JUL-AUG 2016

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A message from Phong Bui
Publisher and Artistic Director

Art

WOLFGANG TILLMANS with Allie Biswas
LUC TUYMANS with Jarrett Earnest
THOMAS ROMA and LEO RUBINFIEN with Sara Christoph
RASHAAD NEWSOME with Laila Pedro
HARMONY HAMMOND with Phillip Griffith
JONATHAN LASKER with Phong Bui
ROBERT BORDO with Seth Cameron
IN MEMORIAM BILL BERKSON (1939 – 2016) A Jolt and a Gem
By David Levi Strauss
BILL BERKSON (1939 – 2016) Bill Berkson: Our Friends Will Pass Among You Silently
By Anne Waldman
BILL BERKSON (1939 – 2016) “WE WERE DESIGNED FOR HEAVEN” Bill Berkson On Arcadia, Utopia, and Collaboration
By Jarrett Earnest
BILL BERKSON (1939 – 2016) All Good Things Must Come to an End
By Robert Storr

ArtSeen

The Folk Art Collection of Elie and Viola Nadelman
By Brandt Junceau
Yoshiaki Mochizuki: Summer Solstice
By Taney Roniger
The Language of Things
By Phillip Griffith
Turner’s Whaling Pictures
By Jason Rosenfeld
Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet, Films and Their Sites
By David Rhodes
BUT A STORM IS BLOWING FROM PARADISE: Contemporary Art of the Middle East and North Africa
By Yasi Alipour
NICOLE EISENMAN
By Stephen Truax
AL HELD Brushstrokes: India Ink Drawings From 1960
By Phong Bui
POPS STANDARD STUART DAVIS In Full Swing
By Tom McGlynn
Finding the Major Arcana CARIN RILEY Linear Figurations
By William Corwin
ALEX KATZ Drawings
By David Rhodes
GERHARD RICHTER
By Hovey Brock
Son: Signal of Authority
By Kang Kang
(Not So) Still Life
By Kim Power
Subterranean Sculptural Blues
By Samuel Feldblum
PAUL MOGENSEN Painting
By Greg Lindquist
Naomi Campbell: Bread and Circuses
By Jonathan Goodman
MARTIN PURYEAR Big Bling
By Jason Rosenfeld
Andy Warhol & Ai Weiwei
By David Carrier
LEE KRASNER
By Darragh McNicholas
Surface Conditions
By Nora Griffin
SURREAL ENCOUNTERS: COLLECTING THE MARVELOUS Works from the Collections of Roland Penrose, Edward James, Gabrielle Keiller and Ulla and Heiner Pietzsch
By Mary Ann Caws
N. DASH
By Phong Bui

Critics Page

Performing Identities, Identifying Performance
Guest Critic: John Tain
Against Identity
By Gerard & Kelly
Skin of the Actor, Teeth of the Artist
By Asher Hartman
Ligia Lewis
Mark Aguhar
By Young Joon Kwak
Things Left Behind: Black Screen 16:9
By Erin Christovale and Rafa Esparza
The Woman Who Married a Bear
By Simone Forti
Attention:
By Lucky Dragons
Take My Hand and Let’s Get Out of This 4% Universe
By Laub and Jennifer Moon

Books

JOHN DOMINI with Christina Milletti
By Christina Milletti
Harlem to the Moon
By Jill Dearman
The Critics and the Chroniclers: Four Writers on Food in Our Times
By Alison Tate Lewis
To Boldly Go: ANN VANDERMEER & JEFF VANDERMEER With Nancy Hightower
By Nancy Hightower
The Writers' Writers: Bookmarked Series by Ig Publishing AARON BURCH, KIRBY GANN, CURTIS SMITH, and ROBERT LASNER with Joseph Salvatore
SARA BAUME with Torrey Crim
Caring for the Underdog: JEROME CHARYN with Alex Dueben
Canon Fodder
By Weston Cutter
Nothing Embarrassing or Strange: Curating KGB Bar’s Writers’ Series
By David Winner
The What is That
By Weston Cutter
Status Update: MATTHEW VOLLMER Speaks with Joseph Salvatore
Expanding the Possibilities of Story: AMBER SPARKS with John Madera
BELINDA MCKEON with Torrey Crim
GIRL ON FIRE (AND ICE) BLAIR BRAVERMAN with Leigh Kamping‑Carder
Father Figures
By Joshua Alvarez
Artistic Wanderings
By Gretchen Schmid
SESQUIPEDALIAN ECCENTRICS DYLAN HICKS with Evan Lavender‑Smith
The Unfinished World of the Short Story
By Darley Stewart
The Barely-There Before or: Paradise Lost (& Found)
By Chris Campanioni
BOOKS ARE NOT CHILDREN RUMAAN ALAM with Catherine LaSota
The Fog Machine
By Jon Krampner
Trove of Secrets
By Gillie Collins

