MAR 2018

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A message from Phong Bui
Publisher and Artistic Director

Art

LUCAS BLALOCK with Charlie Schultz
SEAN SCULLY with David Carrier
LOLA FLASH with Amy Deneson
STEPHEN SHORE with Tom McGlynn

ArtSeen

Firmament & Flora Are The New Black
By Nico Wheadon
Thomas Cole’s Journey: Atlantic Crossings
By Jason Rosenfeld
TANIA BRUGUERA: Untitled (Havana, 2000)
By Magdalyn Asimakis
MAGDALENA ABAKANOWICZ: Embodied Forms
By Jonelle Mannion
NATHANIEL MELLORS: Progressive Rocks
By William Corwin
Tarsila do Amaral: Inventing Modern Art in Brazil
By Vitoria Hadba Groom
Quinn Likes Trucks
By J C
THOMAS DEMAND
By Louis Block
NATE ETHIER: Wilderness
By Jason Stopa
Apocalypse, Right Now: Abel Tilahun: Vital Signs
By William Corwin
AL TAYLOR: What Are You Looking At?
By William Whitney
An Assembly of Gods
By Hovey Brock
California Landscapes: Richard Diebenkorn / Wayne Thiebaud
By Hearne Pardee
JAYNE COUNTY: Paranoia Paradise
By Ingrid Dudek
Transformer: Native Art in Light and Sound
By Christopher Green
ROBERT MOSKOWITZ: Window Shades, 1959–62
By Barbara MacAdam
peter campus: pause
By Pac Pobric
Michael Goldberg End to End: The 1950s & 2000s
By Alfred Mac Adam
In Practice: Another Echo
By Phillip Griffith
The Sweat of Their Face: Portraying American Workers
By Andrew Holter
DEANA LAWSON
By Jessica Bell Brown
BARKLEY HENDRICKS: Them Changes
By Osman Can Yerebakan
THORNTON DIAL: Mr. Dial’s America
By Jessica Holmes
Incision: Feminist in Residence Exhibition
By Cassandra Neyenesch
PETER PLAGENS
By David Rhodes
LAUREL SPARKS: Geomantria
By Alfred Mac Adam
ROBERT RYMAN: Drawings
By Tom McGlynn
PETER DOIG
By William Davie
The Ghosts of Italy’s ’68
By Michela Moscufo
CHRISTOPHER KNOWLES: In a Word
By Vivian Li
Some Roads Yet Untraveled in Abstraction
By John Michael Colón
The Beautiful Brain: The Drawings of Santiago Ramón y Cajal
By Taney Roniger
LEANDRO ERLICH: Seeing and Believing
By Siwin Lo
Club 57
By Meredith Mowder

Critics Page

It's a Great Day When One and One Don't Add Up To Two
Guest Critic: Jonathan Fineberg
CHRISTO with Jonathan Fineberg
They Say it is Heaven
By Cynthia Oliver
Visionary Creative Interchange—An Unusual Collaboration
By David Yager
The Present and The Box
By Enrique Martinez Celaya
Inspiration and Obsession
By Josef Helfenstein
On Creativity
By Agnes Gund
Bees, Ants, Spiders, and a Side of Bacon
By May R. Berenbaum
Collective Creativity: A Few Thoughts on Filmmaking
By Rob Cohen
The Roots of Creativity
By Semir Zeki
Institutional Creativity and the Enlightened Critic
By James B. Milliken

Books

Teju Cole’s Blind Spot
By Leah Gallant
Poignant Repairs: JOHN FREEMAN GILL with Hilary Reyl
By Hilary Reyl
John Freeman Gill’s The Gargoyle Hunters
By Matt Grant
Morgan Jerkins’s This Will Be My Undoing
By Deena ElGenaidi
Dude, What’s My Age Again? Cheston Knapp’s Up Up, Down Down: Essays
By David Varno
State Your Name for the Record: NATALIE SINGER with Christine Sang
By Christine Sang
Leni Zumas’s Red Clocks
By Matt Grant

Music

Tinariwen: Elwan
By Adolf Alzuphar
Fake Music For Fake Times
By George Grella
Playlist for Prefab Houses: YouTube and the Revitalization of Japanese Ambient Music
By Sadie Rebecca Starnes
Outtakes
By Steve Dalachinsky
March Listings
By Brad Cohan
Out of Time
By George Grella

Dance

Uncanny Worlds in Familiar Spaces
By Sariel Frankfurter
An Unusual Evening of Baroque Opera and Kuchipudi Flavors
By Susanna Sloat
Suspended Animation
By Susan Yung
The Making Room: A dance performance with required reading
By Jen George
GESEL MASON with Megan Pugh
By Megan Pugh

