200 Bucks to Montauk, and I Really Just Want to Get to Southampton
By Julia KnoblochWe had made it past Babylon without any major confusion, a sublime morning sun shining through the train windows, but now we were being held in Patchogue.
Coney Island Beer Hustle
By Matthew VazWe got cold Coronas! We got cold Heineken! We got whatever you need out here! Ice cold!" is the chant that permeates the air above the sand along Coney Island and Brighton Beach.
Express In Conversation
EMPIRE UNBOUND: Philip S. Golub In Conversation with Phong Bui
While visiting New York, Le Monde diplomatique contributing editor Philip S. Golub stopped by the Rails headquarters to talk to publisher Phong Bui about his latest book Power, Profit & Prestige: A History of American Imperial Expansionism.
2010 SUMMER READING LIST
By Phong Bui and Robert Hullot-KentorWe asked friends and colleagues to contribute THE five books.
Art In Conversation
George Gittoes WITH DAVID LEVI STRAUSS
On the occasion of the pending release of his new film The Miscreants of Taliwood, artist and filmmaker George Gittoes, while visiting New York, sat down with David Levi Strauss at his High Falls home in upstate New York to talk about war, sex, religion, politics, lightness and darkness, and the impetus behind his films and his art.
Art In Conversation
An Interview
Paul Chan, an artist who, on the occasion of the publication of his book Waiting for Godot in New Orleans: A Field Guide (Creative Time Books) and the premiere of the Godot archive at the Museum of Modern Art in New York (June 30, 2010September 12, 2011), spends a hot afternoon talking to Claudia La Rocco.
Art In Conversation
Robert Hullot-Kentor WITH FABIO AKCELRUD DURÃO
Fabio Akcelrud Durão and Robert Hullot-Kentor continue a conversation about education, the common good, and committed art that they began in the June 2010 Rail.
Art In Conversation
James Hyde WITH PHONG BUI
Right after his last exhibition, Stuart Davis Group, which consisted of five large paintings made between 2006 and 2008, at the Boiler in Williamsburg, Brooklyn (May 28 June 27, 2010), painter James Hyde stopped by Art International Radio to talk to Rail Publisher Phong Bui about his life and work.
REVOLUCION DEL HIPSTER
By Peter HolslinIn Zona Centro, the downtown district in Tijuana, a city on the U.S.Mexico border just south of San Diego, DIY-chic is all the rage.
JUNE 3, 2010: DEAR SHERRY
By Christine HouYou are the stuff girls love. Southern hospitality, pink lattes, candies, hearts, and balloons. I saw you last night along with my friends at Triple Canopy at 177 Livingston: Sherry tries on Cinderella.
HURTS SO GOOD, ITALIAN STYLE
By David N. MeyerJules Dassin has a gift for depicting highly ritualized violence, both physical and psychological. Well, and psycho-sexual, too. The Code made sure the rough stuff in his American films was implied, never depictedour loss.
FORGOTTEN MEMORIES
By Mario Benedetti and Translated From The Spanish By Harry MoralesThis must be the thirtieth departure. Its a procedure that Fernando Varengo knows only too well. As a witness, of course; not as a traveler.
Editor's Message
Party at Ground Zero
By Theodore HammThere is no reason why instead of an Islamic cultural center, the former Burlington Coat Factory at 45-51 Park Place could not become an interfaith cultural center.
ArtSeen
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Matisse on the Move
– By Terry R. Myers -
Kiki Smith: Allegories on Living and the Mystery of Existence
– By Robert C. Morgan -
Walking the Elastic City
– By Patricia Milder -
LEE BONTECOU: All Freedom in Every Sense
– By Kara L. Rooney -
The Slave Theater
– By Kara L. Rooney -
RACKSTRAW DOWNES: Onsite Paintings, 19722008
– By Ben La Rocco -
RACKSTRAW DOWNES: In Focus
– By Phong Bui -
MERLIN JAMES, LOUISE HOPKINS
– By John Yau -
WAYNE THIEBAUD: 70 YEARS OF PAINTING
– By John Yau -
PATRICK MICHAEL FITZGERALD Drawings
– By John Yau -
EVE ERIKSSON
– By John Yau -
MARK DI SUVERO
– By Thomas Micchelli -
GREATER NEW YORK
– By Thomas Micchelli -
THE HISTORY OF WE: HIS STORY, HER STORY, OUR STORY
– By James Kalm -
LETTER FROM HONG KONG ARTHK 2010: WHAT ART YOU DOING?
