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Little Shop of Horrors
By Gabriel Thompson
HANNE TIERNEY: Promoting Theater Without Actors
By Eleanor J. Bader
MoCADA Show Takes On the G-Word
By Theodore Hamm
Perspectives on the Quake
By Jacques Africot and Toni Cela

Express

Viewing Tibet
By Williams Cole
Learning from Vancouver: Matt Hern with Theodore Hamm
By Theodore Hamm
A More Decent Republic
By Theodore Hamm
Remembering Max: A Story of Love and Marriage
By Litia Perta
WE SIT LIKE HOT STONES (The Performance of Grief)
By Kristin Prevallet
Cutting Off the Cable
By Williams Cole
PRIVATE COLLECTION
By Bernardo Fernández
THE SMACK WARS
By Hirsh Sawhney
In Defense of Yellow Journalism
By Margaret Eby
A Hearty Spread
By Riddhi Shah
A Frustrating Mess
By Kaitlin Bell
Drawing Trouble
By Christopher Michel
Recreating Russell
By Christopher Michel

Art

E.V. Day with William Corbett
SUPERFLEX with PHONG BUI
WILLIBALD SAUERLÄNDER with SASHA SUDA
ELISA SIGHICELLI with JOHN YAU
RICHARD BAKER with JOHN YAU
Kenneth Noland (1924-2010)
By Mark Dagley
WHAT BARBARISM IS?
By Robert Hullot-Kentor

ArtSeen

A Brief Look Into Institutional Celebration
By William Powhida
FRANK LOBDELL: Figure Drawings
By John Yau
STANLEY WHITNEY: Untitled '10
By Craig Olson
PHILIP GUSTON: Small Oils on Panel 1969-1973
By Thomas Micchelli
ART AND POLITICS IN IRAN
By Robert C. Morgan
New Mirrors: Painting in a Transparent World
By Sharon L. Butler
BORDERLINE BAD
By Geoffrey Cruickshank-Hagenbuckle
The Difference Between Jerry Saltz's America and Mine
By John Yau
STUART SHERMAN: Nothing Up My Sleeve
By Jen Schwarting
JOSEPH BEUYS: “We Are the Revolution”
By Valery Oisteanu
OMER FAST
By Shane McAdams
TIM EBNER
By Terry R. Myers
AGNES DENES: Philosophy in the Land II
By Kara L. Rooney
SYLVIA SLEIGH
By Carrie Moyer
DENYSE THOMASOS: The Divide: New Paintings
By Cora Fisher
Letter from LONDON: RICHARD WRIGHT: Turner Prize 09
By Joseph Nechvatal
FRANCES BARTH: Scale, Economy and Unnamable Color
By Joan Waltemath
CARLOS RUNCIE TANAKA: FRAGMENTO
By Raphael Rubinstein
PEARLSTEIN/HELD: Five Decades
By Phong Bui

Books

Poetry: INVENTION OF THE LOVELORN
By Allan Graubard
THE UNBEARABLE BADNESS OF WRITING
By Tim W. Brown
INTERDISCIPLINARY: PREDICTION’S PRETEXT
By Anna Elena Eyre
Fiction: STAIRS AND FLOURISHES
By John Madera
Poetry: DIS/ADVANTAGED
By Scott Hightower
Fiction: JEHOVAH JERK
By Christopher Vola
PAUL AUSTER: INVISIBLE
By Raina Lipsitz
RAPID TRANSIT
By Jeffrey Cyphers Wright
TOKENS
By Dawn Raffel, Suzanne Reisman, Dawn Raffel, Vanessa Neumann, Peter Morris, and Tatiaana L. Laine

Music

Revival Times at Union Pool
By Michael Cohn-Geltner
"The Magical Point of Contact of Man with Nature": WADADA LEO SMITH, SPIRITUAL DIMENSIONS (CUNEIFORM RECORDS)
By David Shirley
Boy Meets Girl: LINDSTRØM & CHRISTABELLE, REAL LIFE IS NO COOL (SMALLTOWN SUPERSOUND) CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG, IRM (BECAUSE)
By Kate Silver
Some Kinds of Love: THE VELVET UNDERGROUND IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
By Kurt Gottschalk
Low Art and High Drama at the Met
By George Grella
Jazz in New Places: THE JOHN ESCREET PROJECT/TAYLOR HASKINS & RECOMBINATION AT DROM
By Harper Willis
OUTTAKES
By Steve Dalachinsky

