Goodbye, Howard, Goodbye
By Dan SimonHoward Zinn carried a heavy load lightly. He did this in matters both delicate and momentous.
Art In Conversation
GANDALF GAVAN WITH PHONG BUI
On the occasion of his second solo exhibit, Teaching a Chicken How to Fly III, Gandalf Gavan stopped by Art International Radio to talk to Rail Publisher Phong Bui about his life and work.
Art In Conversation
SHOJA AZARI WITH PHONG BUI
Shoja Azari paid a visit to Art International Radio to talk with Rail Publisher Phong Bui about his life, work, and more.
Art In Conversation
NORBERT PRANGENBERG WITH JOHN YAU
In the midst of installing his first exhibition at Betty Cuningham Gallery in collaboration with Bernd Schellhorn of Berlin, Germany (April 1 – May 22, 2010), Norbert Prangenberg took time off to sit down with Rail Art Editor John Yau on site to talk about his life and work.
Make This Chilly Bedroom Warm: The Wingdale Community Singers
By Justin VellucciSpirit Duplicator, the second record from Brooklyn quartet the Wingdale Community Singers, begins with an enticing simulacrum—not a chord strummed on an acoustic guitar but the naked skeleton of notes that would seem to form that chord.
Books In Conversation
CHANG-RAE LEE With DAVE KIM
By Dave KimAt 29, Chang-Rae Lee won the 1996 PEN/Hemingway Award for his debut novel, Native Speaker. A Graham Greene-esque story of subterfuge and alienation set in the immigrant communities of Queens, Native Speaker is now required reading in many ethnic studies classes for its thorough examination of self-ambivalence and cross-cultural tensions.
Theater In Dialogue
Drenched: Emily DeVoti’s MILK
By Anne WashburnAnne Washburn: I suppose my question is, in setting a play on a working dairy farm are you writing about what you had, or about what you didn’t have?
Two
By Jerome SalaJEROME SALA'S latest book is Look Slimmer Instantly from Soft Skull Press. Forthcoming is a chapbook titled Prom Night, done in collaboration with the artist Tamara Gonzales. His blog is espresso bongo
JIM FINN WITH PENNY LANE
By Penny LaneJim Finn’s idiosyncratic shorts have been a fixture on the experimental film and video scene for a little over a decade now. In the past four years, he has managed the astounding feat of releasing three feature films with essentially no budget.
ACTION HEROES UNITE!
By Mary Love HodgesAfter the opening performance of STREB’s Run Up Walls (continuing weekends through May 23) at her action lab in Williamsburg, much of the audience stuck around to celebrate the publication of Elizabeth Streb’s How to Become an Extreme Action Hero (The Feminist Press, 2010).
Editor's Message
Running Local
By Theodore HammFor at least the next few issues, my column no longer will appear on this page. Instead, an expanded version of it will be found in the Local section.
ArtSeen
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LUC TUYMANS
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FRANCIE SHAW Weights and Measures
– By Craig Olson -
TRIS VONNA-MICHELL Not a Solitary Sign or Inscription to Even Suggest an Ending
– By Natalie Haddad -
DUNCAN CAMPBELL Make It New John
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REFLECTIONS ON THE WARRIOR ARTIST
– By Robert C. Morgan -
AND ONE MORE THING: DAVID HAMMONS, MELVIN WAY, WALTER SIPSER, ANDREW CASTRUCCI
– By Geoffrey Cruickshank-Hagenbuckle -
DAWN CLEMENTS
– By Thomas Micchelli -
BROOKLYN DISPATCHES: Dog Years
– By James Kalm -
TATIANA TROUVÉ
– By Kara L. Rooney -
TEN YEARS HUNTING [PART I]
– By Charles Schultz -
LIL PICARD AND COUNTERCULTURE NEW YORK
– By Valery Oisteanu -
SI YEON KIM Barricade
– By Patricia Milder -
JOAN JONAS Mirage
– By Cora Fisher -
SHARING THE LIGHT: ALAN UGLOW’S GENEROUS ECONOMY OF BEAUTY
– By Joan Waltemath
Table of Contents
Editor's Message
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Running Local
– By Theodore Hamm
Local
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City Notes
– By Theodore Hamm -
Bringing the Tent of Abraham to the Jewish Poor
– By Eleanor J. Bader -
Greenpoint's Next Façade
– By Kyle Leighton
Express
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LAIBACH with Conor McGrady and Dario Šolman
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Printmaking as Resistance?
