Brooklyn Leads Living Wage Fight
By Diane KrauthamerLiving Wage NYC aims to make it clear to developers and companies what is involved in doing business with the city.
A Mother’s Days
By Joan McClureHousework is a total bore, and the only thing that has kept me going these past few years is my studies. Many of my friends are in analysis; I’m in linguistics.
Art In Conversation
CHARLES TRAUB with Phong Bui
On the occasion of his exhibit Object of My Creation: Photographs 1967 – 1990 (February 17 – April 23, 2011 at Gitterman Gallery) the photographer Charles Traub welcomed Rail publisher Phong Bui at the MFA Program in Photography, Video, and Related Media at the School of Visual Arts to discuss his life and work.
Art In Conversation
KATY SIEGEL with Phong Bui
On the occasion of her new publication Since ’45: America and the Making of Contemporary Art (Reaktion Books), art historian and critic Katy Siegel sat down with Rail publisher Phong Bui before an audience of artists-in-residence at the Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation to discuss the book and more.
Art In Conversation
ULAY with Alessandro Cassin
This past February, Ulay (Uwe Laysiepen) met with the Rail’s Alessandro Cassin in Amsterdam, to begin work on a book project. Here is a preview, which starts from his current interest: water.
ANTOINE GUERRERO The Herculean Courtier of PS 1
By Greg LindquistAntoine Guerrero left his position as Director of Exhibitions and Operations at PS 1, MoMA’s satellite institution in Long Island City, on March 1, after 17 years at the helm. Known to his friends and colleagues as “Tony,” he served as a facilitator to realize and install artists’s large projects with modest budgets and means.
Books In Conversation
RUDOLPH HERZOG with Karen Rester
Hitler and Goering are standing atop the radio tower in Berlin. Hitler says, “I’d like to do something for the Berliners to put a smile on their faces.” Goering says, “Why don’t you jump?” In the summer of 1943 Marianne K. was executed in Berlin for telling this joke.
The Foundry Theater’s NYC...Just Like I Pictured It
By Jake HookerOn November 27, 1937, a new musical revue called Pins and Needles opened at Labor Stage in New York City where it played to capacity audiences until June 26, 1939, when it was transferred to the Windsor Theatre on Broadway for a year-long run.
Big Drum Lives In Brooklyn!
By Geoffrey ClarfieldJohn Szwed, author of the recent biography of the late Alan Lomax, subtitled his book “The Man Who Recorded the World.” During his lifetime, Alan recorded thousands of hours of traditional music in the American South, the Caribbean, and Europe, while at the same time copying, archiving, publishing, and presenting on vinyl, radio, and paper collections of folk music from around the world.
Meta Meta
By Michelle VellucciA writer sits on the living room couch and stares at the computer in her lap. A glass of water sweats on the coffee table. A dog sleeps curled up on a green blanket at her feet.
FÉDER or the Gilded Husband
By Stendhall , translated from the French by Brian EvensonThis experience filled our hero with a profound anxiety; Delangle’s suspicions weren’t appeased, and he was not the man to forget or neglect the consequences of an idea once it had entered his head.
From the Publisher & Artistic Director
Note from the Publisher
By Phong BuiI suspect that Ai Weiwei, China’s greatest artist and certainly one of the first truly global artists of the 21st century (who was then living in New York, as he had since 1981), must have taken the Tiananmen Square episode as evidence of—to paraphrase Bob Dylan— the times a-changin’.
Editor's Message From The Editor
CITYNOTES: Honor in the Court
By Theodore HammIn late March, the legendary federal judge Jack Weinstein issued an opinion notable for both its legal and intellectual range.
ArtSeen
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In the Use of Others for the Change
– By Thomas Micchelli -
Abstraction’s Ambiguity is Its Own Reward
– By Edward M. Gómez -
Gray Cat
– By Ben La Rocco -
First Class / Second Class
– By Cassandra Neyenesch -
DAVID ALTMEJD
– By Kara L. Rooney -
EVA HESSE and SOL LEWITT
– By Stephanie Buhmann -
GERMAN EXPRESSIONISM: The Graphic Impulse
– By Thomas Micchelli -
NEIL FARBER Slugging
– By Shane McAdams -
SPECIALIZED VISION Curating Grace Exhibition Space
– By Patricia Milder -
JUDY LINN 69-76 Photographs of Patti Smith
– By David St.-Lascaux -
Let it End Like This
– By Gail Quagliata -
MARI EASTMAN Objects, Decorative and Functional
– By Anne Sherwood Pundyk -
SCOTT HOCKING
– By Lynn Crawford -
Where Malevich Has Left Us Today
– By Robert C. Morgan -
Brooklyn Dispatches
– By James Kalm -
Romare Bearden (1911-1988): Collage, A Centennial Celebration
– By Valery Oisteanu -
JAMES CLARK The Luminiferous Aether
– By Craig Olson -
LAUREL NAKADATE Only the Lonely
– By John Yau -
DEBORAH LIGORIO Escursione Meridionale
– By David Rhodes
Table of Contents
Publisher's Message
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Note from the Publisher
– By Phong Bui
Editor's Message
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CITYNOTES: Honor in the Court
– By Theodore Hamm
Local
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Brooklyn Leads Living Wage Fight
– By Diane Krauthamer -
CITYNOTES: Honor in the Court
– By Theodore Hamm -
SISTERS FIGHT to End Harassment in Schools
– By Eleanor J. Bader -
