The G Train: Bound For Glory?
By E. Tammy KimHow tragic that the G, so elegantly conceived, has become what it is today: disparaged to no end, shorter (four cars) and stopping at fewer stations (21) than your average train, and consistently ranked first in mechanical failures.
Hyderabad Calling
By Christian Parenti, with photos by Jessica DimmockThe Indian night is suffocatingly hot and the curving streets of old Hyderabad are dark and quiet. On a small little hill nearby, a dilapidated Hindu temple wears strings of yellow bulbs. A few motorbikes and rickshaw cabs are pulled up to a dimly lit tea stall.
Art In Conversation
THOMAS NOZKOWSKI with John Yau
Shortly before his exhibition at The Pace Gallery, Thomas Nozkowski and Rail Art Editor John Yau met at the gallerys warehouse to discuss his new paintings and drawings.
Art In Conversation
NICKY NODJOUMI with Phong Bui
On the occasion of his second solo exhibit, entitled Invitation to Change Your Metaphor, with Priska C. Juschka Fine Art (October 28 - December 30, 2010) the painter Nicky Nodjoumi stopped by Art International Radio to talk with Rail Publisher Phong Bui about his life and work.
In Conversation with Jonas Mekas
On the occasion of his recent solo exhibition To New York With Love at James Fuentes Gallery, Jonas Mekas, the indefatigable advocate of American independent cinema, graciously took the time out of his busy schedule to meet with the graduate students of the Art Criticism and Writing program at the School of Visual Arts for an in-depth conversation.
The Political Eisenberg
By Andrea ScrimaDeborah Eisenbergs stories spin taut, glistening webs between people and places that resonate at mesmerizing frequencies; they come as close to what can only be called reality as literature, at its best, can do.
Building a Body of Work: Charles Atlas and Merce Cunningham
By Mary Lisa BurnsHow did Merce Cunningham collaborate with artists? By now its the stuff of dance history legend: the composer might be told the length of the dance; the visual artist the number of dancers, perhaps, or that nothing could be hung from above.
The Macbeths in the Prism of Noh: Ping Chong Stage's Kurosawa's Throne of Blood
By Alan LockwoodThe uncanny is the grease on which Macbeth skids. Like gruel dredged from the weird sisters cauldrona loaded smear of newts eye and witches mummyour supernatural captivations plunge the Scottish play its way to dusty death.
The Study
By John Robert LennonOn a sunny fall day in 1977, my father stepped out of a bar and collapsed on the sidewalk, the victim of a cerebral hemorrhage, and for the rest of his life was confined to a wheelchair, his legs useless, his voice slurred.
Editor's Message From The Editor
Twain and Trane
By Theodore HammOther than their iconic status in the world of letters and notes, Mark Twain and John Coltrane seem entirely remote from one another.
ArtSeen
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MATTHEW BARNEY's Heart of Darkness
– By Vince Carducci -
Raphael Rubinstein on Art's Past and the Future of Publishing
– By Patricia Milder -
RENÉ DANIËLS: Painting on Unknown Languages
– By Sherman Sam -
JOAN SNYDER: A Year in the Painting Life
– By Corina Larkin -
RYAN HUMPHREY: Look for the dream that keeps coming back
– By Charles Schultz -
Art Books in Review
– By Greg Lindquist -
MARISA MERZ
– By Cora Fisher -
BROOKLYN DISPATCHES: I Wish They All Could Be California
– By James Kalm -
"That Barnett Newman 'Onement' Painting Is, Like, So 1948"
– By Shane McAdams -
Chaos and Classicism: Art in France, Italy, and Germany, 19181936
– By Thomas Micchelli -
AUDREY FLACK and the Revolution of Still Life Painting
– By Robert C. Morgan -
ROY LICHTENSTEIN The Black-and-White Drawings, 19611968
– By Terry R. Myers -
DIETER ROTH, BJÖRN ROTH Work Tables & Tischmatten
– By Valery Oisteanu -
TRIBBLE & MANCENIDO Hurry Up & Wait
– By Gail Victoria Braddock Quagliata -
ARLENE SHECHET The Sound of It
– By Kara L. Rooney -
Letter from Berlin
– By David Rhodes -
Nueva York (16131945)
– By David St.-Lascaux -
NICOLAS CARONE: In Memoriam (1917 2010)
– By David Rigsbee -
GORDON ONSLOW FORD Paintings and Works on Paper: 19391951
– By John Yau -
JONAS MEKAS To New York With Love
– By Michael Newton
Table of Contents
Editor's Message
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Twain and Trane
– By Theodore Hamm
Local
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The G Train: Bound For Glory?
