give and take of working for free
– By Erin Courtney
Fiction
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A Regular Day for Regular People
– By Robert Lopez -
Four Shorts
– By Robert Lopez -
Yunus and Yusuf
– by Mahmoud Saeed, translated from the Arabic by William Hutchins -
from Miransú
– by Monica Sarsini, translated from the Italian by Maryann De Julio -
The Selected Correspondence of Louis-Ferdinand Céline
– translated from the French by Mitch Abidor -
An extract from A Stranger In My Own Country—The 1944 Prison Diary
– by Hans Fallada, translated from the German by Allan Blunden -
Comic Strip Beginning with a Line from “A Poem Beginning with a Line by Pindar” by Robert Duncan
– By Tom Motley -
West Side
– By Tom Daly
Poetry
Art Books
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How it Feels to be on Fire Reading Cookie Mueller Today
– By Jarrett Earnest
Field Notes
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HEALTH AND ECONOMIC CRISES JOSÉ TAPIA
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NYU Graduate Union Votes for Change
– By Samuel Feldblum -
In the Shadow of Gentrification
– By Elizabeth Kissam
