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Woman vs. the Machine: Jo Anne Simon
By Theodore HammJo Anne Simon is one of seven candidates running for office in the 33rd City Council District, which runs from Greenpoint-Williamsburg along the Brooklyn waterfront through DUMBO and Brooklyn Heights, then spans Boerum Hill through northern Park Slope.
An Epistemic Shift in Iran
By Hamid DabashiThe children of the Islamic Revolution have left their parental generation behind and are sailing into uncharted territories.
Art In Conversation
Sherman Drexler with Phong Bui
One sunny afternoon in mid-June, the painter Sherman Drexler visited Publisher Phong Bui at Art International Radio to have a conversation about Drexler's life and work.
Art In Conversation
Arthur Simms with Phong Bui
The sculptor Arthur Simms pays a visit to the Rail headquarters to talk to Publisher Phong Bui about his work and life in Jamaica and in Brooklyn.
Remembering Dick Bellamy
By Richard SerraWe met in Venice in 1966 on a boat going to the Biennale. He wrote his number on a brown paper bag and said, Look me up when you get to New York.
Miles Bellamy and Jonas Kyle with Phong Bui
On the occasion of their bookstores upcoming ten year anniversary, Miles Bellamy and Jonas Kyle, the co-founders and owners of the popular and beloved Spoonbill & Sugartown at 218 Bedford Avenue in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, stopped by Art International Radio to talk to Publisher Phong Bui about their life and work.
Poetry In Conversation
Eileen Myles with Jeremy Sigler
By Jeremy SiglerOn the occasion of the poets new book, The Importance of Being Iceland, Eileen Myles welcomed fellow poet Jeremy Sigler to her East Village home, where she has been since 1972, to talk about her new work and more.
Butch Morris with Alessandro Cassin
Its going to be a long, hot summer for Lawrence Butch Morris, who over the next few months will be conducting an Italian symphony orchestra, a funk band, and the Chorus of Poetsall through repeated back-and-forth trips between Europe and New York, while also finishing a book about conduction.
Attack of the Girlymen
By Tessa DeCarloBack when womens liberation was really starting to flex its muscles in the early 1970s, anxious conservatives warned that letting women into mens-only bars and high-paying jobs could only result in the feminization of America.
RERUNS REZOOMED: a serial novel
By Jonathan BaumbachJack watches as Mary, the beautiful yet predatory extra-terrestial, gets vaporized before his eyes. He is taken to a sex club by a band of rogue scientists and barley escapes with his life.
Editor's Message
Brooklyn Counts!
By Theodore HammIf separated from the rest of New York City, our beloved borough of Brooklyn would be the fourth largest city in the United States.
ArtSeen
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Letter From DUBLIN
– By Sherman Sam -
Letter From BERLIN
– By David Rhodes -
The 53rd Venice Biennale
– By Cora Fisher -
Brooklyn Dispatches Bushwick Biennial: Venice It Ain't
– By James Kalm -
Reflections on the Electric Mirror: New Feminist Video
– By Kimberly Lamm -
Welcome to Gulu
– By Geoffrey Cruickshank-Hagenbuckle -
Jonathan Schipper: Irreversibility
– By Sharon L. Butler -
Katrin Sigurdardóttir
– By Shane McAdams -
Dan Graham: Beyond
– By Jen Schwarting -
Jack Youngerman: Triads/Quadrads
– By Craig Olson -
Patty Chang: The Product of Love
– By John Yau -
Jeremy Sigler: Sculpture
– By Ben La Rocco -
Wiser than God
– By Joan Waltemath -
Michelangelos First Painting
– By Thomas Micchelli -
Tainted Love
– By Kara L. Rooney -
James Ensor
– By Valery Oisteanu -
Airing the Spirits: Song Dong and Zhao Xiang Yuans Material World
– By Robert C. Morgan -
Albert Oehlen
– By Ben Tripp
Table of Contents
Editor's Message
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Brooklyn Counts!
