Aboard the Big Red Bus
By Dave KimDeep down I wanted to re-experience the feeling of being a newcomer, to suspend what I’d learned as a resident and see New York like I had my first time, when everything had the sheen and sparkle of novelty.
After the Twister
By Brian AwehaliI was born in Joplin, but I've long since renounced any belief in theism or supernatural determinism, and don't believe that tornadoes or anything else for that matter are acts of God, unless you mean it metaphorically.
Art In Conversation
RICHARD SERRA with Phong Bui
Richard Serra Drawing: A Retrospective is the first retrospective of Richard Serra’s drawings. On the occasion of the retrospective, Richard Serra welcomed Rail publisher Phong Bui to his TriBeCa loft to discuss his work and more.
Readings From the Vast Unread
By Phong Bui and Robert Hullot-KentorReadings from the Vast Unread may not be such a bright idea, but it is historically unprecedented.
Art In Conversation
DOROTHEA ROCKBURNE with David Levi Strauss and Christopher Bamford
Shortly after attending the opening of Dorothea Rockburne: In My Mind’s Eye at the Parrish Art Museum in Southampton (June 19 – August 14, 2011), Rail Consulting Editor David Levi Strauss and Christopher Bamford went to Dorothea Rockburne’s studio in SoHo to discuss the show.
Art In Conversation
MATTHEW DAY JACKSON with Charles Schultz
After returning from London where he opened his first solo show, Everything Leads to Another, at Hauser and Wirth (May 20 – July 30), Matthew Day Jackson came by the Rail’s headquarters to talk about his work, creative process, and drag racing plans with Artseen contributor Charles Schultz.
Art In Conversation
JENNIFER BARTLETT with Phong Bui
On the two occasions of her second installation of the monumental work “Rhapsody” in the Atrium of MoMA and the recent exhibit The Studio Inside Out (May 18 – June 30, 2011) at Locks Gallery in Philadelphia, Rail publisher Phong Bui paid a visit to the painter Jennifer Bartlett’s home/studio in Fort Greene, Brooklyn to discuss her life and work.
MARK DI SUVERO at Governor’s Island
If you actually want to feel the earth spin on its axis, stand underneath a monumental sculpture by Mark di Suvero. His sculptures, 11 of which are now installed on Governor’s Island, are steel mammoths that completely reorient the way the eye perceives space. In each work industrial beams—some painted and others left to rust in the elements—tower towards the sky.
Canonizer’s Feast
By William S. NiederkornAmong academe’s devotees of Shakespeare and the rest of the literary quality, there’s everyone else, and there’s Harold Bloom. Other distinguished professors are busy mining the canons of their authors for statistical data, or trying to make biographical connections, or fitting works into the context of the vagaries of an era.
Notes on W.C. Fields (for Jim Gardner)
By Jim SupanickSome men, when they laugh, sound like geese hissing, others like grumbling goslings; some recall the sigh of woodland pigeons, or doves in their widowhood; others the hoot-owl; one an Indian rooster, another a peacock; others give out a peep-peep, like chicks.
Kara Lee Corthron’s Julius by Design
By Kia CorthronBack in March of 2010, my sister Kara Lee Corthron interviewed me for In Dialogue regarding my then-upcoming production at Playwrights Horizons. So I am turning the tables now.
Lost Time
By Lewis WarshThe train was delayed, but when it finally entered the station, and after I found a seat near a window and hoisted my suitcase onto the rack, I noticed that the woman sitting across the aisle was a person I had known in high school.
Editor's Message From The Editor
On the Road in Dakar
By Theodore HammA tale involving a moral panic, government corruption, and burning diapers.
ArtSeen
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MARK DI SUVERO at Governor’s Island
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Whose Modernism is it Anyway?
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FRANCIS ALŸS: A Story of Deception
– By Kara L. Rooney -
DONALD JUDD
– By Greg Lindquist -
Sea Worthy
– By Charles Schultz -
The Peripheterists
– By Cora Fisher -
7 New York Painters
– By Ben La Rocco -
The Ecstasy of Saint Herzog
– By Shane McAdams -
Geometry: Selected Works from the Estate of MARY ANN UNGER
– By Kara L. Rooney -
DANIEL DOUKE Bytes of Reality
– By John Yau -
Letter from BERLIN
– By David Rhodes -
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN Savage Beauty
– By Anne Sherwood Pundyk -
MELANIE BAKER: Feast
– By Phong Bui -
JOHN O’CONNOR What is Toronto???
