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When Parents are Upstate...
By Eleanor J. Bader
REPORT CARD: The Great Technology Scam
By Liza Featherstone
BROOKLYN'S ONGOING BATTLE MICHAEL GALINSKY & SUKI HAWLEY with Williams Cole
Five Boroughs Ladies Arm Wrestling is Born on a Stage
By Lilly Bechtel
Gil Scott-Heron Remembered
By Theodore Hamm and Don Geesling

Express

THE ECONOMIC CRISIS IN FACT AND FICTION: PAUL MATTICK with John Clegg and Aaron Benanav
THE STATE AS UTOPIAN GESAMTKUNSTWERK A Summary of the First NSK Citizens’ Congress in Berlin
By Conor McGrady
Unburdened
By Rehan Ansari
The Bookseller of Chennai
By Scott Sherman
China Syndromes
By James Arnett
Can We Save Media?
By Ross Barkan
Future Shocks
By Michael Terry
BLOOD, BONES, BUTTER— Love in the Time of Prune
By Douglas Singleton

Art

MARY FRANK with John Yau
UTOPIAN STRATEGIES: Artists Anticipate their Audiences
By Carol Becker
THE PLEASURES OF ART: PETER SELZ with Jarrett Earnest
DRAWING AND ITS DOUBLE: Selections from the Instituto Nazionale per la Grafica
By Aldrin Valdez
CONRAD MARCA-RELLI City to Town
By Phong Bui
Alchemy & Inquiry
By Noah Dillon
DARK COSMOPOLITISM: A Scandinavian Sampler North by New York: New Nordic Art
By Jarrett Earnest
SHAHRAM KARIMI The Rose of Remembrance
By Phong Bui
Painted Places and Patronage
By David Novros

ArtSeen

SANNA KANNISTO Fieldwork
By Alexis Clements
JOHN CHAMBERLAIN New Sculpture
By Michael Straus
MICHAEL E. SMITH
By Lynn Crawford
BYE BYE KITTY!!!
By Gail Quagliata
RYOJI IKEDA Goes Big, Really Big
By Erin Lindholm
DAVID DEUTSCH Nothing Real
By Charles Schultz
ØYSTEIN AASAN
By David Rhodes
MORE THAN THAT: Films by Kevin Jerome Everson
By Cora Fisher
INFLUENCE OR AFFINITY? Case in Paint: Soutine and Bacon
By Robert C. Morgan
Brooklyn Dispatches
By James Kalm
GILLIAN WEARING People
By Kara L. Rooney
MATTHEW MILLER "The magic black of an open barn door on a really sunny summer day, when you just cannot see into it."
By Cassandra Neyenesch
ALAN SHIELDS Something Goin' On & On
By Anne Sherwood Pundyk
DIY Bushwick
JUDY LEDGERWOOD April Showers
By John Yau
ABSTRACT PAINTING: The New Casualists
By Sharon L. Butler
JAMES FRANCO Collage
By Patricia Milder
WEBBED OUT Cory Arcangel Goes Old School
By Allese Thomson Baker
ELLEN HARVEY in Dust to Settle
By David St.-Lascaux
SINGAPORE BIENNALE 2011: Open House
By Sherman Sam

Books

POETRY: THE SUBLIME IN THE MIDDLE AGES
By Scott Hightower
CHARLES BERNSTEIN with Adam Fitzgerald
EXIGENT DEMANDS DISCIPLESHIP EXAMINED RAINER J. HANSHE with Audrey Gray
MOLLY JONG-FAST with Susan Marque
When Everything Stinks of Decay
By Andrea Scrima
Making it New (Again)
By Justin Mitchell
Reclaiming Intimacy One Film at a Time
By Christine Hou
And the Son Coughed Up the Son
By Nicolle Elizabeth
When We Danced on Water
By Randy Rosenthal
Falling Sideways
By Winston Len
The Architect of Flowers: Stories
By Nicole Lantz
Don Juan: His Own Version
By Tatiaana L. Laine
Blank
By John Reed
Toward You
By Matthew Resignola
Rapid Transit
By Jeffrey Cyphers Wright
The FSG Book of Twentieth-Century Latin American Poetry
By Lynne Lawner

Music

Weirdness, New and Old
By Marshall Yarbrough
SHARON VAN ETTEN: Serendipity and Survival in Brooklyn
By Katy Henriksen
ROOTS? WE CALL IT FILTHY LIVING Holly Golightly and the Brokeoffs at the Knitting Factory
By Billups Allen
ADVANCED CONCEPTS IN THE VOCAL ETHER Quince Vocal Ensemble and Parias Ensemble
By David St.-Lascaux
Outtakes
By Steve Dalachinsky

