MAY 2020

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A message from Phong Bui
Publisher and Artistic Director

Art

AUDREY FLACK with Charles Duncan
GUILLERMO KUITCA with Raphael Rubinstein
JAMES PROSEK with Hovey Brock
XAVIERA SIMMONS with Marcia E. Vetrocq
RICHARD BRETTELL with David Carrier
HENRI LOYRETTE with Joachim Pissaro

ArtSeen

Rashid Johnson: Untitled Anxious Red Drawings
By David Carrier
Off the Wall
By Alfred Mac Adam
Bharti Kher: The Unexpected Freedom of Chaos
By David Rhodes
Sarah Charlesworth: Image Language
By Robert C. Morgan
Gerhard Richter: Painting After All
By Jessica Holmes
Ida Kohlmeyer: Cloistered
By William Corwin
Hernan Bas: Developing TiME LiFE
By Charlotte Kent
Agnes Pelton: Desert Transcendentalist
By Ann McCoy
Mohammed Kazem: Infinite Angles
By Ruba Al-Sweel
Feliciano Centurión: Abrigo
By Susan Breyer
Adrian Morris
By Brian T. Leahy
Rochelle Goldberg: Psychomachia
By Peter Brock
Peter Saul
By David Carrier
Hell is a Place on Earth. Heaven is a Place in Your Head.
By Kathleen Langjahr
Jean-Jacques Lequeu: Visionary Architect
By Brandt Junceau
Sara Erenthal’s Art of the Street and Screen
By Megan N. Liberty
Things on Walls
By Darla Migan
Hadi Fallahpisheh and Phoebe d’Heurle: What a Fuck and What the Fuck
By Ketter Weissman
Kate Shepherd: Surveillance
By Susan Harris
Curtis Talwst Santiago: Can’t I Alter
By Magdalyn Asimakis
Masculinities: Liberation Through Photography
By Daniel Pateman
Petra Cortright: borderline aurora borealis
By Barbara A. MacAdam
Leap of Color
By Tom McGlynn
Louise Fishman: An Hour is a Sea
By Hearne Pardee
Nick Raffel: plenum
By Alex Jen
Matt Mullican: Universal Perspective
By William Whitney

Critics Page

Made of linguistic forms and failures: inquiry in times of isolation
Guest Critic: Daisy Desrosiers
Catachresis
By Ambera Wellmann
The losses we carry across: an afternoon with Azza El Siddique and Sahar Te
Thinking about you, thinking about translation
By Frances Loeffler
Poetic Intention: Correspondence in isolation between Daisy Desrosiers and Jesse Chun.
KHAAREJ NO.3 (2019)
By Sahar Te
What Sound Does The Blk Atlantic Make?—on translation in the work of artist Alberta Whittle
By Mother Tongue
Marble benches, Anatolian weavers, and Madonnas: Shannon Bool and Daisy Desrosiers
Babble
By Kathleen Ritter
The Twofold Room
By Marie-Michelle Deschamps

Books

Blowin’ in the Wind
By Bailey Trela
Tracy O’Neill’s Quotients
By Yvonne C. Garrett
Down Away from the Sun You’ll Burrow
Chelsea Bieker's Godshot
By Deena ElGenaidi
Mark Nowak’s Social Poetics
By John Domini
Fires Burning, Windows Breaking
JUDITHA DOWD with Ruth Foley

Music

MATT EVANS with Vanessa Ague
Enlightened Aesthetics: LOUISE LANDES LEVI with Raymond Foye
Lontano (“As from a distance”)
By George Grella
No Joke: ehh hahah's Non-Generic “Kreativitet”
By S. David
Lydia Lunch’s Retrovirus And Other Sonic Infections
By Martin Longley

Dance

Editor’s Note
By Gillian Jakab
Dancing Paula Abdul in my Living Room
By Rennie McDougall
Trading Velvet Seats for Couch Viewing
By Hannah Foster
UnSequenced: A Podcast About the Choreographic Process
By Sima Belmar
Touch Without Touching
By George Kan

Film

KLEBER MENDONÇA FILHO and JULIANO DORNELLES with Anthony Hawley
Imprisonment of the Pregnant Body
By Ilana Herzig
Physical Outcomes: True/False 2020
By Gina Telaroli

Theater

Morgan Gould and Ren Dara Santiago with Kate Cortesi about the untimely closing of their plays due to you know what
By Kate Cortesi
Power & Punk: New York's Avant-Garde Lifers: Richard Foreman with Sara Farrington
By Sara Farrington
Trickling Up: The Theater Community Uplifts its Own
By Billy McEntee

