NOV 2018

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A message from Phong Bui
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Art

KEN PRICE with Douglas Dreishpoon
CHARLINE VON HEYL with Raphael Rubinstein
JAMES ENGLISH LEARY with Charles Schultz
FIRELEI BÁEZ with Hồng-Ân Trương
SETH PRICE with Will Fenstermaker
ANN MCCOY with Aaron Rosen
JOYCE J. SCOTT with Lowery Stokes Sims

ArtSeen

Tamar Ettun: Jubilation Inflation
By Nicole Miller
Odyssey: Jack Whitten Sculpture 1963 – 2017
By William Corwin
Ai Weiwei: Cao / Humanity
By Vivian Li
Miguel Trelles
By Jonathan Goodman
Arthur Jafa: A Series of Utterly Improbable, Yet Extraordinary Renditions
By Hannah Stamler
Jaimie Warren: One Moment in Time
By Nina Wolpow
Thinking Collections: Telling Tales: A Survey Exhibition of Kyzyl Tractor Art Collective
By Osman Can Yerebakan
John Bock: Dead + Juicy
By Jessica Holmes
LOL Cats: In Marx For Cats the Internet Confronts Its Favorite Meme
By G Douglas Barrett and Mr. Love Bunny, Sailor Boy, Mr. Big Stuff, and Little Moo
Hew Locke: Patriots
By Marcia E. Vetrocq
Juan Pablo Langlois: Afterwards no one will remember
By Colin Edgington
Suzanne Bocanegra: Poorly Watched Girls
By Grant Klarich Johnson
Ann McCoy: The Procession of the Invisible College
By Hovey Brock
Beverly Fishman
By David Rhodes
Umber Majeed: In the Name of Hypersurface of the Present
By Julie Nelson
The Safarani Sisters: Reincarnation
By Jonathan Goodman
Indian Ceramics Triennale: Breaking Ground
By Romain Maitra
Rhys Lee: Good Boy and Kevin Bourgeois: Wall of Sound
By Jonathan Goodman
Minoru Yoshida: Performance in New York
By George Kan
Mahmoud Khaled: I want you to know that I am hiding something from you
By Shehab Awad
Frank Bowling: Make It New
By Nicole Miller
Everything is Connected: Art and Conspiracy
By Hovey Brock
Carnegie International, 57th Edition
By David Carrier and Graham Shearing
Hilma af Klint: Paintings for the Future
By Ann McCoy
John Ashbery: The Construction of Fiction
By Phillip Griffith
Acts of Art and Rebuttal in 1971
By Pac Pobric
James Hyde: Western Painting—Magnasco
By Alfred Mac Adam
Gillian Wearing: Life
By Osman Can Yerebakan
Dismantling the Master’s House: The Color Curtain Dinner
By Nicole Kaack
Hiwa K: Blind as the Mother Tongue
By Yasi Alipour
Speculative Color: 100 lines for Stephen Mueller
By Anthony Hawley
A Void
By Maddie Klett
Peter Moore: 1968
By Mark Bloch
The Women Behind
By Naomi Lev
Sedimentations: Assemblage as Social Repair
By Osman Can Yerebakan
Delacroix
By Jason Rosenfeld
Hugh Hayden: Border States
By Eliza Barry
AES+F, Inverso Mundus
By Katy Diamond Hamer

1x1

Ruins in Reverse
By Sadie Rebecca Starnes

Critics Page

Fifteen People Select Their Favorite Book
Guest Critic: Jo Melvin
Forgotten Moments, Future Exhibitions
Ian Davenport and Jo Melvin on Sol LeWitt
Molinology
By Emanuele and Primo De Donno
33⅓ RPM—Performance for record turntable, loop effect pedal and vinyl records
By Sean Dower
Badenheim 1939 and My Painting
By Jeff Gibbons
Chimera
By Jeffrey Isaac
Existere
By JocJonJosch
Parrots, Parrots
By Giovanni Rendina
Sol LeWitt Wall Drawings, Torre Bonomo, Spoleto
By Guy Robertson
Drawing 4: Bruce Chatwin What am I doing Here, 2010
By David Tremlett
Sol LeWitt—Extraordinary traveller in Spoleto
By Franco Troiani
Grace Weir

