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The N.Y.P.D. Clamps Down on Jazz
By Liliana Segura
Burlesque, Beer, and PowerPoint
By Mary Mann
CITYNOTES Fear of the First Amendment
By Theodore Hamm
REPORT CARD The Privatized Mind
By Liza Featherstone
Music that Picks You Up
By Eleanor J. Bader
The Brief Histories & Modern Journey of a Vinyl Record
By Sean Cooper

Express

AMATEUR NIGHT A fragment from Isolate Flecks: An Anatomy
By Forrest Hylton
LETTER FROM THE TRAIL: Atwater’s Ghost
By Michael Terry
A Festival of Reason and the Art of Common Sense
By Christopher Moylan
Kristeva’s Top-Down Critique
By R. H. Lossin
Emma’s Lyricism
By Courtney Fiske
American Ringstrasse
By David Wescott
WR: The Wanderings of a Lost Soul
By David Rosen

Art

ROSALIND KRAUSS with Yve-Alain Bois
LINDA MARY MONTANO with Charles Duncan
DAVID HOCKNEY with William Corwin
CARL ANDRE with Michèle Gerber Klein and Phong Bui
BILL JENSEN with Peter Brock

ArtSeen

DAVID DRISKELL Creative Spirit: Five Decades
By Bridget Goodbody
DAINA HIGGINS New Paintings
By Charles Schultz
LOIS DODD New Panel Paintings
By Sharon L. Butler
Unlikely Friends: JAMES BROOKS & DAN FLAVIN
By Greg Lindquist
DAMIEN HIRST The Complete Spot Paintings 1986 – 2011
By Corina Larkin
LORI ELLISON
By Corina Larkin
GEORGES HUGNET The Love Life of the Spumifers
By Valery Oisteanu
Dark Christmas
By Bradley Rubenstein
ELLSWORTH KELLY Schwarz & Weiss
By David Rhodes
MALCOLM MORLEY Another Way to Make an Image, Monotypes
By Robert Storr
Five Works from the Collection of Albert Murray: ROMARE BEARDEN and NORMAN LEWIS
By Charles Schultz
THE RONALD S. LAUDER COLLECTION: Selections from the 3rd Century BC to the 20th Century / Germany, Austria, and France
By Charles Schultz
Anonymous Tantra Paintings
By Noah Dillon
SANGRAM MAJUMDAR New Work
By Kara L. Rooney
GUDMUNDUR THORODDSEN Father’s Father
By Paolo Javier
SOTO Paris and Beyond, 1950 – 1970
By Cora Fisher
JESS Paintings
By Phong Bui
GEORGE MCNEIL
By Robert Berlind
VICTOR MATTHEWS
By Vincent Katz
LOLA MONTES SCHNABEL Love Before Intimacy
By David Markus
THOMAS WOODRUFF The Four Temperament Variations
By Kara L. Rooney
MARTHA CLIPPINGER Hopscotch
By Robert Berlind
PETER GALLO
By Jonathan Goodman
Connected
By Noah Dillon
KANDINSKY's “Painting with White Border”
By Susan Bee
BARBARA SANDLER Straight On Till Morning
By Robert Berlind
December (Organized by Howie Chen)
By Nathan Kernan
EDWIN DICKINSON In Retrospect
By Robert Berlind
JOSÉ RIVERA
By Nathan Kernan
REMBRANDT’S WORLD: Dutch Drawings from the Clement C. Moore Collection
JOSEPH MONTGOMERY Velveteen
By Linnea Kniaz
The Renaissance Portrait from Donatello to Bellini
By Mira Schor
BOSCO SODI Ubi Sunt
By Jonathan Goodman
DOUG WADA Americana
By Lilly Wei
Mind the Gap
By Anne Sherwood Pundyk
BILL JENSEN
By Ben La Rocco
WITHIN/WITHOUT: A Studio Visit With SHOSHANA DENTZ
By Zachary Wollard
SUSANNA HELLER’s Studio
By Robert Berlind
STUDIO VISIT: JOYCE PENSATO
By William Corwin
Making American Taste: Narrative Art for a New Democracy
By Shane McAdams
Letter from BERLIN
By David Rhodes
JOSEPH MARIONI Eye to Eye
By Robert C. Morgan
GORDON MOORE
By Joan Waltemath
Aggregate (Clare Gasson, Nick Hornby, Connor Linskey)
By Kathy Battista
Master Bill at MoMA
By Irving Sandler

