JUL-AUG 2010

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200 Bucks to Montauk, and I Really Just Want to Get to Southampton
By Julia Knobloch
Party at Ground Zero
By Theodore Hamm
ALBANY’S DNA EXPANSION: A Foolproof Solution?
By Liliana Segura
Brooklyn Housing Court: A Landlord Collection Agency?
By Eleanor J. Bader
TAKING (DOWN) the HIGH ROAD
By Dave Kim
CITY NOTES
By Theodore Hamm
Mallets on Wheels
By Marianne Moore
Iris in the Heartland
By Katy Bolger

Express

Celebrity’s Two-Way Street: Leon Gast’s Smash His Camera
By Williams Cole
Coney Island Beer Hustle
By Matthew Vaz
Why Not Wounded Knee? A Tale of Two Monuments
By Christian Parenti
EMPIRE UNBOUND: Philip S. Golub In Conversation with Phong Bui
RADICAL REFLECTIONS: Arthur Penn In Conversation with Gregory Zucker and Robert White
STRAIGHT TALK: Andrew Bujalski In Conversation with Paul Felten
Abortion Battle’s Hidden Front: Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady In Conversation with Williams Cole
The Bonds of War—Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington’s Restrepo
By Williams Cole
A Judt Guide
By Christopher Michel
Conflicted States
By Allen Wilcox
Just a Spoonful of Sugar
By Adam P. Frederick
The Not-So Roaring Twenties
By David Rosen
Across the Border
By Sophia Koutsoyannis

Art

An Interview
Robert Hullot-Kentor WITH FABIO AKCELRUD DURÃO
James Hyde WITH PHONG BUI
George Gittoes WITH DAVID LEVI STRAUSS

ArtSeen

Matisse on the Move
By Terry R. Myers
Kiki Smith: Allegories on Living and the Mystery of Existence
By Robert C. Morgan
Walking the Elastic City
By Patricia Milder
LEE BONTECOU: All Freedom in Every Sense
By Kara L. Rooney
The Slave Theater
By Kara L. Rooney
RACKSTRAW DOWNES: Onsite Paintings, 1972–2008
By Ben La Rocco
RACKSTRAW DOWNES: In Focus
By Phong Bui
MERLIN JAMES, LOUISE HOPKINS
By John Yau
WAYNE THIEBAUD: 70 YEARS OF PAINTING
By John Yau
PATRICK MICHAEL FITZGERALD Drawings
By John Yau
EVE ERIKSSON
By John Yau
MARK DI SUVERO
By Thomas Micchelli
GREATER NEW YORK
By Thomas Micchelli
THE HISTORY OF “WE”: HIS STORY, HER STORY, OUR STORY
By James Kalm
LETTER FROM HONG KONG ARTHK 2010: WHAT ART YOU DOING?
By Liz Riviere
CHRISTIAN BOLTANSKI No Man’s Land
By Shane McAdams
JULIE MEHRETU Grey Area
By Stephanie Buhmann
REBECCA SMITH Tape and Steel
By Greg Lindquist
CHRISTINE HIEBERT Reconnaissance: Three Wall Drawings
By Lilly Wei
JIM NUTT
By David St.-Lascaux
ROSS NEHER Sanctuary
By Charles Schultz
MAGRITTE, PAINTER-PHILOSOPHER
By Valery Oisteanu
ROME, IMPERIUM SINE FINE? (DOMINION WITHOUT LIMITS?)
By Dore Ashton

Books

2010 SUMMER READING LIST
By Phong Bui and Robert Hullot-Kentor
Peter Orlovsky (1933-2010) From the Diaries 1960
By Jonas Mekas
ART TRIPPIN’ THROUGH CHINATIME: CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF A MARKET
By Robert C. Morgan
MEMOIR: YIN & LANG
By Marc Nasdor
FICTION: DUSTJUNKIES AND DUSTJACKETS
By Brendan Carney Byrne
FICTION: GETTING CARRIED AWAY
By Paul Charles Griffin
FICTION: CROSSING PATHS
By Dave Kim
FICTION: LARGE AND SIMPLE
By Meghan Roe
POETRY: WASTE TO WITT
By Helena Fitzgerald
FICTION: OUR LOTS OF LITTLE
By John Madera
POETRY: THE COOKED AND THE RARE
By Adam Fitzgerald
TOKENS
By Dan Fall, Tatiaana L. Laine, Helena Fitzgerald, and Kenneth Schneyer
RAPID TRANSIT
By Jeffrey Cyphers Wright

