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Art

Tony Bechara with Phong H. Bui
Tracey Emin with Charles M. Schultz
Kay Rosen with Terry R. Myers
Rirkrit Tiravanija with David Ross
Coiled Baskets, Spiraled Histories
By Jessica L. Horton

ArtSeen

The Best of Times and the Worst of Times
By Jonathan Fineberg
Robert Ryman: 1961–1964
By Suzanne Hudson
James Siena
By Alfred Mac Adam
Cordy Ryman: Monkey Mind Symphony
By Ekin Erkan
Mark Rothko
By Phong Bui
Picasso: A Cubist Commission in Brooklyn
By Pepe Karmel
A Foreigner Called Picasso
By Mary Ann Caws
In Dialogue with Picasso
By Phyllis Tuchman
Picasso in Fontainebleau
By Rebecca Schiffman
14 Sketchbooks
By Saul Ostrow
The Echo of Picasso
By Amanda Gluibizzi
Going Dark: The Contemporary Figure at the Edge of Visibility
By Zoë Hopkins
Marilyn Lerner: Memory is a Fickle Thing
By Mary Jones
Lola Montes: Cirica
By Barbara A. MacAdam
Hans-Jörg Mayer
By Jason Rosenfeld
Adrian Ghenie: The Brave New World
By Charles Moore
Tales of Brave Ulysses
By Andrew Paul Woolbright
Bonnard’s Worlds
By Phyllis Tuchman
Rineke Dijkstra: Night Watching and Pictures from the Archive
By Ann C. Collins
Marta Minujín: Arte! Arte! Arte!
By Lyle Rexer
Mark Grotjahn: Skulls 2016–2023
By David Rhodes
Puppies Puppies (Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo): Nothing New
By Cassie Packard
Anish Kapoor
By Raphy Sarkissian
Mark Rothko
By Natalia Gierowska
Melvin Smith & Rose Smith: Recollections of Rondo
By Annabel Keenan
Henry Taylor: From Sugar to Shit
By Bruna Shapira
Lutz Bacher: AYE!
By Maximiliane Leuschner
Kapwani Kiwanga: Remediation
By Tak Pham
50 Paintings
By Saul Ostrow
Charles LeDray: Shiner
By Louis Bury
Frank Morrison: Brilliance Behind the Line and Wonder World
By Charles Moore
Nicholas Galanin: In every language there is Land / En cada lengua hay una Tierra
By Davida Fernández-Barkan
Hannah Beerman: Paintings
By Ksenia Soboleva
Tecla Tofano: This Body of Mine
By Clara Maria Apostolatos
Diana Al-Hadid: Women, Bronze, and Dangerous Things
By Elizabeth Buhe
Copy Machine Manifestos: Artists Who Make Zines
By Cassie Packard
Hyong Nam Ahn: Absolute Space (No Longer in Time)
By Robert C. Morgan
Georg Baselitz: The Painter in His Bed
By Alfred Mac Adam
Hanna Hur: Two Angels
By Suzanne Hudson
Shilpa Gupta: I did not tell you what I saw, but only what I dreamt
By Priya Gandhi
Dana Schutz: Jupiter’s Lottery
By William Corwin
Tadaaki Kuwayama: 1932-2023
By William Corwin
Ad Reinhardt
By David Rhodes
Paul Pfeiffer: Prologue to the Story of the Birth of Freedom
By Terry R. Myers
Eric N. Mack
By David Whelan
Katherine Bradford: Arms and the Sea
By Jason Drill
Eiko Otake: I Invited Myself, Vol. III: Duets
By Jacinda S. Tran
Spineless: A Glass Menagerie of Blaschka Marine Invertebrates
By Annabel Keenan
Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction
By Suzanne Hudson
Anne Patterson: Divine Pathways
By Amanda Millet-Sorsa
Skilled Labor: Black Realism in Detroit
By Charles Moore
Life Cycles: The Materials of Contemporary Design
By Joanna Seifter
Mood of the moment: Gaby Aghion and the house of Chloé
By Ruby Redstone
Joanna Pousette-Dart: Line Moving Through Light
By David Rhodes
Ann Craven: Night
By Charles Schultz
María Magdalena Campos-Pons: Behold
By Ann McCoy