– By Theodore Hamm
Local
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Dont Believe the Hype about Mike
– By Tom Angotti -
New York Abortion Fund Expands Womens Choices
– By Eleanor J. Bader -
Is Williamsburgs Boom a Bust? Ward Dennis with Williams Cole
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A Local Journey: Daniel Goldstein with Brian Carreira
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Fight to Stay
– By Cyrus C. Morgan -
Son2Mother
– By Kevin Powell -
Woman vs. the Machine: Jo Anne Simon
– By Theodore Hamm
Express
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Leaving Tehran
– By Nasinine T. -
An Epistemic Shift in Iran
– By Hamid Dabashi -
Ka-Pow! Bang! Crash! Down Goes Another Bubble! Doug Henwood in Conversation with Christian Parenti
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The Railway Aunty from Delhi Noir
– By Mohan Sikka -
The Revenge of Print
– By Eric Obenauf -
In Print We Trust
– By Sarah Hromack -
The East, The West, and Sex: A History of Erotic Encounters
– By Kaitlin Bell -
Reflections
– By Jonathan Blitzer
Art
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Sherman Drexler with Phong Bui
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Arthur Simms with Phong Bui
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Miles Bellamy and Jonas Kyle with Phong Bui
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Remembering Dick Bellamy
– By Richard Serra -
Sequence and Time: Some Thoughts on a Panathenaic Amphora
– By Michael Straus -
Robert C. Morgan with Phong Bui
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John Yau with Phong Bui
ArtSeen
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Letter From DUBLIN
– By Sherman Sam -
Letter From BERLIN
– By David Rhodes -
The 53rd Venice Biennale
– By Cora Fisher -
Brooklyn Dispatches Bushwick Biennial: Venice It Ain't
– By James Kalm -
Reflections on the Electric Mirror: New Feminist Video
– By Kimberly Lamm -
Welcome to Gulu
– By Geoffrey Cruickshank-Hagenbuckle -
Jonathan Schipper: Irreversibility
– By Sharon L. Butler -
Katrin Sigurdardóttir
– By Shane McAdams -
Dan Graham: Beyond
– By Jen Schwarting -
Jack Youngerman: Triads/Quadrads
– By Craig Olson -
Patty Chang: The Product of Love
– By John Yau -
Jeremy Sigler: Sculpture
– By Ben La Rocco -
Wiser than God
– By Joan Waltemath -
Michelangelos First Painting
– By Thomas Micchelli -
Tainted Love
– By Kara L. Rooney -
James Ensor
– By Valery Oisteanu -
Airing the Spirits: Song Dong and Zhao Xiang Yuans Material World
– By Robert C. Morgan -
Albert Oehlen
– By Ben Tripp
Books
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Susan Bernofsky with Jed Lipinski
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Nonfiction: Large and Largesse
– By Robert C. Morgan -
Fiction: Are You Experienced?
– By Meghan Roe -
Nonfiction: When the Living's Good
– By Polly Rosenwaike -
Nonfiction: All That's Gilded Isn't Gold
– By Paul Devlin -
Poetry: The Problems of Pink and Green
– By Jackson Taylor -
RAPID TRANSIT
– By Jeffrey Cyphers Wright -
TOKENS
– By Charles Bernstein, Caroline Seklir, Paul Charles Griffin, Raina Lipsitz, and Cole Larsen -
Fiction: The Show That Smells
– By Bruce Seymour -
Fiction: Circle Takes The Square
– By Nicolle Elizabeth -
Fiction: Proof You Cant Escape Yourself
– By Caroline Seklir -
Fiction: Yet Another Family Drama
– By Raina Lipsitz
Music
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Materializations of the Immaterial
– By Sergei Tcherepnin -
Butch Morris with Alessandro Cassin
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Outtakes
– By Steve Dalachinsky -
Johnny B. has a Patch
– By Joseph Schafer -
A Whisperers World
– By Alex Littlefield
Dance
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Alvin Ailey Celebrates 50 Years at BAM
– By Erika Eichelberger -
Dance Theater in Small Spaces
– By Mary Love Hodges -
Belly's Beginnings: A Flash Course in Arabic Dance
– By April Greene -
Rain Train Transcript Cube
– By Roger Van Voorhees -
Considered and Constructed
– By Dalia Ratnikas -
Trey McIntyre Project: A Nourishing Breath of Fresh Air from Boise
– By Mary Staub -
FTA Montréal: Jell-o Molds, Crucifixes, Sleeping Bags
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Film
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But For What You Are Not
– By David N. Meyer -
Synchronicity, Dysfunction, Spectacle
– By David Wilentz -
Elegy and Its Resonance in a Vanishing World
– By Lu Chen -
New Films from Kenneth Anger
– By Mary Hanlon -
Fortune and Gory, Kid. Fortune and Gory
– By Sarahjane Blum -
Attack of the Girlymen
– By Tessa DeCarlo -
Meta-Documentary of a Meta-Documentary
– By Malcolm Wyer -
Film Going On Steroids
– By Marian Masone -
On the Camera Arts and Consecutive Matters: The Writings of Hollis Frampton
– By Keith Sanborn -
A Tribute to Hollis Frampton
– By Jonas Mekas -
Lashings of the Old Ultra-Violence
– By David N. Meyer
Theater
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Around a Table with a Lot of Friends: Daniel Talbott with Mark Schultz
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Bullseye Brooklyn: Sponsored by Nobody's Right on Target
– By Brook Stowe -
Felipe Alfau Doesn't Want You to See This
– By Trish Harnetiaux -
Excerpts From the Three Adaptation of Locos: A Comedy of Gestures by Felipe Alfau
– By Richard Toth, Normandy Sherwood, and Scott Adkins -
Downtown Drama: The undergroundzero festival at P.S. 122
– By Suzy Evans
Fiction
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The Hunting Party
– By Michael Washburn -
On the Nisqually
– By Mark Du Mez -
Sometimes a Pet
– By A.D. Jameson -
RERUNS REZOOMED: a serial novel
– By Jonathan Baumbach -
Tragic Strip
– By T. Motley -
MORE OPENINGS AND CLOSINGS
– By Richard Kostelanetz -
An excerpt from the novel Grit
– By George Makris
Poetry
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And neither is there pain
– By Alan Davies -
Pollock Pouring
– By Clayton Eshleman -
Eileen Myles with Jeremy Sigler
– By Jeremy Sigler