– By E. Tammy Kim -
A Two-Borough Taco Tour
– By Dave Kim -
Brooklyn by the Numbers
– By Eleanor J. Bader
Express
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Hyderabad Calling
– By Christian Parenti, with photos by Jessica Dimmock -
FORECLOSURES: A Legal Racket
– By Jason Flores-Williams -
WAITING FOR SUPERMAN
– By Brian Edgar -
Twain and Trane
– By Theodore Hamm -
Is Publishing Doomed? JOHN B. THOMPSON with Williams Cole
– By Williams Cole -
The Last Real Populist
– By Robert Hamm -
Moulitsas vs. The Fundamentalists
– By Michael Terry -
Hyde's Gravity
– By Christopher Michel -
A Family Affair
– By Lester Pimentel -
All Ears
– By Allen Wilcox -
STEWARDS NOTES FROM THE UNDERGROUND
– By David Rosen
Art
ArtSeen
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MATTHEW BARNEY's Heart of Darkness
– By Vince Carducci -
Raphael Rubinstein on Art's Past and the Future of Publishing
– By Patricia Milder -
RENÉ DANIËLS: Painting on Unknown Languages
– By Sherman Sam -
JOAN SNYDER: A Year in the Painting Life
– By Corina Larkin -
RYAN HUMPHREY: Look for the dream that keeps coming back
– By Charles Schultz -
Art Books in Review
– By Greg Lindquist -
MARISA MERZ
– By Cora Fisher -
BROOKLYN DISPATCHES: I Wish They All Could Be California
– By James Kalm -
"That Barnett Newman 'Onement' Painting Is, Like, So 1948"
– By Shane McAdams -
Chaos and Classicism: Art in France, Italy, and Germany, 19181936
– By Thomas Micchelli -
AUDREY FLACK and the Revolution of Still Life Painting
– By Robert C. Morgan -
ROY LICHTENSTEIN The Black-and-White Drawings, 19611968
– By Terry R. Myers -
DIETER ROTH, BJÖRN ROTH Work Tables & Tischmatten
– By Valery Oisteanu -
TRIBBLE & MANCENIDO Hurry Up & Wait
– By Gail Victoria Braddock Quagliata -
ARLENE SHECHET The Sound of It
– By Kara L. Rooney -
Letter from Berlin
– By David Rhodes -
Nueva York (16131945)
– By David St.-Lascaux -
NICOLAS CARONE: In Memoriam (1917 2010)
– By David Rigsbee -
GORDON ONSLOW FORD Paintings and Works on Paper: 19391951
– By John Yau -
JONAS MEKAS To New York With Love
– By Michael Newton
Books
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The Political Eisenberg
– By Andrea Scrima -
RICHARD HINE with Sarah Gerard
– By Sarah Gerard -
Blank Like Me
– By Brendan Byrne -
Lost and Congealed
– By Samantha Ecker Angerame -
A Fate More Than Death
– By Sarah Gerard -
Empire Wilderness
– By Adam Fitzgerald -
The Other Paris
– By Gary Lain -
Forget It, Santiago, It's Chinatown
– By Jeffrey Stanley -
From the Woods, A Peach
– By Nicolle Elizabeth -
History for the Taking
– By David Varno
Music
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Never Felt So Much Alive
– By Kurt Gottschalk -
The Girls Can't Help It
– By Kate Silver -
Power for Power
– By John Amelchenko -
MAGMA SUN WURDAH, NANSEI HEL MAGMA! (Magma Is Dead, Long Live Magma!)
– By Jamian Juliano-Villani -
OUTTAKES
– By Steve Dalachinsky -
The Secret Life of Plant
– By Julie Kocsis
Dance
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Building a Body of Work: Charles Atlas and Merce Cunningham
– By Mary Lisa Burns -
A Full Moon to Mark the End: PINA BAUSCH
– By Patricia Milder
Film
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Sex, Lies and Black Socks: Alex Gibneys Client 9
– By Williams Cole -
ERIC DANIEL METZGAR with Penny Lane
– By Penny Lane -
Horror Is As Horror Does
– By Lu Chen
Theater
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Made in Brooklyn: The Civilians' Battle Over Atlantic Yards
– By Michele Travis -
The Art of Duel: NICK JONES with Eliza Bent
– By Eliza Bent -
FLIGHT & BLISS: The Work of James Thiérrée
– By Elana Greenfield -
The Macbeths in the Prism of Noh: Ping Chong Stage's Kurosawa's Throne of Blood
– By Alan Lockwood
Fiction
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The Study
– By John Robert Lennon -
Angel Face
– By Terese Svoboda -
The Financier
– By Terese Svoboda -
No One Ever Interrupted Me: Jim Carroll & The Petting Zoo
– By Margarita Shalina -
Tragic Strip
– By T. Motley -
The Big Pig Shoot
– By Tim W. Brown -
Shitty Micky
– By John Reed and Michele Witchipoo
Poetry
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a walk to the butcher's @ sunset (For Tuli Kupferberg)
– By Steve Dalachinsky -
Espalier in Autumn
– By Paul Bozkurt -
from, I thought you said it was sound
– By Steph Gray -
"The Verge of a Language"
– By Barry Schwabsky