1x1

Louis Block on Kern Samuel

Critics Page

Still Striking: Art and Aging
Guest Critic: Douglas Dreishpoon
Images
By Michael Brenson
The Miraculous Jonas Mekas
By Phong Bui
Still Here
By Douglas Dreishpoon and William Tass Jones
At Last
By Nancy Princenthal
Old Enough
By Anna Raverat
Agelessness
By Richard Shiff
Playing it Out
By Jeanne Silverthorne
A Special Kind of Breathing
By Douglas Dreishpoon and Bob Stewart
Weaving it all together the better to pull the threads again. . .
By Douglas Dreishpoon and Robert Storr
Parallel Paths
By Paul Hayes Tucker
Golub’s Catastrophes
By David Levi Strauss

Books

Joseph Masheck’s Faith in Art: Religion, Aesthetics, and Early Abstraction
By Donato Loia
Rust and Rot: 50 Years of State of Grace
By Vincent Scarpa
Ben Fama with Elizabeth Lothian
Kate Briggs’s The Long Form
By Mána Taylor
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore’s Touching the Art
By Daniel Allen Cox
Meg Pokrass and Aimee Parkison’s Disappearing Debutantes
By John Domini
Tony Ardizzone’s In Bruno’s Shadow
By Samuele F.S. Pardini
Marie-Helene Bertino’s Beautyland
By Madison Ford
Suzanne Braun Levine with Frank Pizzoli

Music

You Got to Have Kef: New York’s Balkan Music Scene
By Josh Klasco
BALKAN:MOST
By Martin Longley
Death at the Opera
By George Grella
Days of Our Lives
By Scott Gutterman

Dance

Playing the Instrument of the Body
By Luna Beller-Tadiar
The Labor of Grief
By Candice Thompson
Dancing Along an Unlikely Path
By Susan Yung

Film

Yorgos Lanthimos’s Poor Things
By Payton McCarty-Simas
Francesco Casetti’s Screening Fears: On Protective Media
By Ewan Wallace
Maryam Keshavarz’s The Persian Version
By Mandy Taheri
Wim Wenders’s Perfect Days
By Nolan Kelly
The 20th Noir City Film Festival
By Harrison Blackman

Theater

Conversations I Want People to Have After Seeing How to Dance in Ohio
By Dave Osmundsen
Thirty-Five
by Catherine Filloux, illustrations by Luba Lukova
In cryptochrome, a New Way of Seeing
By Billy McEntee

Fiction

E v i d e n c e
By Chin-Sun Lee
from Wings of Red
By James W. Jennings

Poetry

Haleh Liza Gafori
Cliff Fyman
Mark Hyatt
Jose Padua
Rodger Kamenetz
Jo Barchi
Eleni Sikelianos
Kimberly Alidio with Irene Hsu
Carlos Soto Román’s 11
By Judah Rubin
“rage & love”: on Patricia Spears Jones’s The Beloved Community
By Rona Cran
Trying to Find a Place to Live: A Two-Way Interview Conversation by Alexander Dickow and Jay Besemer
Eleni Sikelianos with Rosa Alcalá

Art Books

The Best Art Books of 2023
Louise Nevelson’s Sculpture
By Jennie Waldow
Bindi Vora’s Mountain of Salt
By Renee Hudson
Queer Networks: Ray Johnson’s Correspondence Art
By Phillip Griffith
An Indigenous Present
By Maymanah Farhat

ArTonic

Franklin Furnace
By Megan N. Liberty

In Memoriam

Margarete Roeder
By Barbara A. MacAdam

Special Report

Field Notes from a Press Preview at the Met
By Oliver Katz

Field Notes

Gaza: An Extreme Militarization of the Class War
By E. Minassian
Phil Neel with Komite (Part II)

The Miraculous

56. Late 19th-Early 20th Centuries, Aleppo
By Raphael Rubinstein
57. 20th century, Cairo
By Raphael Rubinstein
58. 1933, New York City
By Raphael Rubinstein
59. 1999 (and later), Weimar, Germany
By Raphael Rubinstein
60. November 13, 2015, Paris
By Raphael Rubinstein

Art and Technology

Speculative Seeds for a Vanishing Point: An Early Modern Encounter for our Postmodern
By Charlotte Kent

