MAY 2010

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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

LAIBACH with Conor McGrady and Dario Šolman
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
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

GANDALF GAVAN WITH PHONG BUI
SHOJA AZARI WITH PHONG BUI
NORBERT PRANGENBERG WITH JOHN YAU

ArtSeen

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

CHANG-RAE LEE With DAVE KIM
By Dave Kim
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

The Return of Massive Attack
By Guy Patrick Cunningham
Make This Chilly Bedroom Warm: The Wingdale Community Singers
By Justin Vellucci
This Place is Driving You Insane
By Kate Silver
Uncanny Grooving
By Laura Flierl
JORGE MARTÍN with ALESSANDRO CASSIN

Dance

JEREMY WADE AND PETE DRUNGLE COLLABORATE, SEEK THE SUBLIME AT ABRONS ARTS CENTER
By Patricia Milder
A FINE ROMANCE
By L.J. Sunshine
A Nice Night for Narcissism FAYE DRISCOLL’S THERE IS SO MUCH MAD IN ME
By David St.-Lascaux
ACTION HEROES UNITE!
By Mary Love Hodges
LOST IN TRANSLATION: MARIA HASSABI AND ROBERT STEIJN
By Erika Eichelberger
CHOREOGRAPHY OR MOCKERY: “ARTISTS GET AWAY WITH SO MUCH…”
By Christine Hou
SWAN LAKE, SANS SWANS
By Evan Namerow
PLEASE DON’T TURN OFF YOUR CELL PHONE: ZVIDANCE’S PREMIERE of ZOOM
By Trina Mannino

Film

TO EVISCERATE, FROM THE LATIN
By David N. Meyer
CALLING ALL MORONS
By Tessa DeCarlo
BERLINALE 2O1O
By Jesi Khadivi
JIM FINN WITH PENNY LANE
By Penny Lane

Theater

Annie Baker: Laughing at the Laugh
By Carly Mensch
Our Passion Play
By Corina Copp
Interesting Times with the Nerve Tank
By Jake Witlen
Drenched: Emily DeVoti’s MILK
By Anne Washburn

Fiction

Tragic Strip
By T. Motley
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

9 Poems from ADEQUATED
By Franklin Bruno
Two
By Jerome Sala
Three
By Jessica Rogers

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MAY 2010

Find the RAIL in print

Subscribe now

Local

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

LAIBACH with Conor McGrady and Dario Šolman
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
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

GANDALF GAVAN WITH PHONG BUI
SHOJA AZARI WITH PHONG BUI
NORBERT PRANGENBERG WITH JOHN YAU

ArtSeen

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

CHANG-RAE LEE With DAVE KIM
By Dave Kim
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

The Return of Massive Attack
By Guy Patrick Cunningham
Make This Chilly Bedroom Warm: The Wingdale Community Singers
By Justin Vellucci
This Place is Driving You Insane
By Kate Silver
Uncanny Grooving
By Laura Flierl
JORGE MARTÍN with ALESSANDRO CASSIN

Dance

JEREMY WADE AND PETE DRUNGLE COLLABORATE, SEEK THE SUBLIME AT ABRONS ARTS CENTER
By Patricia Milder
A FINE ROMANCE
By L.J. Sunshine
A Nice Night for Narcissism FAYE DRISCOLL’S THERE IS SO MUCH MAD IN ME
By David St.-Lascaux
ACTION HEROES UNITE!
By Mary Love Hodges
LOST IN TRANSLATION: MARIA HASSABI AND ROBERT STEIJN
By Erika Eichelberger
CHOREOGRAPHY OR MOCKERY: “ARTISTS GET AWAY WITH SO MUCH…”
By Christine Hou
SWAN LAKE, SANS SWANS
By Evan Namerow
PLEASE DON’T TURN OFF YOUR CELL PHONE: ZVIDANCE’S PREMIERE of ZOOM
By Trina Mannino

Film

TO EVISCERATE, FROM THE LATIN
By David N. Meyer
CALLING ALL MORONS
By Tessa DeCarlo
BERLINALE 2O1O
By Jesi Khadivi
JIM FINN WITH PENNY LANE
By Penny Lane

Theater

Annie Baker: Laughing at the Laugh
By Carly Mensch
Our Passion Play
By Corina Copp
Interesting Times with the Nerve Tank
By Jake Witlen
Drenched: Emily DeVoti’s MILK
By Anne Washburn

Fiction

Tragic Strip
By T. Motley
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

9 Poems from ADEQUATED
By Franklin Bruno
Two
By Jerome Sala
Three
By Jessica Rogers

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