Books

Interview with Poet Jerry Williams "Gamblin' Man"
By Adam Fitzgerald
NONFICTION OCCUPYING W. S.
By William S. Niederkorn
FICTION Conquering the Third Reich
By Ariell Cacciola
NONFICTION Snapshots of the Artist
By Chris Campanioni
POETRY Lo and Behole
By Alex Estes
POETRY Road to Nowhere
By Jerome Murphy
The Stuart Sherman Spectacle
By Liz Axelrod
FICTION SUI GENERIS
By Jim Feast
POETRY Answers Without Questions
By Jerome Murphy
ANTHOLOGY The Burqa Unveiled
By John Emrys Eller
MEMOIR Extravagant Blooms
By Jenine Holmes
A PORNOGRAPHER BARES ALL SAM BENJAMIN with Winston Len
By Winston Len
FICTION Double Jackpot
By Jenine Holmes
The Dreaming Girl
By Suzanne McConnell

Music

Breaking Down the Fourth Wall—Again
By Andrew Cappetta
Translation As Erasure In Leonard Cohen's Songs From A Room
By Marshall Yarbrough
Riffing On Schoenberg: Fieldwork's Hypnotic Virtuosity
By David St.-Lascaux
Outtakes
By Steve Dalachinsky

Dance

That's All She Wrote Edited
By Claudia La Rocco
Feminist Killjoys
By Christine Shan Shan Hou
Adventures In Realness
By Siobhan Burke

Film

A Little Heap for Dara Greenwald
By Rachael Rakes
NOT RECONCILED: Ben Wheatley's Kill List
By Phil Coldiron
COUNTER PROJECTIONS: PAUL SHARITS at Greene Naftali Gallery
By Benjamin Schultz-Figueroa

Theater

Naked in Yosemite with Daniel Talbott
By Laura Eason
Tense Change: Leave the Balcony Open by Maya Macdonald
By Karen Hartman
Set Designers Peter Ksander and Mimi Lien with Gary Winter
By Gary Winter
Mother of All Collaborations: The Theatre of a Two-Headed Calf Debuts a Chamber Opera
By Jessica Del Vecchio
The Penultimate P: Erin Courtney with Madeleine George
By Madeleine George and Erin Courtney
Nellie Tinder Sets Fire to Evelyn
By Trish Harnetiaux
Excerpt from Evelyn
By Julia May Jonas
DIVIDING DIVISIONS: What's at Stake in the Theater vs. Visual Arts Debate
By Alexis Clements

Fiction

The Diary of Martín Santomé: A Novel
By Mario Benedetti
The Weather in Fritz Bemelmans Park
By Holly Tavel
Tragic Strip
By T. Motley
A Scrupulous Fidelity, On Thomas Bernhard’s The Loser
By Douglas Glover
On the Furtiveness of Kurtz
By Jeremy M. Davies

Poetry

Nigerian Spammer
By Adam Fitzgerald
Four
By Brett Price
Two
By Brendan Lorber
Two
By Laura Henriksen
from We Are Here
By Kristen Gallagher

Art Books

PETER DOWNSBROUGH: Two Reviews
By Joseph Masheck
Bubbles: Spheres, Volume I: Microspherology
By John Ganz
Is That All There Is?
By Bill Kartalopoulos
Believing is Seeing: Observations on the Mysteries of Photography
By Ela Bittencourt

LastWords

from The Revolution Of Everyday Life
By Raoul Vaneigem, A new translation from the French by Donald Nicholson-Smith

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FEB 2012

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ADAM FITZGERALD edits Maggy Poetry Magazine and teaches poetry at Rutgers University and The New School. He lives in the East Village.

