JUL-AUG 2013

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Viva Menchaca?
By Theodore Hamm
Vice Squad Targets Williamsburg
By Ari Paul
Weiner’s Most Dangerous Fetish?
By Theodore Hamm
Welcome Back, Spitzer?
By Ari Paul
The Wages of Dignity
By Eleanor J. Bader
Mike’s Labor Legacy
By John Surico
Seaside Stories
By Saskia Kahn
Unlikely Sparks in Brooklyn D.A.’s Race
By Theodore Hamm
Bill de Blasio, John Liu, and the 99%
By Theodore Hamm

Express

Among the Multitude: A Report from Brazil
By Ricardo Kaminski and Luciana Chermont
The Manifesto of the Whistleblower Defense League
By Jason Flores-Williams
NO COUNTRY FOR DICKHEADS DERIC LOSTUTTER with Theodore Hamm
OCCUPY TAKSIM BENGI AKBULUT with Robert S. Eshelman
A Pack of Damn Lies
By Matt Igoe
Moral Monday Movement Marches On
By Alex Kotch

Art

LATOYA RUBY FRAZIER with Greg Lindquist & Charles Schultz
CONSTANCE LEWALLEN with Phong Bui
RAFAEL FERRER with Barry Schwabsky
THE LIBRARY FOR NON-AMNESIACS A Possible Reading of Matthew Barney’s Drawings
By Thyrza Nichols Goodeve
RAPHAEL RUBINSTEIN with Joan Waltemath
Worlds With Us
By Katy Siegel
Studio in a School Teams Up with Mark Di Suvero
SUMMER READING LIST History and Memory: The Velocity of Extinction
ARSHILE GORKY “An Artist of the Earth.”1
By Irving Sandler
REMEMBERING Jene Highstein (1942 – 2013)
By Richard Nonas
REMEMBERING Sarah Charlesworth (1947-2013)
By Charles Traub and Matthew C. Lange

ArtSeen

Street
By Joshua K. Leon
ANTHONY PEARSON
By Taney Roniger
JANE FREILICHER Painter Among Poets
By David Rhodes
DENNIS CONGDON
By William Corwin
Gravity and Grace: Monumental Works by El Anatsui
By Desi Gonzalez
RETO PULFER Zustandseffekte
By Matthew Shen Goodman
GEDI SIBONY
By Pac Pobric
JULIE MEHRETU Liminal Squared
By Grant Klarich Johnson
JO BAER
By David Rhodes
Traylor in Motion: Wonders from New York Collections and Bill Traylor: Drawings from the Collections of the High Museum of Art and the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts
By Alana Shilling-Janoff
KEITH HARING The political Line
By Mara Hoberman
Subliming Vessel: The Drawings of MATTHEW BARNEY
By Ann McCoy
SUSAN BEE Criss Cross: New Paintings
By Alexander Shulan
TOM SHANNON Nothing
By Darren Jones
CARL PALAZZOLO New Paintings
By Robert Berlind
JOE BRADLEY Lotus Beaters
By Gail Victoria Braddock Quagliata
JASON MIDDLEBROOK My Landscape
By Jessica Holmes
LIU ZHENG Dream Shock
By Jonathan Goodman
Mushroom Hunter
By Jessica Holmes
Vanishing Point
By Collin Sundt
do it (outside)
By Kara L. Rooney
SUSPENDED TURNS On Philip Taaffe’s “Sardica II” (2013)
By Jarrett Earnest
RICHARD SERRA Early Work
By Terry R. Myers
G.T. PELLIZZI The Red and the Black
By Margaret Graham
NANCY LUPO Hats & Balls
By Chloé Rossetti
“JACK... JACK... JACK...” Jack Goldstein X 10,000
By Rachael M. Wilson
Cai Jin: Return to the Source
By Jonathan Goodman

Critics Page

RE: Re-
Guest Critic: Marcia E. Vetrocq
Bern 1969 /Venice 2013
By Keith Sonnier
PLACES WITH A PAST New Site-Specific Art in Charleston Belongs to its Place and Time
By Michael Brenson
Recollection of an “Incident”
By Maria Elena González
ANTONIO MANUEL: I WANT TO ACT, NOT REPRESENT! The Re-Enactment of Historical Works from the Late 1960s and Early 1970s
By Claudia Calirman
Re: From LAWRENCE WEINER STUDIO
By Lawrence Weiner
Reinstallation and the Real
By Caroline A. Jones

Books

A Literary Thriller with Legs
By Orli Van Mourik
Dystopia, with Dancing
By Charlene Allen
The Morality of Money
By Weston Cutter
Inscriptions for Headstones
By Matthew Daddona
Portrait of the Artists
By Leigh Kamping-Carder
Pick a Card
By Pablo Medina
Apples & Oranges
By Allen Guy Wilcox
Storied History
By Greg Ryan
The Prisoner's Journal
By Sara Freeman
With Kings and Camp Counselors
By John Domini
Once Bitten
By Sarah Nicole Smetana