Dance

MEN, MEN, MEN: Dancing For a Cause
By Joey Lico
Everyone In This Room Is In This Fucking Dance: MIGUEL GUTIERREZ’S WHEN YOU RISE UP
By Thom Donovan
Contemporary Dance, For Real: AMERICAN REALNESS
By Evan Namerow
East Meets East Meets West: A MODERN DANCE MASHUP
By David St.-Lascaux
Culturemart Preview: LAURA PETERSON AND JOHARI MAYFIELD
By L.J. Sunshine
ART COMES TO LIFE AT DANCE NEW AMSTERDAM’S GALLERY
By Trina Mannino
SPOTLIGHT ON THE TANK
By Mary Love Hodges

Film

"They'll Get Better At It As They Go Along:" The 11 Best Films of 2009
By David N. Meyer
Female Trouble
By Tessa DeCarlo
WANTED: DEAD OR ALIVE
By Julia Sirmons
Bringing Back Brooklyn
By Rachel Balik

Theater

ENTRE CHIEN ET LOUP WITH CATHERINE FILLOUX
By Christine Toy Johnson
FUTUREROCK: PASS KONTROL’S NEW HOPE CITY
By Eliza Bent
IBSEN’S BURRITO: SOUNDING AT HERE
By Anna Gutto

Fiction

from THE ABYSS OF HUMAN ILLUSION
By Gilbert Sorrentino
Tragic Strip
By T. Motley

Poetry

The Perfect Faceless Fish
By Eileen Myles
Three Prose Poems
By Garrett Caples
So Could They Shroud Crows
By Geoffrey Cruickshank-Hagenbuckle
View of the Domain Saint-Joseph (Cézanne)
By Sylvia Gorelick

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FEB 2010

Find the RAIL in print

Subscribe now

Local

Little Shop of Horrors
By Gabriel Thompson
HANNE TIERNEY: Promoting Theater Without Actors
By Eleanor J. Bader
MoCADA Show Takes On the G-Word
By Theodore Hamm
Perspectives on the Quake
By Jacques Africot and Toni Cela

Express

Viewing Tibet
By Williams Cole
Learning from Vancouver: Matt Hern with Theodore Hamm
By Theodore Hamm
A More Decent Republic
By Theodore Hamm
Remembering Max: A Story of Love and Marriage
By Litia Perta
WE SIT LIKE HOT STONES (The Performance of Grief)
By Kristin Prevallet
Cutting Off the Cable
By Williams Cole
PRIVATE COLLECTION
By Bernardo Fernández
THE SMACK WARS
By Hirsh Sawhney
In Defense of Yellow Journalism
By Margaret Eby
A Hearty Spread
By Riddhi Shah
A Frustrating Mess
By Kaitlin Bell
Drawing Trouble
By Christopher Michel
Recreating Russell
By Christopher Michel

Art

E.V. Day with William Corbett
SUPERFLEX with PHONG BUI
WILLIBALD SAUERLÄNDER with SASHA SUDA
ELISA SIGHICELLI with JOHN YAU
RICHARD BAKER with JOHN YAU
Kenneth Noland (1924-2010)
By Mark Dagley
WHAT BARBARISM IS?
By Robert Hullot-Kentor

