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CITYNOTES A New Anniversary
By Theodore Hamm
No Place to Sleep
By Eleanor J. Bader
REPORT CARD Our Fake School Board
By Liza Featherstone
After 9/11, Listening to the City
By Abby Scher
The City Revealed
By Jillian Steinhauer

Express

Time for a New Dance
By Justin Mitchell
WORLD OF DEBT: DAVID GRAEBER with Spencer Woodman
WINNERS AND LOSERS IN THE “NEW INDIA”: SIDDHARTHA DEB with Scott Sherman
THE SLIPPERY SLOPE OF “TERRORISM” IF A TREE FALLS’S SAM CULLMAN In Conversation with Williams Cole
A Race to Nowhere
By Ross Barkan
A China Hand
By Michael Terry
Voilà, Paris!
By Allen Wilcox

Art

ON ONE SIDE OF THE SAME WATER: Marek Bartelik with Wiesław Borowski
GILLIAN JAGGER with Ben La Rocco
CARRIE MOYER with Phong Bui
SARAH LUCAS with William Corwin
IN CASE SOMETHING DIFFERENT HAPPENS IN THE FUTURE: Joseph Beuys and 9/11
By David Levi Strauss
In Conversation with George Gittoes

ArtSeen

How to Proceed in the Arts (after O’Hara and Rivers, with love)
By Ben La Rocco and Craig Olson
CHARLES ATLAS Joints Array
By Patricia Milder
AI WEIWEI New York Photographs 1983 – 1993
By John Yau
RAILING OPINION: GODDESSES, OVARIES, AND THE SEDUCTRESS: Bring It On Home To Me
By Lisa Corinne Davis
Tale of The Tables
By Denise Lassaw
TRACEY EMIN Love Is What You Want
By Vincent Katz
BROOKLYN DISPATCHES Game-Changer?
By James Kalm
CY TWOMBLY Sculpture
By Anne Sherwood Pundyk
La Saison de Claude-Oskar Monet
By Robert C. Morgan
IN VENICE: Schnabel and the Persistence of Art
By Robert C. Morgan
La Carte D’Après Nature
By Cora Fisher
KRISTYNA AND MAREK MILDE In Loving Memory
By Gail Victoria Braddock Quagliata
AGA OUSSEINOV In the Middle of Erewhon II
By Veronika Sheer
TALK TO ME: Design and the Communication between People and Objects
By David St.-Lascaux
MORGAN PACKARD Dihedral Product
By Charles Schultz
AUROCH’S LIBRARY Chess Match
By Benjamin Gottlieb
Letter from BERLIN
By David Rhodes
Can I Get a Witness? JOSHUA ABELOW, JOACHIM “YOYO” FRIEDRICH, and MATT CONNOLLY
By Linnea Kniaz

Books

LYNNE TILLMAN with Caroline Ball
THE POWER OF SECOND JOHAN HARSTAD with Ann Votaw
POETRY The Gay Man Who Loved Women
By James Cihlar
CRITICISM Death Agents
By John Bengan
COLLECTION Madame Futurist
By Len Gutkin
FICTION Smoke and Mirrors
By Randy Rosenthal
MEMOIR The Serial Name-Dropper
By Ray Abernathy
BIOGRAPHY Keeping Score
By Connie Aitcheson
FICTION Studio Portrait
By Mani Parcham
A Very Productive Season
By Nicolle Elizabeth
RAPID TRANSIT Or A Fistful of Fulfilling Fall Books
By Jeffrey Cyphers Wright

Music

New York's Best-Kept Jazz Secret
By William S. Niederkorn
ALAN PIERSON: Making “Brooklyn's Orchestra”
By George Grella
The Thunder Sheet, the Zither, and the Mousepad
By David St.-Lascaux
The Geist of Independence
By Laura Flierl

Dance

LALALALANDIA
By Brennan Gerard and Ryan Kelly
The Accidental Activist
By Aaron Mattocks
At the Merce Fair
By M.J. Thompson
In Proximity of a Public in Process
By Ben Evans
AUDIENCE-GENERATED PERFORMANCE: A Summer Spent Watching
By Sarah Maxfield

Film

CINEMA AS AN EVENT: An Interview with Light Industry’s Ed Halter
By Rachael Rakes and Leo Goldsmith
DIFFICULT FACTS Esfir Shub and the Problem of Realism
By Anastasiya Osipova
GOD NEVER DIES Eugenio Polgovsky’s The Inheritors
By Polly Bresnick
ACTIVISTS & ALIENS: Films of Unrest at the 2011 Festival del Film Locarno
By Leo Goldsmith

Theater

Come ’n’ Get It: Conni’s Restaurant Lands in Brooklyn
By Melissa F. Moschitto
Connie Congdon needs to have her mouth washed out with soap
By Julia Brownell
The Mindscape of Septimus and Clarissa: Ripe Time Adapts Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway
By Patricia Laurence

Fiction

Mappa Mundi: The Structure of Western Thought
By Douglas Glover
Tragic Strip
By T. Motley
Shitty Mickey

Poetry

DJ Frogs
By Mei-Mei BerssenBrugge
Three
By Barry Schwabsky
Four
By Jeffrey Cyphers Wright

Art Books

Nicely Dressed Noise
By Al Burian
ANDY’S ANIMALS
By Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa
VITAL VICTUALS: A (POST)MODERN REMIX
By Jeffrey P. Smith
MUSIK ALS TRÄGER VON IDEEN
By John Beeson
Neither Wife Nor Widow
By Abbe Schriber

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Barry Schwabsky is art critic for the Nation. His recent poetry publications are Book Left Open in the Rain (Black Square Editions/The Brooklyn Rail, 2009) and 12 Abandoned Poems (Kilmog Press, 2010).

