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CITYNOTES: Mod Times
By Theodore Hamm
Where Did Uptown Go?
By Rodney Robinson
REPORT CARD: Reform via Gentrification
By Liza Featherstone
PROFILE OF A TEEN MOM: Yaskaira Benitez
By Jessica Campbell
SEEDING LOCALLY Brooklyn Community Foundation
By Eleanor J. Bader
Diary of a Street Art Culture Warrior
By Robin Grearson
I Drink to You: Anthology Film Archives's 40th Birthday and Benefit
By Jarrett Earnest

Express

My Years With Guns
By Williams Cole
Cul-de-Sac In Context
By Christian Parenti
Inside Cul de Sac
By Ian Olds
The splendid asylum of impersonating Kris Kringle
By Joshua Mohr
A Buenos Aires Memory
By Steven Ross
Kraków Here and There
By Alan Lockwood
A Night in the Foxwoods
By Karl Greenberg
Cyber Wars 2.0
By David Rosen
In Dubious Battle
By Allen Wilcox
Addicted to Polymers
By James Arnett
Amongst the Ruins
By Michael Terry
Still Looking For a Cure
By Christopher Michel
BEHIND THE IRON CURTAIN: ROBIN HESSMAN in Conversation with Williams Cole

Art

Leo Steinberg (1920 - 2011)
By David Levi Strauss, Robert Storr, and Nancy Goldring
TOM BURCKHARDT with John Yau
ROCHELLE FEINSTEIN with Phong Bui
ROBERT WHITMAN with Joan Waltemath
JUAN USLÉ with John Yau
ARTISTS’ EYES: Children’s Art from Studio In A School
By Phong Bui
By Night
By Richard Tuttle

ArtSeen

Some Thoughts, Possibly Related, on Time, Criticism, and the Nature of Consciousness
By Claudia La Rocco
Unpainted Paintings
By Shane McAdams
JANE FREILICHER Recent Paintings and Prints
By John Yau
JIM NUTT Coming Into Character
By Terry R. Myers
Powders, a Phial, and a Paper Book
By Anne Sherwood Pundyk
DAVID WOJNAROWICZ Spirituality
By Kara L. Rooney
VALTON TYLER’S OTHERWORDLY ART: From the Heart of Texas
By Edward M. Gómez
A Tribute to Alan Uglow
By Medrie MacPhee, Stephen J. Morse, and Olivier Mosset
PROJECTS 94: HENRIK OLESEN
By Valery Oisteanu
MARK LOMBARDI Index
By Cassandra Neyenesch
Eugène Leroy and the Fle(mi)sh Figure
By Gwenaël Kerlidou
TIPI: Heritage of the Great Plains
By Josh Garrett-Davis
The Days of This Society Are Numbered
By Gail Victoria Braddock Quagliata
DANA SCHUTZ Drawings & Prints
By John Yau
BEYOND “WHAT YOU SEE”: Rethinking Abstract Painting as a Signifying Process
By Robert C. Morgan
EMILY MASON Recent Paintings
By Phong Bui
JAMES SIENA
By John Yau
JEAN CROTTI Inhabiting Abstraction
By John Yau
CORRECTION

Books

The Shakespeare Chronology Recalibrated
By William S. Niederkorn
Of Mice and Despots
By Hope E. Ewing
The Secrets of Gaza
By Randy Rosenthal
Home Truths and African Magic
By Matthew Finch
She That Bore Thee
By Marie Bacigalupo
Do For Love
By Maxine Case
Happiness is a Short-Short
By Justin Courter
Foreign Relations
By Vladislav Davidzon
Nechvatal’s Immersive Noise Theory
By Yuting Zou
Rapid Transit
By Jeffrey Cyphers Wright
A Sexual Revival?
By Rayyan Al-Shawaf

Music

Sonics in the Wildernesses—A Justification
By Dan Wilson
An Auspicious Beginning for Elliott Sharp's Seventh Decade
By David St.-Lascaux
Life After Turntablism
By Dominic Umile
Spacewalking Together, Under the Vault
By David St.-Lascaux
“Thank You For Waiting”
By Todd Simmons

