Lower Manhattan: Let the Public Decide
By Neil BrennerIn the days after the catastrophic attack on the World Trade Center, many spontaneous moving memorials to victims appeared throughout the city, in places like Union Square, the Brooklyn Promenade and various triage information centers for victims’ families.
Against the Giuliani Legacy
By Williams ColeThe three previous installments of this series critically explored the “new” New York of the Giuliani administration via redefinition of “quality of life” and the war on crime, “decency” and the free market, and, most recently, welfare-to-work and the war on the city’s poor.
The Battle of Seattle and Beyond
By Theodore HammCommager, a historian, launched his criticisms at the outset of the cold war, a period during which freedoms of speech or association would be anything but sacrosanct. Such repression was justified
Interviews With Alison Knowles, July-October 2001, New York City
By Ellen PearlmanKnowles: Ellen, it was great you came to the performance last night (At the Drawing Center). Tell me what you thought of it?
E.H. Gombrich Remembered (1909-2001)
By Phong BuiFor many of us, E.H. Gombrich was known as an author of the widely popular The Story of Art, which sold millions of copies and was translated into more than twenty languages.
Independent’s Dance
By Alan LockwoodErico Villanueva’s expanded dance piece Ikuko’s Alter Ego had its late September, attack-delayed opening in the grim scene of downtown recovery that has redefined our times.
A Sunday in Oberheim
By Drago JancarNot even a Sunday, just a Sunday morning. Three scenes, a thousand words. And the necessary backdrop of the melancholy Central European provinces. The square by the Danube: the river has risen a bit in the last few days, and the long-hulled boats, either on their own or with the aid of tugboats, struggle against the current but they slide quickly and almost soundlessly in the other direction as the brown water foams.
Editor's Message From The Editor
A War That We Can Win
By Theodore HammThis past summer, all of us involved in The Rail agreed that in order to gain a toehold, and eventually a foothold, in the publishing world, we would need to make each of our issues flawless in terms of production.
ArtSeen
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James Siena, Gorney Bravin + Lee
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The Art World Responds to 9/11
– By Sophie Fels -
Catherine Murphy, Lennon, Weinberg
– By Peter Eleey -
Friends & Mentors The Williamsburg Art and Historical Center
– By Tomassio Longhi -
Joe Brainard: A Retrospective PS1 Contemporary Art Center
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Joe Brainard at Tibor de Nagy and PS1
– By Rachel Youens -
Reflections on Alfred Jensen
– By Chris Martin -
Opened Ground: Kathleen Moroney
– By Suzanne De Vegh -
Bruegel The Elder: Drawings and Prints at the Metropolitan Museum
– By Phong Bui -
Any Where Out of The World at Parker’s Box
– By Rachel Gordon -
JOE FIG Project Room and Work in Progress
– By Peter Eleey
Table of Contents
Editor's Message
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A War That We Can Win
– By Theodore Hamm
Local
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Jihad In Brooklyn: Just What We Do Every Day
– By Emily Votruba -
Power to the Poets
– By Knox Robinson -
Another Really Outstanding Article
– By Ray Nedzel -
Against the Giuliani Legacy
– By Williams Cole -
Lower Manhattan: Let the Public Decide
– By Neil Brenner -
Pie in the Sky or in the Oven Baking?: The 2012 Olympics in Williamsburg
– By Phoebe Nobles -
Autumn in New York
– By Grant Moser -
Hell in a Hand Basket: An Election Postscript
– By Jonas Salganik -
Bay Ridge’s Boiling Pot? A Neighborhood Responds to September 11th
– By Mo-Yain Tham
Express
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And Balanced With This Life, This Death (Genoa, the G8 and the battle in the streets)
– By Ramor Ryan -
You Evil Victim!
– By Héctor Toledano -
WTC: The Construction and Destruction of a Building as Global Brand
– By Miriam Greenberg -
The Ever-Broadening War
– By The Z.O.O. -
The Battle of Seattle and Beyond
– By Theodore Hamm -
Be All That You Can Click ON!: Military Propaganda in the Information Age
– By Randolph Lewis -
Something is About to Happen
– By Nick Pappas -
Opinion: A Power Plant by Any Other Name
– By Mark Regan -
Operation Enduring Suffering: Meditations on Justice
– By Rachel Neumann -
Editorials
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Daggers, Airplanes, and the Lure of a Certain Garden
– By Justin McGuirk
Art
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Interviews With Alison Knowles, July-October 2001, New York City
– By Ellen Pearlman -
Janet Cardiff: A Survey of Works, Including Collaborations with George Bures Miller P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center October 14, 2001-January 31, 2002
– By Daniel Baird -
Tom Friedman at the New Museum of Contemporary Art
– By Daniel Baird -
E.H. Gombrich Remembered (1909-2001)
– By Phong Bui
ArtSeen
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James Siena, Gorney Bravin + Lee
– By Chris Martin -
The Art World Responds to 9/11
– By Sophie Fels -
Catherine Murphy, Lennon, Weinberg
– By Peter Eleey -
Friends & Mentors The Williamsburg Art and Historical Center
– By Tomassio Longhi -
Joe Brainard: A Retrospective PS1 Contemporary Art Center
– By Jennifer Coates -
Joe Brainard at Tibor de Nagy and PS1
– By Rachel Youens -
Reflections on Alfred Jensen
– By Chris Martin -
Opened Ground: Kathleen Moroney
– By Suzanne De Vegh -
Bruegel The Elder: Drawings and Prints at the Metropolitan Museum
– By Phong Bui -
Any Where Out of The World at Parker’s Box
– By Rachel Gordon -
JOE FIG Project Room and Work in Progress
– By Peter Eleey
Books
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New Works by Rail Contributors
– By Maurice Isserman, D. B., and Norman Finkelstein
Music
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Letter from Buenos Aires, Part II
– By Alan Lockwood
Dance
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Independent’s Dance
– By Alan Lockwood
Theater
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IN DIALOGUE: Imaging Political Theater
– By Emily DeVoti
Fiction
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A Sunday in Oberheim
– By Drago Jancar -
From Robert Pinget’s Journals
– By Robert Pinget -
Form 3575
– By Evan Harris -
Visitations
– By Scot Crawford
Poetry
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After Seven Days at a Hotel with T
– By Phan Nhien Hao -
The Monk and the Child
– By Anzhelina Polonskaya -
Dust Balls (Pablo Did It Much Better)
– By Kenneth Dolin
