JUL-AUG 2020

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Art

NJIDEKA AKUNYILI CROSBY with Jason Rosenfeld
GREGG BORDOWITZ with Yasi Alipour
CHITRA GANESH with Megan N. Liberty
JO SMAIL with Louis Block
MADDALENA GRANZIERA with Angela Brisotto, Victoria Stephanie Uzumyemezoglu, Sara Antoniolli and Olga Lepri

ArtSeen

Laurie Kang: Her Own Devices
By Esmé Hogeveen
Alexa West: Triple Expo
By Rachel Remick
Lin May Saeed: Arrival of the Animals
By Holly Bushman
Erik Olson: Through the States
By Hearne Pardee
Flávio de Carvalho
By Bruna Shapira
Virtual Views: Video Lives
By Madeleine Seidel
Gary Simmons: Screaming into the Ether
By William Corwin
Mulyana & Iwan Effendi: Jumping the Shadow
By Charlotte Kent
LigoranoReese: School of Good Citizenship
By Marisa Lerer
Tim Kent: Enfilade
By William Corwin
Aliza Shvarts: Purported
By Elizabeth Buhe
Valerie Jaudon: Prepositions
By Alfred Mac Adam
All What I Want is Life
By Ruba Al-Sweel
Brown’s a Color, Black is Not
By Darla Migan
Rosie Lee Tompkins: A Retrospective
By David Carrier
Thaddeus Mosley
By Jonathan Goodman
The New British Galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
By Christian Kleinbub
From Pot to Plate: Eli Ping at And Now
By Israel Lund
An Incomplete History of Muralism at Rikers Island
By Parker Field
ecofeminism(s)
By Alex A. Jones
Tatiana Arocha: Respiro un bosque/I breathe a forest
By Hovey Brock
NOT OVER
By Osman Can Yerebakan
Josh Smith: High as Fuck
By Ann C. Collins
Farah Al Qasimi: Back and Forth Disco
By Nina Wolpow
Painting at Night
By Robert R. Shane
The Tree of Life
By Charlotte Kent
Letter From New York: Marcin Muchalski and David Rhodes
By Hearne Pardee
The Rock
By Peter Brock
Within Global Isolation: Asian Artists in America
By Sahar Khraibani
Hard Opening: Vigil for Black Death
By Kathleen Langjahr
FIVE.
By Charlene K. Lau
do it (around the world)
By Ketter Weissman
Elizabeth Ibarra
By Jason Rosenfeld
2 Lizards
By Charlene K. Lau
Paintings Boarded-Up
By Robert C. Morgan
Jonathan Berger: An Introduction to Nameless Love
By Ksenia Soboleva
The Pursuit of Aesthetics: Artwork Created During Quarantine
By William Corwin
Mike Childs: The Journey: Grids, Color and Curvilinear forms, 2004 to 2020
By David Rhodes

Critics Page

State of Affairs
Guest Critic: Olivier Berggruen
The Mystical
By Yuk Hui
I am Prehistory
By Rémi Labrusse
The Promise
By Anne-Laure Zevi
Resilient Objects: Surviving the Collapse of the Institution
By Juliana Cerqueira Leite
John Armleder
Mai-Thu Perret
Dance in the Making
By Anna Yudina , Diana Vishneva, and Olivier Berggruen
Lady Lay
By Ali Van
Anicka Yi with Olivier Berggruen
Symbiontics: a view of present conditions from a place of entanglement
By Caroline A. Jones
The Case for Impure Vision
By Antonio Damasio

Books

KATE GREENE with Jacquelyn Marie Gallo
LEIGH STEIN with Kathleen Rooney
Kevin Carey’s Set in Stone: poems
By Christopher X. Shade
Partial Reveals & Inclusive Revelations in the Post-Truth Simulacracy: The Poetics
By Chris Campanioni
Can’t Look Away: Ben Ehrenreich’s Desert Notebooks
By Erika Howsare
Inkblot Journalism: Jay Kirk’s Avoid the Day
By J.C. Hallman

Music

MATTHEW SHIPP with George Grella
BOTCH-ing Online Opera
By Joe Diebes
Fairuz and Her Family Fusions
By Martin Longley
Listening In: Version and Inversion
By Scott Gutterman

Dance

Can we create lasting mutual aid structures?
By Nicole Loeffler-Gladstone
The Bon Iver Race Dance, Reviewed
By Adlan Jackson
LIZ WOLFF with Ivan Talijancic
By Ivan Talijancic

