SEPT 2014

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A message from Phong Bui
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Art

MIKHAIL PIOTROVSKY with David Carrier & Joachim Pissarro
EVE ANDRÉE LARAMÉE with Ann McCoy
ETEL ADNAN & SIMONE FATTAL with Sara Roffino & Anna Tome
ROXY PAINE with Will Corwin
PAINTER:POET = FOREST:BEAST Ellen Wiener and LB Thompson Collaborate
By Joyce Beckenstein
TWENTY YEARS OF APEXART A Profile of Founder Steven Rand
By Darragh McNicholas
A Tribute to David Rosand (1938 – 2014)
By Phong Bui

ArtSeen

Augustus
By Richard Tuttle
Here and Elsewhere
By Ann McCoy
Under the Same Sun: Art from Latin America Today
By Lucía Hinojosa
TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE Charles Gaines: Gridwork 1974 – 1989
By Lynn Maliszewski
A HUMAN KIND OF HOLINESS Tà Hierá
By Alana Shilling-Janoff
LUCIO FONTANA Retrospective
By Tom McGlynn
SPENCER FINCH A Certain Slant of Light
By Matthew Farina
JEFF KOONS at the Whitney
By William Benton
CHRISTOPHER WILLIAMS The Production Line of Happiness
By Sara Christoph
RICHARD TUTTLE In Praise of Economic Determinism
By Phong Bui
CAIO REISEWITZ
By Nicola Ricciardi

Critics Page

Gender Games and the Art Machine"> A FEMINIST RESPONSE
Gender Games and the Art Machine
Guest Critic: Kara L. Rooney
THE GALLERY TALLY POSTER PROJECT A Call for Gender Equity in the Art World
By Micol Hebron
Sue Scott
Amnesiac Return Amnesiac Return
By Mira Schor
Riding the Fourth Wave in a Changing Sea
By Wendy Vogel
LEAN BACK Resisting Branded Feminism
By Chloe Wyma
Navigating the Nameless
By Redell & Jimenez
ECOSEX MANIFESTO Draft 1.0 of a Work in Progress
By Beth Stephens and Annie Sprinkle
After the Slumber Party…
By Andrea Bowers and Suzanne Lacy
Do I Stand in Darkness or in Light?
By Laura Raicovich
UPDATING (THE) USES OF THE EROTIC from Georges Bataille and Jean Genet to Audre Lorde and bell hooks
By Lisi Raskin
Franklin Evans
By Franklin Evans
Feminism Rising
By Nancy Princenthal
OBJECT ATTACHMENTS The Indexical Form in Feminist Art
By Krista Geneviève Lynes
The Language of Art is Still Defined by Men
By Nancy Azara
Frames
By Susan Bee
10 Divinations on Hip Hop As Sacred Medicine Blood Time, Sex Rituals & Ancestral Communion of the Mother Tongue
By Katie Cercone
My French American Potluck
By Coco Dolle
All You Protest Kids, You Can Hear Jack Say, Sweet Jane
By Patricia Maloney
Notes from an Old Maenad in the Trenches
By Ann McCoy
A Thick Neck in the Wedge of Habit Speaks with an Inherited Voice
By Nathlie Provosty
Achieving Authentic Equality
By Anne Sherwood Pundyk
After Some Advances, A Backslide
By Martha Schwendener

Books

The Transposition Workout
By T Clutch Fleischmann
Joyce’s Sublime Depravity
By Geoffrey Young
Continental Divine
By John Domini
When Being Bad Is Good
By Ashley P. Taylor
Brazil’s Literary Hand Grenades
By Jeffrey Zuckerman

Music

Brooklyn Rail Highly Selective Music Events
FALL MUSIC SCENE New Venues New York
by Marshall Yarbrough, with additional reporting by George Grella
Carving Coltrane’s “Crescent”
By Kurt Gottschalk
1O LISTENS REVIEW dinMachine’s Dance to Reason
By Michael Durek
THE SHAPE OF PROTEST TO COME Liberation Music Orchestra and Charlie Haden’s Legacy
By Jeff Tobias
Outtakes
By Steve Dalachinsky

Dance

Site-Specific Dance
By Stormy Budwig
Happy We!
By Nancy Dalva
ELIZABETH STREB with Nancy Dalva
By Nancy Dalva
DANCE DIPLOMACY Healing a Hundred Years of Hatred One Step at a Time
By Gillian Jakab

