The Quinning Strategy
By Ari PaulSome believe that ever since she stepped on to the scene, Quinn has put her ambitions first, always eyeing a path to a higher office.
Express In Conversation
WEED WARRIOR
KEITH STROUP with Jason Flores-Williams
In the long dark night of American politics, there are still rock’n’roll splashes of life, a burning vibe where victories are won and the cool, pungent smell of liberty fills the air.
A Pack of Damn Lies
By Matt IgoeWhen Sergeant Pecker walks into the room, everyone feels the pain.
Art In Conversation
NAYLAND BLAKE with Jarrett Earnest
Nayland Blake just completed the large exhibition at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and currently has an exhibition of new sculpture at Matthew Marks Gallery (What Wont Wreng, February 2 – April 20). He is also included in the New Museum’s NYC 1993: Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star (February 13 – May 26).
Art In Conversation
ART AS CITIZEN
A Conversation with Creative Time Reports
Creative Time, one of the longest standing institutions for the production of ambitious public art in New York City, recently launched Creative Time Reports, an international, web-based news platform.
Art In Conversation
ALICE AYCOCK with Phong Bui
While preparing for her forthcoming dual-venue retrospective of drawings, Alice Aycock Drawings: Some Stories Are Worth Repeating (Parrish Art Museum, April 21 – July 14, 2013 and Grey Art Gallery, April 23 – July 14, 2013), the sculptor welcomed Rail publisher Phong Bui to her live/work loft in SoHo to talk about her life and work.
Film In Conversation
BETWEEN UTOPIAS
OLIVIER ASSAYAS with Joshua Sperling
When Brooklyn Academy of Music ran a retrospective of French filmmaker Olivier Assayas in 2010, they hailed him as a “post-punk auteur.”
Books In Conversation
AYANA MATHIS with Jenine Holmes
Ayana Mathis’s debut novel The Twelve Tribes of Hattie has received a lot of warm and well-deserved attention since its release in the winter of 2012.
Tragic Strip
By T. MotleyT. Motley blogs at cartooniologist.blogspot.com, yourdailydoodle.tumblr.com, & yourdailysketch.tumblr.com.
Oil On Paper
By Suzaan BoettgerOil is the elixir of the economy and venom to the environment. Beyond its materialization as myriad synthetics from furniture to foodstuffs, this contentious fluid has become the elan vital of development—at once pervasive, productive, and perverse.
Editor's Message Guest Critic
The Contemporary Art Gallery
By David CarrierNowadays ubiquitous, because galleries are so familiar, we perhaps do not sufficiently realize how distinctive they are.
ArtSeen
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Autobiographical Reflections and the Art World
– By Joachim Pissarro
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112 Greene Street—Spaces Interior and Exterior
– By Bill Beckley -
Gallery Charm
– By Ivan Gaskell -
Taps for Joseph Beuys
– By Adele Tutter -
Redesigning Resistance
– By Joshua K. Leon -
Art Entrances
– By Darren Jones -
ADRIAN GHENIE Disturbing Dichotomies and New Paintings
– By Alana Shilling-Janoff -
PHOENIX RISING: NYC 1993 Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star
– By Thyrza Nichols Goodeve -
SIMON LEE MOTHER IS PASSING. COME AT ONCE
– By William Corwin -
ZAUN LEE Borders
– By Jonathan Goodman -
JOHN MCLAUGHLIN Paintings 1947 – 1974
– By Robert C. Morgan -
THOMAS NOZKOWSKI Recent Work
– By Robert Berlind -
JINDRICH STYRSKY Dreams
– By Valery Oisteanu -
Get Off the Lawn
– By Matthew Shen Goodman -
GIANNI COLOMBO
– By Gail Victoria Braddock Quagliata
(or, “Greene Naftali or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Gallery”) -
AL HELD Alphabet Paintings
– By David Rhodes -
JOEL SHAPIRO Sculpture and Drawings 1969 – 1972
– By Phong Bui -
JOE ZUCKER Empire Descending a Staircase
– By Alex Bacon -
MARA HELD
– By Phong Bui
Table of Contents
Editor's Message
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The Contemporary Art Gallery
– By David Carrier
Local
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UPROSE Uplifts Sunset Park
– By Eleanor J. Bader -
The Quinning Strategy
– By Ari Paul -
CITYNOTES Stars Come Out in Brooklyn
– By Theodore Hamm -
Seaside Stories
– By Saskia Kahn
