Local In Conversation
A Check and a Balance? JOHN LIU with Theodore Hamm
"I will be far more aggressive in every aspect" of the Comptroller's office than Bill Thompson, says Liu. "For one, because of my financial sector training, I’ll be able to hit the ground running. And number two, I’m just a very excitable person."
The Alchemy of Identities
By Abdullah KhanTell us what’s more important to you, being an Indian, or being a Muslim? If you had to decide between one or the other, which one would you choose?
Art In Conversation
SHIRIN NESHAT with Carol Becker & Phong Bui
Shirin Neshat’s new full-length feature Women without Men will be shown at the 66th Venice Film Festival (September 2–12, 2009) and the Toronto International Film Festival (September 10–19, 2009). One evening in July, Carol Becker, Dean of the School of the Arts at Columbia University, and Publisher Phong Bui, paid a visit to the SoHo loft which she shares with her partner, the artist Shoja Azari, to watch the near-final version of the film before its last minute revisions.
Art In Conversation
WILL RYMAN with Phong Bui
On the occasion of the sculptor’s forthcoming exhibit, New Beginning at Marlborough Gallery, in Chelsea, which will be on view from September 10 to October 10, 2009, Will Ryman took a break from his studio to visit Art International Radio to talk to Publisher Phong Bui about his life and current body of work.
Art In Conversation
AGNES GUND with Phong Bui
Despite her hectic schedule, the indefatigable Agnes Gund, in a rare one hour intermission, welcomed Publisher Phong Bui to her Upper East Side home to talk about her life, work, and recent curatorial effort Is White a Color? at the Fountain Gallery, which will be on view from September 25 to November 11, 2009.
Roy Nathanson: THE GUY TO LOOK AT ON THE SUBWAY
By Kurt GottschalkOn a Sunday night in July, saxophonist Roy Nathanson was speaking from what might be called the stage—actually more like the corner—of the basement room at the Sycamore Club, a small, friendly bar near his home in the Midwood section of Brooklyn.
REMEMBERING MERCE
Once, after watching the Merce Cunningham Dance Company (MCDC) perform, I stumbled badly out on the street, clumsy in the light after leaving the darkened interior of the theater.
It’s People. District 9 is People!
By Sarahjane BlumIt’s a South African Alien Nation, using aliens as a vehicle to transfer cultural anxieties about the Other onto the ultimate bugbear.
Mad Love
By Luc LangTranslated from the French by Donald Nicholson-Smith.
Editor's Message
Memories of a Not-So Distant Past
By Theodore Hamm“Today the real problem is the future.” —Mayor Richard J. Daley of Chicago, sometime between 1955 and 1976.
ArtSeen
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The Female Gaze: Women Look at Women
– By Cora Fisher -
Dorothy Iannone
– By Kara L. Rooney -
Unconsciousness Raising
– By Anne Pundyk -
TRACKS: The Quay Brothers and the Argument for the Real
– By Thomas Micchelli -
The Importance of Being Unimportant
– By Shane McAdams -
Sanford Wurmfeld E-Cyclorama—Immersed in Color
– By John Yau -
Larry Johnson
– By Terry R. Myers -
BROOKLYN DISPATCHES: The Lies We Tell Children
– By James Kalm -
Another World: The Washington Square Outdoor Art Exhibit
– By Sharon L. Butler -
2009 Incheon Women Artists’ Biennale
– By Robert C. Morgan -
HELMUT FEDERLE: Acceptance Speech Prix Aurélie-Nemours, 2008
– By Helmut Federle -
Looking In: Robert Frank's THE AMERICANS
– By Tessa DeCarlo -
LONGTIME EXPOSURE: Considering Street Art Photography
– By Hrag Vartanian -
Adriana Lopez Sanfeliu: Life on the Block
– By Valery Oisteanu -
Letter From LONDON
– By Sherman Sam -
Letter From BEIJING
– By Ellen Pearlman -
Letter From BERLIN
– By David Rhodes -
Your Gold Teeth II
– By Becky Brown -
In & Out of Amsterdam: Travels in Conceptual Art, 1960–1976
– By Stephanie Buhmann -
Structured Simplicity
– By Ben Tripp
Table of Contents
Editor's Message
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Memories of a Not-So Distant Past
– By Theodore Hamm
Local
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A Check and a Balance? JOHN LIU with Theodore Hamm
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Brooklyn Supports a Public Option, and Beyond
– By Eleanor J. Bader -
The Latino Crescent: Latinos make a place for themselves in Muslim America
– By Lyndsey Matthews -
CHARLOTTE DUMAS with Alessandro Cassin
Express
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The Alchemy of Identities
– By Abdullah Khan -
Partition Woes: SARAH SINGH with Williams Cole
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The Strangers’ Book
– By Christopher G. Moore -
Something About Writing Like Pinter Or George W. Bush
– By Joseph Riippi -
The World is Still Round
– By Nisa Qazi -
Go East, Young Man
– By Dylan Byers -
Expanding the Circle
– By James Arnett -
A Modernist Temperament
– By Michael Sandlin -
To Do is to Be
– By Christopher Michel -
A Tribute to Ilse Mattick (1919–2009)
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A Reply to Nasinine T.