Film

A Parable on Authenticity: Art and Craft
By Williams Cole
Correspondence: Ben Mendelsohn talks to filmmakers Peter Bo Rappmund and Hunter Snyder about contemporary landscape cinema and the politics of infrastructure
QUEERNESS AND MELANCHOLIA An Excerpt from Terence Davies
By Michael Koresky
THE BEST OF TIMES The Films of Hou Hsiao-Hsien
By Xin Zhou
AGAINST THE PRESENT Selections from FID Marseille 2014
By Leo Goldsmith

Theater

Fact, Fiction, and the Impossibility of a Happy Ending LAUREN GUNDERSON with Tasha Gordon‑Solmon
Women On the Verge of a Revolution Lisa Ramirez Gets Down TO THE BONE
By Jake-ann Jones

Fiction

The Ancestor of Hearts
By Christine Schutt and Diane Williams
Russell
By Daniel Grandbois
Cake (extract)
By Sarah Françoise
from Miransù
by Monica Sarsini, translated from the Italian by Maryann De Julio
Chapter 1 from Little Is Left To Tell
a debut novel by Steven Hendricks
an extract from Our Lady of the Nile
by Scholastique Mukasonga, translated from the French by Melanie Mauthner
The Selected Correspondence of Louis-Ferdinand Céline
translated from the French by Mitch Abidor
Yup Nope
By Andrea Tsurumi
Countless Evils
By Hector
Arrowschmidtt!!!
By Arryan Decatur
Message from March 3rd, 2014
By Molly Roth
Overheard at the Atlantic Terminal Mall
By Steven Little

Poetry

from A Poem for Record Keepers
By Ali Power
PYRAMIDS
By Jamie Townsend
Nine
By Melanie Neilson
Ravel Unravel
By Eugene Ostashevsky

Art Books

Living and Sustaining a Creative Life
By Tamsin Doherty
NewARTtheatre: Evolutions of the Performance Aesthetic
By Jess Wilcox

Field Notes

Back to School
By Paul Mattick
EDUCATION REFORM Beneath the Surface Part IV: Beyond Reform
By John Garvey
RANDY RACCOONS The Threat to Russia’s Youth
By Margarita Meklina
Degrees of Privilege
By Gary Roth
The Sound of Hesitation
By Leonhard Bartussek

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SEPT 2014

Find the RAIL in print

Subscribe now

A message from Phong Bui
Publisher and Artistic Director

Art

MIKHAIL PIOTROVSKY with David Carrier & Joachim Pissarro
EVE ANDRÉE LARAMÉE with Ann McCoy
ETEL ADNAN & SIMONE FATTAL with Sara Roffino & Anna Tome
ROXY PAINE with Will Corwin
PAINTER:POET = FOREST:BEAST Ellen Wiener and LB Thompson Collaborate
By Joyce Beckenstein
TWENTY YEARS OF APEXART A Profile of Founder Steven Rand
By Darragh McNicholas
A Tribute to David Rosand (1938 – 2014)
By Phong Bui

ArtSeen

Augustus
By Richard Tuttle
Here and Elsewhere
By Ann McCoy
Under the Same Sun: Art from Latin America Today
By Lucía Hinojosa
TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE Charles Gaines: Gridwork 1974 – 1989
By Lynn Maliszewski
A HUMAN KIND OF HOLINESS Tà Hierá
By Alana Shilling-Janoff
LUCIO FONTANA Retrospective
By Tom McGlynn
SPENCER FINCH A Certain Slant of Light
By Matthew Farina
JEFF KOONS at the Whitney
By William Benton
CHRISTOPHER WILLIAMS The Production Line of Happiness
By Sara Christoph
RICHARD TUTTLE In Praise of Economic Determinism
By Phong Bui
CAIO REISEWITZ
By Nicola Ricciardi