Music

TEN YEARS OF DUST-TO-DIGITAL: The Ongoing Mission of Moses Asch
By Christopher Nelson
Outtakes
By Steve Dalachinsky
NOT QUITE DYING David Bowie: The Next Day
By Todd Simmons
TRIXIE WHITLEY’s Dot Odyssey
By KK Kozik

Dance

Father/Figure
By Nancy Dalva

Film

JOSHUA OPPENHEIMER with Joshua Sperling The Act of Killing opens July 19 at the Landmark Sunshine Cinema
TIME AND THE CITY Jem Cohen’s Museum Hours
By Paul Dallas
DESIGN FOR LIVING Matías Piñeiro and the Art of Seduction
By Leo Goldsmith
PETER KUBELKA with Andrew Lampert, Part 2
MARGARETHE VON TROTTA with Gregory Smulewicz-Zucker

Theater

Change Story, Change Life Service and Solace Where Arts Meet Need
By Larissa Lury
A Scary and a Beautiful Place Lucy Thurber’s Hill Town Plays
By Mark Schultz
Looking for Some Bulk After Hours in East WillyB? Theater Artists Take on the Web Series
By Matthew Paul Olmos
Painful Intimacy Daniel Pearle’s A Kid Like Jake
By Mark Armstrong

Fiction

Drink and Time in Dublin
By Flann O'Brien (Myles na Gopaleen)
When the Time Comes
By Josef Winkler
Shakespeare
By Robin Hirsch
Quarry
By Robert Landon
excerpt from The Raw Edge - Issue 01
By Devin Clark
Arrowschmitt
By Arryan Decatur
Tragic Strip
By T. Motley
extracts from The Art of Joy
By Goliarda Sapienza, translated from the Italian by Anne Milano Appel, out now on FSG

Poetry

Four
By Seth Abramson
Five
By Shane Allison
Summer Journal [2012]
By Stacy Szymaszek
We Do The Polis / In Different Voices
By David Buuck

Art Books

Bad Boy: My Life On and Off the Canvas
By Corina Larkin
2013?: A Doomsday Day Planner
By Miles Klee
Garry Winogrand
By Adam Bell

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JUL-AUG 2013

Find the RAIL in print

Subscribe now

Local

Viva Menchaca?
By Theodore Hamm
Vice Squad Targets Williamsburg
By Ari Paul
Weiner’s Most Dangerous Fetish?
By Theodore Hamm
Welcome Back, Spitzer?
By Ari Paul
The Wages of Dignity
By Eleanor J. Bader
Mike’s Labor Legacy
By John Surico
Seaside Stories
By Saskia Kahn
Unlikely Sparks in Brooklyn D.A.’s Race
By Theodore Hamm
Bill de Blasio, John Liu, and the 99%
By Theodore Hamm

Express

Among the Multitude: A Report from Brazil
By Ricardo Kaminski and Luciana Chermont
The Manifesto of the Whistleblower Defense League
By Jason Flores-Williams
NO COUNTRY FOR DICKHEADS DERIC LOSTUTTER with Theodore Hamm
OCCUPY TAKSIM BENGI AKBULUT with Robert S. Eshelman
A Pack of Damn Lies
By Matt Igoe
Moral Monday Movement Marches On
By Alex Kotch

Art

LATOYA RUBY FRAZIER with Greg Lindquist & Charles Schultz
CONSTANCE LEWALLEN with Phong Bui
RAFAEL FERRER with Barry Schwabsky
THE LIBRARY FOR NON-AMNESIACS A Possible Reading of Matthew Barney’s Drawings
By Thyrza Nichols Goodeve
RAPHAEL RUBINSTEIN with Joan Waltemath
Worlds With Us
By Katy Siegel
Studio in a School Teams Up with Mark Di Suvero
SUMMER READING LIST History and Memory: The Velocity of Extinction
ARSHILE GORKY “An Artist of the Earth.”1
By Irving Sandler
REMEMBERING Jene Highstein (1942 – 2013)
By Richard Nonas
REMEMBERING Sarah Charlesworth (1947-2013)
By Charles Traub and Matthew C. Lange

