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Sunset Park Women’s Cooperative Says SI SE PUEDE!
By Eleanor J. Bader
City Notes
By Theodore Hamm
Learning From White Castle
By Dave Kim
A Windy Path
By Katy Bolger
The Staten Island Ferry Terminal
By John Byron Kuhner
Finding God in a Watering Hole
By Erika Eichelberger

Express

1984 2.0: Gary Shteyngart with Alessandro Cassin
SIR FRANK KERMODE AND SHIGEO TOKUDA: Scholar and Porn Star
By Christopher G. Moore
The Spring Festival
By Xiaoda Xiao
ART ATTACK
By John Reed
A REAL FUTURE: Sam Green with Astra Taylor
Art of Theft
By Abby Margulies
Wes Is Moore
By Christopher Michel
Ellison's Latest
By Lester Pimentel
Bourdain's Grill
By Katie Rolnick
The Imperfect Storm
By Michael Terry
Never Stop Writing
By Allen Wilcox

Art

ART IS A POLITICAL OPPORTUNITY: Paolo Canevari with Francesca Pietropaolo
ELEPHANTS AND HELICOPTERS: Dinh Q. Lê with Carolee Thea
John Elderfield with Phong Bui
Deborah Kass with Terry R. Myers

ArtSeen

Johns and Warhol (Again)
By John Yau
Alabama Picasso
By Ben La Rocco
Twilight of The Gods
By Thomas Micchelli
BRENDA GOODMAN Work 1990 – 2010
By John Yau
HEAT WAVES IN MY CORTEX Charles Burchfield, British Petroleum, and The Invisible Fire
By Craig Olson
SUZAN FRECON Recent Painting
By Joan Waltemath
KITSCH AND THE AVANT-GARDE How the Brotherhoods Set the Stage for Utopia
By Robert C. Morgan
RIVANE NEUENSCHWANDER A Day Like Any Other
By Kara L. Rooney
The Summer Ramp Down
By Shane McAdams
SARAH RAPSON Transcendental Materialism
By Geoffrey Cruickshank-Hagenbuckle
The Game
By William Powhida
WORK OF ART TALK Critics on Bad TV
By Patricia Milder
RESTORATION PROJECT Work of Art
By Sharon L. Butler
BROOKLYN DISPATCHES: "Even the Truth Needs Propaganda"
By James Kalm
PAUL RAMÍREZ JONAS Key to the City
By Cora Fisher
The Ghost in the Dreamachine
By Valery Oisteanu
BABETTE MANGOLTE Presence, Movement and Stills
By Cora Fisher
JILL MAGID A Reasonable Man in a Box
By Michael Straus
YVES KLEIN With the Void, Full Powers
By Greg Lindquist
SITE SANTA FE EIGHTH INTERNATIONAL BIENNIAL The Dissolve
By Phong Bui
LIUBO BORISSOV crowdsource
By Gail Victoria Braddock Quagliata
JENNIE C. JONES Electric
By Sophie Landres
THE DAWN OF MODERNISM: Early Twentieth-Century Mexican Photography
By David St.-Lascaux
HAUNTOLOGY
By Liz Wing
FRANCIS ALŸS A Story of Deception
By Sherman Sam

Books

Declan Spring with Finn Harvor
By Finn Harvor
Frederic Tuten with John Reed
By John Reed
BLAZING SUNBURSTS AND HOWLING MONKEYS: David Winner with Andrea Scrima
By Andrea Scrima
Works on Paper
By Johannah Rodgers
Theater of Cruelty
By Jeffrey Stanley
Emerging from the Fog
By Sarah Gerard
Are You Sure Species Exist?
By Miranda Mellis
RAPID TRANSIT
By Jeffrey Cyphers Wright

Music

BERBER BANJOS AND GNAWA TOADS: Searching for the Sounds of Marrakech
By Kurt Gottschalk
BAM Agonistes
By George Grella
NEWTOWN RADIO: Brooklyn's First Rock Radio Station
By Mimi Luse
Endless Summer
By Kate Silver
Outtakes
By Steve Dalachinsky
Persuasive Percussion
By Julie Kocsis

Dance

Capture It
By Quinn Batson
Editor's Note
By Mary Love Hodges
LETTER TO A CRITIC: Finding the Right Words to Say the Right Things
By Mario A. Zambrano
Mount Tremper Arts, A Patchwork Impression
By Patricia Milder
A Studio of One's Own
By Mary Love Hodges

Film

WANNA TALK MORE ABOUT FEUERBACH? A Near Century of Vampire Films
By Sarahjane Blum
Never Insignificant
By Julia Sirmons
Olivier Assayas’ Carlos
By Sean Glass
Muzzle Blasts, Cleavage, and Paddle Balls on the Repertory Circuit
By Bruce Bennett
An Interview with Benj Gerdes and Jennifer Hayashida

Theater

Filling the Void: Indie Performance Publishing
By Alexis Clements
Gregory S. Moss Is Not A Prodigy
By Mallery Avidon
The Vision Disturbance of Christina Masciotti
By Meghan Falvey

Fiction

Dark Charlie
By Laird Hunt
from LOVE
By Sarah French
from LETTERS TO MADELEINE
By Guillame Apollinaire and translated from the French by Donald Nicholson-Smith
Tragic Strip
By T. Motley
Tommy's Well
By Bruce Seymour
Shitty Mickey
By John Reed and Michele Witchipoo

Poetry

Five for Kenneth Fearing
By Owen Hill
Self-Portrait Wishing I Were Li Po
By Benjamin Gantcher
Two
By Matt Reeck
Two
By Bakar Wilson

