NOV 2012

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Local

A Brand Called Brooklyn
By Norman Oder
ANDREW CUOMO: New York’s Scott Walker?
By Ari Paul
The Graying of AIDS
By Eleanor J. Bader

Express

End of the Line in the ICU
By Kristen McConnell
WITHERED AND BURNED: Some Lessons from Texas
By Robert S. Eshelman, art by Andrea Lauer
DOC NYC: Gotham’s Documentary Film Festival
By Williams Cole
Holding Court
By Leigh Kamping-Carder
A City in Crisis
By David Rosen
Science’s Last Romantics
By Courtney Fiske
The Brooklyn Rail’s Player-of-the-Year, 2012
By Theodore Hamm

Art

DAVID HUMPHREY with Phong Bui
By Phong Bui
ABCs for/of Richard Tuttle An epistolary interview with Jarrett Earnest, pt. 2 “H–O”
PATRICIA CRONIN with Phong Bui
Reflections on Gerhard Richter: Painting 2012
By Alex Bacon
Marcel Duchamp Slept Here
By Francis M. Naumann
ROBERT LAZZARINI with Jonathan T. D. Neil

ArtSeen

A Riot is the Language of the Unheard: An Exercise in Unrestrained Speech
By Kara L. Rooney
DAVID DIAO and WALID RAAD
By Joan Waltemath
LIN TIANMIAO Bound Unbound
By Corina Larkin
AHMED ALSOUDANI
By Robert C. Morgan
HiJack!
By Noah Dillon
DIRTY LOOKS: A Monthly Platform for Queer Experimental Film and Video
By Eve Perry
RALPH HUMPHREY
By Susan Harris
MICKALENE THOMAS Origin of the Universe
By Desi Gonzalez
TATZU NISHI Discovering Columbus
By Anne Sherwood Pundyk
In the Thick of Things
By George Stolz
The Present Age
By R. H. Lossin
JONAS MEKAS Reminiscences of a Displaced Person
By Joseph Klarl
RODNEY MCMILLIAN Prospect Ave.
By Jen Schwarting
We the People
By Chloé Rossetti
BRIAN BELOTT A Goosh Noosh
By Jonathan Goodman
FARRELL BRICKHOUSE
By Jason Stopa
RONNIE LANDFIELD Where it all Began
By William Corwin
The New Barnes Foundation Museum
By David Carrier
City of Gold: Tomb and Temple in Ancient Cyprus
By Alana Shilling-Janoff
PETER SACKS New Paintings
By Talia Bloch
FRANK STELLA The Retrospective, Works 1958-2012
By David Rhodes
SHARON HAYES There’s So Much I Want to Say to You
By Kareem Estefan

Books

A Question of (Soma)tics
By Alex Estes
Misery Loves Company With a Sense of Humor
By Laura Smith Terry
Relative Triangles and The Dangers of Proximal Alphabets
By Elianna Greenberg
In Exile
By Michael McCanne
Unsung Hero
By Amy Wolfe
RAPID TRANSIT MAPPING THE GRAIN: Silver, Mercury, and Lead Go into a Bar…
By Jeffrey Cyphers Wright
Southern Exposure
By Laura Cesarco Eglin
ELIZABETH KOKE and AMY SCHOLDER of the Feminist Press with Gabriel Don
MICHAEL BRACEWELL with Kathy Battista
PENINA ROTH with Nicolle Elizabeth
Noise’s Nectar
By Joseph Nechvatal
The Light Pours Out of Me
By Brendan Byrne
Tell It Quick
By Nicolle Elizabeth

Music

AN AMERICAN REVIVALIST: Dom Flemons and the Return of the African-American String Band
By Geoffrey Clarfield
Previously Unreleased Footage of Boulez–Cage Tennis Match Discovered
By David St.-Lascaux
Outtakes
By Steve Dalachinsky
Brooklyn’s Children are Singing
By George Grella
Tomorrow’s Parties, Today
By Todd Simmons
Still Ragin’ After All These Years
By Billups Allen