– By Charles Schultz -
Under Destruction II
– By Jen Schwarting -
LOUIS I. KAHN Building a View
– By Aldrin Valdez
STEPHEN ANTONAKOS Spaces -
WE ARE PRIMITIVE: Apichatpong’s Ineffable Experience of Nabua
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Feelers
– By Linnea Kniaz -
BROOKLYN DISPATCHES: Making the Trains Run on Time
– By James Kalm -
Does Nordic Art Exist? A Lesson In Transculture
– By Robert C. Morgan -
GEORGE GITTOES: Witness to a War
– By Noah Dillon -
LEE UFAN: The Art of Present Reality
– By Robert C. Morgan -
ALLORA & CALZADILLA: Gloria
– By David St.-Lascaux -
The 54th Venice Biennale
– By Emily Warner -
Artists in Bushwick
– By Stephen Truax -
Bushwick Open Studios Continues to Grow but at What Cost?
– By Hrag Vartanian -
PICASSO and MARIE-THÉRÈSE: L’Amour Fou
– By Cassandra Neyenesch -
JASPER JOHNS New Sculpture and Works on Paper
– By John Yau -
BILL RICE Paintings & Works on Paper
– By John Yau
Table of Contents
Editor's Message
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On the Road in Dakar
– By Theodore Hamm
Local
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Windows of the World Workers Stay United
– By Dania Rajendra -
No Place for Walmart
– By Diane Krauthamer -
Redemption in Bushwick
– By Eleanor J. Bader -
UNITY: A desperate plea for adult supervision
– By Brian J. Carreira -
REPORT CARD
– By Liza Featherstone -
No Escape
– By Nicholas Jahr -
Aboard the Big Red Bus
– By Dave Kim
Express
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Inside the Tropic of Chaos: CHRISTIAN PARENTI with Theodore Hamm
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After the Twister
– By Brian Awehali -
RED MEMORIES: WALTER BERNSTEIN with Gregory Zucker and Molly Rose Ávila
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Red Legacies
– By Michael Terry -
THE GOOD OLD ’70S: The End of the Amerian Century
– By David Rosen -
LASTING IMPRESSIONS Three Reviews
– By Christopher Michel -
Smoke and Mirrors in Pursuit of Suez’s Striking Workers
– By Robert S. Eshelman
Art
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TRACEY EMIN Love Is What You Want
– By Vincent Katz -
MATTHEW DAY JACKSON with Charles Schultz
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RICHARD SERRA with Phong Bui
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DOROTHEA ROCKBURNE with David Levi Strauss and Christopher Bamford
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JENNIFER BARTLETT with Phong Bui
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WOLF KAHN In Latter-Day Focus Color & Consequence
– By Lucio Pozzi -
In Memoriam CY TWOMBLY (1928–2011)
– By Claire Daigle -
Readings From the Vast Unread
– By Phong Bui and Robert Hullot-Kentor
ArtSeen
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:)
– By Gail Quagliata -
MARK DI SUVERO at Governor’s Island
– -
Whose Modernism is it Anyway?
– By Edward M. Gómez -
FRANCIS ALŸS: A Story of Deception
– By Kara L. Rooney -
DONALD JUDD
– By Greg Lindquist -
Sea Worthy
– By Charles Schultz -
The Peripheterists
– By Cora Fisher -
7 New York Painters
– By Ben La Rocco -
The Ecstasy of Saint Herzog
– By Shane McAdams -
Geometry: Selected Works from the Estate of MARY ANN UNGER
– By Kara L. Rooney -
DANIEL DOUKE Bytes of Reality
– By John Yau -
Letter from BERLIN
– By David Rhodes -
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN Savage Beauty
– By Anne Sherwood Pundyk -
MELANIE BAKER: Feast
– By Phong Bui -
JOHN O’CONNOR What is Toronto???
– By Charles Schultz -
Under Destruction II
– By Jen Schwarting -
LOUIS I. KAHN Building a View STEPHEN ANTONAKOS Spaces
– By Aldrin Valdez -
WE ARE PRIMITIVE: Apichatpong’s Ineffable Experience of Nabua
– By Aily Nash -
Feelers
– By Linnea Kniaz -
BROOKLYN DISPATCHES: Making the Trains Run on Time
– By James Kalm -
Does Nordic Art Exist? A Lesson In Transculture
– By Robert C. Morgan -
GEORGE GITTOES: Witness to a War
– By Noah Dillon -
LEE UFAN: The Art of Present Reality
– By Robert C. Morgan -
ALLORA & CALZADILLA: Gloria
– By David St.-Lascaux -
The 54th Venice Biennale
– By Emily Warner -
Artists in Bushwick
– By Stephen Truax -
Bushwick Open Studios Continues to Grow but at What Cost?