– By Dore Ashton
Art
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SHIRIN NESHAT with Carol Becker & Phong Bui
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WILL RYMAN with Phong Bui
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AGNES GUND with Phong Bui
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VINCENT FECTEAU with Constance Lewallen
ArtSeen
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The Female Gaze: Women Look at Women
– By Cora Fisher -
Dorothy Iannone
– By Kara L. Rooney -
Unconsciousness Raising
– By Anne Pundyk -
TRACKS: The Quay Brothers and the Argument for the Real
– By Thomas Micchelli -
The Importance of Being Unimportant
– By Shane McAdams -
Sanford Wurmfeld E-Cyclorama—Immersed in Color
– By John Yau -
Larry Johnson
– By Terry R. Myers -
BROOKLYN DISPATCHES: The Lies We Tell Children
– By James Kalm -
Another World: The Washington Square Outdoor Art Exhibit
– By Sharon L. Butler -
2009 Incheon Women Artists’ Biennale
– By Robert C. Morgan -
HELMUT FEDERLE: Acceptance Speech Prix Aurélie-Nemours, 2008
– By Helmut Federle -
Looking In: Robert Frank's THE AMERICANS
– By Tessa DeCarlo -
LONGTIME EXPOSURE: Considering Street Art Photography
– By Hrag Vartanian -
Adriana Lopez Sanfeliu: Life on the Block
– By Valery Oisteanu -
Letter From LONDON
– By Sherman Sam -
Letter From BEIJING
– By Ellen Pearlman -
Letter From BERLIN
– By David Rhodes -
Your Gold Teeth II
– By Becky Brown -
In & Out of Amsterdam: Travels in Conceptual Art, 1960–1976
– By Stephanie Buhmann -
Structured Simplicity
– By Ben Tripp
Books
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BINNIE KIRSHENBAUM with Anis Shivani
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MARK MILLHONE with Anne Pelletier
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NONFICTION: Community Centering
– By Brian Sholis -
ART: The Agonist and the Ecstasy
– By Chris Winks -
FICTION: Waiting for Bolongo
– By Joseph Salvatore -
POETRY: After the Road
– By John Yau -
FICTION: A Liberating Trap
– By Roger Van Voorhees -
TOKENS
– By Ray Abernathy, Raina Lipsitz, and Sarah Normandie -
RAPID TRANSIT
– By Jeffrey Cyphers Wright
Music
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Roy Nathanson: THE GUY TO LOOK AT ON THE SUBWAY
– By Kurt Gottschalk -
VALUE ADDED
– By Brandon Kreitler -
MICHAEL DAVES: Renegade Traditionalist
– By Spencer Woodman -
FARSI POETRY + CHAMBER JAZZ = CYMINOLOGY
– By Alessandro Cassin -
THIS WAS POP
– By George Grella
Dance
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Ballets Russes Centennial
– By L.J. Sunshine -
City Parks Foundation's Central Park Summerstage: NATHANTRICE/RITUALS DANCE THEATER AND DAYTON CONTEMPORARY DANCE COMPANY (DCDC)
– By Dalia Ratnikas -
LIGHTLY NOW: Gabrielle Lansner Dances Summer at Sitelines
– By April Greene -
Dana Salisbury's UNSEEN DANCES
– By Michelle Vellucci -
MERCE CUNNINGHAM (1919–2009)
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REMEMBERING MERCE
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The Brooklyn Rail Remembers PINA BAUSCH
– By Mary Love Hodges -
SIDI LARBI CHERKAOUI with Susan Yung
– By Susan Yung
Film
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Fun With Adolf, Uplift With Spike
– By David N. Meyer -
It’s People. District 9 is People!
– By Sarahjane Blum -
Joy of Cooking
– By Tessa DeCarlo -
Ground Control to Major Sam
– By Mary Hanlon -
10% True, 90% Lies: SION SONO with David Wilentz
– By David Wilentz -
A Mountain Where Less is More
– By Malcolm Wyer
Theater
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THOMAS BRADSHAW—OPEN WIDE
– By Lisa D'Amour
Fiction
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Excerpt from Still Life with Razor
– By Tom Helleberg -
Mad Love
– By Luc Lang -
RERUNS REZOOMED: a serial novel
– By Jonathan Baumbach -
Tragic Strip
– By T. Motley -
Twin Towers
– By Ian Monk -
Shitty Mickey
– By John Reed and Michele Witchipoo -
Rendezvous from Cruels, 13, short stories
– By Luc Lang -
The Pinball King
– By Ersi Sotiropoulos -
Grand Days: The Worst Book I Ever Wrote
– By Ron Kolm
Poetry
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FOUR POEMS
– By Greg Purcell -
from CONDENSATION
– By Matthew Rohrer