– By Liz Riviere -
CHRISTIAN BOLTANSKI No Mans Land
– By Shane McAdams -
JULIE MEHRETU Grey Area
– By Stephanie Buhmann -
REBECCA SMITH Tape and Steel
– By Greg Lindquist -
CHRISTINE HIEBERT Reconnaissance: Three Wall Drawings
– By Lilly Wei -
JIM NUTT
– By David St.-Lascaux -
ROSS NEHER Sanctuary
– By Charles Schultz -
MAGRITTE, PAINTER-PHILOSOPHER
– By Valery Oisteanu -
ROME, IMPERIUM SINE FINE? (DOMINION WITHOUT LIMITS?)
– By Dore Ashton
Table of Contents
Editor's Message
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Party at Ground Zero
– By Theodore Hamm
Local
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200 Bucks to Montauk, and I Really Just Want to Get to Southampton
– By Julia Knobloch -
Party at Ground Zero
– By Theodore Hamm -
ALBANYS DNA EXPANSION: A Foolproof Solution?
– By Liliana Segura -
Brooklyn Housing Court: A Landlord Collection Agency?
– By Eleanor J. Bader -
TAKING (DOWN) the HIGH ROAD
– By Dave Kim -
CITY NOTES
– By Theodore Hamm -
Mallets on Wheels
– By Marianne Moore -
Iris in the Heartland
– By Katy Bolger
Express
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Celebritys Two-Way Street: Leon Gasts Smash His Camera
– By Williams Cole -
Coney Island Beer Hustle
– By Matthew Vaz -
Why Not Wounded Knee? A Tale of Two Monuments
– By Christian Parenti -
EMPIRE UNBOUND: Philip S. Golub In Conversation with Phong Bui
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RADICAL REFLECTIONS: Arthur Penn In Conversation with Gregory Zucker and Robert White
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STRAIGHT TALK: Andrew Bujalski In Conversation with Paul Felten
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Abortion Battles Hidden Front: Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady In Conversation with Williams Cole
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The Bonds of WarSebastian Junger and Tim Hetheringtons Restrepo
– By Williams Cole -
A Judt Guide
– By Christopher Michel -
Conflicted States
– By Allen Wilcox -
Just a Spoonful of Sugar
– By Adam P. Frederick -
The Not-So Roaring Twenties
– By David Rosen -
Across the Border
– By Sophia Koutsoyannis
Art
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An Interview
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Robert Hullot-Kentor WITH FABIO AKCELRUD DURÃO
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James Hyde WITH PHONG BUI
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George Gittoes WITH DAVID LEVI STRAUSS
ArtSeen
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Matisse on the Move
– By Terry R. Myers -
Kiki Smith: Allegories on Living and the Mystery of Existence
– By Robert C. Morgan -
Walking the Elastic City
– By Patricia Milder -
LEE BONTECOU: All Freedom in Every Sense
– By Kara L. Rooney -
The Slave Theater
– By Kara L. Rooney -
RACKSTRAW DOWNES: Onsite Paintings, 19722008
– By Ben La Rocco -
RACKSTRAW DOWNES: In Focus
– By Phong Bui -
MERLIN JAMES, LOUISE HOPKINS
– By John Yau -
WAYNE THIEBAUD: 70 YEARS OF PAINTING
– By John Yau -
PATRICK MICHAEL FITZGERALD Drawings
– By John Yau -
EVE ERIKSSON
– By John Yau -
MARK DI SUVERO
– By Thomas Micchelli -
GREATER NEW YORK
– By Thomas Micchelli -
THE HISTORY OF WE: HIS STORY, HER STORY, OUR STORY
– By James Kalm -
LETTER FROM HONG KONG ARTHK 2010: WHAT ART YOU DOING?