– By Hrag Vartanian -
PICASSO and MARIE-THÉRÈSE: L’Amour Fou
– By Cassandra Neyenesch -
JASPER JOHNS New Sculpture and Works on Paper
– By John Yau -
BILL RICE Paintings & Works on Paper
– By John Yau
Books
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Canonizer’s Feast
– By William S. Niederkorn -
Coming of Age in Child Soldier Literature
– By Hawa Allan -
SIRI HUSTVEDT with Molly Gallentine
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Echo’s Accent
– By Michael Leong -
Anthology Review
– By Nicolle Elizabeth -
Memoir Review
– By Rosemary Bailey -
RAPID TRANSIT or A SUMMARY OF SOME SUMMER PAGES
– By Jeffrey Cyphers Wright -
Palma’s Artful Web
– By Marie Bacigalupo -
Fiction Review
– By Jim Feast -
Remembering Everything
– By Rochelle Melton -
Fiction Review
– By Connie Aitcheson
Music
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Songs for Swinging Babies
– By George Grella -
Further Out of Time
– By Marshall Yarbrough -
Outtakes
– By Steve Dalachinsky -
Visitation Rites
– By Katy Henriksen -
Shamanic Rites on Wall Street
– By David St.-Lascaux -
Embracing A New, Unforgotten Future
– By Justin Vellucci -
It Became Part of My Rock ’n’ Roll Fantasy
– By Billups Allen
Dance
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Hangman Takuzo
– By Yasuko Yokoshi -
Editor’s Note
– By Claudia La Rocco -
An Imaginary Education in the History of Written Dances
– By Aynsley Vandenbroucke -
Blackfish
– By Emily Johnson -
Kennis Hawkins
– By Kennis Hawkins -
Some Experiments, Curiously Intertwined, on Time, the Body, and the Nature of What I Do Over Here
– By Kathryn Enright -
Four drawing/collages for duet with Kayvon
– By Juliette Mapp -
The Minotaur
– By Karinne Keithley Syers -
Electric Midlife
– By Beth Gill -
All the Props in My Basement
– By Annie-B Parson
Film
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ADOLFAS MEKAS (1925–2011)
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Notes on W.C. Fields (for Jim Gardner)
– By Jim Supanick -
PURE AMERICAN CRAZY: Errol Morris’s Tabloid
– By Jacob Mikanowski -
ONCE UPON A TIME, THE PRINCESS WOKE UP: Catherine Breillat’s Sleeping Beauty
– By Anya Jaremko-Greenwold -
BLURRED BOUNDARIES: Selections from Migrating Forms 2011
– By Colin Beckett and Jason Livingston
Theater
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Margraff’s Got the Greek Blues
– By Kathryn Walat -
TAKE IT TO THE STREETS: Site-Specific Theater Hits NYC
– By Jen Taher -
Kara Lee Corthron’s Julius by Design
– By Kia Corthron -
Balm in Brooklyn: A Case Study
– By Stephanie Fleischmann
Fiction
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Girl
– By E. Hampton -
Special Friend
– By Lewis Warsh -
Lost Time
– By Lewis Warsh -
FÉDER or the Gilded Husband the final installment from an unfinished novella
– By Stendhall , translated from the French by Brian Evenson -
The Roses at the Hospital
– By Can Xue, translated from the Chinese by Karen Gernant and Chen Zeping -
The Face
– By Laird Hunt -
Tragic Strip
– By T. Motley -
Character and Fitness: Chapters 13 and 14
– By Jason Flores-Williams
Poetry
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two from "Insurgentes"
– By Marc Nasdor -
The Word for World is Forest Poem
– By Laura Neuman -
While Drinking Coffee at Zingerman's
– By Clayton Eshleman -
from “147 Million Orphans: A Haybun”
– By Eileen Tabios
Art Books
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The Positive News About Negative Thinking
– By Abbe Schriber -
SMOKE AND MIRRORS: Fashion and Socialist Politics
– By Eugenie Dalland -
A Time When No Budget, Unlimited Time and Resourcefulness Shaped Counter-Culture
– By Greg Lindquist -
The Problem with the Nightmare
– By Natasha Stagg
