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CITYNOTES
Murphys Dissent
By Theodore Hamm
Frank Murphys dissent in the Supreme Courts 1944 Korematsu case seems mighty timely today.
The Hotel Tehran
By Matthew IgoeJoes the latest out of Aberdeens bio-transformation division-A Variable-platform Airborne Multi-exsanguination Prototype.
THE ALBION NATION: Communes on the Mendocino Coast
By Cal WinslowThe settlers came fleeing an embattled nation, war in Vietnam, rebellion at home, and bitter battles in the mean streets of San Francisco, Oakland, and Berkeley.
Art In Conversation
JOHN NEWMAN with Phong Bui
A few days after the opening reception of his solo exhibit John Newman: New Work at Tibor de Nagy Gallery (March 15 April 21, 2012) the sculptor paid a visit to the Rails headquarters to talk with Rail publisher Phong Bui about his life and his recent body of work.
Art In Conversation
Ice Makes Fire
PAUL KOS with Jarrett Earnest
Paul Kos, a conceptual artist who has helped create the vocabulary for video, performance, and conceptual art in the San Francisco Bay Area since the late 1960s, walked Jarrett Earnest through the three floors of his exhibit at Nyehaus, Allegories and Metaphors, 1969 2012 (March 3 April 21), and talked about the evolution of his art.
Art In Conversation
ALEXANDER S. C. ROWER with Joost Elffers
On the occasion of Alexander Calder: The Great Discovery at the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag (February 11 May 28, 2012), the artists first retrospective to be held in the Netherlands since 1969, Alexander S.C. Rower sat down with publisher and designer Joost Elffers to talk about the aesthetic relationship between Calder and Mondrian.
Art In Conversation
JULIA KUNIN with Maria Elena González
On the occasion of her exhibition at Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, Julia Kunin: Nightwood (February 23 April 21, 2012), Maria Elena González met with Julia to converse about her current work.
Def Jam Recordings and Golf Wang
By Ashok KondaboluEverybody associated with Def Jam looked cool for a decade, then not so much after that. They also appear to have stopped doing cocaine when the 90s rolled around, for better or for worse.
In Like a Lion
By Ed SchadIf we believe Adam Kirsch’s new book, Why Trilling Matters, remembering literary critic Lionel Trilling is to gain an idea of what it means to live a life in literature.
Film In Conversation
ALONE IN THE ZONE
GEOFF DYER with Monica Westin
Geoff Dyer describes himself as a gate crasher writer: his choice of subjectsthe Venice Biennale, jazz, Burning Man, D.H. Lawrencevaries as widely as his choice of prose stylesmemoir, essay, travelogue.
The Regulars
By Lily HoangThis is the worst its going to get, Janice thinks to herself. And maybe shes right. Shes smack in the thick of the breakfast rush, businessmen in tailored business suits at a half dozen tables and gossiping housewives littered throughout the restaurant.
Editor's Message Guest Critic
To Whom It Must Concern
By Raphael RubinsteinIm sure that sometimes youve asked: Who am I writing for? The answer may have been: for the artist, for the viewing public, for curious collectors, for posterity, for yourself (perhaps in order to understand something otherwise ungraspable about the work). But what happens if you ask: Who am I writing to?
ArtSeen
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A LETTER TO PHILIP GUSTON from David Rhodes
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A LETTER TO MARTIN MULLIN from Carter Ratcliff
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A LETTER TO CINDY SHERMAN from Christopher Stackhouse
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A LETTER TO MOIRA DRYER from David Rhodes
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SONIA ALMEIDA The Angle of the Suns Rays
– By Joan Waltemath -
JESUS RAFAEL SOTO Soto: Paris and Beyond 19501970
– By Robert C. Morgan -
TAMARA GONZALES Untitled, An Exhibition of New Paintings
– By Sharon L. Butler -
A LETTER TO BRYAN OSBURN from Trevor Winkfield
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DJUNA BARNES Newspaper Fiction: The New York Journalism of Djuna Barnes, 1913 1919
– By Joseph Klarl -
LIONEL MAUNZ Receipt of Malice
– By Charles Schultz -
A LETTER TO ROBERT SMITHSON from Greg Lindquist
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A LETTER TO RAPHAEL RUBINSTEIN from Daniel Wiener
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JOHN EVANS John Evans: 1984
– By Valery Oisteanu -
MICHIEL CEULERS Des Malentendus et le temps perdu
– By Jonathan Goodman -
MISSIVE TO FRANK OHARA from Vincent Katz
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WILLIAM ANTHONY Ironic Icons II
– By Dan Tarnowski -
AN OPEN LETTER ON THE SUBJECT OF RITUAL
– By Kara L. Rooney -
THEO A. ROSENBLUM & CHELSEA SELTZER Two Heads are Better than One
– By Gail Quagliata -
ALEX BAG AND PATTERSON BECKWITH Cash from Chaos / Unicorns & Rainbows
– By Eve Perry
Table of Contents
Editor's Message
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To Whom It Must Concern
– By Raphael Rubinstein
Local
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CITYNOTES Murphys Dissent
– By Theodore Hamm -
REPORT CARD Education for Sale
– By Liza Featherstone -
They Dont Bake em Like They Used To
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Creating a Groundswell in Brooklyn
– By Eleanor J. Bader
Express
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Mitt Aint Got It
– By Michael Terry -
The Green Nuke Lovers Are Wrong
– By Christian Parenti -
The Hotel Tehran
– By Matthew Igoe -
THE ALBION NATION: Communes on the Mendocino Coast
– By Cal Winslow -
Some Rules for the Conduct of Young Gentlemen
– By William Rossa Cole -
CLASS NOTES: A fragment from Isolate Flecks: An Anatomy
– By Forrest Hylton -
Intervention that Works
– By Vincent Rossmeier -
Life Is Elsewhere
– By Allen Wilcox -
Another Prohibition: Uncovering the Real 1920s
– By David Rosen
Art
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ALEXANDER S. C. ROWER with Joost Elffers
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JOHN NEWMAN with Phong Bui
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JULIA KUNIN with Maria Elena González
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Ice Makes Fire PAUL KOS with Jarrett Earnest
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A Little Yes and a Big No?