Dance

BRIAN ROGERS with Claudia La Rocco
Letter from Manhattan
By Nancy Dalva
What to Throw Away, What to Keep
By Patricia Milder
Objects of Comfort
By Christine Hou
Class Consciousness
By Siobhan Burke
Instead of Back Up
By Thom Donovan

Film

THAI FUSION Uruphong Raksasad’s Agrarian Utopia and Stories from the North
By Colin Beckett
UNKNOWN PLEASURES Pacific Film Archive's Radical Light
By Gregory Zinman
DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT WE ARE TRYING TO DO HERE? Lynn Hershman Leeson's Meta-Project
By Jarrett Earnest
BODY AND SOUL Frederick Wiseman's Boxing Gym
By Caroline Koebel

Theater

ANOTHER PLANET The Berlin Theatertreffen
By Lydia Stryk
STAGE MANGERS Lloyd Davis Jr., Cole Bonenberger, and Martha Donaldson with Gary Winter
CRYSTAL SKILLMAN on THE COMIC BOOK THEATER FESTIVAL!
By Crystal Skillman
How to Build a Forest with Pearl D'Amour and Shawn Hall
By Lizzie Olesker
BRINGING BACK THE BIG New Gerges's The Germ Project
By Charise Castro Smith

Fiction

Jesus’ Dog
By M.G. Stephens
FÉDER or the Gilded Husband
By Stendhall , translated from the French by Brian Evenson
The Blind Dates
By Susan Bernofsky
Character and Fitness: Chapter 11
By Jason Flores-Williams
Character and Fitness: Chapter 12
By Jason Flores-Williams
Tragic Strip
By T. Motley

Poetry

Moments Without Vision
By Jennifer Moxley
In Media Res
By Jennifer Moxley
A Gaze
By Brenda Coultas
from “147 Million Orphans: A Haybun”
By Eileen Tabios

Art Books

Light Out for the Territory
By John Ganz
Architectural Specters of the Eastern Bloc
By Greg Lindquist

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JUNE 2011

Find the RAIL in print

Subscribe now

Local

When Parents are Upstate...
By Eleanor J. Bader
REPORT CARD: The Great Technology Scam
By Liza Featherstone
BROOKLYN'S ONGOING BATTLE MICHAEL GALINSKY & SUKI HAWLEY with Williams Cole
Five Boroughs Ladies Arm Wrestling is Born on a Stage
By Lilly Bechtel
Gil Scott-Heron Remembered
By Theodore Hamm and Don Geesling

Express

THE ECONOMIC CRISIS IN FACT AND FICTION: PAUL MATTICK with John Clegg and Aaron Benanav
THE STATE AS UTOPIAN GESAMTKUNSTWERK A Summary of the First NSK Citizens’ Congress in Berlin
By Conor McGrady
Unburdened
By Rehan Ansari
The Bookseller of Chennai
By Scott Sherman
China Syndromes
By James Arnett
Can We Save Media?
By Ross Barkan
Future Shocks
By Michael Terry
BLOOD, BONES, BUTTER— Love in the Time of Prune
By Douglas Singleton

Art

MARY FRANK with John Yau
UTOPIAN STRATEGIES: Artists Anticipate their Audiences
By Carol Becker
THE PLEASURES OF ART: PETER SELZ with Jarrett Earnest
DRAWING AND ITS DOUBLE: Selections from the Instituto Nazionale per la Grafica
By Aldrin Valdez
CONRAD MARCA-RELLI City to Town
By Phong Bui
Alchemy & Inquiry
By Noah Dillon
DARK COSMOPOLITISM: A Scandinavian Sampler North by New York: New Nordic Art
By Jarrett Earnest
SHAHRAM KARIMI The Rose of Remembrance
By Phong Bui
Painted Places and Patronage
By David Novros