– By Eric Triantafillou -
Goodbye, Howard, Goodbye
– By Dan Simon -
Bio Sketch: The Making of a Writer
– By Christopher G. Moore -
WAYGOOKS: STORIES FROM KOREA: Compiled and Edited by J. Scott Burgeson
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Docs in Sight: This Is What Democracy Looks Like
– By Williams Cole -
A Few Words About Ryan Adams, The Writer
– By Joseph Riippi -
Consider the Author
– By Margaret Eby -
Stop and Think
– By Christopher Michel -
Behind the Veil
– By Leigh Kamping-Carder
Art
ArtSeen
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LUC TUYMANS
– By Greg Lindquist -
FRANCIE SHAW Weights and Measures
– By Craig Olson -
TRIS VONNA-MICHELL Not a Solitary Sign or Inscription to Even Suggest an Ending
– By Natalie Haddad -
DUNCAN CAMPBELL Make It New John
– By Sophie Landres -
REFLECTIONS ON THE WARRIOR ARTIST
– By Robert C. Morgan -
AND ONE MORE THING: DAVID HAMMONS, MELVIN WAY, WALTER SIPSER, ANDREW CASTRUCCI
– By Geoffrey Cruickshank-Hagenbuckle -
DAWN CLEMENTS
– By Thomas Micchelli -
BROOKLYN DISPATCHES: Dog Years
– By James Kalm -
TATIANA TROUVÉ
– By Kara L. Rooney -
TEN YEARS HUNTING [PART I]
– By Charles Schultz -
LIL PICARD AND COUNTERCULTURE NEW YORK
– By Valery Oisteanu -
SI YEON KIM Barricade
– By Patricia Milder -
JOAN JONAS Mirage
– By Cora Fisher -
SHARING THE LIGHT: ALAN UGLOW’S GENEROUS ECONOMY OF BEAUTY
– By Joan Waltemath
Books
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CHANG-RAE LEE With DAVE KIM
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IMMERSION, INFINITY, AND THE QUALITY OF LIFE
– By Robert C. Morgan -
LIBERTY LITERALLY REIFIED
– By Scott Hightower -
THE BIG NOWHERE CRUNCH
– By Anis Shivani -
NOW READY
– By Brendan Carney Byrne -
CIRCLE SQUARED
– By Jim Feast -
LINE OF THE EDGE
– By Chelsea G.H. Philpot -
WHERE THE SUN SHAN’T SHINE
– By Robin Becker -
ON BEING NOIR
– By John Madera -
RAPID TRANSIT
– By Jeffrey Cyphers Wright
Music
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The Return of Massive Attack
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Make This Chilly Bedroom Warm: The Wingdale Community Singers
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This Place is Driving You Insane
– By Kate Silver -
Uncanny Grooving
– By Laura Flierl -
JORGE MARTÍN with ALESSANDRO CASSIN
Dance
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JEREMY WADE AND PETE DRUNGLE COLLABORATE, SEEK THE SUBLIME AT ABRONS ARTS CENTER
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A FINE ROMANCE
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A Nice Night for Narcissism FAYE DRISCOLL’S THERE IS SO MUCH MAD IN ME
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ACTION HEROES UNITE!
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LOST IN TRANSLATION: MARIA HASSABI AND ROBERT STEIJN
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CHOREOGRAPHY OR MOCKERY: “ARTISTS GET AWAY WITH SO MUCH…”
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SWAN LAKE, SANS SWANS
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PLEASE DON’T TURN OFF YOUR CELL PHONE: ZVIDANCE’S PREMIERE of ZOOM
– By Trina Mannino
Film
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TO EVISCERATE, FROM THE LATIN
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CALLING ALL MORONS
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BERLINALE 2O1O
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JIM FINN WITH PENNY LANE
– By Penny Lane
Theater
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Annie Baker: Laughing at the Laugh
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Our Passion Play
– By Corina Copp -
Interesting Times with the Nerve Tank
– By Jake Witlen -
Drenched: Emily DeVoti’s MILK
– By Anne Washburn
Fiction
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Tragic Strip
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from FIVE TOPOGRAPHIES
– By Yasmine Alwan -
The Trials of Woodchuck
– By Ted Pelton -
from PANGAEA
– By Miles Strucker -
from FLOATS HORSE-FLOATS OR HORSE-FLOWS
– By Leslie Scalapino -
from MICROSCRIPTS (New Directions)
– By Robert Walser and Susan Bernofsky -
from Character and Fitness
– By Jason Flores-Williams
Poetry
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9 Poems from ADEQUATED
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Two
– By Jerome Sala -
Three
– By Jessica Rogers