Books

Running the Devil's Gauntlet: Ahmed Bouanani's The Hospital
By John Domini
May-Lee Chai's Useful Phrases for Immigrants
By Yvonne C. Garrett
Lexi Freiman’s Inappropriation
By Deena ElGenaidi
Jeff Jackson's Destroy All Monsters: The Last Rock Novel
By Nicholas Rys
Kim Sagwa's Mina
By Yvonne C. Garrett
Armonía Somers's The Naked Woman
By Yvonne C. Garrett
Simon Sellars's Applied Ballardianism: Memoir from a Parallel Universe
By Michael Eby

Music

November Listings
By George Grella and Brad Cohan
Nuits Sonores, Brussels
By Martin Longley
Do We Deserve Beethoven?
By George Grella
slowthai And The Path Out
By Steve Erickson
It's Not A Safe Space But It’s Where We Live: Listening to Stew and the Negro Problem's Notes of a Native Song and Total Bent
By Eric Wallach
Outtakes
By Steve Dalachinsky

Dance

Mette Ingvartsen’s 21 pornographies
By Rennie McDougall
Infinite Recombinations
By Nicole Loeffler-Gladstone
What Remains: Rankine and Rawls’s Mindscape
By Gillian Jakab
another piece apart: two parts as a whole
By Jen George
Migratory patterns: Sasha Waltz's recent works
By Ivan Talijancic
The Tenant: A Dark Tale Told Through Movement
By Susan Yung

Film

Mixed Use: MONO NO AWARE
By Mary Billyou
A Failure to Respond: On Ruth Beckermann’s The Waldheim Waltz
By Sean Nam
Show Me Your Original Face: On Tsai Ming-liang’s Your Face
By Sadie Rebecca Starnes
But Not For Always: Alice Rohrwacher’s Happy as Lazzaro
By Gina Telaroli
Deep Listening: Mary Helena Clark’s The Glass Note
By Phil Coldiron

Theater

Sam Hunter Brings Two New Plays—and a Meal—to Rattlestick
By Billy McEntee
Life as a hologram: Lee Breuer
By Avinash Rajendran
Tunneling through Density: Ben Gassman's NYC
By Jess Barbagallo

Fiction

Friends and Strangers
By Max Frisch, translated from the German by Linda Frazee Baker
Giorgio de Chirico’s ‘Other’ Novel: An Excerpt from Monsieur Dudron
translated from the Italian by Ara H. Merjian
“Kiki Ortega” From Nefando
By Mónica Ojeda, translated from the Spanish by Sarah Booker.
Highlights from the Life of Raymond Roussel #9: Bliss
By Tom Motley
inSerial: part three The Mysteries of Paris
By Eugène Sue, translated from the French by Robert Bononno
New Routes in Fiction: ANDREW MARTIN with Alec Niedenthal

Poetry

three
By Norman Fischer
Hold On
By Dale Smith
Oxygen Solder
By Adam Strauss
three
By Emily Liebowitz
three
By Coco Fitterman
“Heaven”
By Shiv Kotecha

Art Books

Intermedia, Fluxus, and the Something Else Press: Selected Writings by Dick Higgins
By Jennie Waldow
Ed Atkins’s A Primer for Cadavers
By Brianna Leatherbury
Richard McGuire’s Art For The Street 1978 – 1982
By Megan N. Liberty
DAVID CASAVANT with Michela Moscufo
Jason Lutes's Berlin
By Jason Rosenfeld

In Memoriam

Robert Pincus-Witten and Postmodernism
By Robert C. Morgan

Field Notes

Beyond the Green New Deal
By Max Ajl
The Secret is Out
By David Levi Strauss
Tapping into the unrealized futures of the past: QUINN SLOBODIAN with Pavlos Roufos
By Pavlos Roufos
Border Jumpers: Afropean Itineraries
By Bruno Le Dantec