Fiction

Dreamstamps
By Wah-Ming Chang
A Protective Archipelago: A Covid-19 Correspondence
By Celina Su and Wah-Ming Chang
Three Asian Hair Stories
By Lisa Chen
In the Beginning, Sometimes I Left Messages in the Street
By Lisa Chen
Degrees of Retreat
By Carina Kohn
The Road to Golgonooza
By T. Motley, Mariko Sanchez, and Dorothy and Dashiell Morse
inSerial: part seventeen The Mysteries of Paris
by Eugène Sue, translated from the French by Robert Bononno

Poetry

five from Unemployment Insurance
By Brendan Joyce
four
By Jameson Fitzpatrick
three
By Tishani Doshi
But I Have Always Been the Same
By Matt Longabucco
two
By Andrei Codrescu
True Account of Talking to the 7 in Sunnyside
By Paolo Javier
from Alisoun Sings
By Caroline Bergvall
Informants
By Anna Gurton-Wachter

Art Books

André Breton's Nadja: fac-similé du manuscrit de 1927
By Mary Ann Caws
Joseph Jarman's Black Case Volume I & II: Return From Exile
By George Grella
David Wojnarowicz's In the Shadow of Forward Motion
By Megan N. Liberty
Esopus's Modern Artifacts
By Jennie Waldow

ArTonic

Studio in a School
By Lilly Wei

Special Report

Outdoor Sculpture: Virtual Edition
By Martha Tuttle

Field Notes

The Plague and the Wrath
By Charles Reeve
New Pandemic, Old Story
By Ana V. Diez Roux
Their Money or Your Life
By Paul Mattick
The Numbers Must Have Context
By Natalie Baker
A Disaster Foretold
By Pavlos Roufos
Viral Biopolitics
By Rachel Nelson

The Miraculous

1. [Greenwich Village, SoHo, Harlem]
By Raphael Rubinstein
2. [NoHo, SoHo, Queens, Hudson River Piers]
By Raphael Rubinstein
3. [Battery Park City]
By Raphael Rubinstein
4. [Washington Heights]
By Raphael Rubinstein
5. [SoHo, Broadway, and various other points]
By Raphael Rubinstein

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The Road to Golgonooza

MAY 2020

By T. Motley, Mariko Sanchez, and Dorothy and Dashiell Morse

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MAY 2020

Find the RAIL in print

Subscribe now

A message from Phong Bui
Publisher and Artistic Director

Art

AUDREY FLACK with Charles Duncan
GUILLERMO KUITCA with Raphael Rubinstein
JAMES PROSEK with Hovey Brock
XAVIERA SIMMONS with Marcia E. Vetrocq
RICHARD BRETTELL with David Carrier
HENRI LOYRETTE with Joachim Pissaro

ArtSeen

Rashid Johnson: Untitled Anxious Red Drawings
By David Carrier
Off the Wall
By Alfred Mac Adam
Bharti Kher: The Unexpected Freedom of Chaos
By David Rhodes
Sarah Charlesworth: Image Language
By Robert C. Morgan
Gerhard Richter: Painting After All
By Jessica Holmes
Ida Kohlmeyer: Cloistered
By William Corwin
Hernan Bas: Developing TiME LiFE
By Charlotte Kent
Agnes Pelton: Desert Transcendentalist
By Ann McCoy
Mohammed Kazem: Infinite Angles
By Ruba Al-Sweel
Feliciano Centurión: Abrigo
By Susan Breyer
Adrian Morris
By Brian T. Leahy
Rochelle Goldberg: Psychomachia
By Peter Brock
Peter Saul
By David Carrier
Hell is a Place on Earth. Heaven is a Place in Your Head.
By Kathleen Langjahr
Jean-Jacques Lequeu: Visionary Architect
By Brandt Junceau
Sara Erenthal’s Art of the Street and Screen
By Megan N. Liberty
Things on Walls
By Darla Migan
Hadi Fallahpisheh and Phoebe d’Heurle: What a Fuck and What the Fuck
By Ketter Weissman
Kate Shepherd: Surveillance
By Susan Harris
Curtis Talwst Santiago: Can’t I Alter
By Magdalyn Asimakis
Masculinities: Liberation Through Photography
By Daniel Pateman
Petra Cortright: borderline aurora borealis
By Barbara A. MacAdam
Leap of Color
By Tom McGlynn
Louise Fishman: An Hour is a Sea
By Hearne Pardee
Nick Raffel: plenum
By Alex Jen
Matt Mullican: Universal Perspective
By William Whitney