Music

REVOLUCION DEL HIPSTER
By Peter Holslin
Matt Marks’s The Little Death: Killing Them Softly with Sentiment
By Daniel J. Kushner
ONE-TRACK MIND
By Ben Tripp
AMERICAN MASTER: HARRY NILSSON
By David Shirley
JUILLIARD CONCERTS: THE GREAT SECRET
By Richard Kostelanetz
YET ANOTHER TWO GEMS FROM THE BROOKLYN SCENE
By Todd Simmons

Dance

NEW ARCHITECTURE FOR NOT-SO-NEW BALLETS
By Evan Namerow
AESTHETICS OF DENIAL
By L.J. Sunshine
JUNE 3, 2010: DEAR SHERRY
By Christine Hou
TOO MUCH LEWIS
By Patricia Milder
AND YOU THOUGHT GRAHAM WAS OLD-SCHOOL
By Siobhan Burke

Film

HURTS SO GOOD, ITALIAN STYLE
By David N. Meyer
PHIL SPECTOR: HE'S A RELIC
By Sarahjane Blum
JAPAN CUTS
By David Wilentz
TOTALLY, TENDERLY, TRAGICALLY
By Julia Sirmons
PSYCHADELIC MATURITY
By Hamilton Morris
GET SOME
By David N. Meyer
MAD, BAD... & DANGEROUS TO KNOW: THREE UNTAMED BEAUTIES
By Ethan Spigland
RED DESERT
By Julia Sirmons

Theater

The Vision Disturbance of Christina Masciotti
By Meghan Falvey
Women Play Two Gents (And More) with Judith Shakespeare Company
By Ginny Hack
Queens Odyssey: The Internationalists’ Which Direction Home?
By Ashley Kelly-Tata
Gardley Writes a River
By Kathryn Walat

Fiction

FORGOTTEN MEMORIES
By Mario Benedetti and Translated From The Spanish By Harry Morales
MARIO BENEDETTI
By Harry Morales
from THE SECRET LIFE OF OBJECTS
By Dawn Raffel
Tragic Strip
By T. Motley

Poetry

From Molloy, the Flip Side
By Chris Tysh
Subway Poems
By Louis Bury
THIS I FIND HARD TO BELIEVE
By Michael Gottlieb
WE ARE UNHAPPY TO SERVE YOU
By Michael Gottlieb

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JUL-AUG 2010

Find the RAIL in print

Subscribe now

Local

200 Bucks to Montauk, and I Really Just Want to Get to Southampton
By Julia Knobloch
Party at Ground Zero
By Theodore Hamm
ALBANY’S DNA EXPANSION: A Foolproof Solution?
By Liliana Segura
Brooklyn Housing Court: A Landlord Collection Agency?
By Eleanor J. Bader
TAKING (DOWN) the HIGH ROAD
By Dave Kim
CITY NOTES
By Theodore Hamm
Mallets on Wheels
By Marianne Moore
Iris in the Heartland
By Katy Bolger

Express

Celebrity’s Two-Way Street: Leon Gast’s Smash His Camera
By Williams Cole
Coney Island Beer Hustle
By Matthew Vaz
Why Not Wounded Knee? A Tale of Two Monuments
By Christian Parenti
EMPIRE UNBOUND: Philip S. Golub In Conversation with Phong Bui
RADICAL REFLECTIONS: Arthur Penn In Conversation with Gregory Zucker and Robert White
STRAIGHT TALK: Andrew Bujalski In Conversation with Paul Felten
Abortion Battle’s Hidden Front: Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady In Conversation with Williams Cole
The Bonds of War—Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington’s Restrepo
By Williams Cole
A Judt Guide
By Christopher Michel
Conflicted States
By Allen Wilcox
Just a Spoonful of Sugar
By Adam P. Frederick
The Not-So Roaring Twenties
By David Rosen
Across the Border
By Sophia Koutsoyannis

Art

An Interview
Robert Hullot-Kentor WITH FABIO AKCELRUD DURÃO
James Hyde WITH PHONG BUI
George Gittoes WITH DAVID LEVI STRAUSS