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SEPT 2010

Find the RAIL in print

Subscribe now

Local

Sunset Park Women’s Cooperative Says SI SE PUEDE!
By Eleanor J. Bader
City Notes
By Theodore Hamm
Learning From White Castle
By Dave Kim
A Windy Path
By Katy Bolger
The Staten Island Ferry Terminal
By John Byron Kuhner
Finding God in a Watering Hole
By Erika Eichelberger

Express

1984 2.0: Gary Shteyngart with Alessandro Cassin
SIR FRANK KERMODE AND SHIGEO TOKUDA: Scholar and Porn Star
By Christopher G. Moore
The Spring Festival
By Xiaoda Xiao
ART ATTACK
By John Reed
A REAL FUTURE: Sam Green with Astra Taylor
Art of Theft
By Abby Margulies
Wes Is Moore
By Christopher Michel
Ellison's Latest
By Lester Pimentel
Bourdain's Grill
By Katie Rolnick
The Imperfect Storm
By Michael Terry
Never Stop Writing
By Allen Wilcox

Art

ART IS A POLITICAL OPPORTUNITY: Paolo Canevari with Francesca Pietropaolo
ELEPHANTS AND HELICOPTERS: Dinh Q. Lê with Carolee Thea
John Elderfield with Phong Bui
Deborah Kass with Terry R. Myers

ArtSeen

Johns and Warhol (Again)
By John Yau
Alabama Picasso
By Ben La Rocco
Twilight of The Gods
By Thomas Micchelli
BRENDA GOODMAN Work 1990 – 2010
By John Yau
HEAT WAVES IN MY CORTEX Charles Burchfield, British Petroleum, and The Invisible Fire
By Craig Olson
SUZAN FRECON Recent Painting
By Joan Waltemath
KITSCH AND THE AVANT-GARDE How the Brotherhoods Set the Stage for Utopia
By Robert C. Morgan
RIVANE NEUENSCHWANDER A Day Like Any Other
By Kara L. Rooney
The Summer Ramp Down
By Shane McAdams
SARAH RAPSON Transcendental Materialism
By Geoffrey Cruickshank-Hagenbuckle
The Game
By William Powhida
WORK OF ART TALK Critics on Bad TV
By Patricia Milder
RESTORATION PROJECT Work of Art
By Sharon L. Butler
BROOKLYN DISPATCHES: "Even the Truth Needs Propaganda"
By James Kalm
PAUL RAMÍREZ JONAS Key to the City
By Cora Fisher
The Ghost in the Dreamachine
By Valery Oisteanu
BABETTE MANGOLTE Presence, Movement and Stills
By Cora Fisher
JILL MAGID A Reasonable Man in a Box
By Michael Straus
YVES KLEIN With the Void, Full Powers
By Greg Lindquist
SITE SANTA FE EIGHTH INTERNATIONAL BIENNIAL The Dissolve
By Phong Bui
LIUBO BORISSOV crowdsource
By Gail Victoria Braddock Quagliata
JENNIE C. JONES Electric
By Sophie Landres
THE DAWN OF MODERNISM: Early Twentieth-Century Mexican Photography
By David St.-Lascaux
HAUNTOLOGY
By Liz Wing
FRANCIS ALŸS A Story of Deception
By Sherman Sam

Books

Declan Spring with Finn Harvor
By Finn Harvor
Frederic Tuten with John Reed
By John Reed
BLAZING SUNBURSTS AND HOWLING MONKEYS: David Winner with Andrea Scrima
By Andrea Scrima
Works on Paper
By Johannah Rodgers
Theater of Cruelty
By Jeffrey Stanley
Emerging from the Fog
By Sarah Gerard
Are You Sure Species Exist?
By Miranda Mellis
RAPID TRANSIT
By Jeffrey Cyphers Wright

Music

BERBER BANJOS AND GNAWA TOADS: Searching for the Sounds of Marrakech
By Kurt Gottschalk
BAM Agonistes
By George Grella
NEWTOWN RADIO: Brooklyn's First Rock Radio Station
By Mimi Luse
Endless Summer
By Kate Silver
Outtakes
By Steve Dalachinsky
Persuasive Percussion
By Julie Kocsis

Dance

Capture It
By Quinn Batson
Editor's Note
By Mary Love Hodges
LETTER TO A CRITIC: Finding the Right Words to Say the Right Things
By Mario A. Zambrano
Mount Tremper Arts, A Patchwork Impression
By Patricia Milder
A Studio of One's Own
By Mary Love Hodges

Film

WANNA TALK MORE ABOUT FEUERBACH? A Near Century of Vampire Films
By Sarahjane Blum
Never Insignificant
By Julia Sirmons
Olivier Assayas’ Carlos
By Sean Glass
Muzzle Blasts, Cleavage, and Paddle Balls on the Repertory Circuit
By Bruce Bennett
An Interview with Benj Gerdes and Jennifer Hayashida

Theater

Filling the Void: Indie Performance Publishing
By Alexis Clements
Gregory S. Moss Is Not A Prodigy
By Mallery Avidon
The Vision Disturbance of Christina Masciotti
By Meghan Falvey

Fiction

Dark Charlie
By Laird Hunt
from LOVE
By Sarah French
from LETTERS TO MADELEINE
By Guillame Apollinaire and translated from the French by Donald Nicholson-Smith
Tragic Strip
By T. Motley
Tommy's Well
By Bruce Seymour
Shitty Mickey
By John Reed and Michele Witchipoo

Poetry

Five for Kenneth Fearing
By Owen Hill
Self-Portrait Wishing I Were Li Po
By Benjamin Gantcher
Two
By Matt Reeck
Two
By Bakar Wilson

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