Critics Page

Made of linguistic forms and failures: inquiry in times of isolation
Guest Critic: Daisy Desrosiers
Catachresis
By Ambera Wellmann
The losses we carry across: an afternoon with Azza El Siddique and Sahar Te
Thinking about you, thinking about translation
By Frances Loeffler
Poetic Intention: Correspondence in isolation between Daisy Desrosiers and Jesse Chun.
KHAAREJ NO.3 (2019)
By Sahar Te
What Sound Does The Blk Atlantic Make?—on translation in the work of artist Alberta Whittle
By Mother Tongue
Marble benches, Anatolian weavers, and Madonnas: Shannon Bool and Daisy Desrosiers
Babble
By Kathleen Ritter
The Twofold Room
By Marie-Michelle Deschamps

Books

Blowin’ in the Wind
By Bailey Trela
Tracy O’Neill’s Quotients
By Yvonne C. Garrett
Down Away from the Sun You’ll Burrow
Chelsea Bieker's Godshot
By Deena ElGenaidi
Mark Nowak’s Social Poetics
By John Domini
Fires Burning, Windows Breaking
JUDITHA DOWD with Ruth Foley

Music

MATT EVANS with Vanessa Ague
Enlightened Aesthetics: LOUISE LANDES LEVI with Raymond Foye
Lontano (“As from a distance”)
By George Grella
No Joke: ehh hahah's Non-Generic “Kreativitet”
By S. David
Lydia Lunch’s Retrovirus And Other Sonic Infections
By Martin Longley

Dance

Editor’s Note
By Gillian Jakab
Dancing Paula Abdul in my Living Room
By Rennie McDougall
Trading Velvet Seats for Couch Viewing
By Hannah Foster
UnSequenced: A Podcast About the Choreographic Process
By Sima Belmar
Touch Without Touching
By George Kan

Film

KLEBER MENDONÇA FILHO and JULIANO DORNELLES with Anthony Hawley
Imprisonment of the Pregnant Body
By Ilana Herzig
Physical Outcomes: True/False 2020
By Gina Telaroli

Theater

Morgan Gould and Ren Dara Santiago with Kate Cortesi about the untimely closing of their plays due to you know what
By Kate Cortesi
Power & Punk: New York's Avant-Garde Lifers: Richard Foreman with Sara Farrington
By Sara Farrington
Trickling Up: The Theater Community Uplifts its Own
By Billy McEntee

Fiction

Dreamstamps
By Wah-Ming Chang
A Protective Archipelago: A Covid-19 Correspondence
By Celina Su and Wah-Ming Chang
Three Asian Hair Stories
By Lisa Chen
In the Beginning, Sometimes I Left Messages in the Street
By Lisa Chen
Degrees of Retreat
By Carina Kohn
The Road to Golgonooza
By T. Motley, Mariko Sanchez, and Dorothy and Dashiell Morse
inSerial: part seventeen The Mysteries of Paris
by Eugène Sue, translated from the French by Robert Bononno

Poetry

five from Unemployment Insurance
By Brendan Joyce
four
By Jameson Fitzpatrick
three
By Tishani Doshi
But I Have Always Been the Same
By Matt Longabucco
two
By Andrei Codrescu
True Account of Talking to the 7 in Sunnyside
By Paolo Javier
from Alisoun Sings
By Caroline Bergvall
Informants
By Anna Gurton-Wachter

Art Books

André Breton's Nadja: fac-similé du manuscrit de 1927
By Mary Ann Caws
Joseph Jarman's Black Case Volume I & II: Return From Exile
By George Grella
David Wojnarowicz's In the Shadow of Forward Motion
By Megan N. Liberty
Esopus's Modern Artifacts
By Jennie Waldow

ArTonic

Studio in a School
By Lilly Wei

Special Report

Outdoor Sculpture: Virtual Edition
By Martha Tuttle

Field Notes

The Plague and the Wrath
By Charles Reeve
New Pandemic, Old Story
By Ana V. Diez Roux
Their Money or Your Life
By Paul Mattick
The Numbers Must Have Context
By Natalie Baker
A Disaster Foretold
By Pavlos Roufos
Viral Biopolitics
By Rachel Nelson

The Miraculous

1. [Greenwich Village, SoHo, Harlem]
By Raphael Rubinstein
2. [NoHo, SoHo, Queens, Hudson River Piers]
By Raphael Rubinstein
3. [Battery Park City]
By Raphael Rubinstein
4. [Washington Heights]
By Raphael Rubinstein
5. [SoHo, Broadway, and various other points]
By Raphael Rubinstein

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