JUNE 2021

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A message from Phong Bui
Publisher and Artistic Director

Art

Julie Mehretu with Phong H. Bui
KAWS with Jason Rosenfeld
Michael Snow with Raymond Foye
Adriana Varejão with Lee Ann Norman
Noel W. Anderson with Robert R. Shane

ArtSeen

Juan Uslé: Horizontal Light
By Hearne Pardee
Diana Sofia Lozano: Suspended in the Iris
By Everett Narciso
Feedback
By Tom McGlynn
Agnes Martin: The Distillation of Color
By David Rhodes
Jorge Galindo & Julian Schnabel: Flower Paintings
By Amanda Millet-Sorsa
Parallel Phenomena
By Annabel Keenan
Terry Winters: Table of Contents
By David Rhodes
Kenturah Davis: (a)Float, (a)Fall, (a)Dance, (a)Death
By Charles Moore
Kemar Keanu Wynter: Portions
By Louis Block
Ugo Rondinone: nuns + monks
By William Corwin
Nina Katchadourian: Cumulus
By Marcia E. Vetrocq
Jammie Holmes: Pieces of a Man
By Matthew Biro
Monika Baer: loose change
By Dan Cameron
John Wood and Paul Harrison: Bored
By Lyle Rexer
The Phoenix and the Mountain: In-Centric Abstraction in the ’80s
By Charles Schultz
Emily Ludwig Shaffer & Françoise Grossen
By Madeleine Seidel
Fault Lines
By Meghaa Ballakrishnen
Sydney Shen: Strange But True
By Rachel Remick
Soutine/de Kooning: Conversations in Paint
By Jonathan Fineberg
Soutine/de Kooning: Conversations in Paint
By Ruth Fine
Willem de Kooning: Men and Women and Drawings
By Benjamin Clifford
Huma Bhabha: Facing Giants
By Susan Harris
Adriana Varejão: Talavera
By Amanda Gluibizzi
“Pleasures and Possible Celebrations”: Rosemary Mayer’s Temporary Monuments, 1977–1981
By Elizabeth Buhe
David Hammons: Day’s End
By Robert Slifkin
Katherine Bradford: Philosophers’ Clambake
By Jared Quinton
David Smith: Follow My Path
By Phyllis Tuchman
Dawoud Bey: An American Project
By Marcus Civin
The Bardo: Unpacking the (un)Real
By Charlotte Kent
Joe Houston: RUINS
By Jason Rosenfeld
Ali Banisadr: These Specks of Dust
By Jessica Holmes
Don Voisine
By Tom McGlynn
Kate McQuillen: Wave Amnesia
By Robert R. Shane
Frank Bowling: London/New York
By Zoë Hopkins
Catalina Chervin: Catharsis
By Robert C. Morgan
Sands Murray-Wassink: In Good Company
By Titus Nouwens
Projects: Gabrielle L’Hirondelle Hill
By Ann C. Collins
Guy Goodwin: Mattress World
By David Rhodes
Deborah Remington: Five Decades
By Joe Bucciero
Shervone Neckles: BEACON
By William Corwin
Jacob El Hanani: Recent Works on Canvas
By Alfred Mac Adam

Critics Page

What’s possible now?
Guest Critic: Rodrigo Moura, Susanna V. Temkin, and Elia Alba
Marcela Guerrero
Lizania Cruz
Juana Valdés
Bernardo Mosqueira
Carla Acevedo Yates and Isabel Casso
Alana Hernandez
Candida Alvarez
Carolina Caycedo
Dominique Duroseau
Francis Almendárez
Herb Tam
Josh T Franco
June Canedo
Michael Menchaca
Olga Viso
Serubiri Moses

Books

Matt Bell with Joseph Scapellato
Waking From the Dream of Mark Leidner’s Poetry
By Bianca Stone
Jim Shepard’s Phase Six
By Joseph Peschel
Jonathan Santlofer with J.C. Hallman
The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison
By Samuele F.S. Pardini
Joanna Fuhrman’s To A New Era
By Liz Axelrod
Playing the Beautiful Game: David Hollander’s Anthropica
By Dina Peone

Music

Daphne A. Brooks’s Liner Notes for the Revolution
By George Grella
Shwabada
By Adolf Alzuphar
Language Muddles Music: Sebastián Maria
By S. David
Beans and the Avant-Garde in Hip Hop
By Rob Duguay
Listening In: Keshav Batish, Both/And
By Scott Gutterman

