REPORT CARD: Dubious Standards for Charter Schools
By Liza FeatherstoneThe city’s Office of Charter Schools knows what good education looks like, but just doesn’t think poor, black kids need to have it.
The Still Lives of Wells Tower
By Paul MaliszewskiWells Tower is a phenomenal magazine writer. I mean this not as a compliment but as an observation that makes plain both the industry in which he plies his trade as well as the success he’s enjoyed.
Art In Conversation
LOIS DODD with John Yau
Shortly before her exhibition at the Alexandre Gallery, Lois Dodd and Rail Art Editor John Yau met at the gallery to discuss her new paintings.
Art In Conversation
CHRISTOPHER KNIGHT with Patricia Milder
On a recent trip to Los Angeles, Rail Managing Art Editor Patricia Milder met longtime Los Angeles Times art critic Christopher Knight for a late-November outdoor lunch on Ventura Boulevard, over which they discussed his life and work.
Art In Conversation
JOE BRADLEY with Phong Bui
On the occasion of the painter’s two simultaneous exhibits, Mouth and Foot Painting at Gavin Brown’s Enterprise (January 8 – February 19, 2011) and Human Form at CANADA (January 13 – February 21, 2011), Joe Bradley took a break from his Brooklyn studio to visit Rail publisher Phong Bui at Art International Radio to talk about his life and work.
Complete Cosmicology
By Barry SchwabskyItalo Calvino, as everyone knows, launched writing his career as a realist—or rather, as an Italian working in the immediate aftermath of World War II, a neo-realist. Soon frustrated by the limitations of that aesthetic, the story goes, he took new inspiration from fantasy, fable, and folklore—as he would later from Oulipian experimentalism—and turned himself into a very different sort of writer.
THE 11 BEST FILMS OF 2O1O +1
By David N. MeyerPolanski understands structure. Few directors remain whose poetry and narrative depend on knowing why one line demands a close-up or how a tiny gesture changes the universe or how to dramatize moments that bear no inherent drama, but prove later to be crucial notes in the symphony.
Theater In Dialogue
FREQUENT FLIER: Kyoung Park Gets disOriented
By Aurin SquireI remember as a child being shown tunnels at the North/South Korean border through which North Korean people tried to escape to the South, and I thought to myself that those tunnels were the closest way to get home.
FÉDER or the Gilded Husband
By Stendhall , translated from the French by Brian EvensonAt seventeen, Féder, one of the most well-to-do young men of Marseilles, was driven from his father’s home; he had just committed a grave error: he had married an actress of the Grand-Theatre.
From the Publisher & Artistic Director
A Note on Our Upcoming Benefit
By Phong BuiOn Saturday, February 19, we will host a silent art auction at the Visual Arts Gallery at SVA. I hope you can all come and support us by purchasing a work of art from our artist friends.
ArtSeen
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23 Hours at the Wintering Spiral Jetty
– By Greg Lindquist -
The Slow Ascent: Death and Resurrection of the Art Fair
– By Kara L. Rooney -
EDWARD KRASINSKI AND EUSTACHY KOSSAKOWSKI J’ai Perdu La Fin!!!
– By Cora Fisher -
JENNIFER BARTLETT’S Recitative: Fractions Between Concept and Decorum
– By Robert C. Morgan -
ON BECOMING AN ARTIST: ISAMU NOGUCHI and His Contemporaries, 1922–1960
– By Stephanie Buhmann -
Ace of Spades
– By Charles Schultz -
KATRIN SIGURDARDOTTIR at the Met
– By Michael Straus -
MARIA LASSNIG
– By John Yau -
DAVID RABINOWITCH Birth of Romanticism: New Works on Paper
– By Thomas Micchelli -
KURT KNOBELSDORF Postcard from Florida
– By John Yau -
Brooklyn in the Extreme
– By James Kalm -
Letter from BERLIN: MANFRED KUTTNER A – Z
– By David Rhodes -
IRVIN MORAZAN Temple of the Bearded Man
– By Gail Victoria Braddock Quagliata -
Painters and Poets
– By Valery Oisteanu -
Winter Break
– By David St.-Lascaux -
JOSEPH BERNARD BASEDONATRUESTORY!, Parts 1 & 2
– By Vince Carducci -
ART BOOKS IN REVIEW: Gerhard Richter is Speechless
– By Benjamin Gottlieb -
GILLIAN JAGGER’s Reality—and Welcome to It
– By Edward M. Gómez -
ELLEN LANYON
– By Martica Sawin -
ADAM MARNIE, TOM THAYER, and RUBY SKY STILER
– By Anne Sherwood Pundyk -
The MARK BRADFORD Show
– By Maxwell Heller -
JAKE BERTHOT
– By Ben La Rocco -
The Talent Show
– By Jen Schwarting
Table of Contents
Publisher's Message
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A Note on Our Upcoming Benefit
– By Phong Bui
Local
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REPORT CARD: Dubious Standards for Charter Schools
– By Liza Featherstone -
Brooklyn Business Proves That HOM is Where the Heart Is
– By Eleanor J. Bader -
Ruminations on Duane Reade
– By Williams Cole -
Spirits of Red Hook
– By Thomas Kerr -
On the Job Hunt
– By Mary Mann -
"Blind Date, Brooklyn"
– By Robin Grearson
Express
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The Still Lives of Wells Tower
– By Paul Maliszewski -
MORE THAN GORE: Ghita Schwarz’s Holocaust Stories
– By Bec Zajac -
from Nina Revoyr’s Wingshooters
– By Nina Revoyr -
Bottoms-Up American History
– By David Rosen -
Thanks for the Memories
– By Michael Terry -
Deception Points
– By Allen Wilcox -
An Accidental Memoir
– By Christopher Michel
Art
ArtSeen
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23 Hours at the Wintering Spiral Jetty
– By Greg Lindquist -
The Slow Ascent: Death and Resurrection of the Art Fair
– By Kara L. Rooney -
EDWARD KRASINSKI AND EUSTACHY KOSSAKOWSKI J’ai Perdu La Fin!!!