ArtSeen

A Brief Look Into Institutional Celebration
By William Powhida
FRANK LOBDELL: Figure Drawings
By John Yau
STANLEY WHITNEY: Untitled '10
By Craig Olson
PHILIP GUSTON: Small Oils on Panel 1969-1973
By Thomas Micchelli
ART AND POLITICS IN IRAN
By Robert C. Morgan
New Mirrors: Painting in a Transparent World
By Sharon L. Butler
BORDERLINE BAD
By Geoffrey Cruickshank-Hagenbuckle
The Difference Between Jerry Saltz's America and Mine
By John Yau
STUART SHERMAN: Nothing Up My Sleeve
By Jen Schwarting
JOSEPH BEUYS: “We Are the Revolution”
By Valery Oisteanu
OMER FAST
By Shane McAdams
TIM EBNER
By Terry R. Myers
AGNES DENES: Philosophy in the Land II
By Kara L. Rooney
SYLVIA SLEIGH
By Carrie Moyer
DENYSE THOMASOS: The Divide: New Paintings
By Cora Fisher
Letter from LONDON: RICHARD WRIGHT: Turner Prize 09
By Joseph Nechvatal
FRANCES BARTH: Scale, Economy and Unnamable Color
By Joan Waltemath
CARLOS RUNCIE TANAKA: FRAGMENTO
By Raphael Rubinstein
PEARLSTEIN/HELD: Five Decades
By Phong Bui

Books

Poetry: INVENTION OF THE LOVELORN
By Allan Graubard
THE UNBEARABLE BADNESS OF WRITING
By Tim W. Brown
INTERDISCIPLINARY: PREDICTION’S PRETEXT
By Anna Elena Eyre
Fiction: STAIRS AND FLOURISHES
By John Madera
Poetry: DIS/ADVANTAGED
By Scott Hightower
Fiction: JEHOVAH JERK
By Christopher Vola
PAUL AUSTER: INVISIBLE
By Raina Lipsitz
RAPID TRANSIT
By Jeffrey Cyphers Wright
TOKENS
By Dawn Raffel, Suzanne Reisman, Dawn Raffel, Vanessa Neumann, Peter Morris, and Tatiaana L. Laine

Music

Revival Times at Union Pool
By Michael Cohn-Geltner
"The Magical Point of Contact of Man with Nature": WADADA LEO SMITH, SPIRITUAL DIMENSIONS (CUNEIFORM RECORDS)
By David Shirley
Boy Meets Girl: LINDSTRØM & CHRISTABELLE, REAL LIFE IS NO COOL (SMALLTOWN SUPERSOUND) CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG, IRM (BECAUSE)
By Kate Silver
Some Kinds of Love: THE VELVET UNDERGROUND IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
By Kurt Gottschalk
Low Art and High Drama at the Met
By George Grella
Jazz in New Places: THE JOHN ESCREET PROJECT/TAYLOR HASKINS & RECOMBINATION AT DROM
By Harper Willis
OUTTAKES
By Steve Dalachinsky

Dance

MEN, MEN, MEN: Dancing For a Cause
By Joey Lico
Everyone In This Room Is In This Fucking Dance: MIGUEL GUTIERREZ’S WHEN YOU RISE UP
By Thom Donovan
Contemporary Dance, For Real: AMERICAN REALNESS
By Evan Namerow
East Meets East Meets West: A MODERN DANCE MASHUP
By David St.-Lascaux
Culturemart Preview: LAURA PETERSON AND JOHARI MAYFIELD
By L.J. Sunshine
ART COMES TO LIFE AT DANCE NEW AMSTERDAM’S GALLERY
By Trina Mannino
SPOTLIGHT ON THE TANK
By Mary Love Hodges

Film

"They'll Get Better At It As They Go Along:" The 11 Best Films of 2009
By David N. Meyer
Female Trouble
By Tessa DeCarlo
WANTED: DEAD OR ALIVE
By Julia Sirmons
Bringing Back Brooklyn
By Rachel Balik

Theater

ENTRE CHIEN ET LOUP WITH CATHERINE FILLOUX
By Christine Toy Johnson
FUTUREROCK: PASS KONTROL’S NEW HOPE CITY
By Eliza Bent
IBSEN’S BURRITO: SOUNDING AT HERE
By Anna Gutto

Fiction

from THE ABYSS OF HUMAN ILLUSION
By Gilbert Sorrentino
Tragic Strip
By T. Motley

Poetry

The Perfect Faceless Fish
By Eileen Myles
Three Prose Poems
By Garrett Caples
So Could They Shroud Crows
By Geoffrey Cruickshank-Hagenbuckle
View of the Domain Saint-Joseph (Cézanne)
By Sylvia Gorelick

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