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What Queerocracy Looks Like
By Eleanor J. Bader
A Groundswell of Teachers Wants More
By Ari Paul
AMONG THE STRONGEST ROBIN NAGLE with Gabriel Thompson
Seaside Stories
By Saskia Kahn and Lindsey Catherine Cornum

Express

CASE NO: 1
By Jason Flores-Williams
Israel/Palestine and the Re-education of Sarah Schulman
By Bec Zajac
The Bankruptcy of Doom and Gloom
By Robert S. Eshelman
New Look for Rail Books
By Theodore Hamm
ART, MUSIC, MONEY PHOEBE LEGERE with Vienna Boa

Art

Three Notes on the Behavioral Turn
By Judith Rodenbeck
ALEX KATZ with David Salle
RICHARD NONAS with Alex Bacon
RONA PONDICK with Phong Bui

ArtSeen

CHARLES LUTZ “BABEL (Brillo Stockholm Type)”
By Michael Straus
BERNARD FRIZE Winter Diary
By Terry R. Myers
The Color Bars of Francis Alÿs
Drawing Surrealism
By Valery Oisteanu
Beyond Thinking
By Karen Schiff
It looks like words have won...
By Michelle Grabner
Centaurs and Microbes
By David Humphrey
Talk/Show: Language and the Resistant Artwork
By Richard Kalina
Visual Intelligence
By Mira Schor
Words are Limited
By Carrie Moyer
This Is How We Do It
By Stephen Westfall
Notes on Looking, Thinking, and then Writing
By Robert Berlind
DOUG ARGUE Artspeak and The Art of Translation
By Alana Shilling-Janoff
Breathing Room
By Susan Bee
Discourse ≠ Art
By Stephen Maine
Arguing Art
By Dennis Kardon
DAVID SHRIGLEY Signs
By Noah Dillon
Prolixity and Art
By Thyrza Nichols Goodeve
SABINE HORNIG Transparent Things
By Paula Burleigh
Looking/Reading/Writing
By David Carrier
Sense and Unsensibility
By Tom McGlynn
The Medium Has No Message
By R. H. Lossin
A.R. PENCK New Paintings
By Jonathan Goodman
SÉBASTIEN CLICHE, SYLVIE COTTON, CHELSEA KNIGHT, and MARK TRIBE Brooklyn/Montreal Exchange
By Gail Victoria Braddock Quagliata
CORA COHEN The Responsibility of Forms
By Nora Griffin
TOMMY MINTZ Mind the Gap/Mine the Gaps
By William Corwin
TREVOR PAGLEN
By Desi Gonzalez
LARRY POONS New Paintings
By Robert C. Morgan
PAUL LAFFOLEY and SUZANNE TREISTER
By Ann McCoy

Books

Lessons in Empathy
By Geoffrey Young
LAUREN GROFF with Matthew Daddona
Men Being Played
By Weston Cutter
Technoir at Light Speed
By Ben Pfeiffer
Where Food is Family
Wandering Beauty
By Tony Leuzzi
A Wide Open Mind
By Christopher Michel

Music

A Chance Meeting of Words and Music
By David St.-Lascaux
AMPLIFY 2013: rotation
By Christopher Nelson
A Great and Joyful Noise
By Jose Padua
Decoding Lez Zeppelin
By Allyson Polsky McCabe
Outtakes
By Steve Dalachinsky
Still Tragic, Still Political, Still Swoon-Worthy
By Joanna McNaney Stein

Dance

Protective Frost
By Siobhan Burke
Viscera
By Cassie Peterson
RASHAUN MITCHELL with Nancy Dalva

Film

IT’S ALRIGHT, WILLIAMSBURG (I’M ONLY BLEEDING) SU FRIEDRICH with Cynthia Lugo
The Many Hindrances of STEPHEN DWOSKIN
By Max Nelson
ROOMS OF MELANCHOLIA Cristian Mungiu’s Beyond the Hills
By Ricky D'Ambrose
NOTHING’S HAPPIER THAN HAPPINESS Pablo Larraín’s NO
By José Miguel Palacios
FROM A DARK ROOM SANDRA GIBSON AND LUIS RECODER with Genevieve Yue

Theater

Red Wigs and Lettuce Passing Through the Heart with Dalia Basiouny
By Catherine Filloux
Lesser America Takes On A Tragic Chimp
By Ken Urban
Miranda Huba's Candy Tastes Nice Puts Virginity on the Auction Block.
By Gary Winter

Fiction

from The Collected Writings of Art Smith, The Bird Boy of Fort Wayne
By Michael Martone
I Would Be Remiss If I Did Not Mention That I Have Nothing To Offer You In Return Whatsoever
By Nicolle Elizabeth
When the Time Comes
By Josef Winkler
ZOMB
By Matt Seneca
Catscan
By Molly Roth
Arrowschmitt!!!
By Arryan Decatur
Tears Don't Dry
By Leah Hayes
Tragic Strip
By T. Motley
from the story collection The Man Who Walked on Air & other tales of innocence
By Alain Arias-Misson

Poetry

Five
By Maxine Chernoff
from Situations: Events and Spells
By Mercedes Roffé, translated from the Spanish by Judith Filc
At Hell Gate
By Brandon Downing

