Art In Conversation
PROMISCUOUS COMPASSION
JOHN GIORNO with Jarrett Earnest
John Giorno has been a New York icon since he stared in Andy Warhols Sleep in 1963. Since that time he as explored sound, image, performance, and video collages from a poets perspective.
ALFREDO JAAR Shadows
By Ann McCoyTo explore the profound impact of Shadows, one must begin with Alfredo Jaar, the architect. Jaars site-specific spaces at Lelong have no equivalency in contemporary architecture.
Invisible City and Night Walk by Ken Schles
By Adam BellIt was almost 10 years after Gerald Ford told New York City to drop dead that a young Ken Schles picked up a camera and began to document his life in the East Village and Alphabet City.
Artistic License
By Richard KlinKim Gordon is an artistic polymath, steeped in visual art, film, the written word. Her primary focus is music: for three decades, the world knew her as Sonic Youths inscrutable bassist. Girl in a Band is Gordons literate memoir of following the forward wave of momentum, noise, and motion that led to New York City, to husband and bandmate Thurston Moore, and to the long-running Sonic Youth.
From the Publisher & Artistic Director
Dear Friends and Readers,
By Phong BuiWhat a month to summarize. First, there was my trip to Cranbrook Academy, under the invitation of the artist/teacher Beverly Fishman, where I spent three full days looking at the work of her remarkable graduate students in their studios.
Editor's Message Guest Critic
Editor's Note
By Bob HolmanAt the Anyway Cafe afterparty for the screening celebrating Raymond Foyes Critics Page in the December 2014/January 2015 issue of the Rail, I asked him how he managed to put the whole section together in three weeks.
Critics Page
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How Kora Was Born
– as sung by Papa Susso to Bob Holman -
SAMANTHA THORNHILL
Ode to Gentrification -
ADAM FALKNER
Ode to Seagull -
JON SANDS
If You Were On That Train -
ELANA BELL
Elegy for Nina Simone -
SYREETA MCFADDEN
Untitled For Charles -
YURI MARDER
Endangered Language Portraits -
Endangered Language Alliance
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Iguanazul
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SAMUEL JABLON & STEFAN BONDELL with Bob Holman
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The State of Our Union
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Peoples State of the Union Sonnets
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Q&A with Adam Horowitz
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NIKHIL MELNECHUK with Bob Holman
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Sono Kuwayama
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Joan Grubin
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PHONG BUI with Bob Holman
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The Hammer of Justice
– By Bob Holman
ArtSeen
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Letter from SINGAPORE
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In the Studio: Photographs
– By David Carrier
In the Studio: Paintings -
Peter Williams
– By Sara Roffino -
JOANNE GRÜNE-YANOFF Between the Skin and the Prop
– By Jonathan Goodman -
LAURA KINA Blue Hawaii
– By Jonathan Goodman -
HITO STEYERL
– By Maya Harakawa -
CORDY RYMAN Chimera 45
– By Phong Bui -
Theory Mapping in the Interregnum: LISA DAVIS, New Paintings
– By Joan Waltemath -
EMILY MASON Recent Paintings
– By Phong Bui -
ALFREDO JAAR Shadows
– By Ann McCoy -
CLAIRE FONTAINE Stop Seeking Approval
– By Liam Considine -
The Plains Indians: Artists of Earth and Sky
– By Christopher Green -
MARSHA COTTRELL
– By Taney Roniger -
GIUSEPPE PENONE Indistinti confini / Indistinct Boundaries
– By Adele Tutter -
GUNTHER FORG Lead Paintings
– By David Rhodes -
SAMARA GOLDEN The Flat Side of the Knife
– By Kate Liebman -
MICHAEL SNOW A Group Show
– By Chloe Wilcox -
ADAM MAGYAR: KONTINUUM
– By Samuel Feldblum -
Under the Mexican Sky: Gabriel FigueroaArt and Film
– By Simone Krug -
Moving Image Department and Stanislav Kolíbal
– By William Corwin -
Experiments with Truth: Gandhi and Images of Nonviolence
– By Jonathan Fineberg -
TATIANA TROUVE Desire Lines
– By Sarah Goffstein -
HADIEH SHAFIE Surfaced
– By Hovey Brock -
Joyce Pensato
– By Tatiana Istomina
Table of Contents
Publisher's Message
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Dear Friends and Readers,
– By Phong Bui
Editor's Message
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Editor's Note
– By Bob Holman
Art
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JUDITH BERNSTEIN with Corina Larkin
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ILYA AND EMILIA KABAKOV with Joyce Beckenstein
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PROMISCUOUS COMPASSION JOHN GIORNO with Jarrett Earnest
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GLENN GOLDBERG with Phong Bui
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ALEX DA CORTE with Jarrett Earnest
ArtSeen
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Letter from SINGAPORE
– By Hearne Pardee -
In the Studio: Photographs In the Studio: Paintings
– By David Carrier -
Peter Williams
– By Sara Roffino -
JOANNE GRÜNE-YANOFF Between the Skin and the Prop
– By Jonathan Goodman -
LAURA KINA Blue Hawaii
– By Jonathan Goodman -
HITO STEYERL
– By Maya Harakawa -
CORDY RYMAN Chimera 45
– By Phong Bui -
Theory Mapping in the Interregnum: LISA DAVIS, New Paintings
– By Joan Waltemath -
EMILY MASON Recent Paintings
– By Phong Bui -
ALFREDO JAAR Shadows
– By Ann McCoy -
CLAIRE FONTAINE Stop Seeking Approval
– By Liam Considine -
The Plains Indians: Artists of Earth and Sky
– By Christopher Green -
MARSHA COTTRELL
– By Taney Roniger -
GIUSEPPE PENONE Indistinti confini / Indistinct Boundaries
– By Adele Tutter -
GUNTHER FORG Lead Paintings
– By David Rhodes -
SAMARA GOLDEN The Flat Side of the Knife
– By Kate Liebman -
MICHAEL SNOW A Group Show
– By Chloe Wilcox -
ADAM MAGYAR: KONTINUUM
– By Samuel Feldblum -
Under the Mexican Sky: Gabriel FigueroaArt and Film
– By Simone Krug -