Dance

Present in the Absence
By L.J. Sunshine
An Ineffective Upheaval
By Evan Namerow
Gathering Momentum
By Siobhan Burke
KYLE ABRAHAM with Ryan Wenzel

Film

THE PROBLEMS OF FICTION PABLO LARRAÍN with José Miguel Palacios
IN RETROSPECT Jeff Preiss’s STOP
By Giampaolo Bianconi
CHEMICAL SUNDOWNS PHIL SOLOMON with Leo Goldsmith
By Leo Goldsmith
New Fangled Old Things: Views from the Avant-Garde 2012
By Felix Bernstein

Theater

Ich Bin Ein Pumpkin Deity
By Eliza Bent
Drunken History with Cusi Cram
By Marin Gazzaniga
No One is Done Nothing is Over: Jackie Sibblies Drury’s We Are Proud To Present…
By Mark Armstrong
Esther, Muriel, and Yvette: The Roots
By Dan Trujillo

Fiction

Week 13
By Emily Flake
Professor Greyhound’s Poetry Tests
By Keren Katz
Dark Tomato
By Sakura Maku
Telegram
By Andrea Tsurumi
Single Girl, Chicken Soup
By Connie Sun
Tragic Strip
By T. Motley
Spooky Action at a Distance
By Eugene Lim
Vestigial Features
By Mary Stein
from the novella A Familiar Beast
By Panio Gianopoulos
If a Body Meet a Body
By Jason Lees

Poetry

Three from The Garden
By Ed Steck
from I am the Robert Walser
By Mina Pam Dick
Three
By Brian Blanchfield

Art Books

Materializing Six Years: Lucy R. Lippard and the Emergence of Conceptual Art
By Wendy Vogel
A Curator’s Quest: Building the Museum of Modern Art’s Painting and Sculpture Collection, 1967−1988
By Juliet Helmke

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NOV 2012

Find the RAIL in print

Subscribe now

A message from Phong Bui
Publisher and Artistic Director

Local

A Brand Called Brooklyn
By Norman Oder
ANDREW CUOMO: New York’s Scott Walker?
By Ari Paul
The Graying of AIDS
By Eleanor J. Bader

Express

End of the Line in the ICU
By Kristen McConnell
WITHERED AND BURNED: Some Lessons from Texas
By Robert S. Eshelman, art by Andrea Lauer
DOC NYC: Gotham’s Documentary Film Festival
By Williams Cole
Holding Court
By Leigh Kamping-Carder
A City in Crisis
By David Rosen
Science’s Last Romantics
By Courtney Fiske
The Brooklyn Rail’s Player-of-the-Year, 2012
By Theodore Hamm

Art

DAVID HUMPHREY with Phong Bui
By Phong Bui
ABCs for/of Richard Tuttle An epistolary interview with Jarrett Earnest, pt. 2 “H–O”
PATRICIA CRONIN with Phong Bui
Reflections on Gerhard Richter: Painting 2012
By Alex Bacon
Marcel Duchamp Slept Here
By Francis M. Naumann
ROBERT LAZZARINI with Jonathan T. D. Neil

ArtSeen

A Riot is the Language of the Unheard: An Exercise in Unrestrained Speech
By Kara L. Rooney
DAVID DIAO and WALID RAAD
By Joan Waltemath
LIN TIANMIAO Bound Unbound
By Corina Larkin
AHMED ALSOUDANI
By Robert C. Morgan
HiJack!
By Noah Dillon
DIRTY LOOKS: A Monthly Platform for Queer Experimental Film and Video
By Eve Perry
RALPH HUMPHREY
By Susan Harris
MICKALENE THOMAS Origin of the Universe
By Desi Gonzalez
TATZU NISHI Discovering Columbus
By Anne Sherwood Pundyk
In the Thick of Things
By George Stolz
The Present Age
By R. H. Lossin
JONAS MEKAS Reminiscences of a Displaced Person
By Joseph Klarl
RODNEY MCMILLIAN Prospect Ave.
By Jen Schwarting
We the People
By Chloé Rossetti
BRIAN BELOTT A Goosh Noosh
By Jonathan Goodman
FARRELL BRICKHOUSE
By Jason Stopa
RONNIE LANDFIELD Where it all Began
By William Corwin
The New Barnes Foundation Museum
By David Carrier
City of Gold: Tomb and Temple in Ancient Cyprus
By Alana Shilling-Janoff
PETER SACKS New Paintings
By Talia Bloch
FRANK STELLA The Retrospective, Works 1958-2012
By David Rhodes
SHARON HAYES There’s So Much I Want to Say to You
By Kareem Estefan