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SEPT 2011

Find the RAIL in print

Subscribe now

Local

CITYNOTES A New Anniversary
By Theodore Hamm
No Place to Sleep
By Eleanor J. Bader
REPORT CARD Our Fake School Board
By Liza Featherstone
After 9/11, Listening to the City
By Abby Scher
The City Revealed
By Jillian Steinhauer

Express

Time for a New Dance
By Justin Mitchell
WORLD OF DEBT: DAVID GRAEBER with Spencer Woodman
WINNERS AND LOSERS IN THE “NEW INDIA”: SIDDHARTHA DEB with Scott Sherman
THE SLIPPERY SLOPE OF “TERRORISM” IF A TREE FALLS’S SAM CULLMAN In Conversation with Williams Cole
A Race to Nowhere
By Ross Barkan
A China Hand
By Michael Terry
Voilà, Paris!
By Allen Wilcox

Art

ON ONE SIDE OF THE SAME WATER: Marek Bartelik with Wiesław Borowski
GILLIAN JAGGER with Ben La Rocco
CARRIE MOYER with Phong Bui
SARAH LUCAS with William Corwin
IN CASE SOMETHING DIFFERENT HAPPENS IN THE FUTURE: Joseph Beuys and 9/11
By David Levi Strauss
In Conversation with George Gittoes

ArtSeen

How to Proceed in the Arts (after O’Hara and Rivers, with love)
By Ben La Rocco and Craig Olson
CHARLES ATLAS Joints Array
By Patricia Milder
AI WEIWEI New York Photographs 1983 – 1993
By John Yau
RAILING OPINION: GODDESSES, OVARIES, AND THE SEDUCTRESS: Bring It On Home To Me
By Lisa Corinne Davis
Tale of The Tables
By Denise Lassaw
TRACEY EMIN Love Is What You Want
By Vincent Katz
BROOKLYN DISPATCHES Game-Changer?
By James Kalm
CY TWOMBLY Sculpture
By Anne Sherwood Pundyk
La Saison de Claude-Oskar Monet
By Robert C. Morgan
IN VENICE: Schnabel and the Persistence of Art
By Robert C. Morgan
La Carte D’Après Nature
By Cora Fisher
KRISTYNA AND MAREK MILDE In Loving Memory
By Gail Victoria Braddock Quagliata
AGA OUSSEINOV In the Middle of Erewhon II
By Veronika Sheer
TALK TO ME: Design and the Communication between People and Objects
By David St.-Lascaux
MORGAN PACKARD Dihedral Product
By Charles Schultz
AUROCH’S LIBRARY Chess Match
By Benjamin Gottlieb
Letter from BERLIN
By David Rhodes
Can I Get a Witness? JOSHUA ABELOW, JOACHIM “YOYO” FRIEDRICH, and MATT CONNOLLY
By Linnea Kniaz

Books

LYNNE TILLMAN with Caroline Ball
THE POWER OF SECOND JOHAN HARSTAD with Ann Votaw
POETRY The Gay Man Who Loved Women
By James Cihlar
CRITICISM Death Agents
By John Bengan
COLLECTION Madame Futurist
By Len Gutkin
FICTION Smoke and Mirrors
By Randy Rosenthal
MEMOIR The Serial Name-Dropper
By Ray Abernathy
BIOGRAPHY Keeping Score
By Connie Aitcheson
FICTION Studio Portrait
By Mani Parcham
A Very Productive Season
By Nicolle Elizabeth
RAPID TRANSIT Or A Fistful of Fulfilling Fall Books
By Jeffrey Cyphers Wright

Music

New York's Best-Kept Jazz Secret
By William S. Niederkorn
ALAN PIERSON: Making “Brooklyn's Orchestra”
By George Grella
The Thunder Sheet, the Zither, and the Mousepad
By David St.-Lascaux
The Geist of Independence
By Laura Flierl

Dance

LALALALANDIA
By Brennan Gerard and Ryan Kelly
The Accidental Activist
By Aaron Mattocks
At the Merce Fair
By M.J. Thompson
In Proximity of a Public in Process
By Ben Evans
AUDIENCE-GENERATED PERFORMANCE: A Summer Spent Watching
By Sarah Maxfield

Film

CINEMA AS AN EVENT: An Interview with Light Industry’s Ed Halter
By Rachael Rakes and Leo Goldsmith
DIFFICULT FACTS Esfir Shub and the Problem of Realism
By Anastasiya Osipova
GOD NEVER DIES Eugenio Polgovsky’s The Inheritors
By Polly Bresnick
ACTIVISTS & ALIENS: Films of Unrest at the 2011 Festival del Film Locarno
By Leo Goldsmith

Theater

Come ’n’ Get It: Conni’s Restaurant Lands in Brooklyn
By Melissa F. Moschitto
Connie Congdon needs to have her mouth washed out with soap
By Julia Brownell
The Mindscape of Septimus and Clarissa: Ripe Time Adapts Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway
By Patricia Laurence

Fiction

Mappa Mundi: The Structure of Western Thought
By Douglas Glover
Tragic Strip
By T. Motley
Shitty Mickey

Poetry

DJ Frogs
By Mei-Mei BerssenBrugge
Three
By Barry Schwabsky
Four
By Jeffrey Cyphers Wright

Art Books

Nicely Dressed Noise
By Al Burian
ANDY’S ANIMALS
By Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa
VITAL VICTUALS: A (POST)MODERN REMIX
By Jeffrey P. Smith
MUSIK ALS TRÄGER VON IDEEN
By John Beeson
Neither Wife Nor Widow
By Abbe Schriber

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