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Race Is On for the Future of Central Brooklyn
By Theodore HammMore than a few onlookers have characterized this political seasons most exciting local contest as a battle over race.
Getting Trashed
By Antonio LopezIm sitting in the dark in a yet to be used press tent pirating electricity and wireless as bugs crawl across my screen. Hows that for camping? Its a few days ahead of the opening of the Bonnaroo festival in Tennessee.
Art In Conversation
Irving Sandler with Phong Bui and John Yau
Rail publisher Phong Bui and Art Editor John Yau paid a visit one sunny Saturday to the authors home/office which he shares with his wife Lucy Freeman Sandler, scholar of Medieval art, to talk about his life and work.
Art In Conversation
Whitfield Lovell with John Yau
On a June afternoon John Yau interviewed Whitfield Lovell about his charcoal drawings on wood surfaces and other found objects.
Art In Conversation
Seo-Bo Park with Robert Morgan
Seo-Bo Parknow in his mid-seventiesis considered one of the leading figures in bringing the European Modernist concept of art to Korea in the late fifties after the Korean War.
Pied Beauty
By Krista MirandaCradled in The Slipper Rooms womb of a bar that glowed Amsterdam red, Miss Saturn, a go-go dancing hors doeuvre for the burlesque buffet, was puppeteer and marionette in her own body.
Two Guys Walk Into a Bar
By Tim McLoughlinEntering Peggys, we interrupted a conversation between the barmaid and Sal about when infants get their first erections. Sal speculated that it was around age two, but Sylvia disagreed vehemently.
Editor's Message From The Editor
Welcome to Bono’s Borough?
By Theodore HammA sure sign that a neighborhood is over is when its real estate starts to be marketed to “rock stars” seeking to “avoid the paparazzi.”
ArtSeen
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Arlene Raven
– By Phyllis Rosser -
Report from London
– By Sherman Sam -
Report from Germany and Austria
– By Barbara Weidle -
Saviour Scraps
– By William Powhida -
Eva Lundsager
– By Stephanie Buhmann -
Reto Boller
– By Jennifer Riley -
Thomas Nozkowski
– By John Yau -
Alex Katz
– By Roger White -
Spacificity
– By John Reed -
Contemporary Asian Arts Week
– By Ellen Pearlman -
Elizabeth Cooper
– By James Kalm -
Invisible Might: Works From 1965-1971
– By Shane McAdams -
Jenny Holzer
– By Thomas Micchelli -
Open Air
– By Hrag Vartanian -
Perestroika Revisited: Artists Against the State
– By David Markus -
Sasha Chermayeff and Chuck Bowdish
– By Ben La Rocco
Table of Contents
Editor's Message
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Welcome to Bono’s Borough?
– By Theodore Hamm
Local
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Water Fight at McCarren Park Pool
– By Sabine Heinlein -
New Skool Journalism Workshop Investigates School: Part I of II
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Crossing the Line: The Story of Fat Nick
– By Jesse Sunenblick -
Race Is On for the Future of Central Brooklyn
– By Theodore Hamm -
Bait & Switch: A View of the Cell Phone Ban, From the Bronx
– By Jen Weiss
Express
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“All the Pauls”
– By Ronald J. Glasser -
Getting Trashed
– By Antonio Lopez -
DISAPPEARED IN AMERICA
– By Naeem Mohaiemen -
Inside Denver
– By Jason Flores-Williams -
The Happiest Uprising on Earth
– By Ryan Grim
Art
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Irving Sandler with Phong Bui and John Yau
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Whitfield Lovell with John Yau
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Seo-Bo Park with Robert Morgan
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DADA Lives @ MoMA New York
– By Valery Oisteanu -
The Anti-Aesthetic of Dada
– By Robert C. Morgan -
Some Thoughts on Eva Hesse
– By Tom Butter -
Eva Hesse: Language and What Remains
– By Naomi Spector
ArtSeen
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Arlene Raven
– By Phyllis Rosser -
Report from London
– By Sherman Sam -
Report from Germany and Austria
– By Barbara Weidle -
Saviour Scraps
– By William Powhida -
Eva Lundsager
– By Stephanie Buhmann -
Reto Boller
– By Jennifer Riley -
Thomas Nozkowski
– By John Yau -
Alex Katz
– By Roger White -
Spacificity
– By John Reed -
Contemporary Asian Arts Week
– By Ellen Pearlman -
Elizabeth Cooper
– By James Kalm -
Invisible Might: Works From 1965-1971
– By Shane McAdams -
Jenny Holzer
– By Thomas Micchelli -
Open Air
– By Hrag Vartanian -
Perestroika Revisited: Artists Against the State
– By David Markus -
Sasha Chermayeff and Chuck Bowdish
– By Ben La Rocco
Books
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Hanif Kureishi with Hirsh Sawhney
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You Are What You Eat
– By Johannah Rodgers -
Cynthia Carr’s Our Town
– By Sabrina Seelig -
Art: A Critical Life
– By Joscelyn Jurich -
Empty Barracks of the Mind
– By David Varno -
Is Compassion the New Black?
– By Anne Pelletier
Music
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Her Own Hell To Raise
– By Sharon Mesmer -
A Temporary Spoken Dub Zone
– By José Padua -
Off the Freak Folk Path
– By Tony Coulter -
Burned-Out Factories, Hem, and the Brooklyn Pastoral
– By Katy Henriksen -
Taking It Uneasy
– By Todd Simmons
Dance
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Pied Beauty
– By Krista Miranda -
Real Life Burlesque
– By Linn Edwards -
To Bare or Not to Bare?
– By Carley Petesch
Film
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French Noir and Flying Swordsmen
– By David Wilentz and David N. Meyer -
Bringing up Baby Beelzebub
– By Tessa DeCarlo -
The Death of the Subject
– By Nora Griffin -
July/August 2006
– By David Wilentz and David N. Meyer -
Uncontrolled Cinema: Albert Maysles
– By Williams Cole -
Summer 2006
– By Williams Cole -
Bruce McClure with Brian Frye
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Magic & Images/ Images & Magic
– By David Levi Strauss
Theater
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Found in Translation: Ibsen/ Fosse at 59E59
– By Barton Bishop -
From Kansas to the Ohio: The Ice Factory 2006
– By Miriam Felton-Dansky -
After the Fall
– By Heidi Schreck -
Politics is a Drag
– By Jason Grote -
Divining Adam Szymkowicz
– By Sheila Callaghan -
Jane Austen Reclaimed and Retold
– By Paul Menard -
Depends on the Audience
– By Timmy Wisconsin
Fiction
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Two Guys Walk Into a Bar
– By Tim McLoughlin -
excerpts from Threads
– By Jill Magi -
Stories
– By Kate Hall -
Stories
– By Justin Taylor
Poetry
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Heat Wave 1996, Flight Test
– By Lewis Warsh -
safe
– By Evie Shockley -
poems from HUMAN/ NATURE
– By Stephen Ratcliffe
LastWords
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Remembering Gilbert Sorrentino
– By Eugene Lim