ArtSeen

SANNA KANNISTO Fieldwork
By Alexis Clements
JOHN CHAMBERLAIN New Sculpture
By Michael Straus
MICHAEL E. SMITH
By Lynn Crawford
BYE BYE KITTY!!!
By Gail Quagliata
RYOJI IKEDA Goes Big, Really Big
By Erin Lindholm
DAVID DEUTSCH Nothing Real
By Charles Schultz
ØYSTEIN AASAN
By David Rhodes
MORE THAN THAT: Films by Kevin Jerome Everson
By Cora Fisher
INFLUENCE OR AFFINITY? Case in Paint: Soutine and Bacon
By Robert C. Morgan
Brooklyn Dispatches
By James Kalm
GILLIAN WEARING People
By Kara L. Rooney
MATTHEW MILLER "The magic black of an open barn door on a really sunny summer day, when you just cannot see into it."
By Cassandra Neyenesch
ALAN SHIELDS Something Goin' On & On
By Anne Sherwood Pundyk
DIY Bushwick
JUDY LEDGERWOOD April Showers
By John Yau
ABSTRACT PAINTING: The New Casualists
By Sharon L. Butler
JAMES FRANCO Collage
By Patricia Milder
WEBBED OUT Cory Arcangel Goes Old School
By Allese Thomson Baker
ELLEN HARVEY in Dust to Settle
By David St.-Lascaux
SINGAPORE BIENNALE 2011: Open House
By Sherman Sam

Books

POETRY: THE SUBLIME IN THE MIDDLE AGES
By Scott Hightower
CHARLES BERNSTEIN with Adam Fitzgerald
EXIGENT DEMANDS DISCIPLESHIP EXAMINED RAINER J. HANSHE with Audrey Gray
MOLLY JONG-FAST with Susan Marque
When Everything Stinks of Decay
By Andrea Scrima
Making it New (Again)
By Justin Mitchell
Reclaiming Intimacy One Film at a Time
By Christine Hou
And the Son Coughed Up the Son
By Nicolle Elizabeth
When We Danced on Water
By Randy Rosenthal
Falling Sideways
By Winston Len
The Architect of Flowers: Stories
By Nicole Lantz
Don Juan: His Own Version
By Tatiaana L. Laine
Blank
By John Reed
Toward You
By Matthew Resignola
Rapid Transit
By Jeffrey Cyphers Wright
The FSG Book of Twentieth-Century Latin American Poetry
By Lynne Lawner

Music

Weirdness, New and Old
By Marshall Yarbrough
SHARON VAN ETTEN: Serendipity and Survival in Brooklyn
By Katy Henriksen
ROOTS? WE CALL IT FILTHY LIVING Holly Golightly and the Brokeoffs at the Knitting Factory
By Billups Allen
ADVANCED CONCEPTS IN THE VOCAL ETHER Quince Vocal Ensemble and Parias Ensemble
By David St.-Lascaux
Outtakes
By Steve Dalachinsky

Dance

BRIAN ROGERS with Claudia La Rocco
Letter from Manhattan
By Nancy Dalva
What to Throw Away, What to Keep
By Patricia Milder
Objects of Comfort
By Christine Hou
Class Consciousness
By Siobhan Burke
Instead of Back Up
By Thom Donovan

Film

THAI FUSION Uruphong Raksasad’s Agrarian Utopia and Stories from the North
By Colin Beckett
UNKNOWN PLEASURES Pacific Film Archive's Radical Light
By Gregory Zinman
DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT WE ARE TRYING TO DO HERE? Lynn Hershman Leeson's Meta-Project
By Jarrett Earnest
BODY AND SOUL Frederick Wiseman's Boxing Gym
By Caroline Koebel

Theater

ANOTHER PLANET The Berlin Theatertreffen
By Lydia Stryk
STAGE MANGERS Lloyd Davis Jr., Cole Bonenberger, and Martha Donaldson with Gary Winter
CRYSTAL SKILLMAN on THE COMIC BOOK THEATER FESTIVAL!
By Crystal Skillman
How to Build a Forest with Pearl D'Amour and Shawn Hall
By Lizzie Olesker
BRINGING BACK THE BIG New Gerges's The Germ Project
By Charise Castro Smith

Fiction

Jesus’ Dog
By M.G. Stephens
FÉDER or the Gilded Husband
By Stendhall , translated from the French by Brian Evenson
The Blind Dates
By Susan Bernofsky
Character and Fitness: Chapter 11
By Jason Flores-Williams
Character and Fitness: Chapter 12
By Jason Flores-Williams
Tragic Strip
By T. Motley

Poetry

Moments Without Vision
By Jennifer Moxley
In Media Res
By Jennifer Moxley
A Gaze
By Brenda Coultas
from “147 Million Orphans: A Haybun”
By Eileen Tabios

Art Books

Light Out for the Territory
By John Ganz
Architectural Specters of the Eastern Bloc
By Greg Lindquist

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