ArtSeen

Street
By Joshua K. Leon
ANTHONY PEARSON
By Taney Roniger
JANE FREILICHER Painter Among Poets
By David Rhodes
DENNIS CONGDON
By William Corwin
Gravity and Grace: Monumental Works by El Anatsui
By Desi Gonzalez
RETO PULFER Zustandseffekte
By Matthew Shen Goodman
GEDI SIBONY
By Pac Pobric
JULIE MEHRETU Liminal Squared
By Grant Klarich Johnson
JO BAER
By David Rhodes
Traylor in Motion: Wonders from New York Collections and Bill Traylor: Drawings from the Collections of the High Museum of Art and the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts
By Alana Shilling-Janoff
KEITH HARING The political Line
By Mara Hoberman
Subliming Vessel: The Drawings of MATTHEW BARNEY
By Ann McCoy
SUSAN BEE Criss Cross: New Paintings
By Alexander Shulan
TOM SHANNON Nothing
By Darren Jones
CARL PALAZZOLO New Paintings
By Robert Berlind
JOE BRADLEY Lotus Beaters
By Gail Victoria Braddock Quagliata
JASON MIDDLEBROOK My Landscape
By Jessica Holmes
LIU ZHENG Dream Shock
By Jonathan Goodman
Mushroom Hunter
By Jessica Holmes
Vanishing Point
By Collin Sundt
do it (outside)
By Kara L. Rooney
SUSPENDED TURNS On Philip Taaffe’s “Sardica II” (2013)
By Jarrett Earnest
RICHARD SERRA Early Work
By Terry R. Myers
G.T. PELLIZZI The Red and the Black
By Margaret Graham
NANCY LUPO Hats & Balls
By Chloé Rossetti
“JACK... JACK... JACK...” Jack Goldstein X 10,000
By Rachael M. Wilson
Cai Jin: Return to the Source
By Jonathan Goodman

Critics Page

RE: Re-
Guest Critic: Marcia E. Vetrocq
Bern 1969 /Venice 2013
By Keith Sonnier
PLACES WITH A PAST New Site-Specific Art in Charleston Belongs to its Place and Time
By Michael Brenson
Recollection of an “Incident”
By Maria Elena González
ANTONIO MANUEL: I WANT TO ACT, NOT REPRESENT! The Re-Enactment of Historical Works from the Late 1960s and Early 1970s
By Claudia Calirman
Re: From LAWRENCE WEINER STUDIO
By Lawrence Weiner
Reinstallation and the Real
By Caroline A. Jones

Books

A Literary Thriller with Legs
By Orli Van Mourik
Dystopia, with Dancing
By Charlene Allen
The Morality of Money
By Weston Cutter
Inscriptions for Headstones
By Matthew Daddona
Portrait of the Artists
By Leigh Kamping-Carder
Pick a Card
By Pablo Medina
Apples & Oranges
By Allen Guy Wilcox
Storied History
By Greg Ryan
The Prisoner's Journal
By Sara Freeman
With Kings and Camp Counselors
By John Domini
Once Bitten
By Sarah Nicole Smetana

Music

TEN YEARS OF DUST-TO-DIGITAL: The Ongoing Mission of Moses Asch
By Christopher Nelson
Outtakes
By Steve Dalachinsky
NOT QUITE DYING David Bowie: The Next Day
By Todd Simmons
TRIXIE WHITLEY’s Dot Odyssey
By KK Kozik

Dance

Father/Figure
By Nancy Dalva

Film

JOSHUA OPPENHEIMER with Joshua Sperling The Act of Killing opens July 19 at the Landmark Sunshine Cinema
TIME AND THE CITY Jem Cohen’s Museum Hours
By Paul Dallas
DESIGN FOR LIVING Matías Piñeiro and the Art of Seduction
By Leo Goldsmith
PETER KUBELKA with Andrew Lampert, Part 2
MARGARETHE VON TROTTA with Gregory Smulewicz-Zucker

Theater

Change Story, Change Life Service and Solace Where Arts Meet Need
By Larissa Lury
A Scary and a Beautiful Place Lucy Thurber’s Hill Town Plays
By Mark Schultz
Looking for Some Bulk After Hours in East WillyB? Theater Artists Take on the Web Series
By Matthew Paul Olmos
Painful Intimacy Daniel Pearle’s A Kid Like Jake
By Mark Armstrong

Fiction

Drink and Time in Dublin
By Flann O'Brien (Myles na Gopaleen)
When the Time Comes
By Josef Winkler
Shakespeare
By Robin Hirsch
Quarry
By Robert Landon
excerpt from The Raw Edge - Issue 01
By Devin Clark
Arrowschmitt
By Arryan Decatur
Tragic Strip
By T. Motley
extracts from The Art of Joy
By Goliarda Sapienza, translated from the Italian by Anne Milano Appel, out now on FSG

Poetry

Four
By Seth Abramson
Five
By Shane Allison
Summer Journal [2012]
By Stacy Szymaszek
We Do The Polis / In Different Voices
By David Buuck

Art Books

Bad Boy: My Life On and Off the Canvas
By Corina Larkin
2013?: A Doomsday Day Planner
By Miles Klee
Garry Winogrand
By Adam Bell

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