Table of Contents
Publisher's Message
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Note from the Publisher
– By Phong Bui
Editor's Message
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The Rails 2011 Player of the Year
– By Theodore Hamm
Local
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YOU CANT PUT A LANGUAGE IN A ZOO: Bob Holman and Endangered Languages
– By Stephanie Nikolopoulos -
From Brooklyn to Park City: Keith Millers Welcome to Pine Hill
– By Angela Wagner -
Hookah Crackdown in Bay Ridge
– By Aparna Narayanan -
THE 99% BAT-SIGNAL: A Cry from the Heart of the World
– By Mark Read -
#OWS: Images from the Day of Eviction (11/15) and the Day of Action (11/17)
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REPORT CARD Here Comes Success
– By Liza Featherstone -
At Home in the Chelsea Hotel
– By Eleanor J. Bader -
Why Cooper Union Matters
– By Litia Perta
Express
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The Rails 2011 Player of the Year
– By Theodore Hamm -
OCCUPY GO ROUND: The Dimensional Nature of the Movement
– By Paul McLean -
Going to the Mat in Baghdad
– By Matthew Igoe -
THE NEW ERA OF PUBLISHING? Williams Cole Checks in Again with John B. Thompson
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Language and Its Discontents
– By Courtney Fiske -
The Great American Swindle
– By Ross Barkan -
City of God
– By Allen Wilcox -
Such a Good War
– By Pehr Englen
Art
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John Elderfield, Jennifer Field, Lauren Mahony, and Delphine Huisinga with Phong Bui
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RITA ACKERMANN with Anne Sherwood Pundyk
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Missing Vita
– By Bill Jensen -
BONNIE MARRANCA with Patricia Milder
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OverRuled Performance by Shirin Neshat
– By Eleanor Heartney -
CHARM LIKE A DRUG MAURIZIO CATTELAN with Jarrett Earnest
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SARAH CANRIGHT Curated by Nic Nicosia
– By Phong Bui -
UNHAPPY DAYS IN THE ART WORLD? De-skilling Theater, Re-skilling Performance
– By Claire Bishop
ArtSeen
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DANA SCHUTZ If the Face Had Wheels
– By Kara L. Rooney -
SHERRIE LEVINE Mayhem
– By R. H. Lossin -
DAVID SMITH Cubes and Anarchy
– By Jonathan Goodman -
BROOKLYN DISPATCHES Birth of a Notion
– By James Kalm -
NAN GOLDIN Scopophilia
– By David St.-Lascaux -
CLIFFORD OWENS Anthology
– By Cora Fisher -
AJ FOSIK Time Kills All Gods
– By Gail Victoria Braddock Quagliata -
WHAT A (SELF) PORTRAIT CAN DO Picturing South Africa in New York
– By Maxwell Heller -
GABRIELE EVERTZ Rapture
– By Robert C. Morgan -
Algorithmic Unconscious
– By David St.-Lascaux -
REBECCA PURDUM and MATTHEW FISCHER
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RICHARD POUSETTE-DART East River Studio
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WILL COTTON Cockaigne
– By William Corwin -
JOAN MITCHELL The Last Paintings
– By Greg Lindquist -
AMY SILLMAN Thumb Cinema
– By David Rhodes -
RICO GATSON Three Trips Around the Block
– By Charles Schultz
Books
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NONFICTION Beyond the Previously Known Bard
– By William S. Niederkorn -
ELISSA SCHAPPELL with Jenine Holmes
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FICTION This Young Girl Passing
– By Jeff McConaghy -
Lost with Phone
– By Chris Campanioni -
FICTION To Assume a Pleasing Shape
– By Liz Axelrod -
Body Variations
– By Mark Snyder -
FICTION Downward Spiral
– By Christopher Vola -
POETRY Poetry as Alchemy
– By Marietta Abrams -
FICTION Hooked on Interest
– By Mark Snyder -
NONFICTION The Makings of An American
– By Justin Mitchell -
JUSTIN TORRES with Jenine Holmes
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RAPID TRANSIT
– By Jeffrey Cyphers Wright -
POETRY Blog Posts from an American Poet
– By Nicolle Elizabeth -
THE EDITORS OF THE COFFIN FACTORY with Aspen Matis
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MAX WINTER AND LISA LUBASCH with Megan Gillin-Schwartz
Music
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The Return of the Brooklyn Philharmonic
– By George Grella -
Sun-Bleached Hand of the Man
– By Dominic Umile -
ALEX WATERMAN with Timothy Nassau
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A LITTLE BRAIN SURGERY: Sonic Festival
– By David St.-Lascaux -
Tom Waits Takes His Old Fans For a New Ride
– By Dmitry Kiper -
The WKCR Bach Marathon
– By Richard Kostelanetz -
OUTTAKES
– By Steve Dalachinsky
Dance
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Editors Note
– By Claudia La Rocco -
Merce Notes
– By Christian Wolff -
Correspondence
– By Carolyn Brown -
Material Man
– By Lise Friedman -
SIDEBAR FROM BAM: The Complete Works MERCE CUNNINGHAM
– By Nancy Dalva -
Nine Goodbyes
– By Siobhan Burke -
Walking the Line
– By Robert Swinston, as told to Claudia La Rocco -
Cold Storage and New Brightness:The Merce Cunningham Acquisition at the Walker Art Center
– By Abigail Sebaly -
Fond Farewells
– By David Vaughan -
SILAS RIENER and RASHAUN MITCHELL with Claudia La Rocco
Film
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A Glance at First Look: Overlooked Essentials in the Museum of the Moving Image's New International Showcase
– By Anna Bak-Kvapil -
THE AESTHETIC AND THE THERAPEUTIC
– By Ricky D'Ambrose -
George Kuchars Otherworldly Humanity
– By Charles Bernstein and Susan Bee -
RE-ENTRY: Thoughts on Jordan Belson: 19262011
– By Gregory Zinman -
Is This What You Were Born For?
– By Jim Supanick -
EVENT HORIZON: Roy Lichtensteins Three Landscapes
– By Tom McCormack
Theater
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The Great Play Download: Indie Theater Now
– By Loren Noveck -
Superhero Clubhouse: the Call to Grow Theater
– By Melissa F. Moschitto -
lifting the Curtain Costume Designers Melissa Schlachtmeyer, Normandy Sherwood, and Jessica Pabst with Gary Winter
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LIN HIXSON and MATTHEW GOULISH with Carol Becker
Fiction
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The Diary of Martín Santomé: A Novel
– By Mario Benedetti -
Tragic Strip
– By T. Motley -
Kurt Vonnegut at the Writers Workshop
– By Suzanne McConnell
Poetry
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Three
– By Michael Ruby -
Wall Street Teenager
– By Allan M. Jalon -
Abstract Painting
– By Rachel Hurn
Art Books
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The Death-Ray
– By Bill Kartalopoulos -
John Gould: The Family of Toucans
– By Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa -
Redheaded Peckerwood
– By Adam Bell
LastWords
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from The Revolution Of Everyday Life
– By Raoul Vaneigem, A new translation from the French by Donald Nicholson-Smith
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