– By Liz Riviere -
CHRISTIAN BOLTANSKI No Mans Land
– By Shane McAdams -
JULIE MEHRETU Grey Area
– By Stephanie Buhmann -
REBECCA SMITH Tape and Steel
– By Greg Lindquist -
CHRISTINE HIEBERT Reconnaissance: Three Wall Drawings
– By Lilly Wei -
JIM NUTT
– By David St.-Lascaux -
ROSS NEHER Sanctuary
– By Charles Schultz -
MAGRITTE, PAINTER-PHILOSOPHER
– By Valery Oisteanu -
ROME, IMPERIUM SINE FINE? (DOMINION WITHOUT LIMITS?)
– By Dore Ashton
Books
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2010 SUMMER READING LIST
– By Phong Bui and Robert Hullot-Kentor -
Peter Orlovsky (1933-2010) From the Diaries 1960
– By Jonas Mekas -
ART TRIPPIN THROUGH CHINATIME: CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF A MARKET
– By Robert C. Morgan -
MEMOIR: YIN & LANG
– By Marc Nasdor -
FICTION: DUSTJUNKIES AND DUSTJACKETS
– By Brendan Carney Byrne -
FICTION: GETTING CARRIED AWAY
– By Paul Charles Griffin -
FICTION: CROSSING PATHS
– By Dave Kim -
FICTION: LARGE AND SIMPLE
– By Meghan Roe -
POETRY: WASTE TO WITT
– By Helena Fitzgerald -
FICTION: OUR LOTS OF LITTLE
– By John Madera -
POETRY: THE COOKED AND THE RARE
– By Adam Fitzgerald -
TOKENS
– By Dan Fall, Tatiaana L. Laine, Helena Fitzgerald, and Kenneth Schneyer -
RAPID TRANSIT
– By Jeffrey Cyphers Wright
Music
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REVOLUCION DEL HIPSTER
– By Peter Holslin -
Matt Markss The Little Death: Killing Them Softly with Sentiment
– By Daniel J. Kushner -
ONE-TRACK MIND
– By Ben Tripp -
AMERICAN MASTER: HARRY NILSSON
– By David Shirley -
JUILLIARD CONCERTS: THE GREAT SECRET
– By Richard Kostelanetz -
YET ANOTHER TWO GEMS FROM THE BROOKLYN SCENE
– By Todd Simmons
Dance
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NEW ARCHITECTURE FOR NOT-SO-NEW BALLETS
– By Evan Namerow -
AESTHETICS OF DENIAL
– By L.J. Sunshine -
JUNE 3, 2010: DEAR SHERRY
– By Christine Hou -
TOO MUCH LEWIS
– By Patricia Milder -
AND YOU THOUGHT GRAHAM WAS OLD-SCHOOL
– By Siobhan Burke
Film
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HURTS SO GOOD, ITALIAN STYLE
– By David N. Meyer -
PHIL SPECTOR: HE'S A RELIC
– By Sarahjane Blum -
JAPAN CUTS
– By David Wilentz -
TOTALLY, TENDERLY, TRAGICALLY
– By Julia Sirmons -
PSYCHADELIC MATURITY
– By Hamilton Morris -
GET SOME
– By David N. Meyer -
MAD, BAD... & DANGEROUS TO KNOW: THREE UNTAMED BEAUTIES
– By Ethan Spigland -
RED DESERT
– By Julia Sirmons
Theater
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The Vision Disturbance of Christina Masciotti
– By Meghan Falvey -
Women Play Two Gents (And More) with Judith Shakespeare Company
– By Ginny Hack -
Queens Odyssey: The Internationalists Which Direction Home?
– By Ashley Kelly-Tata -
Gardley Writes a River
– By Kathryn Walat
Fiction
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FORGOTTEN MEMORIES
– By Mario Benedetti and Translated From The Spanish By Harry Morales -
MARIO BENEDETTI
– By Harry Morales -
from THE SECRET LIFE OF OBJECTS
– By Dawn Raffel -
Tragic Strip
– By T. Motley
Poetry
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From Molloy, the Flip Side
– By Chris Tysh -
Subway Poems
– By Louis Bury -
THIS I FIND HARD TO BELIEVE
– By Michael Gottlieb -
WE ARE UNHAPPY TO SERVE YOU
– By Michael Gottlieb