Dance

Playing with the Truth: Jonathan Jakubowicz’s Resistance and the Memory of Marcel Marceau
By Christopher Atamian
A Choreographed Return to Theaters
By Noa Weiss
New Prayer For Now
By Jen C. George
Formal / Nature
By Susan Yung
Bill T. Jones Dancing Through Disease in Can You Bring It and Afterwardsness
By Hallie Chametzky

Film

Blake Edwards’s Experiment in Terror
By Harrison Blackman
Jia Zhangke: Three Films for the New Cold War
By Daniel LoPilato
Raoul Peck’s Exterminate All the Brutes
By Ella Turenne

Theater

I Forgot to Tell You
by Sarah Einspanier, illustrations by Jana La Brasca

Fiction

from All the Water I’ve Seen Is Running
By Elias Rodriques
Dog Story
By Chris Arp

Poetry

Behavioral Therapy
By Diana Hamilton
Requiem for Elementary Language Acquisition
By Lauren Russell
three
By Sarah Jean Grimm
The Big Fake Gentrification on the Hudson Public Art or Public Fart
By Ama Birch
five
By Vyt Bakaitis
seven from Active Reception
By Noah Ross
three
By PJ Lombardo

Art Books

N.H. Pritchard’s The Matrix and EECCHHOOEESS
By Erica N. Cardwell
Maureen O’Leary’s Record
By Anthony Huffman
Deanna Dikeman’s Leaving and Waving
By Alex Merola
Interspecies Futures, Veiled Taxonomies, and Lights, Tunnels, Passages, and Shadows at Center for Book Arts
By Amber Jamilla Musser
Frankie Alduino’s Vertical Village
By Jonah Goldman Kay

In Memoriam

A Tribute to Aldo Tambellini

Special Report

The New York Health Act is Great for the Arts
By Keith Gordon

Field Notes

Both Sides Now
By Paul Mattick
The Future of Automation
By Gary Roth
Did communism make us human?
By Chris Knight
India’s Second COVID-19 Wave
By Anandi Mishra

The Miraculous

56. (The West Side Highway)
By Raphael Rubinstein
57. (The Bowery)
By Raphael Rubinstein
58. (Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx)
By Raphael Rubinstein
59. (Coney Island, 42nd Street, the Meatpacking District, among other locations)
By Raphael Rubinstein
60. (Pier 34, Hudson River)
By Raphael Rubinstein

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JUNE 2021

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JUNE 2021

Find the RAIL in print

Subscribe now

A message from Phong Bui
Publisher and Artistic Director

Art

Julie Mehretu with Phong H. Bui
KAWS with Jason Rosenfeld
Michael Snow with Raymond Foye
Adriana Varejão with Lee Ann Norman
Noel W. Anderson with Robert R. Shane

ArtSeen

Juan Uslé: Horizontal Light
By Hearne Pardee
Diana Sofia Lozano: Suspended in the Iris
By Everett Narciso
Feedback
By Tom McGlynn
Agnes Martin: The Distillation of Color
By David Rhodes
Jorge Galindo & Julian Schnabel: Flower Paintings
By Amanda Millet-Sorsa
Parallel Phenomena
By Annabel Keenan
Terry Winters: Table of Contents
By David Rhodes
Kenturah Davis: (a)Float, (a)Fall, (a)Dance, (a)Death
By Charles Moore
Kemar Keanu Wynter: Portions
By Louis Block
Ugo Rondinone: nuns + monks
By William Corwin
Nina Katchadourian: Cumulus
By Marcia E. Vetrocq
Jammie Holmes: Pieces of a Man
By Matthew Biro
Monika Baer: loose change
By Dan Cameron
John Wood and Paul Harrison: Bored
By Lyle Rexer
The Phoenix and the Mountain: In-Centric Abstraction in the ’80s
By Charles Schultz
Emily Ludwig Shaffer & Françoise Grossen
By Madeleine Seidel
Fault Lines
By Meghaa Ballakrishnen
Sydney Shen: Strange But True
By Rachel Remick
Soutine/de Kooning: Conversations in Paint
By Jonathan Fineberg
Soutine/de Kooning: Conversations in Paint
By Ruth Fine
Willem de Kooning: Men and Women and Drawings
By Benjamin Clifford
Huma Bhabha: Facing Giants
By Susan Harris
Adriana Varejão: Talavera
By Amanda Gluibizzi
“Pleasures and Possible Celebrations”: Rosemary Mayer’s Temporary Monuments, 1977–1981
By Elizabeth Buhe
David Hammons: Day’s End
By Robert Slifkin
Katherine Bradford: Philosophers’ Clambake
By Jared Quinton
David Smith: Follow My Path
By Phyllis Tuchman
Dawoud Bey: An American Project
By Marcus Civin
The Bardo: Unpacking the (un)Real
By Charlotte Kent
Joe Houston: RUINS
By Jason Rosenfeld
Ali Banisadr: These Specks of Dust
By Jessica Holmes
Don Voisine
By Tom McGlynn
Kate McQuillen: Wave Amnesia
By Robert R. Shane
Frank Bowling: London/New York
By Zoë Hopkins
Catalina Chervin: Catharsis
By Robert C. Morgan
Sands Murray-Wassink: In Good Company
By Titus Nouwens
Projects: Gabrielle L’Hirondelle Hill
By Ann C. Collins
Guy Goodwin: Mattress World
By David Rhodes
Deborah Remington: Five Decades
By Joe Bucciero
Shervone Neckles: BEACON
By William Corwin
Jacob El Hanani: Recent Works on Canvas
By Alfred Mac Adam