Moving Image Department and Stanislav Kolíbal
– By William Corwin -
Experiments with Truth: Gandhi and Images of Nonviolence
– By Jonathan Fineberg -
TATIANA TROUVE Desire Lines
– By Sarah Goffstein -
HADIEH SHAFIE Surfaced
– By Hovey Brock -
Joyce Pensato
– By Tatiana Istomina
Critics Page
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How Kora Was Born
– as sung by Papa Susso to Bob Holman -
SAMANTHA THORNHILL Ode to Gentrification
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ADAM FALKNER Ode to Seagull
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JON SANDS If You Were On That Train
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ELANA BELL Elegy for Nina Simone
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SYREETA MCFADDEN Untitled For Charles
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YURI MARDER Endangered Language Portraits
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Endangered Language Alliance
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Iguanazul
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SAMUEL JABLON & STEFAN BONDELL with Bob Holman
-
The State of Our Union
– -
Peoples State of the Union Sonnets
– By Marilyn Nelson and Luis J. Rodriguez -
Q&A with Adam Horowitz
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NIKHIL MELNECHUK with Bob Holman
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Sono Kuwayama
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Joan Grubin
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PHONG BUI with Bob Holman
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The Hammer of Justice
– By Bob Holman
Books
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The Glory of Grammar
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Unsentimental Education
– By Keenan McCracken -
ALICE EVE COHEN with Caroline Leavitt
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This Is Belgian Chocolate: Manifestations of Poetry
– By Sharon Mesmer -
Seeking Control and Connection
– By Catherine LaSota -
MARK WISNIEWSKI with Daniel Woodrell
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The Crossdressers Secret
– By Brooks Adams -
Painglorious
– By Madeline Gressel -
Hybrid Beings
– By Jill Dehnert -
Guilty as Charged
– By Katharina Smundak -
The Uncertainty Principle
– By Geoffrey Young -
Jaime Clarke in Conversation with David Bezmozgis, Maud Casey, Ramona Ausubel, Hannah Pittard, Rebecca Makkai, Charles Bock, Brock Clarke, David James Poissant, and Lydia Millet
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Secrets and Lives
– By Marina Petrova -
In the Dark without Searchlights
– By Maya Solovej -
Patrick Phillips in conversation with Hirsh Sawhney
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Game of Scribes: Chaucer and the Invention of the Maximalist Narrative
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RADICAL ALTERITY MIKE YOUNG with Elizabeth Trundle
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Time Ages In a Hurry: Stories
– By John Domini -
WHAT WE ARE TALKING ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT CANNABIS: Alyson Martin and Nushin Rashidian with Amy Deneson
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Peter Pan: the Ultimate Alt-Bro
– By Ashley P. Taylor
Music
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Brooklyn Rail Highly Selective Music Events
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Diary of a Mad Composer
– By George Grella -
Recommended New and Recent Books on Music
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Informative, Delightful, A Little Depressing
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Time Cycles
– By George Grella -
Life of the Party Music
– By Kevin Goins -
Artistic License
– By Richard Klin -
Outtakes
– By Steve Dalachinsky
Dance
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THE NAKED SKELETON Some Notes on the Danse Macabre
– By Madison Mainwaring -
HOUSES WITHOUT MASTERS Part 1 of 2 on Platform 2015: Dancers, Buildings, and People in the Streets
– By Siobhan Burke -
GILLIAN WALSH: STRUCTURE PERVERT
– By Jaime Shearn Coan
Film
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TOWARDS A TIRED CINEMA Tsai Ming-Liangs Rebels of the Neon God
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THE PASSENGER: J.P. Sniadeckis The Iron Ministry
– By Max Goldberg -
BASIM MAGDY with Xin Zhou
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To All the Pomegranates We Lost Along the Way
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Bad City Nocturne: Ana Lily Amirpours A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
– By Lauren Wallach
Theater
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Digging Through Sin: Ally Collier Tunnels Down Underland
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Lemon Andersens ToasT goes Public
– By Susan Soon He Stanton
Fiction
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from Living Up
– By Matt Nelson -
Transvestite
– by David Dumortier, translated from the French under the direction of Emmanuelle Ertel, Director of NYUรข??s M. A. in Literary Translation: French to English. -
Approach of the Word
– by Lorand Gaspar, translated from the French by Mary Ann Caws from his book Sol Absolu forthcoming from Contramundum -
from Miransù
– by Monica Sarsini, translated from the Italian by Maryann De Julio
Poetry
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Three
– By Andrew Gorin -
Seven
– By Kevin Killian -
Mock Draft
– By Jim Behrle -
Three
– By Maryam Parhizkar -
Three
– By Nada Gordon -
High as a Georgia Pine
– By Brandon Brown
Art Books
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The Choreographic by Jenn Joy
– By Jess Wilcox -
Invisible City and Night Walk by Ken Schles
– By Adam Bell
Field Notes
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Editor's Note
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A TALE OF TWO AGES STEVE FRASER with Gary Roth
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The Great Wheel
– By Phil A. Neel -
On Movies, Dynasties, and Hope
– By Jose Tapía Granados