– By Cora Fisher -
JENNIFER BARTLETT’S Recitative: Fractions Between Concept and Decorum
– By Robert C. Morgan -
ON BECOMING AN ARTIST: ISAMU NOGUCHI and His Contemporaries, 1922–1960
– By Stephanie Buhmann -
Ace of Spades
– By Charles Schultz -
KATRIN SIGURDARDOTTIR at the Met
– By Michael Straus -
MARIA LASSNIG
– By John Yau -
DAVID RABINOWITCH Birth of Romanticism: New Works on Paper
– By Thomas Micchelli -
KURT KNOBELSDORF Postcard from Florida
– By John Yau -
Brooklyn in the Extreme
– By James Kalm -
Letter from BERLIN: MANFRED KUTTNER A – Z
– By David Rhodes -
IRVIN MORAZAN Temple of the Bearded Man
– By Gail Victoria Braddock Quagliata -
Painters and Poets
– By Valery Oisteanu -
Winter Break
– By David St.-Lascaux -
JOSEPH BERNARD BASEDONATRUESTORY!, Parts 1 & 2
– By Vince Carducci -
ART BOOKS IN REVIEW: Gerhard Richter is Speechless
– By Benjamin Gottlieb -
GILLIAN JAGGER’s Reality—and Welcome to It
– By Edward M. Gómez -
ELLEN LANYON
– By Martica Sawin -
ADAM MARNIE, TOM THAYER, and RUBY SKY STILER
– By Anne Sherwood Pundyk -
The MARK BRADFORD Show
– By Maxwell Heller -
JAKE BERTHOT
– By Ben La Rocco -
The Talent Show
– By Jen Schwarting
Books
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KIRI BLAKELEY with Alyssa Pinsker
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Complete Cosmicology
– By Barry Schwabsky -
From Whatever Was Left of Their Authentic Selves
– By Andrea Scrima -
Rose Alley
– By John Madera -
Bartleby, At Bat
– By Christopher Grimes -
Bummer, Defined
– By Mac Barrett -
Clandestine in Chile: The Adventures of Miguel Littín
– By Jesse Tangen-Mills -
Stamps and Beats
– By Ellen Pearlman -
Poetica
– By Nicolle Elizabeth -
Lethal Warriors
– By Connie Aitcheson -
Obsessive Compulsive
– By Maxine Case -
RAPID TRANSIT: A Final Kiss To 2010
– By Jeffrey Cyphers Wright
Music
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Fluid Improvisation
– By David St.-Lascaux -
Boulevards of Broken Dreams
– By Dann Baker -
Driving Lonely, Across the State
– By Kate Silver -
Fast-Forwarding Through Classic Arts Showcase
– By Richard Kostelanetz -
Outtakes
– By Steve Dalachinsky
Dance
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Editor's Note
– By Claudia La Rocco -
Keeping it Realness
– By Patricia Milder -
All the City’s a Stage
– By Meagan Bruskewicz -
Drawing with the Body
– By Siobhan Burke -
On Blind Faith...
– By Christine Hou -
BIRD BRAIN: Reflecting on Black Swan, and Ballet’s Maybe Moment
– By Evan Namerow -
An Excerpt From An Attempt to Understand My Socio-Political Disposition Through Artistic Research on Personal Identity in Relationship to the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict, Part One
– By Tarek Halaby
Film
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THE 11 BEST FILMS OF 2O1O +1
– By David N. Meyer -
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, THE ROLLING STONES
– By David N. Meyer -
MINERVA’S OWL
– By Ethan Spigland -
THE THIN RED LINE
– By David N. Meyer
Theater
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FREQUENT FLIER: Kyoung Park Gets disOriented
– By Aurin Squire -
FOOTBALL: why these chicks are the future of the game
– By Trish Harnetiaux -
LAUGH TIL YOU DON’T: Dorota Maslowska’s A Couple of Poor, Polish-Speaking Romanians
– By Alan Lockwood
Fiction
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FÉDER or the Gilded Husband
– By Stendhall , translated from the French by Brian Evenson -
from FIVE TOPOGRAPHIES
– By Yasmine Alwan -
from NOTES FROM THE PENTHOUSE
– By Yorgos Lamprakos -
Tragic Strip
– By T. Motley -
Character and Fitness: Chapter 3
– By Jason Flores-Williams -
Character and Fitness: Chapter 4
– By Jason Flores-Williams
Poetry
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Three Poems
– By Pierre Joris -
From: Caesura
– By Habib Tengour, translated by Pierre Joris -
Unto the House of Words
– By David St.-Lascaux