Music

Danay Suárez, Polvo de la Humedad
By Adolf Alzuphar
Pneumatic Mnemonic: Pylon Live
By Daniel Gold
Brooklyn Rail Highly Selective Music Events
MUSIC AS A VOLATILE ART FORM: Terry Allen Reissued
By Marshall Yarbrough
Hearing With Your Eyes
By George Grella
Jon Savage’s Very Good Year
By Jeff Tompkins
Outtakes
By Steve Dalachinsky

Dance

Now More Than Ever, We Need This Party
By Jaime Shearn Coan
MARIE CHOUINARD with Stephanie Del Rosso
Ratmansky’s Quiet Revolution
By Susan Yung
MOVEMENT REALIZED Anna Sperber’s Prize
By Lori DeGolyer

Film

LOUIS HENDERSON with Leo Goldsmith
MIXED USE: Spectacle’s Trailers
By Mary Billyou
IMAGES OF THE WORLD: At the Harun Farocki Institut
By Jesse Cumming

Theater

The Art of Capturing the Ephemeral Maria Baranova’s performance photography
By Ivan Talijancic
Lindsay Joy’s In the Event of My Death: New Plays Grown Down at The Farm Theater
By Addie Johnson Talbott
The authenticity in getting Caught with Christopher Chen
By Matthew Paul Olmos

Fiction

Excerpts from Nioque
by Francis Ponge, translated from the French by JD Larson | forthcoming from Red Dust, 2017
Bartleby on Carmine Street
By Raphael Rubinstein
Three
By Peter Wortsman
The Crying Scout
By Debora Kuan
Tragic Strip
By Tom Motley

Poetry

Two
By Amy De'Ath
Two
By Denver Butson
☐ descriptions that leave out
By Binswanger Friedman
Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure
By Edmund Berrigan
Two
By Shira Dentz
Five
By Shanna Compton

Verbatim

Helen Frankenthaler “Postcardisms”

Art Books

Jon-Michael Frank and Bianca Stone
By Megan N. Liberty
RICHARD VINE with David Ebony

Field Notes

Letter from the Netherlands: “We Refugees are Like Chemical Waste”
By Nick Vos
From Welcome to Farewell: Germany, the refugee crisis and the global surplus proletariat
By Felix Baum
White, Rural, and Poor: On the Politics of Non-Identity
By Adam Theron-Lee Rensch
After Being Up All Night, We Wake up with a Political Strike1
by Charles Reeve, translated from the French by Janet Koenig

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Tom Motley is a cartoonist, illustrator, and educator. His publications include Tragic Strip (a monthly strip in the Brooklyn Rail), The Golden Ass, The One Marvelous Thing, and contributions to the indie anthology Cartozia Tales. He teaches cartooning at the School of Visual Arts and illustration at Pratt.

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JUL-AUG 2016

Find the RAIL in print

Subscribe $50 annually

A message from Phong Bui
Publisher and Artistic Director

Art

WOLFGANG TILLMANS with Allie Biswas
LUC TUYMANS with Jarrett Earnest
THOMAS ROMA and LEO RUBINFIEN with Sara Christoph
RASHAAD NEWSOME with Laila Pedro
HARMONY HAMMOND with Phillip Griffith
JONATHAN LASKER with Phong Bui
ROBERT BORDO with Seth Cameron
IN MEMORIAM BILL BERKSON (1939 – 2016) A Jolt and a Gem
By David Levi Strauss
BILL BERKSON (1939 – 2016) Bill Berkson: Our Friends Will Pass Among You Silently
By Anne Waldman
BILL BERKSON (1939 – 2016) “WE WERE DESIGNED FOR HEAVEN” Bill Berkson On Arcadia, Utopia, and Collaboration
By Jarrett Earnest
BILL BERKSON (1939 – 2016) All Good Things Must Come to an End
By Robert Storr

ArtSeen

The Folk Art Collection of Elie and Viola Nadelman
By Brandt Junceau
Yoshiaki Mochizuki: Summer Solstice
By Taney Roniger
The Language of Things
By Phillip Griffith
Turner’s Whaling Pictures
By Jason Rosenfeld
Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet, Films and Their Sites
By David Rhodes
BUT A STORM IS BLOWING FROM PARADISE: Contemporary Art of the Middle East and North Africa
By Yasi Alipour
NICOLE EISENMAN
By Stephen Truax
AL HELD Brushstrokes: India Ink Drawings From 1960
By Phong Bui
POPS STANDARD STUART DAVIS In Full Swing
By Tom McGlynn
Finding the Major Arcana CARIN RILEY Linear Figurations
By William Corwin
ALEX KATZ Drawings
By David Rhodes
GERHARD RICHTER
By Hovey Brock
Son: Signal of Authority
By Kang Kang
(Not So) Still Life
By Kim Power
Subterranean Sculptural Blues
By Samuel Feldblum
PAUL MOGENSEN Painting
By Greg Lindquist
Naomi Campbell: Bread and Circuses
By Jonathan Goodman
MARTIN PURYEAR Big Bling
By Jason Rosenfeld
Andy Warhol & Ai Weiwei
By David Carrier
LEE KRASNER
By Darragh McNicholas
Surface Conditions
By Nora Griffin
SURREAL ENCOUNTERS: COLLECTING THE MARVELOUS Works from the Collections of Roland Penrose, Edward James, Gabrielle Keiller and Ulla and Heiner Pietzsch
By Mary Ann Caws
N. DASH
By Phong Bui