Film

In Conversation: JOSEPHINE DECKER with Madeline Whittle
Japan Cuts 2020: Social Shifts Through Time
By Jaime Grijalba
Future Days: Berlinale 2020
By Leo Goldsmith
"It’s Alive! It’s Alive!"
By Tyler Wilson
Quemar para sembrar: Pablo Larraín’s Ema
By Bartolomeo Sala

Theater

Theater Must Hold
By Elinor T Vanderburg
The Case for Telematics
By Jared McNeill
National Queer Theater: Building Community, Shining a Light, and Raising Hell
By Billy McEntee
ANNE BOGART with Tara Ahmadinejad

Fiction

Excerpt from Parakeet
By Marie-Helene Bertino
Eau de Toilette
By Ariel Saramandi

Poetry

four
By Patricia Spears Jones
five
By David Mills
Triptychs
By Sandra Simonds
five
By Kyle Dacuyan
five
By Claire Donato
Now It Can Be Told
By Jonathan Lethem
four
By John Yau
six from Snoring in Oregon
By Paul G. Maziar

Art Books

Sara Magenheimer’s Beige Pursuit
By Maxwell Paparella
Lorena Lohr’s Tonight Lounge
By Sarah Moroz
Jonas Mekas’s I Seem to Live: The New York Diaries 1950–1969
By Paul G. Maziar
Mayumi Hosokura’s New Skin
By Megan N. Liberty
Alice Trumbull Mason: Pioneer of American Abstraction
By Karen Chernick

ArTonic

Artists Space
By Nancy Princenthal

Field Notes

Prelude to a Hot American Summer
By Jarrod Shanahan and Zhandarka Kurti
For the State, the Best Defense is Sometimes a Deadly Offense
By Charles Reeve
“My son's dreams were cut short”: protests against police brutality go viral in Mexico, the US, and beyond
By David Schmidt
Crowned Plague
By Phil A. Neel
Elise Armani with Piotr Szyhalski
Journey to a “People's War”
By Thomas Dai
American Factory
By Andy Battle
Beyond the Green New Deal
By Max Ajl

The Miraculous

11. (Harlem)
By Raphael Rubinstein
12. (Chelsea, Fifth Avenue)
By Raphael Rubinstein
13. (Meat Packing District)
By Raphael Rubinstein
14. (NoHo)
By Raphael Rubinstein
15. (East Village, Union Square)
By Raphael Rubinstein

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JUL-AUG 2020

Find the RAIL in print

Subscribe now

A message from Phong Bui
Publisher and Artistic Director

Art

NJIDEKA AKUNYILI CROSBY with Jason Rosenfeld
GREGG BORDOWITZ with Yasi Alipour
CHITRA GANESH with Megan N. Liberty
JO SMAIL with Louis Block
MADDALENA GRANZIERA with Angela Brisotto, Victoria Stephanie Uzumyemezoglu, Sara Antoniolli and Olga Lepri

ArtSeen

Laurie Kang: Her Own Devices
By Esmé Hogeveen
Alexa West: Triple Expo
By Rachel Remick
Lin May Saeed: Arrival of the Animals
By Holly Bushman
Erik Olson: Through the States
By Hearne Pardee
Flávio de Carvalho
By Bruna Shapira
Virtual Views: Video Lives
By Madeleine Seidel
Gary Simmons: Screaming into the Ether
By William Corwin
Mulyana & Iwan Effendi: Jumping the Shadow
By Charlotte Kent
LigoranoReese: School of Good Citizenship
By Marisa Lerer
Tim Kent: Enfilade
By William Corwin
Aliza Shvarts: Purported
By Elizabeth Buhe
Valerie Jaudon: Prepositions
By Alfred Mac Adam
All What I Want is Life
By Ruba Al-Sweel
Brown’s a Color, Black is Not
By Darla Migan
Rosie Lee Tompkins: A Retrospective
By David Carrier
Thaddeus Mosley
By Jonathan Goodman
The New British Galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
By Christian Kleinbub
From Pot to Plate: Eli Ping at And Now
By Israel Lund
An Incomplete History of Muralism at Rikers Island
By Parker Field
ecofeminism(s)
By Alex A. Jones
Tatiana Arocha: Respiro un bosque/I breathe a forest
By Hovey Brock
NOT OVER
By Osman Can Yerebakan
Josh Smith: High as Fuck
By Ann C. Collins
Farah Al Qasimi: Back and Forth Disco
By Nina Wolpow
Painting at Night
By Robert R. Shane
The Tree of Life
By Charlotte Kent
Letter From New York: Marcin Muchalski and David Rhodes
By Hearne Pardee
The Rock
By Peter Brock
Within Global Isolation: Asian Artists in America
By Sahar Khraibani
Hard Opening: Vigil for Black Death
By Kathleen Langjahr
FIVE.
By Charlene K. Lau
do it (around the world)
By Ketter Weissman
Elizabeth Ibarra
By Jason Rosenfeld
2 Lizards
By Charlene K. Lau
Paintings Boarded-Up
By Robert C. Morgan
Jonathan Berger: An Introduction to Nameless Love
By Ksenia Soboleva
The Pursuit of Aesthetics: Artwork Created During Quarantine
By William Corwin
Mike Childs: The Journey: Grids, Color and Curvilinear forms, 2004 to 2020
By David Rhodes