Books

A Question of (Soma)tics
By Alex Estes
Misery Loves Company With a Sense of Humor
By Laura Smith Terry
Relative Triangles and The Dangers of Proximal Alphabets
By Elianna Greenberg
In Exile
By Michael McCanne
Unsung Hero
By Amy Wolfe
RAPID TRANSIT MAPPING THE GRAIN: Silver, Mercury, and Lead Go into a Bar…
By Jeffrey Cyphers Wright
Southern Exposure
By Laura Cesarco Eglin
ELIZABETH KOKE and AMY SCHOLDER of the Feminist Press with Gabriel Don
MICHAEL BRACEWELL with Kathy Battista
PENINA ROTH with Nicolle Elizabeth
Noise’s Nectar
By Joseph Nechvatal
The Light Pours Out of Me
By Brendan Byrne
Tell It Quick
By Nicolle Elizabeth

Music

AN AMERICAN REVIVALIST: Dom Flemons and the Return of the African-American String Band
By Geoffrey Clarfield
Previously Unreleased Footage of Boulez–Cage Tennis Match Discovered
By David St.-Lascaux
Outtakes
By Steve Dalachinsky
Brooklyn’s Children are Singing
By George Grella
Tomorrow’s Parties, Today
By Todd Simmons
Still Ragin’ After All These Years
By Billups Allen

Dance

Present in the Absence
By L.J. Sunshine
An Ineffective Upheaval
By Evan Namerow
Gathering Momentum
By Siobhan Burke
KYLE ABRAHAM with Ryan Wenzel

Film

THE PROBLEMS OF FICTION PABLO LARRAÍN with José Miguel Palacios
IN RETROSPECT Jeff Preiss’s STOP
By Giampaolo Bianconi
CHEMICAL SUNDOWNS PHIL SOLOMON with Leo Goldsmith
By Leo Goldsmith
New Fangled Old Things: Views from the Avant-Garde 2012
By Felix Bernstein

Theater

Ich Bin Ein Pumpkin Deity
By Eliza Bent
Drunken History with Cusi Cram
By Marin Gazzaniga
No One is Done Nothing is Over: Jackie Sibblies Drury’s We Are Proud To Present…
By Mark Armstrong
Esther, Muriel, and Yvette: The Roots
By Dan Trujillo

Fiction

Week 13
By Emily Flake
Professor Greyhound’s Poetry Tests
By Keren Katz
Dark Tomato
By Sakura Maku
Telegram
By Andrea Tsurumi
Single Girl, Chicken Soup
By Connie Sun
Tragic Strip
By T. Motley
Spooky Action at a Distance
By Eugene Lim
Vestigial Features
By Mary Stein
from the novella A Familiar Beast
By Panio Gianopoulos
If a Body Meet a Body
By Jason Lees

Poetry

Three from The Garden
By Ed Steck
from I am the Robert Walser
By Mina Pam Dick
Three
By Brian Blanchfield

Art Books

Materializing Six Years: Lucy R. Lippard and the Emergence of Conceptual Art
By Wendy Vogel
A Curator’s Quest: Building the Museum of Modern Art’s Painting and Sculpture Collection, 1967−1988
By Juliet Helmke

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