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NOV 2018

Find the RAIL in print

Subscribe now

A message from Phong Bui
Publisher and Artistic Director

Art

KEN PRICE with Douglas Dreishpoon
CHARLINE VON HEYL with Raphael Rubinstein
JAMES ENGLISH LEARY with Charles Schultz
FIRELEI BÁEZ with Hồng-Ân Trương
SETH PRICE with Will Fenstermaker
ANN MCCOY with Aaron Rosen
JOYCE J. SCOTT with Lowery Stokes Sims

ArtSeen

Tamar Ettun: Jubilation Inflation
By Nicole Miller
Odyssey: Jack Whitten Sculpture 1963 – 2017
By William Corwin
Ai Weiwei: Cao / Humanity
By Vivian Li
Miguel Trelles
By Jonathan Goodman
Arthur Jafa: A Series of Utterly Improbable, Yet Extraordinary Renditions
By Hannah Stamler
Jaimie Warren: One Moment in Time
By Nina Wolpow
Thinking Collections: Telling Tales: A Survey Exhibition of Kyzyl Tractor Art Collective
By Osman Can Yerebakan
John Bock: Dead + Juicy
By Jessica Holmes
LOL Cats: In Marx For Cats the Internet Confronts Its Favorite Meme
By G Douglas Barrett and Mr. Love Bunny, Sailor Boy, Mr. Big Stuff, and Little Moo
Hew Locke: Patriots
By Marcia E. Vetrocq
Juan Pablo Langlois: Afterwards no one will remember
By Colin Edgington
Suzanne Bocanegra: Poorly Watched Girls
By Grant Klarich Johnson
Ann McCoy: The Procession of the Invisible College
By Hovey Brock
Beverly Fishman
By David Rhodes
Umber Majeed: In the Name of Hypersurface of the Present
By Julie Nelson
The Safarani Sisters: Reincarnation
By Jonathan Goodman
Indian Ceramics Triennale: Breaking Ground
By Romain Maitra
Rhys Lee: Good Boy and Kevin Bourgeois: Wall of Sound
By Jonathan Goodman
Minoru Yoshida: Performance in New York
By George Kan
Mahmoud Khaled: I want you to know that I am hiding something from you
By Shehab Awad
Frank Bowling: Make It New
By Nicole Miller
Everything is Connected: Art and Conspiracy
By Hovey Brock
Carnegie International, 57th Edition
By David Carrier and Graham Shearing
Hilma af Klint: Paintings for the Future
By Ann McCoy
John Ashbery: The Construction of Fiction
By Phillip Griffith
Acts of Art and Rebuttal in 1971
By Pac Pobric
James Hyde: Western Painting—Magnasco
By Alfred Mac Adam
Gillian Wearing: Life
By Osman Can Yerebakan
Dismantling the Master’s House: The Color Curtain Dinner
By Nicole Kaack
Hiwa K: Blind as the Mother Tongue
By Yasi Alipour
Speculative Color: 100 lines for Stephen Mueller
By Anthony Hawley
A Void
By Maddie Klett
Peter Moore: 1968
By Mark Bloch
The Women Behind
By Naomi Lev
Sedimentations: Assemblage as Social Repair
By Osman Can Yerebakan
Delacroix
By Jason Rosenfeld
Hugh Hayden: Border States
By Eliza Barry
AES+F, Inverso Mundus
By Katy Diamond Hamer

1x1

Ruins in Reverse
By Sadie Rebecca Starnes

Critics Page

Fifteen People Select Their Favorite Book
Guest Critic: Jo Melvin
Forgotten Moments, Future Exhibitions
Ian Davenport and Jo Melvin on Sol LeWitt
Molinology
By Emanuele and Primo De Donno
33⅓ RPM—Performance for record turntable, loop effect pedal and vinyl records
By Sean Dower
Badenheim 1939 and My Painting
By Jeff Gibbons
Chimera
By Jeffrey Isaac
Existere
By JocJonJosch
Parrots, Parrots
By Giovanni Rendina
Sol LeWitt Wall Drawings, Torre Bonomo, Spoleto
By Guy Robertson
Drawing 4: Bruce Chatwin What am I doing Here, 2010
By David Tremlett
Sol LeWitt—Extraordinary traveller in Spoleto
By Franco Troiani
Grace Weir