Film

PEDRO PINHO with Jesse Cumming
By Jesse Cumming
“The Primary Event was the Performance”: Anthony McCall’s Play with Light
By Swagato Chakravorty
FEMEXFILMARCHIVE with Benjamin Schultz-Figueroa
By Benjamin Schultz-Figueroa
A Methodone Film: On Ashley McKenzie’s Werewolf
By Jessica Dunn Rovinelli
Looking Again, Slowly: On Hong Sangsoo’s Claire’s Camera
By Peter Kim

Theater

Wholehearted: Suli Holum and Deborah Stein
By Aaron Landsman
A Brave New World, at Your Doorstep
By Jim Knable

Fiction

Witch!
By Faleeha Hassan, translated by William M. Hutchins
Our Neighbors
By Faleeha Hassan, translated from the Arabic by William M. Hutchins
Disfigurements
By Kim-Anh Schreiber
Roll of the Dice
By Aniqa Naz, translated from Urdu by Daisy Rockwell
inSerial: part sixteen Delusions of Being Observed
By Lewis Warsh
Highlights from the Life of Raymond Roussel #2: Doublure
By Tom Motley
The Black Market
By Joshua Daniel

Poetry

five
By Sam Lohmann
four
By Steven Alvarez
six
By Kyle Schlesinger
The New Goldfish
By Spencer Everett
seven
By Raphael Rubinstein
two
By Patricia Spears Jones
two
By Jean Day

Verbatim

Milton Resnick: Wielding the Club
By Geoffrey Dorfman

Art Books

Stephan Keppel's Flat Finish
By Adam Bell
Tisa Bryant, Miranda Mellis, and Katie Aymar's The Encyclopedia Project, Volume III L-Z
By Eli Hill
Mirtha Dermisache's Selected Writings and Renee Gladman's Prose Architectures
By Megan N. Liberty
Eyal Weizman's Forensic Architecture: Violence at the Threshold of Detectability
By Andreas Petrossiants

Field Notes

Visions of Resilience: New York City’s Infrastructural Response to Climate Change
By Max Moorhead
Second Chances in the Era of the Jobless Future
By Zhandarka Kurti
“Despite it All!”
By Paul Mattick
Don't Mourn, Organize! Is Communism a Pipe Dream—or a Viable Future?
By Gabriel Kuhn
A New Man Is No Good on Earth: The Great Cowboy Strike
By Adam Theron-Lee Rensch

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MAR 2018

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Joshua Daniel

JOSHUA DANIEL is a new york-based cartoonist and illustrator. He makes noir comics, political comics, boardgames, and DnD characters. You can also visit his website for commissions and other things, www.thenoirguy.com, and also check out more political comics at thenoirguy.itch.io

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MAR 2018

Find the RAIL in print

Subscribe now

A message from Phong Bui
Publisher and Artistic Director

Art

LUCAS BLALOCK with Charlie Schultz
SEAN SCULLY with David Carrier
LOLA FLASH with Amy Deneson
STEPHEN SHORE with Tom McGlynn

ArtSeen

Firmament & Flora Are The New Black
By Nico Wheadon
Thomas Cole’s Journey: Atlantic Crossings
By Jason Rosenfeld
TANIA BRUGUERA: Untitled (Havana, 2000)
By Magdalyn Asimakis
MAGDALENA ABAKANOWICZ: Embodied Forms
By Jonelle Mannion
NATHANIEL MELLORS: Progressive Rocks
By William Corwin
Tarsila do Amaral: Inventing Modern Art in Brazil
By Vitoria Hadba Groom
Quinn Likes Trucks
By J C
THOMAS DEMAND
By Louis Block
NATE ETHIER: Wilderness
By Jason Stopa
Apocalypse, Right Now: Abel Tilahun: Vital Signs
By William Corwin
AL TAYLOR: What Are You Looking At?
By William Whitney
An Assembly of Gods
By Hovey Brock
California Landscapes: Richard Diebenkorn / Wayne Thiebaud
By Hearne Pardee
JAYNE COUNTY: Paranoia Paradise
By Ingrid Dudek
Transformer: Native Art in Light and Sound
By Christopher Green
ROBERT MOSKOWITZ: Window Shades, 1959–62
By Barbara MacAdam
peter campus: pause
By Pac Pobric
Michael Goldberg End to End: The 1950s & 2000s
By Alfred Mac Adam
In Practice: Another Echo
By Phillip Griffith
The Sweat of Their Face: Portraying American Workers
By Andrew Holter
DEANA LAWSON
By Jessica Bell Brown
BARKLEY HENDRICKS: Them Changes
By Osman Can Yerebakan
THORNTON DIAL: Mr. Dial’s America
By Jessica Holmes
Incision: Feminist in Residence Exhibition
By Cassandra Neyenesch
PETER PLAGENS
By David Rhodes
LAUREL SPARKS: Geomantria
By Alfred Mac Adam
ROBERT RYMAN: Drawings
By Tom McGlynn
PETER DOIG
By William Davie
The Ghosts of Italy’s ’68
By Michela Moscufo
CHRISTOPHER KNOWLES: In a Word
By Vivian Li
Some Roads Yet Untraveled in Abstraction
By John Michael Colón
The Beautiful Brain: The Drawings of Santiago Ramón y Cajal
By Taney Roniger
LEANDRO ERLICH: Seeing and Believing
By Siwin Lo
Club 57
By Meredith Mowder