Art Books

Summer of Hate
By Wendy Vogel
Hesitating Beauty
By Talia Bloch

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MAR 2013

Find the RAIL in print

Subscribe now

Local

What Queerocracy Looks Like
By Eleanor J. Bader
A Groundswell of Teachers Wants More
By Ari Paul
AMONG THE STRONGEST ROBIN NAGLE with Gabriel Thompson
Seaside Stories
By Saskia Kahn and Lindsey Catherine Cornum

Express

CASE NO: 1
By Jason Flores-Williams
Israel/Palestine and the Re-education of Sarah Schulman
By Bec Zajac
The Bankruptcy of Doom and Gloom
By Robert S. Eshelman
New Look for Rail Books
By Theodore Hamm
ART, MUSIC, MONEY PHOEBE LEGERE with Vienna Boa

Art

Three Notes on the Behavioral Turn
By Judith Rodenbeck
ALEX KATZ with David Salle
RICHARD NONAS with Alex Bacon
RONA PONDICK with Phong Bui

ArtSeen

CHARLES LUTZ “BABEL (Brillo Stockholm Type)”
By Michael Straus
BERNARD FRIZE Winter Diary
By Terry R. Myers
The Color Bars of Francis Alÿs
Drawing Surrealism
By Valery Oisteanu
Beyond Thinking
By Karen Schiff
It looks like words have won...
By Michelle Grabner
Centaurs and Microbes
By David Humphrey
Talk/Show: Language and the Resistant Artwork
By Richard Kalina
Visual Intelligence
By Mira Schor
Words are Limited
By Carrie Moyer
This Is How We Do It
By Stephen Westfall
Notes on Looking, Thinking, and then Writing
By Robert Berlind
DOUG ARGUE Artspeak and The Art of Translation
By Alana Shilling-Janoff
Breathing Room
By Susan Bee
Discourse ≠ Art
By Stephen Maine
Arguing Art
By Dennis Kardon
DAVID SHRIGLEY Signs
By Noah Dillon
Prolixity and Art
By Thyrza Nichols Goodeve
SABINE HORNIG Transparent Things
By Paula Burleigh
Looking/Reading/Writing
By David Carrier
Sense and Unsensibility
By Tom McGlynn
The Medium Has No Message
By R. H. Lossin
A.R. PENCK New Paintings
By Jonathan Goodman
SÉBASTIEN CLICHE, SYLVIE COTTON, CHELSEA KNIGHT, and MARK TRIBE Brooklyn/Montreal Exchange
By Gail Victoria Braddock Quagliata
CORA COHEN The Responsibility of Forms
By Nora Griffin
TOMMY MINTZ Mind the Gap/Mine the Gaps
By William Corwin
TREVOR PAGLEN
By Desi Gonzalez
LARRY POONS New Paintings
By Robert C. Morgan
PAUL LAFFOLEY and SUZANNE TREISTER
By Ann McCoy

Books

Lessons in Empathy
By Geoffrey Young
LAUREN GROFF with Matthew Daddona
Men Being Played
By Weston Cutter
Technoir at Light Speed
By Ben Pfeiffer
Where Food is Family
Wandering Beauty
By Tony Leuzzi
A Wide Open Mind
By Christopher Michel

Music

A Chance Meeting of Words and Music
By David St.-Lascaux
AMPLIFY 2013: rotation
By Christopher Nelson
A Great and Joyful Noise
By Jose Padua
Decoding Lez Zeppelin
By Allyson Polsky McCabe
Outtakes
By Steve Dalachinsky
Still Tragic, Still Political, Still Swoon-Worthy
By Joanna McNaney Stein

Dance

Protective Frost
By Siobhan Burke
Viscera
By Cassie Peterson
RASHAUN MITCHELL with Nancy Dalva

Film

IT’S ALRIGHT, WILLIAMSBURG (I’M ONLY BLEEDING) SU FRIEDRICH with Cynthia Lugo
The Many Hindrances of STEPHEN DWOSKIN
By Max Nelson
ROOMS OF MELANCHOLIA Cristian Mungiu’s Beyond the Hills
By Ricky D'Ambrose
NOTHING’S HAPPIER THAN HAPPINESS Pablo Larraín’s NO
By José Miguel Palacios
FROM A DARK ROOM SANDRA GIBSON AND LUIS RECODER with Genevieve Yue

Theater

Red Wigs and Lettuce Passing Through the Heart with Dalia Basiouny
By Catherine Filloux
Lesser America Takes On A Tragic Chimp
By Ken Urban
Miranda Huba's Candy Tastes Nice Puts Virginity on the Auction Block.
By Gary Winter

Fiction

from The Collected Writings of Art Smith, The Bird Boy of Fort Wayne
By Michael Martone
I Would Be Remiss If I Did Not Mention That I Have Nothing To Offer You In Return Whatsoever
By Nicolle Elizabeth
When the Time Comes
By Josef Winkler
ZOMB
By Matt Seneca
Catscan
By Molly Roth
Arrowschmitt!!!
By Arryan Decatur
Tears Don't Dry
By Leah Hayes
Tragic Strip
By T. Motley
from the story collection The Man Who Walked on Air & other tales of innocence
By Alain Arias-Misson

Poetry

Five
By Maxine Chernoff
from Situations: Events and Spells
By Mercedes Roffé, translated from the Spanish by Judith Filc
At Hell Gate
By Brandon Downing

Art Books

Summer of Hate
By Wendy Vogel
Hesitating Beauty
By Talia Bloch

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