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Art

JACOB COLLINS with MARY ANN CAWS: Thinking About Ateliers
By Mary Ann Caws
JOHN HOUCK with Charlie Schultz
HILTON ALS with Jarrett Earnest
ANDREA FRASER with Thyrza Nichols Goodeve
BARKLEY L. HENDRICKS with Laila Pedro
BILL CONLON with Barbara Rose
BETTY WOODMAN with Phong Bui
“I’ll take a picture of you, do you want to hide behind the code?” Michael Riedel and Jarrett Earnest at the American Museum of Natural History
By Jarrett Earnest
NANCY DAVIDSON with Ashley McNelis

ArtSeen

Nora Griffin: Modern Love
By Darragh McNicholas
MARCEL BROODTHAERS A Retrospective
By Tom McGlynn
JULIANA CERQUEIRA LEITE: INTRANSITIVE
By Phillip Griffith
Late Medieval Panel Paintings II: Materials, Methods, Meanings
By David Carrier
JEAN SHIN Surface Tension
By Jonathan Goodman
MOLLY LOWE Redwood
By Samuel Feldblum
CHELSEA CULPRIT Blessed With a Job
By Ashton Cooper
GABRIEL LIMA life, vest ; coffee, tray
By Joyce Beckenstein
SOUNDING THE NEW CARRIE MOYER Sirens
By Clarity Haynes
TAMARA JOHNSON No Your Boundaries
By Kate Harding
Munch and Expressionism
By Hovey Brock
TIM HAWKINSON Counterclockwise
By Jessica Holmes
KAREN KILIMNIK
By Jessica Caroline Holburn
BERLINDE DE BRUYCKERE No Life Lost
By Sarah Goffstein
SUZANNE MCCLELLAND Articulate Muscle 1976
By Terence Trouillot
MEL BOCHNER AND ALIGHIERO BOETTI Verba Volant Scripta Manent
By Kara L. Rooney
HERMENEUTICS OF EVERYTHING MARK GREENWOLD The Rumble of Panic Underlying Everything
By Phong Bui
NICKY NODJOUMI You and Me
By Yasi Alipour
THE LADY IS A TRAMP Vigée Le Brun
By Adele Tutter
Truth in the Visual Arts Skepticism in the Work of Ellen K. Levy and Patricia Olynyk
By William Corwin
Torkwase Dyson: Unkeeping
By Alexandra Fowle
CARL BOUTARD Life is Elsewhere
By Jonathan Goodman
THOMAS NOZKOWSKI Works on Paper
By Margaret Graham
“I’ll Stick With Exactly What I Said.” Slavs and Tatars Mirrors for Princes
By ANTHONY HAWLEY
MARTIN PURYEAR Multiple Dimensions
By Kate Liebman
MARYAM JAFRI Economy Corner
By Tom McGlynn

Critics Page

Looking Into the Darkness of One’s Time
Guest Critic: Anne Waldman
Rhizome of Poets
By Alystyre Julian
After Rilke
By Bernadette Mayer
A Winsome Pinnock
By Lisa Jarnot
Notebook, 1981
By Eileen Myles
as if your life depends on it
By Evie Shockley
How We Cause the Universe to Exist
By Alice Notley
Holland Tunnel
By Emily Skillings
Corpses, Arts and Dreams Of An Excerpt
By Poupeh Missaghi
La Peira | (The Stone)
by Marcela Delpastre, translated from the Occitan by Nicole Peyrafitte & Pierre Joris
LOST AND FOUND Excerpts from Murderers Criminals Join Sunlight
By Kathy Acker
LOST AND FOUND Dharma Committee Rules
By Joanne Kyger
LOST AND FOUND Barcelona, 19361
By Muriel Rukeyser
LOST AND FOUND I. The Boat is Tethered to the Floor
By Helene Johnson
Song for the Deadbeat
By Laura Hinton
Land Art
By Jennifer Foerster
Excerpt from “Contes d’une tête tranchée” in Blessures au vent
by Rachida Madani, translated by Pierre Joris
Ugly Duckling Presse
UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE Stop
By Jennifer Nelson
UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE i. Preface, Part I of Love, Delight, and Alarm
By Karen Weiser
UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE with Anne Waldman
DAVID HINTON
Premonition of Barrel Bombs (Syria)
By Sterrett Smith
Good Stock
By Dawn Lundy Martin
DAWN LUNDY MARTIN with Anne Waldman
Excerpt from A Year from Today
By Stacy Szymaszek
Oracle, or, Utopia
By Eleni Sikelianos
Infrastructure Poetics STACY SZYMASZEK with Anne Waldman
Friday March 25 at 4 pm
By Etel Adnan
Dixie Don’t Shoot
By Kristin Prevallet
NEW YORK STREETS: 2013 - 2015 Cement Resistance, Fume through a Vacuum
By No Land
Drawings from Markets in (New) Delhi
By Miriam Gross
To Err on the Side of Peace
By Allison Adelle Hedge Coke
Dead Horse Watch
By Allison Adelle Hedge Coke
ALLISON ADELLE HEDGE COKE with Anne Waldman
Shall We Cut The Cake
By Anne Carson
VIVIEN BITTENCOURT with Vincent Katz
ALEXIS MYRE Power of Limits
By Amy Matterer
ALEXIS MYRE with Anne Waldman
Use Alternate Route
By Alan Gilbert
HOMAGES TO LEROI JONES Excerpt from Diary
By Kathy Acker
HOMAGE TO LEROI JONES Dream
By Joanne Kyger
HOMAGE TO LEROI JONES [John Wieners to Joanne Kyger]
HOMAGE TO LEROI JONES Poem from John W. [to Joanne Kyger] September, 1972
By John Wieners
HOMAGE TO LEROI JONES For O.B.
By Muriel Rukeyser
Rachida Madani
THOMAS SAYERS ELLIS with Anne Waldman (January 2016)
Diaries of an Artist The Art and Writing of Rosemary Mayer
By Marie Warsh and Gillian Sneed
Champion Flowers
By Emily Skillings

