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Art In Conversation
Joanna Pousette-Dart with Joan Waltemath
On the occasion of the painters recent exhibit at Moti Hasson Gallery, which will be on view until November 1, Joanna Pousette-Dart welcomed Rail Editor-at-Large Joan Waltemath to her Broome Street studio to talk about her life and work.
Art In Conversation
David Opdyke with Phong Bui
"There's always a balancing act between using key events referring to a specific date and time, and the artistic liberty I can employ in my work," says Opdyke. "I try to stay on top of what's going on in the world, and I listen to the radio constantly. At the same time, I don't want my work to be tied to yesterday's headline."
Art In Conversation
Stanley Whitney with John Yau
On the eve of his three-person exhibition (January 8thFebruary 14th, 2009) at Team Gallery, Rail Art Editor John Yau paid a visit to Stanley Whitneys Cooper Square studio to talk about his life and work.
Art In Conversation
Michael Corris with Joan Waltemath
Michael Corris is an artist and writer on art. Corris holds a BA from Brooklyn College, an MFA in painting/media from the Maryland Institute College of Art, and a PhD from University College London.
Drive-By Yodel
By Bart PlantengaI dont know how it happens, but things evolve of their own accord in life, shoved along by ones own preoccupations and interests.
New Social Mov(i)ements
By Sarahjane BlumThere is a new wave in agitprop, but its familiar to the old timers. Referencing, conjuring, sentimentalizing, and recreating the passion of the New Left and eco-warriors, performance artists and marquis actors are engaged in a frenzied effort to get viewers to aim higher.
On Rooftops in a Dream: Local Filmmakers Navigate the Indie-Market
By Jericho ParmsThe rooftop of the Old American Can Company, an historic complex in Brooklyn, is packed with nearly 600 people glued to their seats. They watch the film on the large screen as the camera cuts from the gutting of a fish to broken shards of a mirror; then to Isaiah Zagar, a legendary mosaic artist, fingering colorful tiles embedded in a wall along the South Street Corridor in Philadelphia.
David Wallace
By Martin RikerDavid Foster Wallace was a pen name. It was also the authors real name but he never went by it. The Foster was his agents idea, he said, because Da-vid Wal-lace was syllabically unmemorable. This has proven to be sound marketing advice, although I dont think David or Dave Wallace was ever very comfortable with it.
Editor's Message
Man, What a Show!
By Theodore HammSeptember was one helluva ride. It came in with a hurricane that blew the president and vice president off the RNC stage.
ArtSeen
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Ron Amstutz: Right Roads & Wrong Ways
– By Jeremy Sigler -
Progress
– By Jen Schwarting -
Marc Van Cauwenbergh: Loose Formations
– By Stephanie Buhmann -
Show and Tell: Contemporary Practice in Artists' Books
– By Sharon L. Butler -
Swoon: Swimming Cities of Switchback Sea
– By Ellen Pearlman -
Raha Raissnia
– By Ben La Rocco -
Pipe, Glass, Bottle of Rum: The Art of Appropriation
– By Cora Fisher -
Arthur Cohen
– By Robert C. Morgan -
Shit: a group exhibition
– By Thomas Micchelli -
Medium Cool: The Case for Serrano's Hot Shit
– By Robert C. Morgan -
Alejandro Almanza Pereda THE FAN AND THE SHIT
– By Shane McAdams -
Cecelia Condit
– By Heidi Howard -
Baker Overstreet: Follies
– By Craig Olson -
Leigh Ledare: You Are Nothing To Me. You Are Like Air
– By Thomas Micchelli -
Brooklyn Dispatches: Performance Anxiety
– By James Kalm -
Art and China's Revolution
– By Ellen Pearlman -
Robert Bordo: It's always raining
– By Cassandra Neyenesch -
Entre Chien et Loup
– By Nora Griffin -
Charles Seliger: Ways of Nature
– By John Yau -
John Ashbery: Collages: They Knew What They Wanted
– By John Yau -
John Ashbery: Collages: They Knew What They Wanted
– By Claudia La Rocco -
Letter from London
– By Sherman Sam -
Andrew Bick and Charlotte Beaudry
– By Sherman Sam
Table of Contents
Editor's Message
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Man, What a Show!
– By Theodore Hamm
Local
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The Re-enactment of Lygia Clarks Baba Antropofágica (Anthropophagic Droo)
– By Marie Carter -
On Rooftops in a Dream: Local Filmmakers Navigate the Indie-Market
– By Jericho Parms -
Harvest in Howard Beach
– By Anna Neerman -
Chisholm Center Uses History to Inspire Activism
– By Eleanor J. Bader -
The Remains of Renwick Ruins
– By Nadia Chaudhury -
Backyard Gardens in Stereo
– By Erik Rhey
Express
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Man, What a Show!
– By Theodore Hamm -
Making Our Votes Really Count
– By Nicholas Jahr -
Up in Smoke
– By Paul Mattick -
Campaign Dispatches: St. Paul and Beyond
– By David Levi Strauss -
A Letter from Alf Landon
– By David Levi Strauss -
Call Me Naive: A Love Letter
– By Alex Gallo-Brown -
A Life in Underground Letters
– By Williams Cole -
Crawling through the Wreckage
– By Vincent Rossmeier -
A Blueprint, or a Green One?