Critics Page

It's a Great Day When One and One Don't Add Up To Two
Guest Critic: Jonathan Fineberg
CHRISTO with Jonathan Fineberg
They Say it is Heaven
By Cynthia Oliver
Visionary Creative Interchange—An Unusual Collaboration
By David Yager
The Present and The Box
By Enrique Martinez Celaya
Inspiration and Obsession
By Josef Helfenstein
On Creativity
By Agnes Gund
Bees, Ants, Spiders, and a Side of Bacon
By May R. Berenbaum
Collective Creativity: A Few Thoughts on Filmmaking
By Rob Cohen
The Roots of Creativity
By Semir Zeki
Institutional Creativity and the Enlightened Critic
By James B. Milliken

Books

Teju Cole’s Blind Spot
By Leah Gallant
Poignant Repairs: JOHN FREEMAN GILL with Hilary Reyl
By Hilary Reyl
John Freeman Gill’s The Gargoyle Hunters
By Matt Grant
Morgan Jerkins’s This Will Be My Undoing
By Deena ElGenaidi
Dude, What’s My Age Again? Cheston Knapp’s Up Up, Down Down: Essays
By David Varno
State Your Name for the Record: NATALIE SINGER with Christine Sang
By Christine Sang
Leni Zumas’s Red Clocks
By Matt Grant

Music

Tinariwen: Elwan
By Adolf Alzuphar
Fake Music For Fake Times
By George Grella
Playlist for Prefab Houses: YouTube and the Revitalization of Japanese Ambient Music
By Sadie Rebecca Starnes
Outtakes
By Steve Dalachinsky
March Listings
By Brad Cohan
Out of Time
By George Grella

Dance

Uncanny Worlds in Familiar Spaces
By Sariel Frankfurter
An Unusual Evening of Baroque Opera and Kuchipudi Flavors
By Susanna Sloat
Suspended Animation
By Susan Yung
The Making Room: A dance performance with required reading
By Jen George
GESEL MASON with Megan Pugh
By Megan Pugh

Film

PEDRO PINHO with Jesse Cumming
By Jesse Cumming
“The Primary Event was the Performance”: Anthony McCall’s Play with Light
By Swagato Chakravorty
FEMEXFILMARCHIVE with Benjamin Schultz-Figueroa
By Benjamin Schultz-Figueroa
A Methodone Film: On Ashley McKenzie’s Werewolf
By Jessica Dunn Rovinelli
Looking Again, Slowly: On Hong Sangsoo’s Claire’s Camera
By Peter Kim

Theater

Wholehearted: Suli Holum and Deborah Stein
By Aaron Landsman
A Brave New World, at Your Doorstep
By Jim Knable

Fiction

Witch!
By Faleeha Hassan, translated by William M. Hutchins
Our Neighbors
By Faleeha Hassan, translated from the Arabic by William M. Hutchins
Disfigurements
By Kim-Anh Schreiber
Roll of the Dice
By Aniqa Naz, translated from Urdu by Daisy Rockwell
inSerial: part sixteen Delusions of Being Observed
By Lewis Warsh
Highlights from the Life of Raymond Roussel #2: Doublure
By Tom Motley
The Black Market
By Joshua Daniel

Poetry

five
By Sam Lohmann
four
By Steven Alvarez
six
By Kyle Schlesinger
The New Goldfish
By Spencer Everett
seven
By Raphael Rubinstein
two
By Patricia Spears Jones
two
By Jean Day

Verbatim

Milton Resnick: Wielding the Club
By Geoffrey Dorfman

Art Books

Stephan Keppel's Flat Finish
By Adam Bell
Tisa Bryant, Miranda Mellis, and Katie Aymar's The Encyclopedia Project, Volume III L-Z
By Eli Hill
Mirtha Dermisache's Selected Writings and Renee Gladman's Prose Architectures
By Megan N. Liberty
Eyal Weizman's Forensic Architecture: Violence at the Threshold of Detectability
By Andreas Petrossiants

Field Notes

Visions of Resilience: New York City’s Infrastructural Response to Climate Change
By Max Moorhead
Second Chances in the Era of the Jobless Future
By Zhandarka Kurti
“Despite it All!”
By Paul Mattick
Don't Mourn, Organize! Is Communism a Pipe Dream—or a Viable Future?
By Gabriel Kuhn
A New Man Is No Good on Earth: The Great Cowboy Strike
By Adam Theron-Lee Rensch

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