Books

No Judgments
By J.T. Price
A Pill for the Heart
By Taney Roniger
The Imponderable Bloom
By Dustin Illingworth
Escape from American Noise
By John Domini
Don’t Think
By Ryan Krull
CHRIS BACHELDER with Weston Cutter
The Art of Stepping Away from the Internet
By Gretchen Schmid
The Suicide of Claire Bishop
By David Joiner
Abandon All Hope, Ye Who Enter Here
By Yvonne C. Garrett
This Great Violence
By Simona Blat
The Curiosity of the Long Distance Runner
By Aditi Sriram

Music

Brooklyn Rail Highly Selective Music Events
Masters of Their Own Reality
By George Grella
Shapeshifter Star
By Yvonne Juris
The Amateur Sound: nonkeen
By Marshall Yarbrough
Outtakes
By Steve Dalachinsky

Dance

A Slippery and Elusive Quality
By Erica Getto
Notes on PLASTIC
By Stormy Budwig

Film

Girl’s Best Friend: Alexander Chee and The Earrings of Madame de...
By Brittany Stigler
ROSS LIPMAN with Tanya Goldman
PEMA TSEDEN with Lu Yangqiao
Planetarium of Blended Dreams BEN COONLEY Moonley
By Felix Bernstein
On John Latham’s Films
By Nathan Dunne
Radu Jude’s Aferim! and the Politics of Distance
By Mihai-Dan Cirjan

Theater

Tragedy in Spades: A Crime Documentary TELE-VIOLET’s Reenactment Ceremony
By Roger Babb
The Play, Space, and Grace of Antlia Pneumatica ANNE WASHBURN with Peggy Stafford
For This Moment I Would Give My Whole Life! Robert Lyons and Kristin Marting’s Idiot
By Erin Courtney
Getting Graphic with finkle: U R ★
By Trista Baldwin
Feeding the Lake: Charlotte Miller’s Ugly Little Sister at Strasberg
By Michael Padden

Fiction

Sandy Cinderella A Scene from Daily Life in al-Najaf, Iraq
by Faleeha Hassan, translated from the Arabic by William M. Hutchins
A False Accounting
By Tan Lin
Masters of Despair
By Anna Mockler
The Joyous Science, Part 1 The True Story of the Famous Bruce, Composed in Verse from the Accounts of Several Eyewitnesses
by Maxim Amelin, translated from the Russian by Derek Mong and Anne O. Fisher
from Kid Coole
By M. G. Stephens
Les Halles, Belly Of Paris from Paris Vagabond by Jean-Paul Clebert
with photographs by Patrice Molinard, translated from the French by Donald Nicholson-Smith, out now from NYRB Classics
Guy
By Tom Motley

Poetry

Excerpt from Voice’s Daughter of a Heart Yet To Be Born
By Anne Waldman
Five
By Edwin Torres
Two
By Nina Puro
Five
By Todd Colby