Books

Running the Devil's Gauntlet: Ahmed Bouanani's The Hospital
By John Domini
May-Lee Chai's Useful Phrases for Immigrants
By Yvonne C. Garrett
Lexi Freiman’s Inappropriation
By Deena ElGenaidi
Jeff Jackson's Destroy All Monsters: The Last Rock Novel
By Nicholas Rys
Kim Sagwa's Mina
By Yvonne C. Garrett
Armonía Somers's The Naked Woman
By Yvonne C. Garrett
Simon Sellars's Applied Ballardianism: Memoir from a Parallel Universe
By Michael Eby

Music

November Listings
By George Grella and Brad Cohan
Nuits Sonores, Brussels
By Martin Longley
Do We Deserve Beethoven?
By George Grella
slowthai And The Path Out
By Steve Erickson
It's Not A Safe Space But It’s Where We Live: Listening to Stew and the Negro Problem's Notes of a Native Song and Total Bent
By Eric Wallach
Outtakes
By Steve Dalachinsky

Dance

Mette Ingvartsen’s 21 pornographies
By Rennie McDougall
Infinite Recombinations
By Nicole Loeffler-Gladstone
What Remains: Rankine and Rawls’s Mindscape
By Gillian Jakab
another piece apart: two parts as a whole
By Jen George
Migratory patterns: Sasha Waltz's recent works
By Ivan Talijancic
The Tenant: A Dark Tale Told Through Movement
By Susan Yung

Film

Mixed Use: MONO NO AWARE
By Mary Billyou
A Failure to Respond: On Ruth Beckermann’s The Waldheim Waltz
By Sean Nam
Show Me Your Original Face: On Tsai Ming-liang’s Your Face
By Sadie Rebecca Starnes
But Not For Always: Alice Rohrwacher’s Happy as Lazzaro
By Gina Telaroli
Deep Listening: Mary Helena Clark’s The Glass Note
By Phil Coldiron

Theater

Sam Hunter Brings Two New Plays—and a Meal—to Rattlestick
By Billy McEntee
Life as a hologram: Lee Breuer
By Avinash Rajendran
Tunneling through Density: Ben Gassman's NYC
By Jess Barbagallo

Fiction

Friends and Strangers
By Max Frisch, translated from the German by Linda Frazee Baker
Giorgio de Chirico’s ‘Other’ Novel: An Excerpt from Monsieur Dudron
translated from the Italian by Ara H. Merjian
“Kiki Ortega” From Nefando
By Mónica Ojeda, translated from the Spanish by Sarah Booker.
Highlights from the Life of Raymond Roussel #9: Bliss
By Tom Motley
inSerial: part three The Mysteries of Paris
By Eugène Sue, translated from the French by Robert Bononno
New Routes in Fiction: ANDREW MARTIN with Alec Niedenthal

Poetry

three
By Norman Fischer
Hold On
By Dale Smith
Oxygen Solder
By Adam Strauss
three
By Emily Liebowitz
three
By Coco Fitterman
“Heaven”
By Shiv Kotecha

Art Books

Intermedia, Fluxus, and the Something Else Press: Selected Writings by Dick Higgins
By Jennie Waldow
Ed Atkins’s A Primer for Cadavers
By Brianna Leatherbury
Richard McGuire’s Art For The Street 1978 – 1982
By Megan N. Liberty
DAVID CASAVANT with Michela Moscufo
Jason Lutes's Berlin
By Jason Rosenfeld

In Memoriam

Robert Pincus-Witten and Postmodernism
By Robert C. Morgan

Field Notes

Beyond the Green New Deal
By Max Ajl
The Secret is Out
By David Levi Strauss
Tapping into the unrealized futures of the past: QUINN SLOBODIAN with Pavlos Roufos
By Pavlos Roufos
Border Jumpers: Afropean Itineraries
By Bruno Le Dantec

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