– By Dore Ashton -
KATHERINE BRADFORD with Jason Stopa
ArtSeen
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A LETTER TO PHILIP GUSTON from David Rhodes
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A LETTER TO MARTIN MULLIN from Carter Ratcliff
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A LETTER TO CINDY SHERMAN from Christopher Stackhouse
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A LETTER TO MOIRA DRYER from David Rhodes
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SONIA ALMEIDA The Angle of the Suns Rays
– By Joan Waltemath -
JESUS RAFAEL SOTO Soto: Paris and Beyond 19501970
– By Robert C. Morgan -
TAMARA GONZALES Untitled, An Exhibition of New Paintings
– By Sharon L. Butler -
A LETTER TO BRYAN OSBURN from Trevor Winkfield
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DJUNA BARNES Newspaper Fiction: The New York Journalism of Djuna Barnes, 1913 1919
– By Joseph Klarl -
LIONEL MAUNZ Receipt of Malice
– By Charles Schultz -
A LETTER TO ROBERT SMITHSON from Greg Lindquist
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A LETTER TO RAPHAEL RUBINSTEIN from Daniel Wiener
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JOHN EVANS John Evans: 1984
– By Valery Oisteanu -
MICHIEL CEULERS Des Malentendus et le temps perdu
– By Jonathan Goodman -
MISSIVE TO FRANK OHARA from Vincent Katz
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WILLIAM ANTHONY Ironic Icons II
– By Dan Tarnowski -
AN OPEN LETTER ON THE SUBJECT OF RITUAL
– By Kara L. Rooney -
THEO A. ROSENBLUM & CHELSEA SELTZER Two Heads are Better than One
– By Gail Quagliata -
ALEX BAG AND PATTERSON BECKWITH Cash from Chaos / Unicorns & Rainbows
– By Eve Perry
Books
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ALAN MOORE with Kathy Battista
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Hold Me Now
– By Shathley Q. -
Divine Error
– By Neale Bachmann Gold -
Lotus Eaters for Public Consumption
– By Gary Lain -
Pompous Circumstance
– By Tatiaana L. Laine -
A Voodoo Dolls House
– By Jeff McConaghy -
Listen Closely
– By Laura Smith Terry -
Size Matters
– By Nava Renek -
IN MEMORIAM On Barney Rosset
– By Jim Feast -
Narrative Fuel
– By Angela Patrinos -
Half in Speculation
– By Chris Campanioni -
In Like a Lion
– By Ed Schad -
RAPID TRANSIT
– By Jeffrey Cyphers Wright
Music
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Institutional Adjustments
– By Andrew Cappetta -
A Stageful of Toys
– By David St.-Lascaux -
BACK TO 1911 MOVEMENT Manifesto #3: Music
– By Peter Lamborn Wilson -
Floating Above the Earth, Never Anchored to Time or Place
– By David Shirley -
Outtakes
– By Steve Dalachinsky -
I Want It! I Need It!
– By M. T. Richards
Dance
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Oceanography
– By Nancy Dalva -
The Meaning of Live
– By Sarah Maxfield -
Mark Morris Versus The Music
– By Ryan Wenzel
Film
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LART LE PLUS POLITIQUE NICOLE BRENEZ with Donal Foreman
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CARMELO BENE
– By Troy Swain -
WHIT STILLMANs Deranged Damsels
– By Paul Felten -
ALONE IN THE ZONE GEOFF DYER with Monica Westin
Theater
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ET TU, BRAVO? Andi Stovers Julie S. Caesar & The Real Housewives Of Trevi
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Chimichangas and Zoloft with Fernanda Coppel
– By Cusi Cram -
DANIEL FISH A (Radically Condensed and Expanded) Supposedly Fun Thing Ill Never Do Again (After David Foster Wallace)
– By Gary Winter
Fiction
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Tragic Strip
– By T. Motley -
The Diary of Martín Santomé: A Novel
– By Mario Benedetti -
The Regulars
– By Lily Hoang
Poetry
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from Sonics
– By Lee Ann Brown -
Five
– By Betsy Fagin -
from Some Worlds for Dr. Vogt
– By Matvei Yankelevich -
from Box Score: An Autobiography
– By Kevin Varrone
Art Books
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Def Jam Recordings and Golf Wang
– By Ashok Kondabolu -
David Shrigley: Brain Activity
– By Dan Nadel -
The Present
– By Adam Bell -
Agnes Martin
– By Courtney Fiske -
The Future of Art: A Manual
– By Joseph Teeling -
Kusama, In Her Own Words
– By Edward M. Gómez
LastWords
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from The Revolution Of Everyday Life
– By Raoul Vaneigem, A new translation from the French by Donald Nicholson-Smith