Dance

Obeying = Acting Out in Brother of Gogolorez
By Siobhan Burke
Facing the Music
By Christine Hou
Come One, Come All...
By Jeremy Finch
Wandering Along a Dreamscape
By Christine Hou
Unforgettable
By L.J. Sunshine
Curator's Letter
By David Parker
“AS NIGHTFALL DOES NOT COME ALL AT ONCE…”: Yvonne Rainer’s Politics of Pathos
By Thom Donovan
A MERCE CUNNINGHAM DANCE COMPANY QUICKIE (with an extended Trisha Brown Parenthetical)
By Claudia La Rocco
My Schreibstück
By Karen Schupp
THOMAS LEHMEN with Claudia La Rocco

Film

“WE’VE COME TO A TERRIBLE PLACE”: Kelly Reichardt’s Meek’s Cutoff
By Paul Felten
Varieties of Documentary
By Fred Camper
ART-HOUSE MIXTAPE 2011: Selections from New Directors/New Films
By Colin Beckett
WELCOME TO THE DEPARTMENT OF KICKASS: VANESSA RENWICK with Penny Lane
By Penny Lane

Theater

The Shame of Theater
By Alex Kilgore
Laurel Haines and her Anxiety, soon on display at the Flea
By Trista Baldwin
Aviones de Papel: From One City to Another, a Play Takes Flight
By Christy Hutchcraft
LET IT RAIN Director Daniel Talbott and Playwright Stephanie Janssen reopen The Umbrella Plays
By Crystal Skillman

Fiction

Crown of Thorns
By Douglas Glover
FÉDER or the Gilded Husband
By Stendhall , translated from the French by Brian Evenson
Chapters 1, 2, & 8 from Fatale
By Jean-Patrick Manchette, translated from the French by Donald Nicholson-Smith
Character and Fitness: Chapters 7 and 8
By Jason Flores-Williams
Tragic Strip
By T. Motley

Poetry

Ed Smokes, Stares Moodily
By Ed Friedman
how the sculpture is made
By Priscilla Becker

Art Books

A Collection of Personal Accounts
By Stephanie Buhmann
Good-Bye To All That
By John Ganz

LastWords

BLACK METAL TROY or, How to Drink Online
By Robert Moor

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APR 2011

Find the RAIL in print

Subscribe now

Local

CITYNOTES: Mod Times
By Theodore Hamm
Where Did Uptown Go?
By Rodney Robinson
REPORT CARD: Reform via Gentrification
By Liza Featherstone
PROFILE OF A TEEN MOM: Yaskaira Benitez
By Jessica Campbell
SEEDING LOCALLY Brooklyn Community Foundation
By Eleanor J. Bader
Diary of a Street Art Culture Warrior
By Robin Grearson
I Drink to You: Anthology Film Archives's 40th Birthday and Benefit
By Jarrett Earnest

Express

My Years With Guns
By Williams Cole
Cul-de-Sac In Context
By Christian Parenti
Inside Cul de Sac
By Ian Olds
The splendid asylum of impersonating Kris Kringle
By Joshua Mohr
A Buenos Aires Memory
By Steven Ross
Kraków Here and There
By Alan Lockwood
A Night in the Foxwoods
By Karl Greenberg
Cyber Wars 2.0
By David Rosen
In Dubious Battle
By Allen Wilcox
Addicted to Polymers
By James Arnett
Amongst the Ruins
By Michael Terry
Still Looking For a Cure
By Christopher Michel
BEHIND THE IRON CURTAIN: ROBIN HESSMAN in Conversation with Williams Cole

Art

Leo Steinberg (1920 - 2011)
By David Levi Strauss, Robert Storr, and Nancy Goldring
TOM BURCKHARDT with John Yau
ROCHELLE FEINSTEIN with Phong Bui
ROBERT WHITMAN with Joan Waltemath
JUAN USLÉ with John Yau
ARTISTS’ EYES: Children’s Art from Studio In A School
By Phong Bui
By Night
By Richard Tuttle