Critics Page

Performing Identities, Identifying Performance
Guest Critic: John Tain
Against Identity
By Gerard & Kelly
Skin of the Actor, Teeth of the Artist
By Asher Hartman
Ligia Lewis
Mark Aguhar
By Young Joon Kwak
Things Left Behind: Black Screen 16:9
By Erin Christovale and Rafa Esparza
The Woman Who Married a Bear
By Simone Forti
Attention:
By Lucky Dragons
Take My Hand and Let’s Get Out of This 4% Universe
By Laub and Jennifer Moon

Books

JOHN DOMINI with Christina Milletti
By Christina Milletti
Harlem to the Moon
By Jill Dearman
The Critics and the Chroniclers: Four Writers on Food in Our Times
By Alison Tate Lewis
To Boldly Go: ANN VANDERMEER & JEFF VANDERMEER With Nancy Hightower
By Nancy Hightower
The Writers' Writers: Bookmarked Series by Ig Publishing AARON BURCH, KIRBY GANN, CURTIS SMITH, and ROBERT LASNER with Joseph Salvatore
SARA BAUME with Torrey Crim
Caring for the Underdog: JEROME CHARYN with Alex Dueben
Canon Fodder
By Weston Cutter
Nothing Embarrassing or Strange: Curating KGB Bar’s Writers’ Series
By David Winner
The What is That
By Weston Cutter
Status Update: MATTHEW VOLLMER Speaks with Joseph Salvatore
Expanding the Possibilities of Story: AMBER SPARKS with John Madera
BELINDA MCKEON with Torrey Crim
GIRL ON FIRE (AND ICE) BLAIR BRAVERMAN with Leigh Kamping‑Carder
Father Figures
By Joshua Alvarez
Artistic Wanderings
By Gretchen Schmid
SESQUIPEDALIAN ECCENTRICS DYLAN HICKS with Evan Lavender‑Smith
The Unfinished World of the Short Story
By Darley Stewart
The Barely-There Before or: Paradise Lost (& Found)
By Chris Campanioni
BOOKS ARE NOT CHILDREN RUMAAN ALAM with Catherine LaSota
The Fog Machine
By Jon Krampner
Trove of Secrets
By Gillie Collins

Music

Danay Suárez, Polvo de la Humedad
By Adolf Alzuphar
Pneumatic Mnemonic: Pylon Live
By Daniel Gold
Brooklyn Rail Highly Selective Music Events
MUSIC AS A VOLATILE ART FORM: Terry Allen Reissued
By Marshall Yarbrough
Hearing With Your Eyes
By George Grella
Jon Savage’s Very Good Year
By Jeff Tompkins
Outtakes
By Steve Dalachinsky

Dance

Now More Than Ever, We Need This Party
By Jaime Shearn Coan
MARIE CHOUINARD with Stephanie Del Rosso
Ratmansky’s Quiet Revolution
By Susan Yung
MOVEMENT REALIZED Anna Sperber’s Prize
By Lori DeGolyer

Film

LOUIS HENDERSON with Leo Goldsmith
MIXED USE: Spectacle’s Trailers
By Mary Billyou
IMAGES OF THE WORLD: At the Harun Farocki Institut
By Jesse Cumming

Theater

The Art of Capturing the Ephemeral Maria Baranova’s performance photography
By Ivan Talijancic
Lindsay Joy’s In the Event of My Death: New Plays Grown Down at The Farm Theater
By Addie Johnson Talbott
The authenticity in getting Caught with Christopher Chen
By Matthew Paul Olmos

Fiction

Excerpts from Nioque
by Francis Ponge, translated from the French by JD Larson | forthcoming from Red Dust, 2017
Bartleby on Carmine Street
By Raphael Rubinstein
Three
By Peter Wortsman
The Crying Scout
By Debora Kuan
Tragic Strip
By Tom Motley

Poetry

Two
By Amy De'Ath
Two
By Denver Butson
☐ descriptions that leave out
By Binswanger Friedman
Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure
By Edmund Berrigan
Two
By Shira Dentz
Five
By Shanna Compton

Verbatim

Helen Frankenthaler “Postcardisms”

Art Books

Jon-Michael Frank and Bianca Stone
By Megan N. Liberty
RICHARD VINE with David Ebony

Field Notes

Letter from the Netherlands: “We Refugees are Like Chemical Waste”
By Nick Vos
From Welcome to Farewell: Germany, the refugee crisis and the global surplus proletariat
By Felix Baum
White, Rural, and Poor: On the Politics of Non-Identity
By Adam Theron-Lee Rensch
After Being Up All Night, We Wake up with a Political Strike1
by Charles Reeve, translated from the French by Janet Koenig

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