Verbatim

HEDDA STERNE: Passport to Safety

Art Books

On a Universal Serial Bus
By Madeline Weisburg

Field Notes

Editor’s Note
By Paul Mattick
BREXIT A New Crisis Acronym
By Tony Norfield
Let Us Be Terrible: Considerations on the Jacobin Club
By Jason E. Smith
An exchange on the perspectives for the world economy
By Jose A. Tapia

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APR 2016

Find the RAIL in print

Subscribe now

A message from Phong Bui
Publisher and Artistic Director

Art

JACOB COLLINS with MARY ANN CAWS: Thinking About Ateliers
By Mary Ann Caws
JOHN HOUCK with Charlie Schultz
HILTON ALS with Jarrett Earnest
ANDREA FRASER with Thyrza Nichols Goodeve
BARKLEY L. HENDRICKS with Laila Pedro
BILL CONLON with Barbara Rose
BETTY WOODMAN with Phong Bui
“I’ll take a picture of you, do you want to hide behind the code?” Michael Riedel and Jarrett Earnest at the American Museum of Natural History
By Jarrett Earnest
NANCY DAVIDSON with Ashley McNelis

ArtSeen

Nora Griffin: Modern Love
By Darragh McNicholas
MARCEL BROODTHAERS A Retrospective
By Tom McGlynn
JULIANA CERQUEIRA LEITE: INTRANSITIVE
By Phillip Griffith
Late Medieval Panel Paintings II: Materials, Methods, Meanings
By David Carrier
JEAN SHIN Surface Tension
By Jonathan Goodman
MOLLY LOWE Redwood
By Samuel Feldblum
CHELSEA CULPRIT Blessed With a Job
By Ashton Cooper
GABRIEL LIMA life, vest ; coffee, tray
By Joyce Beckenstein
SOUNDING THE NEW CARRIE MOYER Sirens
By Clarity Haynes
TAMARA JOHNSON No Your Boundaries
By Kate Harding
Munch and Expressionism
By Hovey Brock
TIM HAWKINSON Counterclockwise
By Jessica Holmes
KAREN KILIMNIK
By Jessica Caroline Holburn
BERLINDE DE BRUYCKERE No Life Lost
By Sarah Goffstein
SUZANNE MCCLELLAND Articulate Muscle 1976
By Terence Trouillot
MEL BOCHNER AND ALIGHIERO BOETTI Verba Volant Scripta Manent
By Kara L. Rooney
HERMENEUTICS OF EVERYTHING MARK GREENWOLD The Rumble of Panic Underlying Everything
By Phong Bui
NICKY NODJOUMI You and Me
By Yasi Alipour
THE LADY IS A TRAMP Vigée Le Brun
By Adele Tutter
Truth in the Visual Arts Skepticism in the Work of Ellen K. Levy and Patricia Olynyk
By William Corwin
Torkwase Dyson: Unkeeping
By Alexandra Fowle
CARL BOUTARD Life is Elsewhere
By Jonathan Goodman
THOMAS NOZKOWSKI Works on Paper
By Margaret Graham
“I’ll Stick With Exactly What I Said.” Slavs and Tatars Mirrors for Princes
By ANTHONY HAWLEY
MARTIN PURYEAR Multiple Dimensions
By Kate Liebman
MARYAM JAFRI Economy Corner
By Tom McGlynn