– By Leigh Kamping-Carder -
The Journalist as Private Eye
– By Katie Rolnick -
Souls of Arab-American Folk
– By Jessica Loudis -
Diamonds in the Rough
– By James Arnett -
Andrzej Wajda: An Auteur from the East
– By Alan Lockwood
Art
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Joanna Pousette-Dart with Joan Waltemath
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David Opdyke with Phong Bui
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Stanley Whitney with John Yau
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Michael Corris with Joan Waltemath
ArtSeen
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Ron Amstutz: Right Roads & Wrong Ways
– By Jeremy Sigler -
Progress
– By Jen Schwarting -
Marc Van Cauwenbergh: Loose Formations
– By Stephanie Buhmann -
Show and Tell: Contemporary Practice in Artists' Books
– By Sharon L. Butler -
Swoon: Swimming Cities of Switchback Sea
– By Ellen Pearlman -
Raha Raissnia
– By Ben La Rocco -
Pipe, Glass, Bottle of Rum: The Art of Appropriation
– By Cora Fisher -
Arthur Cohen
– By Robert C. Morgan -
Shit: a group exhibition
– By Thomas Micchelli -
Medium Cool: The Case for Serrano's Hot Shit
– By Robert C. Morgan -
Alejandro Almanza Pereda THE FAN AND THE SHIT
– By Shane McAdams -
Cecelia Condit
– By Heidi Howard -
Baker Overstreet: Follies
– By Craig Olson -
Leigh Ledare: You Are Nothing To Me. You Are Like Air
– By Thomas Micchelli -
Brooklyn Dispatches: Performance Anxiety
– By James Kalm -
Art and China's Revolution
– By Ellen Pearlman -
Robert Bordo: It's always raining
– By Cassandra Neyenesch -
Entre Chien et Loup
– By Nora Griffin -
Charles Seliger: Ways of Nature
– By John Yau -
John Ashbery: Collages: They Knew What They Wanted
– By John Yau -
John Ashbery: Collages: They Knew What They Wanted
– By Claudia La Rocco -
Letter from London
– By Sherman Sam -
Andrew Bick and Charlotte Beaudry
– By Sherman Sam
Books
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FICTION: Enlightened Partisans
– By Jim Feast -
FICTION: Opiates and Omnivores
– By Brandon Proia -
Marie Ponsot with Sally Dawidoff and Jean Gallagher
– By Sally Dawidoff and Jean Gallagher -
FICTION: Three Chords and the Truth
– By Joseph Salvatore -
FICTION: When You Can't Cut Fog
– By Douglas Messerli -
ANTHOLOGY: The Task of the Translator-Poet
– By Ben Mirov -
ANTHOLOGY: Tongue Out of Cheek
– By Sam Douglas -
FICTION: Oh What a Paradise It Seems
– By Zoe Slutzky -
FICTION: Better Off Without a Wife
– By David Varno -
Prose Roundup
– By Erin Heath, Ben Mirov, Tatiaana Laine, and Primwatee Groover -
Poetry Roundup
– By Jeffrey Cyphers Wright and Tim W. Brown
Music
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Todd P.: A Show for All Ages
– By Megan Martin -
Phil Elverum with Aaron Lake Smith
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Dimensions in Music: A Field Guide to the Mambo World
– By Alan Lockwood -
Drive-By Yodel
– By Bart Plantenga -
Gibbons: The One-Hit Jabberwockies of the Rainforest
– By Wilfried Hou Je Bek -
The Next Cut Is The Deepest
– By Paula Crossfield -
Hawnay Troof: Toast to Us
– By Peter Holslin
Dance
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Jérôme Bels New Lecture: A Review
– By Carley Petesch
Film
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Sir David and Mrs. Brown
– By Lu Chen -
Bresson on the Bayou
– By David N. Meyer -
New Social Mov(i)ements
– By Sarahjane Blum -
In the Bubble
– By Tessa DeCarlo -
Mourning For a Better Story
– By Camila de Onís -
Ladies & Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains (1981)
– By Mary Hanlon
Theater
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Getting Blasted: Sarah Benson with Caridad Svich
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P#7: CRAWL, FADE TO WHITE
– By Gary Winter -
Extraordinary Jokes with Savianna Stanescu
– By Matthew Paul Olmos -
Four-Play: WaxFactory's blind.ness at PS122
– By John Beer
Fiction
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Four Excerpts from an Unpublished Novella
– By David Ohle -
Substance Abuse
– By Harold Jaffe -
An Excerpt from John Reed's New Book: All the World's a Grave
– By John Reed -
The Fox
– By Daniels Parseliti -
Tragic Strip
– By T. Motley
Poetry
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The New Boys
– By Mei-mei Berssenbrugge -
The Elected
– By Donna Brook -
Poetry
– By Simon Pettet
LastWords
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David Wallace
– By Martin Riker