Critics Page

What’s possible now?
Guest Critic: Rodrigo Moura, Susanna V. Temkin, and Elia Alba
Marcela Guerrero
Lizania Cruz
Juana Valdés
Bernardo Mosqueira
Carla Acevedo Yates and Isabel Casso
Alana Hernandez
Candida Alvarez
Carolina Caycedo
Dominique Duroseau
Francis Almendárez
Herb Tam
Josh T Franco
June Canedo
Michael Menchaca
Olga Viso
Serubiri Moses

Books

Matt Bell with Joseph Scapellato
Waking From the Dream of Mark Leidner’s Poetry
By Bianca Stone
Jim Shepard’s Phase Six
By Joseph Peschel
Jonathan Santlofer with J.C. Hallman
The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison
By Samuele F.S. Pardini
Joanna Fuhrman’s To A New Era
By Liz Axelrod
Playing the Beautiful Game: David Hollander’s Anthropica
By Dina Peone

Music

Daphne A. Brooks’s Liner Notes for the Revolution
By George Grella
Shwabada
By Adolf Alzuphar
Language Muddles Music: Sebastián Maria
By S. David
Beans and the Avant-Garde in Hip Hop
By Rob Duguay
Listening In: Keshav Batish, Both/And
By Scott Gutterman

Dance

Playing with the Truth: Jonathan Jakubowicz’s Resistance and the Memory of Marcel Marceau
By Christopher Atamian
A Choreographed Return to Theaters
By Noa Weiss
New Prayer For Now
By Jen C. George
Formal / Nature
By Susan Yung
Bill T. Jones Dancing Through Disease in Can You Bring It and Afterwardsness
By Hallie Chametzky

Film

Blake Edwards’s Experiment in Terror
By Harrison Blackman
Jia Zhangke: Three Films for the New Cold War
By Daniel LoPilato
Raoul Peck’s Exterminate All the Brutes
By Ella Turenne

Theater

I Forgot to Tell You
by Sarah Einspanier, illustrations by Jana La Brasca

Fiction

from All the Water I’ve Seen Is Running
By Elias Rodriques
Dog Story
By Chris Arp

Poetry

Behavioral Therapy
By Diana Hamilton
Requiem for Elementary Language Acquisition
By Lauren Russell
three
By Sarah Jean Grimm
The Big Fake Gentrification on the Hudson Public Art or Public Fart
By Ama Birch
five
By Vyt Bakaitis
seven from Active Reception
By Noah Ross
three
By PJ Lombardo

Art Books

N.H. Pritchard’s The Matrix and EECCHHOOEESS
By Erica N. Cardwell
Maureen O’Leary’s Record
By Anthony Huffman
Deanna Dikeman’s Leaving and Waving
By Alex Merola
Interspecies Futures, Veiled Taxonomies, and Lights, Tunnels, Passages, and Shadows at Center for Book Arts
By Amber Jamilla Musser
Frankie Alduino’s Vertical Village
By Jonah Goldman Kay

In Memoriam

A Tribute to Aldo Tambellini

Special Report

The New York Health Act is Great for the Arts
By Keith Gordon

Field Notes

Both Sides Now
By Paul Mattick
The Future of Automation
By Gary Roth
Did communism make us human?
By Chris Knight
India’s Second COVID-19 Wave
By Anandi Mishra

The Miraculous

56. (The West Side Highway)
By Raphael Rubinstein
57. (The Bowery)
By Raphael Rubinstein
58. (Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx)
By Raphael Rubinstein
59. (Coney Island, 42nd Street, the Meatpacking District, among other locations)
By Raphael Rubinstein
60. (Pier 34, Hudson River)
By Raphael Rubinstein

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