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Find the RAIL in print

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Local

The N.Y.P.D. Clamps Down on Jazz
By Liliana Segura
Burlesque, Beer, and PowerPoint
By Mary Mann
CITYNOTES Fear of the First Amendment
By Theodore Hamm
REPORT CARD The Privatized Mind
By Liza Featherstone
Music that Picks You Up
By Eleanor J. Bader
The Brief Histories & Modern Journey of a Vinyl Record
By Sean Cooper

Express

AMATEUR NIGHT A fragment from Isolate Flecks: An Anatomy
By Forrest Hylton
LETTER FROM THE TRAIL: Atwater’s Ghost
By Michael Terry
A Festival of Reason and the Art of Common Sense
By Christopher Moylan
Kristeva’s Top-Down Critique
By R. H. Lossin
Emma’s Lyricism
By Courtney Fiske
American Ringstrasse
By David Wescott
WR: The Wanderings of a Lost Soul
By David Rosen

Art

ROSALIND KRAUSS with Yve-Alain Bois
LINDA MARY MONTANO with Charles Duncan
DAVID HOCKNEY with William Corwin
CARL ANDRE with Michèle Gerber Klein and Phong Bui
BILL JENSEN with Peter Brock

ArtSeen

DAVID DRISKELL Creative Spirit: Five Decades
By Bridget Goodbody
DAINA HIGGINS New Paintings
By Charles Schultz
LOIS DODD New Panel Paintings
By Sharon L. Butler
Unlikely Friends: JAMES BROOKS & DAN FLAVIN
By Greg Lindquist
DAMIEN HIRST The Complete Spot Paintings 1986 – 2011
By Corina Larkin
LORI ELLISON
By Corina Larkin
GEORGES HUGNET The Love Life of the Spumifers
By Valery Oisteanu
Dark Christmas
By Bradley Rubenstein
ELLSWORTH KELLY Schwarz & Weiss
By David Rhodes
MALCOLM MORLEY Another Way to Make an Image, Monotypes
By Robert Storr
Five Works from the Collection of Albert Murray: ROMARE BEARDEN and NORMAN LEWIS
By Charles Schultz
THE RONALD S. LAUDER COLLECTION: Selections from the 3rd Century BC to the 20th Century / Germany, Austria, and France
By Charles Schultz
Anonymous Tantra Paintings
By Noah Dillon
SANGRAM MAJUMDAR New Work
By Kara L. Rooney
GUDMUNDUR THORODDSEN Father’s Father
By Paolo Javier
SOTO Paris and Beyond, 1950 – 1970
By Cora Fisher
JESS Paintings
By Phong Bui
GEORGE MCNEIL
By Robert Berlind
VICTOR MATTHEWS
By Vincent Katz
LOLA MONTES SCHNABEL Love Before Intimacy
By David Markus
THOMAS WOODRUFF The Four Temperament Variations
By Kara L. Rooney
MARTHA CLIPPINGER Hopscotch
By Robert Berlind
PETER GALLO
By Jonathan Goodman
Connected
By Noah Dillon
KANDINSKY's “Painting with White Border”
By Susan Bee
BARBARA SANDLER Straight On Till Morning
By Robert Berlind
December (Organized by Howie Chen)
By Nathan Kernan
EDWIN DICKINSON In Retrospect
By Robert Berlind
JOSÉ RIVERA
By Nathan Kernan
REMBRANDT’S WORLD: Dutch Drawings from the Clement C. Moore Collection
JOSEPH MONTGOMERY Velveteen
By Linnea Kniaz
The Renaissance Portrait from Donatello to Bellini
By Mira Schor
BOSCO SODI Ubi Sunt
By Jonathan Goodman
DOUG WADA Americana
By Lilly Wei
Mind the Gap
By Anne Sherwood Pundyk
BILL JENSEN
By Ben La Rocco
WITHIN/WITHOUT: A Studio Visit With SHOSHANA DENTZ
By Zachary Wollard
SUSANNA HELLER’s Studio
By Robert Berlind
STUDIO VISIT: JOYCE PENSATO
By William Corwin
Making American Taste: Narrative Art for a New Democracy
By Shane McAdams
Letter from BERLIN
By David Rhodes
JOSEPH MARIONI Eye to Eye
By Robert C. Morgan
GORDON MOORE
By Joan Waltemath
Aggregate (Clare Gasson, Nick Hornby, Connor Linskey)
By Kathy Battista
Master Bill at MoMA
By Irving Sandler