Critics Page

Gender Games and the Art Machine"> A FEMINIST RESPONSE
Gender Games and the Art Machine
Guest Critic: Kara L. Rooney
THE GALLERY TALLY POSTER PROJECT A Call for Gender Equity in the Art World
By Micol Hebron
Sue Scott
Amnesiac Return Amnesiac Return
By Mira Schor
Riding the Fourth Wave in a Changing Sea
By Wendy Vogel
LEAN BACK Resisting Branded Feminism
By Chloe Wyma
Navigating the Nameless
By Redell & Jimenez
ECOSEX MANIFESTO Draft 1.0 of a Work in Progress
By Beth Stephens and Annie Sprinkle
After the Slumber Party…
By Andrea Bowers and Suzanne Lacy
Do I Stand in Darkness or in Light?
By Laura Raicovich
UPDATING (THE) USES OF THE EROTIC from Georges Bataille and Jean Genet to Audre Lorde and bell hooks
By Lisi Raskin
Franklin Evans
By Franklin Evans
Feminism Rising
By Nancy Princenthal
OBJECT ATTACHMENTS The Indexical Form in Feminist Art
By Krista Geneviève Lynes
The Language of Art is Still Defined by Men
By Nancy Azara
Frames
By Susan Bee
10 Divinations on Hip Hop As Sacred Medicine Blood Time, Sex Rituals & Ancestral Communion of the Mother Tongue
By Katie Cercone
My French American Potluck
By Coco Dolle
All You Protest Kids, You Can Hear Jack Say, Sweet Jane
By Patricia Maloney
Notes from an Old Maenad in the Trenches
By Ann McCoy
A Thick Neck in the Wedge of Habit Speaks with an Inherited Voice
By Nathlie Provosty
Achieving Authentic Equality
By Anne Sherwood Pundyk
After Some Advances, A Backslide
By Martha Schwendener

Books

The Transposition Workout
By T Clutch Fleischmann
Joyce’s Sublime Depravity
By Geoffrey Young
Continental Divine
By John Domini
When Being Bad Is Good
By Ashley P. Taylor
Brazil’s Literary Hand Grenades
By Jeffrey Zuckerman

Music

Brooklyn Rail Highly Selective Music Events
FALL MUSIC SCENE New Venues New York
by Marshall Yarbrough, with additional reporting by George Grella
Carving Coltrane’s “Crescent”
By Kurt Gottschalk
1O LISTENS REVIEW dinMachine’s Dance to Reason
By Michael Durek
THE SHAPE OF PROTEST TO COME Liberation Music Orchestra and Charlie Haden’s Legacy
By Jeff Tobias
Outtakes
By Steve Dalachinsky

Dance

Site-Specific Dance
By Stormy Budwig
Happy We!
By Nancy Dalva
ELIZABETH STREB with Nancy Dalva
By Nancy Dalva
DANCE DIPLOMACY Healing a Hundred Years of Hatred One Step at a Time
By Gillian Jakab

Film

A Parable on Authenticity: Art and Craft
By Williams Cole
Correspondence: Ben Mendelsohn talks to filmmakers Peter Bo Rappmund and Hunter Snyder about contemporary landscape cinema and the politics of infrastructure
QUEERNESS AND MELANCHOLIA An Excerpt from Terence Davies
By Michael Koresky
THE BEST OF TIMES The Films of Hou Hsiao-Hsien
By Xin Zhou
AGAINST THE PRESENT Selections from FID Marseille 2014
By Leo Goldsmith

Theater

Fact, Fiction, and the Impossibility of a Happy Ending LAUREN GUNDERSON with Tasha Gordon‑Solmon
Women On the Verge of a Revolution Lisa Ramirez Gets Down TO THE BONE
By Jake-ann Jones

Fiction

The Ancestor of Hearts
By Christine Schutt and Diane Williams
Russell
By Daniel Grandbois
Cake (extract)
By Sarah Françoise
from Miransù
by Monica Sarsini, translated from the Italian by Maryann De Julio
Chapter 1 from Little Is Left To Tell
a debut novel by Steven Hendricks
an extract from Our Lady of the Nile
by Scholastique Mukasonga, translated from the French by Melanie Mauthner
The Selected Correspondence of Louis-Ferdinand Céline
translated from the French by Mitch Abidor
Yup Nope
By Andrea Tsurumi
Countless Evils
By Hector
Arrowschmidtt!!!
By Arryan Decatur
Message from March 3rd, 2014
By Molly Roth
Overheard at the Atlantic Terminal Mall
By Steven Little

Poetry

from A Poem for Record Keepers
By Ali Power
PYRAMIDS
By Jamie Townsend
Nine
By Melanie Neilson
Ravel Unravel
By Eugene Ostashevsky

Art Books

Living and Sustaining a Creative Life
By Tamsin Doherty
NewARTtheatre: Evolutions of the Performance Aesthetic
By Jess Wilcox

Field Notes

Back to School
By Paul Mattick
EDUCATION REFORM Beneath the Surface Part IV: Beyond Reform
By John Garvey
RANDY RACCOONS The Threat to Russia’s Youth
By Margarita Meklina
Degrees of Privilege
By Gary Roth
The Sound of Hesitation
By Leonhard Bartussek

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