ArtSeen

Matisse on the Move
By Terry R. Myers
Kiki Smith: Allegories on Living and the Mystery of Existence
By Robert C. Morgan
Walking the Elastic City
By Patricia Milder
LEE BONTECOU: All Freedom in Every Sense
By Kara L. Rooney
The Slave Theater
By Kara L. Rooney
RACKSTRAW DOWNES: Onsite Paintings, 1972–2008
By Ben La Rocco
RACKSTRAW DOWNES: In Focus
By Phong Bui
MERLIN JAMES, LOUISE HOPKINS
By John Yau
WAYNE THIEBAUD: 70 YEARS OF PAINTING
By John Yau
PATRICK MICHAEL FITZGERALD Drawings
By John Yau
EVE ERIKSSON
By John Yau
MARK DI SUVERO
By Thomas Micchelli
GREATER NEW YORK
By Thomas Micchelli
THE HISTORY OF “WE”: HIS STORY, HER STORY, OUR STORY
By James Kalm
LETTER FROM HONG KONG ARTHK 2010: WHAT ART YOU DOING?
By Liz Riviere
CHRISTIAN BOLTANSKI No Man’s Land
By Shane McAdams
JULIE MEHRETU Grey Area
By Stephanie Buhmann
REBECCA SMITH Tape and Steel
By Greg Lindquist
CHRISTINE HIEBERT Reconnaissance: Three Wall Drawings
By Lilly Wei
JIM NUTT
By David St.-Lascaux
ROSS NEHER Sanctuary
By Charles Schultz
MAGRITTE, PAINTER-PHILOSOPHER
By Valery Oisteanu
ROME, IMPERIUM SINE FINE? (DOMINION WITHOUT LIMITS?)
By Dore Ashton

Books

2010 SUMMER READING LIST
By Phong Bui and Robert Hullot-Kentor
Peter Orlovsky (1933-2010) From the Diaries 1960
By Jonas Mekas
ART TRIPPIN’ THROUGH CHINATIME: CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF A MARKET
By Robert C. Morgan
MEMOIR: YIN & LANG
By Marc Nasdor
FICTION: DUSTJUNKIES AND DUSTJACKETS
By Brendan Carney Byrne
FICTION: GETTING CARRIED AWAY
By Paul Charles Griffin
FICTION: CROSSING PATHS
By Dave Kim
FICTION: LARGE AND SIMPLE
By Meghan Roe
POETRY: WASTE TO WITT
By Helena Fitzgerald
FICTION: OUR LOTS OF LITTLE
By John Madera
POETRY: THE COOKED AND THE RARE
By Adam Fitzgerald
TOKENS
By Dan Fall, Tatiaana L. Laine, Helena Fitzgerald, and Kenneth Schneyer
RAPID TRANSIT
By Jeffrey Cyphers Wright

Music

REVOLUCION DEL HIPSTER
By Peter Holslin
Matt Marks’s The Little Death: Killing Them Softly with Sentiment
By Daniel J. Kushner
ONE-TRACK MIND
By Ben Tripp
AMERICAN MASTER: HARRY NILSSON
By David Shirley
JUILLIARD CONCERTS: THE GREAT SECRET
By Richard Kostelanetz
YET ANOTHER TWO GEMS FROM THE BROOKLYN SCENE
By Todd Simmons

Dance

NEW ARCHITECTURE FOR NOT-SO-NEW BALLETS
By Evan Namerow
AESTHETICS OF DENIAL
By L.J. Sunshine
JUNE 3, 2010: DEAR SHERRY
By Christine Hou
TOO MUCH LEWIS
By Patricia Milder
AND YOU THOUGHT GRAHAM WAS OLD-SCHOOL
By Siobhan Burke

Film

HURTS SO GOOD, ITALIAN STYLE
By David N. Meyer
PHIL SPECTOR: HE'S A RELIC
By Sarahjane Blum
JAPAN CUTS
By David Wilentz
TOTALLY, TENDERLY, TRAGICALLY
By Julia Sirmons
PSYCHADELIC MATURITY
By Hamilton Morris
GET SOME
By David N. Meyer
MAD, BAD... & DANGEROUS TO KNOW: THREE UNTAMED BEAUTIES
By Ethan Spigland
RED DESERT
By Julia Sirmons

Theater

The Vision Disturbance of Christina Masciotti
By Meghan Falvey
Women Play Two Gents (And More) with Judith Shakespeare Company
By Ginny Hack
Queens Odyssey: The Internationalists’ Which Direction Home?
By Ashley Kelly-Tata
Gardley Writes a River
By Kathryn Walat

Fiction

FORGOTTEN MEMORIES
By Mario Benedetti and Translated From The Spanish By Harry Morales
MARIO BENEDETTI
By Harry Morales
from THE SECRET LIFE OF OBJECTS
By Dawn Raffel
Tragic Strip
By T. Motley

Poetry

From Molloy, the Flip Side
By Chris Tysh
Subway Poems
By Louis Bury
THIS I FIND HARD TO BELIEVE
By Michael Gottlieb
WE ARE UNHAPPY TO SERVE YOU
By Michael Gottlieb

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