Critics Page

State of Affairs
Guest Critic: Olivier Berggruen
The Mystical
By Yuk Hui
I am Prehistory
By Rémi Labrusse
The Promise
By Anne-Laure Zevi
Resilient Objects: Surviving the Collapse of the Institution
By Juliana Cerqueira Leite
John Armleder
Mai-Thu Perret
Dance in the Making
By Anna Yudina , Diana Vishneva, and Olivier Berggruen
Lady Lay
By Ali Van
Anicka Yi with Olivier Berggruen
Symbiontics: a view of present conditions from a place of entanglement
By Caroline A. Jones
The Case for Impure Vision
By Antonio Damasio

Books

KATE GREENE with Jacquelyn Marie Gallo
LEIGH STEIN with Kathleen Rooney
Kevin Carey’s Set in Stone: poems
By Christopher X. Shade
Partial Reveals & Inclusive Revelations in the Post-Truth Simulacracy: The Poetics
By Chris Campanioni
Can’t Look Away: Ben Ehrenreich’s Desert Notebooks
By Erika Howsare
Inkblot Journalism: Jay Kirk’s Avoid the Day
By J.C. Hallman

Music

MATTHEW SHIPP with George Grella
BOTCH-ing Online Opera
By Joe Diebes
Fairuz and Her Family Fusions
By Martin Longley
Listening In: Version and Inversion
By Scott Gutterman

Dance

Can we create lasting mutual aid structures?
By Nicole Loeffler-Gladstone
The Bon Iver Race Dance, Reviewed
By Adlan Jackson
LIZ WOLFF with Ivan Talijancic
By Ivan Talijancic

Film

In Conversation: JOSEPHINE DECKER with Madeline Whittle
Japan Cuts 2020: Social Shifts Through Time
By Jaime Grijalba
Future Days: Berlinale 2020
By Leo Goldsmith
"It’s Alive! It’s Alive!"
By Tyler Wilson
Quemar para sembrar: Pablo Larraín’s Ema
By Bartolomeo Sala

Theater

Theater Must Hold
By Elinor T Vanderburg
The Case for Telematics
By Jared McNeill
National Queer Theater: Building Community, Shining a Light, and Raising Hell
By Billy McEntee
ANNE BOGART with Tara Ahmadinejad

Fiction

Excerpt from Parakeet
By Marie-Helene Bertino
Eau de Toilette
By Ariel Saramandi

Poetry

four
By Patricia Spears Jones
five
By David Mills
Triptychs
By Sandra Simonds
five
By Kyle Dacuyan
five
By Claire Donato
Now It Can Be Told
By Jonathan Lethem
four
By John Yau
six from Snoring in Oregon
By Paul G. Maziar

Art Books

Sara Magenheimer’s Beige Pursuit
By Maxwell Paparella
Lorena Lohr’s Tonight Lounge
By Sarah Moroz
Jonas Mekas’s I Seem to Live: The New York Diaries 1950–1969
By Paul G. Maziar
Mayumi Hosokura’s New Skin
By Megan N. Liberty
Alice Trumbull Mason: Pioneer of American Abstraction
By Karen Chernick

ArTonic

Artists Space
By Nancy Princenthal

Field Notes

Prelude to a Hot American Summer
By Jarrod Shanahan and Zhandarka Kurti
For the State, the Best Defense is Sometimes a Deadly Offense
By Charles Reeve
“My son's dreams were cut short”: protests against police brutality go viral in Mexico, the US, and beyond
By David Schmidt
Crowned Plague
By Phil A. Neel
Elise Armani with Piotr Szyhalski
Journey to a “People's War”
By Thomas Dai
American Factory
By Andy Battle
Beyond the Green New Deal
By Max Ajl

The Miraculous

11. (Harlem)
By Raphael Rubinstein
12. (Chelsea, Fifth Avenue)
By Raphael Rubinstein
13. (Meat Packing District)
By Raphael Rubinstein
14. (NoHo)
By Raphael Rubinstein
15. (East Village, Union Square)
By Raphael Rubinstein

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