ArtSeen

Some Thoughts, Possibly Related, on Time, Criticism, and the Nature of Consciousness
By Claudia La Rocco
Unpainted Paintings
By Shane McAdams
JANE FREILICHER Recent Paintings and Prints
By John Yau
JIM NUTT Coming Into Character
By Terry R. Myers
Powders, a Phial, and a Paper Book
By Anne Sherwood Pundyk
DAVID WOJNAROWICZ Spirituality
By Kara L. Rooney
VALTON TYLER’S OTHERWORDLY ART: From the Heart of Texas
By Edward M. Gómez
A Tribute to Alan Uglow
By Medrie MacPhee, Stephen J. Morse, and Olivier Mosset
PROJECTS 94: HENRIK OLESEN
By Valery Oisteanu
MARK LOMBARDI Index
By Cassandra Neyenesch
Eugène Leroy and the Fle(mi)sh Figure
By Gwenaël Kerlidou
TIPI: Heritage of the Great Plains
By Josh Garrett-Davis
The Days of This Society Are Numbered
By Gail Victoria Braddock Quagliata
DANA SCHUTZ Drawings & Prints
By John Yau
BEYOND “WHAT YOU SEE”: Rethinking Abstract Painting as a Signifying Process
By Robert C. Morgan
EMILY MASON Recent Paintings
By Phong Bui
JAMES SIENA
By John Yau
JEAN CROTTI Inhabiting Abstraction
By John Yau
CORRECTION

Books

The Shakespeare Chronology Recalibrated
By William S. Niederkorn
Of Mice and Despots
By Hope E. Ewing
The Secrets of Gaza
By Randy Rosenthal
Home Truths and African Magic
By Matthew Finch
She That Bore Thee
By Marie Bacigalupo
Do For Love
By Maxine Case
Happiness is a Short-Short
By Justin Courter
Foreign Relations
By Vladislav Davidzon
Nechvatal’s Immersive Noise Theory
By Yuting Zou
Rapid Transit
By Jeffrey Cyphers Wright
A Sexual Revival?
By Rayyan Al-Shawaf

Music

Sonics in the Wildernesses—A Justification
By Dan Wilson
An Auspicious Beginning for Elliott Sharp's Seventh Decade
By David St.-Lascaux
Life After Turntablism
By Dominic Umile
Spacewalking Together, Under the Vault
By David St.-Lascaux
“Thank You For Waiting”
By Todd Simmons

Dance

Obeying = Acting Out in Brother of Gogolorez
By Siobhan Burke
Facing the Music
By Christine Hou
Come One, Come All...
By Jeremy Finch
Wandering Along a Dreamscape
By Christine Hou
Unforgettable
By L.J. Sunshine
Curator's Letter
By David Parker
“AS NIGHTFALL DOES NOT COME ALL AT ONCE…”: Yvonne Rainer’s Politics of Pathos
By Thom Donovan
A MERCE CUNNINGHAM DANCE COMPANY QUICKIE (with an extended Trisha Brown Parenthetical)
By Claudia La Rocco
My Schreibstück
By Karen Schupp
THOMAS LEHMEN with Claudia La Rocco

Film

“WE’VE COME TO A TERRIBLE PLACE”: Kelly Reichardt’s Meek’s Cutoff
By Paul Felten
Varieties of Documentary
By Fred Camper
ART-HOUSE MIXTAPE 2011: Selections from New Directors/New Films
By Colin Beckett
WELCOME TO THE DEPARTMENT OF KICKASS: VANESSA RENWICK with Penny Lane
By Penny Lane

Theater

The Shame of Theater
By Alex Kilgore
Laurel Haines and her Anxiety, soon on display at the Flea
By Trista Baldwin
Aviones de Papel: From One City to Another, a Play Takes Flight
By Christy Hutchcraft
LET IT RAIN Director Daniel Talbott and Playwright Stephanie Janssen reopen The Umbrella Plays
By Crystal Skillman

Fiction

Crown of Thorns
By Douglas Glover
FÉDER or the Gilded Husband
By Stendhall , translated from the French by Brian Evenson
Chapters 1, 2, & 8 from Fatale
By Jean-Patrick Manchette, translated from the French by Donald Nicholson-Smith
Character and Fitness: Chapters 7 and 8
By Jason Flores-Williams
Tragic Strip
By T. Motley

Poetry

Ed Smokes, Stares Moodily
By Ed Friedman
how the sculpture is made
By Priscilla Becker

Art Books

A Collection of Personal Accounts
By Stephanie Buhmann
Good-Bye To All That
By John Ganz

LastWords

BLACK METAL TROY or, How to Drink Online
By Robert Moor

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