DEC 23-JAN 24 Issue

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DEC 23-JAN 24

Find the RAIL in print

Subscribe now

A message from Phong Bui
Publisher and Artistic Director

Art

Tony Bechara with Phong H. Bui
Tracey Emin with Charles M. Schultz
Kay Rosen with Terry R. Myers
Rirkrit Tiravanija with David Ross
Coiled Baskets, Spiraled Histories
By Jessica L. Horton

ArtSeen

The Best of Times and the Worst of Times
By Jonathan Fineberg
Robert Ryman: 1961–1964
By Suzanne Hudson
James Siena
By Alfred Mac Adam
Cordy Ryman: Monkey Mind Symphony
By Ekin Erkan
Mark Rothko
By Phong Bui
Picasso: A Cubist Commission in Brooklyn
By Pepe Karmel
A Foreigner Called Picasso
By Mary Ann Caws
In Dialogue with Picasso
By Phyllis Tuchman
Picasso in Fontainebleau
By Rebecca Schiffman
14 Sketchbooks
By Saul Ostrow
The Echo of Picasso
By Amanda Gluibizzi
Going Dark: The Contemporary Figure at the Edge of Visibility
By Zoë Hopkins
Marilyn Lerner: Memory is a Fickle Thing
By Mary Jones
Lola Montes: Cirica
By Barbara A. MacAdam
Hans-Jörg Mayer
By Jason Rosenfeld
Adrian Ghenie: The Brave New World
By Charles Moore
Tales of Brave Ulysses
By Andrew Paul Woolbright
Bonnard’s Worlds
By Phyllis Tuchman
Rineke Dijkstra: Night Watching and Pictures from the Archive
By Ann C. Collins
Marta Minujín: Arte! Arte! Arte!
By Lyle Rexer
Mark Grotjahn: Skulls 2016–2023
By David Rhodes
Puppies Puppies (Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo): Nothing New
By Cassie Packard
Anish Kapoor
By Raphy Sarkissian
Mark Rothko
By Natalia Gierowska
Melvin Smith & Rose Smith: Recollections of Rondo
By Annabel Keenan
Henry Taylor: From Sugar to Shit
By Bruna Shapira
Lutz Bacher: AYE!
By Maximiliane Leuschner
Kapwani Kiwanga: Remediation
By Tak Pham
50 Paintings
By Saul Ostrow
Charles LeDray: Shiner
By Louis Bury
Frank Morrison: Brilliance Behind the Line and Wonder World
By Charles Moore
Nicholas Galanin: In every language there is Land / En cada lengua hay una Tierra
By Davida Fernández-Barkan
Hannah Beerman: Paintings
By Ksenia Soboleva
Tecla Tofano: This Body of Mine
By Clara Maria Apostolatos
Diana Al-Hadid: Women, Bronze, and Dangerous Things
By Elizabeth Buhe
Copy Machine Manifestos: Artists Who Make Zines
By Cassie Packard
Hyong Nam Ahn: Absolute Space (No Longer in Time)
By Robert C. Morgan
Georg Baselitz: The Painter in His Bed
By Alfred Mac Adam
Hanna Hur: Two Angels
By Suzanne Hudson
Shilpa Gupta: I did not tell you what I saw, but only what I dreamt
By Priya Gandhi
Dana Schutz: Jupiter’s Lottery
By William Corwin
Tadaaki Kuwayama: 1932-2023
By William Corwin
Ad Reinhardt
By David Rhodes
Paul Pfeiffer: Prologue to the Story of the Birth of Freedom
By Terry R. Myers
Eric N. Mack
By David Whelan
Katherine Bradford: Arms and the Sea
By Jason Drill
Eiko Otake: I Invited Myself, Vol. III: Duets
By Jacinda S. Tran
Spineless: A Glass Menagerie of Blaschka Marine Invertebrates
By Annabel Keenan
Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction
By Suzanne Hudson
Anne Patterson: Divine Pathways
By Amanda Millet-Sorsa
Skilled Labor: Black Realism in Detroit
By Charles Moore
Life Cycles: The Materials of Contemporary Design
By Joanna Seifter
Mood of the moment: Gaby Aghion and the house of Chloé
By Ruby Redstone
Joanna Pousette-Dart: Line Moving Through Light
By David Rhodes
Ann Craven: Night
By Charles Schultz
María Magdalena Campos-Pons: Behold
By Ann McCoy