REPORT CARD: Drama of the “Gifted” Program
– By Liza Featherstone -
in Bensonhurst, There’s a Chicken in Every (Melting) Pot
– By Adam Warner
Express
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On, Wisconsin
– By Paul Mattick -
A Mother’s Days
– By Joan McClure -
QUPQUGIAQ An Alaskan Folk Tale Retold
– By Josh Medsker -
Suicide by the Bathtub Light
– By Jason Flores-Williams -
A New Deal Flop
– By Michael Terry -
POINTS OF MORAL FRICTION When Classes Confront Each Other
– By David Rosen -
All the Gorey Details
– By Christopher Michel -
Letters to Posterity
– By Allen Wilcox
Art
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CHARLES TRAUB with Phong Bui
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KATY SIEGEL with Phong Bui
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ULAY with Alessandro Cassin
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ANTOINE GUERRERO The Herculean Courtier of PS 1
– By Greg Lindquist
ArtSeen
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In the Use of Others for the Change
– By Thomas Micchelli -
Abstraction’s Ambiguity is Its Own Reward
– By Edward M. Gómez -
Gray Cat
– By Ben La Rocco -
First Class / Second Class
– By Cassandra Neyenesch -
DAVID ALTMEJD
– By Kara L. Rooney -
EVA HESSE and SOL LEWITT
– By Stephanie Buhmann -
GERMAN EXPRESSIONISM: The Graphic Impulse
– By Thomas Micchelli -
NEIL FARBER Slugging
– By Shane McAdams -
SPECIALIZED VISION Curating Grace Exhibition Space
– By Patricia Milder -
JUDY LINN 69-76 Photographs of Patti Smith
– By David St.-Lascaux -
Let it End Like This
– By Gail Quagliata -
MARI EASTMAN Objects, Decorative and Functional
– By Anne Sherwood Pundyk -
SCOTT HOCKING
– By Lynn Crawford -
Where Malevich Has Left Us Today
– By Robert C. Morgan -
Brooklyn Dispatches
– By James Kalm -
Romare Bearden (1911-1988): Collage, A Centennial Celebration
– By Valery Oisteanu -
JAMES CLARK The Luminiferous Aether
– By Craig Olson -
LAUREL NAKADATE Only the Lonely
– By John Yau -
DEBORAH LIGORIO Escursione Meridionale
– By David Rhodes
Books
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POETRY: The Sublime in the Middle Ages
– By Scott Hightower -
RUDOLPH HERZOG with Karen Rester
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RADICAL DAY CARE The 2011 NYC Anarchist Book Fair
– By Patrick Gaughan -
On Elegance While Sleeping
– By Jesse Tangen-Mills -
The Craigslist Murders: A Satire
– By Tatiaana L. Laine -
Lovelorn and Love Worn
– By Gregory Gerke -
School of Thought
– By Nicolle Elizabeth -
The Weather Ahead
– By Kianoosh Hashemzadeh -
Danny Boyle In His Own Words
– By Mike Halmshaw -
Wingshooters
– By Maggie Hill -
A Micro House of One's Own
– By Helen Mitsios -
Exquisite Corpses
– By Jeffrey Stanley -
Rapid Transit
– By Jeffrey Cyphers Wright -
Zen and the Art of Psycho-Oncology
– By Siobhan Devine -
Poetry: The Sublime in the Middle Ages
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Music
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Synaptic Virginity, Lost
– By David St.-Lascaux -
Outtakes
– By Steve Dalachinsky -
BALKING HEAVILY The Residents’ Talking Light Tour at the Highline Ballroom
– By Jamian Juliano-Villani -
Big Drum Lives In Brooklyn!
– By Geoffrey Clarfield -
Built for Speed
– By Justin Vellucci -
Polly Jean Warms Up (A Bit)
– By Julie Kocsis
Dance
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Slow Movement
– By Jeremy Finch -
Of Cosmos, Cake, and Crossing Disciplines
– By Siobhan Burke -
Meta Meta
– By Michelle Vellucci -
I Was, I Am
– By Elaine Stuart -
DIY Dance
– By Christine Hou -
Family Values
– By M.J. Thompson -
Down Under
– By Frances Kazan
Film
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Migrating Forms 2011
– By Aily Nash -
GODZILLA VS. THE PREHISTORIC BISON On Werner Herzog’s Cave of Forgotten Dreams
– By Marianne Shaneen -
SPINNING TOP The Legacy of Dziga Vertov Keeps Moving
– By Mónica Savirón -
JUSTICE ON TRIAL REBECCA RICHMAN COHEN with Penny Lane
– By Penny Lane -
THAI FUSION Uruphong Raksasad’s Agrarian Utopia and Stories from the North
– By Colin Beckett
Theater
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The Foundry Theater’s NYC...Just Like I Pictured It
– By Jake Hooker -
The Revolution Will Be....Poetic People Power
– By Melissa F. Moschitto -
Cut! Unscripting Reality with Crystal Skillman
– By Joshua Conkel -
The Theater at Home: 31 Down
– By Frank Boudreaux
Fiction
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A Collection of Stories
– By Daniel Grandbois -
Gerontophobia
– By Jessica Rogers -
FÉDER or the Gilded Husband
– By Stendhall , translated from the French by Brian Evenson -
UNSCIENCE FICTIONS Richard Kostelanetz in memory of Robert Heinlien
– By Richard Kostelanetz -
Character and Fitness: Chapter 9
– By Jason Flores-Williams -
Character and Fitness: Chapter 10
– By Jason Flores-Williams -
Tragic Strip
– By T. Motley
Poetry
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Practiced Restraint
– By Lawrence Giffin -
Formerly Death
– By Priscilla Becker -
Three Poems
– By Leonard Schwartz
Art Books
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The Eye Watching the Eye Paint
– By Greg Lindquist -
Painting: Dead and Loving It
– By John Ganz -
LA DÉCORATION! TOUT EST DANS CE MOT: Mallarmé’s Writings on Fashion
– By Eugenie Dalland -
The New Woman in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
– By Abbe Schriber -
Try a Little Tenderness
– By John Beeson