Books

Interview with Poet Jerry Williams "Gamblin' Man"
By Adam Fitzgerald
NONFICTION OCCUPYING W. S.
By William S. Niederkorn
FICTION Conquering the Third Reich
By Ariell Cacciola
NONFICTION Snapshots of the Artist
By Chris Campanioni
POETRY Lo and Behole
By Alex Estes
POETRY Road to Nowhere
By Jerome Murphy
The Stuart Sherman Spectacle
By Liz Axelrod
FICTION SUI GENERIS
By Jim Feast
POETRY Answers Without Questions
By Jerome Murphy
ANTHOLOGY The Burqa Unveiled
By John Emrys Eller
MEMOIR Extravagant Blooms
By Jenine Holmes
A PORNOGRAPHER BARES ALL SAM BENJAMIN with Winston Len
By Winston Len
FICTION Double Jackpot
By Jenine Holmes
The Dreaming Girl
By Suzanne McConnell

Music

Breaking Down the Fourth Wall—Again
By Andrew Cappetta
Translation As Erasure In Leonard Cohen's Songs From A Room
By Marshall Yarbrough
Riffing On Schoenberg: Fieldwork's Hypnotic Virtuosity
By David St.-Lascaux
Outtakes
By Steve Dalachinsky

Dance

That's All She Wrote Edited
By Claudia La Rocco
Feminist Killjoys
By Christine Shan Shan Hou
Adventures In Realness
By Siobhan Burke

Film

A Little Heap for Dara Greenwald
By Rachael Rakes
NOT RECONCILED: Ben Wheatley's Kill List
By Phil Coldiron
COUNTER PROJECTIONS: PAUL SHARITS at Greene Naftali Gallery
By Benjamin Schultz-Figueroa

Theater

Naked in Yosemite with Daniel Talbott
By Laura Eason
Tense Change: Leave the Balcony Open by Maya Macdonald
By Karen Hartman
Set Designers Peter Ksander and Mimi Lien with Gary Winter
By Gary Winter
Mother of All Collaborations: The Theatre of a Two-Headed Calf Debuts a Chamber Opera
By Jessica Del Vecchio
The Penultimate P: Erin Courtney with Madeleine George
By Madeleine George and Erin Courtney
Nellie Tinder Sets Fire to Evelyn
By Trish Harnetiaux
Excerpt from Evelyn
By Julia May Jonas
DIVIDING DIVISIONS: What's at Stake in the Theater vs. Visual Arts Debate
By Alexis Clements

Fiction

The Diary of Martín Santomé: A Novel
By Mario Benedetti
The Weather in Fritz Bemelmans Park
By Holly Tavel
Tragic Strip
By T. Motley
A Scrupulous Fidelity, On Thomas Bernhard’s The Loser
By Douglas Glover
On the Furtiveness of Kurtz
By Jeremy M. Davies

Poetry

Nigerian Spammer
By Adam Fitzgerald
Four
By Brett Price
Two
By Brendan Lorber
Two
By Laura Henriksen
from We Are Here
By Kristen Gallagher

Art Books

PETER DOWNSBROUGH: Two Reviews
By Joseph Masheck
Bubbles: Spheres, Volume I: Microspherology
By John Ganz
Is That All There Is?
By Bill Kartalopoulos
Believing is Seeing: Observations on the Mysteries of Photography
By Ela Bittencourt

LastWords

from The Revolution Of Everyday Life
By Raoul Vaneigem, A new translation from the French by Donald Nicholson-Smith

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