1x1

Louis Block on Kern Samuel

Critics Page

Still Striking: Art and Aging
Guest Critic: Douglas Dreishpoon
Images
By Michael Brenson
The Miraculous Jonas Mekas
By Phong Bui
Still Here
By Douglas Dreishpoon and William Tass Jones
At Last
By Nancy Princenthal
Old Enough
By Anna Raverat
Agelessness
By Richard Shiff
Playing it Out
By Jeanne Silverthorne
A Special Kind of Breathing
By Douglas Dreishpoon and Bob Stewart
Weaving it all together the better to pull the threads again. . .
By Douglas Dreishpoon and Robert Storr
Parallel Paths
By Paul Hayes Tucker
Golub’s Catastrophes
By David Levi Strauss

Books

Joseph Masheck’s Faith in Art: Religion, Aesthetics, and Early Abstraction
By Donato Loia
Rust and Rot: 50 Years of State of Grace
By Vincent Scarpa
Ben Fama with Elizabeth Lothian
Kate Briggs’s The Long Form
By Mána Taylor
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore’s Touching the Art
By Daniel Allen Cox
Meg Pokrass and Aimee Parkison’s Disappearing Debutantes
By John Domini
Tony Ardizzone’s In Bruno’s Shadow
By Samuele F.S. Pardini
Marie-Helene Bertino’s Beautyland
By Madison Ford
Suzanne Braun Levine with Frank Pizzoli

Music

You Got to Have Kef: New York’s Balkan Music Scene
By Josh Klasco
BALKAN:MOST
By Martin Longley
Death at the Opera
By George Grella
Days of Our Lives
By Scott Gutterman

Dance

Playing the Instrument of the Body
By Luna Beller-Tadiar
The Labor of Grief
By Candice Thompson
Dancing Along an Unlikely Path
By Susan Yung

Film

Yorgos Lanthimos’s Poor Things
By Payton McCarty-Simas
Francesco Casetti’s Screening Fears: On Protective Media
By Ewan Wallace
Maryam Keshavarz’s The Persian Version
By Mandy Taheri
Wim Wenders’s Perfect Days
By Nolan Kelly
The 20th Noir City Film Festival
By Harrison Blackman

Theater

Conversations I Want People to Have After Seeing How to Dance in Ohio
By Dave Osmundsen
Thirty-Five
by Catherine Filloux, illustrations by Luba Lukova
In cryptochrome, a New Way of Seeing
By Billy McEntee

Fiction

E v i d e n c e
By Chin-Sun Lee
from Wings of Red
By James W. Jennings

Poetry

Haleh Liza Gafori
Cliff Fyman
Mark Hyatt
Jose Padua
Rodger Kamenetz
Jo Barchi
Eleni Sikelianos
Kimberly Alidio with Irene Hsu
Carlos Soto Román’s 11
By Judah Rubin
“rage & love”: on Patricia Spears Jones’s The Beloved Community
By Rona Cran
Trying to Find a Place to Live: A Two-Way Interview Conversation by Alexander Dickow and Jay Besemer
Eleni Sikelianos with Rosa Alcalá

Art Books

The Best Art Books of 2023
Louise Nevelson’s Sculpture
By Jennie Waldow
Bindi Vora’s Mountain of Salt
By Renee Hudson
Queer Networks: Ray Johnson’s Correspondence Art
By Phillip Griffith
An Indigenous Present
By Maymanah Farhat

ArTonic

Franklin Furnace
By Megan N. Liberty

In Memoriam

Margarete Roeder
By Barbara A. MacAdam

Special Report

Field Notes from a Press Preview at the Met
By Oliver Katz

Field Notes

Gaza: An Extreme Militarization of the Class War
By E. Minassian
Phil Neel with Komite (Part II)

The Miraculous

56. Late 19th-Early 20th Centuries, Aleppo
By Raphael Rubinstein
57. 20th century, Cairo
By Raphael Rubinstein
58. 1933, New York City
By Raphael Rubinstein
59. 1999 (and later), Weimar, Germany
By Raphael Rubinstein
60. November 13, 2015, Paris
By Raphael Rubinstein

Art and Technology

Speculative Seeds for a Vanishing Point: An Early Modern Encounter for our Postmodern
By Charlotte Kent

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