Express
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WEED WARRIOR KEITH STROUP with Jason Flores-Williams
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A Pack of Damn Lies
– By Matt Igoe -
The Family Mansion
– By Anthony C. Winkler -
The Jubilee Rolls On
– By Sara Roffino
Art
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The New Yale University Art Gallery
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ROBERT BORDO with Cameron Martin
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ALICE AYCOCK with Phong Bui
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ART AS CITIZEN A Conversation with Creative Time Reports
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NAYLAND BLAKE with Jarrett Earnest
ArtSeen
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Autobiographical Reflections and the Art World
– By Joachim Pissarro -
112 Greene Street—Spaces Interior and Exterior
– By Bill Beckley -
Gallery Charm
– By Ivan Gaskell -
Taps for Joseph Beuys
– By Adele Tutter -
Redesigning Resistance
– By Joshua K. Leon -
Art Entrances
– By Darren Jones -
ADRIAN GHENIE Disturbing Dichotomies and New Paintings
– By Alana Shilling-Janoff -
PHOENIX RISING: NYC 1993 Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star
– By Thyrza Nichols Goodeve -
SIMON LEE MOTHER IS PASSING. COME AT ONCE
– By William Corwin -
ZAUN LEE Borders
– By Jonathan Goodman -
JOHN MCLAUGHLIN Paintings 1947 – 1974
– By Robert C. Morgan -
THOMAS NOZKOWSKI Recent Work
– By Robert Berlind -
JINDRICH STYRSKY Dreams
– By Valery Oisteanu -
Get Off the Lawn
– By Matthew Shen Goodman -
GIANNI COLOMBO (or, “Greene Naftali or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Gallery”)
– By Gail Victoria Braddock Quagliata -
AL HELD Alphabet Paintings
– By David Rhodes -
JOEL SHAPIRO Sculpture and Drawings 1969 – 1972
– By Phong Bui -
JOE ZUCKER Empire Descending a Staircase
– By Alex Bacon -
MARA HELD
– By Phong Bui
Books
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What Academic Freedom?
– By David Rosen -
LEIGH NEWMAN with Susan Marque
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By Creeps and Bounds
– By Lynne Lawner -
Twenty(-something) Questions
– By Leigh Kamping-Carder -
Why Nabokov Matters
– By Christopher Michel -
After the Rainy Season
– By Sara Versluis -
The Heights of Absurdity Rudolph Herzog with Karen Rester
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AYANA MATHIS with Jenine Holmes
Music
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Some Time in New York City
– By Richard Klin -
Darker But Still Singing Anna Gourari’s Canto Oscuro
– By Alessandro Cassin -
A Night at the Opera
– By David St.-Lascaux -
Outtakes
– By Steve Dalachinsky
Dance
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EVERYTHING YOU SEE VICKY SHICK with Nancy Dalva
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Taylor Baroque
– By Ryan Wenzel -
STEPHEN PETRONIO with Nancy Dalva
Film
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FROM A DARK ROOM SANDRA GIBSON AND LUIS RECODER with Genevieve Yue
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MORALLY PINK COMPLEXION Harmony Korine’s Spring Breakers
– By Jason LaRivière -
BETWEEN UTOPIAS OLIVIER ASSAYAS with Joshua Sperling
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KAMBOZIYA PARTOVI with Karen Rester
Theater
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so go the ghosts of Matthew Paul Olmos
– By Susan Soon He Stanton -
Slipping into the L.A. Scene
– By Becca Wolff
Fiction
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When the Time Comes
– By Josef Winkler -
Woodchuck In Prison
– By Ted Pelton -
Mothra
– By Mimi Lipson -
Death Wish
– By Josh Bayer -
Deux Ex McKenna
– By a bunch of cartoonists and Dave McKenna -
Tragic Strip
– By T. Motley
Poetry
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Seven
– By Cedar Sigo -
Four
– By Joseph Massey -
Four
– By Tracey McTague -
from God May Be Around (1931)
– By Alexander Vvedensky, translated by Eugene Ostashevsky -
MARIE PONSOT with David St.-Lascaux
Art Books
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Oil On Paper
– By Suzaan Boettger -
The Culture of Curating and the Curating of Culture(s)
– By Loney Abrams