Critics Page

Looking Into the Darkness of One’s Time
Guest Critic: Anne Waldman
Rhizome of Poets
By Alystyre Julian
After Rilke
By Bernadette Mayer
A Winsome Pinnock
By Lisa Jarnot
Notebook, 1981
By Eileen Myles
as if your life depends on it
By Evie Shockley
How We Cause the Universe to Exist
By Alice Notley
Holland Tunnel
By Emily Skillings
Corpses, Arts and Dreams Of An Excerpt
By Poupeh Missaghi
La Peira | (The Stone)
by Marcela Delpastre, translated from the Occitan by Nicole Peyrafitte & Pierre Joris
LOST AND FOUND Excerpts from Murderers Criminals Join Sunlight
By Kathy Acker
LOST AND FOUND Dharma Committee Rules
By Joanne Kyger
LOST AND FOUND Barcelona, 19361
By Muriel Rukeyser
LOST AND FOUND I. The Boat is Tethered to the Floor
By Helene Johnson
Song for the Deadbeat
By Laura Hinton
Land Art
By Jennifer Foerster
Excerpt from “Contes d’une tête tranchée” in Blessures au vent
by Rachida Madani, translated by Pierre Joris
Ugly Duckling Presse
UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE Stop
By Jennifer Nelson
UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE i. Preface, Part I of Love, Delight, and Alarm
By Karen Weiser
UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE with Anne Waldman
DAVID HINTON
Premonition of Barrel Bombs (Syria)
By Sterrett Smith
Good Stock
By Dawn Lundy Martin
DAWN LUNDY MARTIN with Anne Waldman
Excerpt from A Year from Today
By Stacy Szymaszek
Oracle, or, Utopia
By Eleni Sikelianos
Infrastructure Poetics STACY SZYMASZEK with Anne Waldman
Friday March 25 at 4 pm
By Etel Adnan
Dixie Don’t Shoot
By Kristin Prevallet
NEW YORK STREETS: 2013 - 2015 Cement Resistance, Fume through a Vacuum
By No Land
Drawings from Markets in (New) Delhi
By Miriam Gross
To Err on the Side of Peace
By Allison Adelle Hedge Coke
Dead Horse Watch
By Allison Adelle Hedge Coke
ALLISON ADELLE HEDGE COKE with Anne Waldman
Shall We Cut The Cake
By Anne Carson
VIVIEN BITTENCOURT with Vincent Katz
ALEXIS MYRE Power of Limits
By Amy Matterer
ALEXIS MYRE with Anne Waldman
Use Alternate Route
By Alan Gilbert
HOMAGES TO LEROI JONES Excerpt from Diary
By Kathy Acker
HOMAGE TO LEROI JONES Dream
By Joanne Kyger
HOMAGE TO LEROI JONES [John Wieners to Joanne Kyger]
HOMAGE TO LEROI JONES Poem from John W. [to Joanne Kyger] September, 1972
By John Wieners
HOMAGE TO LEROI JONES For O.B.
By Muriel Rukeyser
Rachida Madani
THOMAS SAYERS ELLIS with Anne Waldman (January 2016)
Diaries of an Artist The Art and Writing of Rosemary Mayer
By Marie Warsh and Gillian Sneed
Champion Flowers
By Emily Skillings

Books

No Judgments
By J.T. Price
A Pill for the Heart
By Taney Roniger
The Imponderable Bloom
By Dustin Illingworth
Escape from American Noise
By John Domini
Don’t Think
By Ryan Krull
CHRIS BACHELDER with Weston Cutter
The Art of Stepping Away from the Internet
By Gretchen Schmid
The Suicide of Claire Bishop
By David Joiner
Abandon All Hope, Ye Who Enter Here
By Yvonne C. Garrett
This Great Violence
By Simona Blat
The Curiosity of the Long Distance Runner
By Aditi Sriram

Music

Brooklyn Rail Highly Selective Music Events
Masters of Their Own Reality
By George Grella
Shapeshifter Star
By Yvonne Juris
The Amateur Sound: nonkeen
By Marshall Yarbrough
Outtakes
By Steve Dalachinsky

Dance

A Slippery and Elusive Quality
By Erica Getto
Notes on PLASTIC
By Stormy Budwig

Film

Girl’s Best Friend: Alexander Chee and The Earrings of Madame de...
By Brittany Stigler
ROSS LIPMAN with Tanya Goldman
PEMA TSEDEN with Lu Yangqiao
Planetarium of Blended Dreams BEN COONLEY Moonley
By Felix Bernstein
On John Latham’s Films
By Nathan Dunne
Radu Jude’s Aferim! and the Politics of Distance
By Mihai-Dan Cirjan

Theater

Tragedy in Spades: A Crime Documentary TELE-VIOLET’s Reenactment Ceremony
By Roger Babb
The Play, Space, and Grace of Antlia Pneumatica ANNE WASHBURN with Peggy Stafford
For This Moment I Would Give My Whole Life! Robert Lyons and Kristin Marting’s Idiot
By Erin Courtney
Getting Graphic with finkle: U R ★
By Trista Baldwin
Feeding the Lake: Charlotte Miller’s Ugly Little Sister at Strasberg
By Michael Padden

Fiction

Sandy Cinderella A Scene from Daily Life in al-Najaf, Iraq
by Faleeha Hassan, translated from the Arabic by William M. Hutchins
A False Accounting
By Tan Lin
Masters of Despair
By Anna Mockler
The Joyous Science, Part 1 The True Story of the Famous Bruce, Composed in Verse from the Accounts of Several Eyewitnesses
by Maxim Amelin, translated from the Russian by Derek Mong and Anne O. Fisher
from Kid Coole
By M. G. Stephens
Les Halles, Belly Of Paris from Paris Vagabond by Jean-Paul Clebert
with photographs by Patrice Molinard, translated from the French by Donald Nicholson-Smith, out now from NYRB Classics
Guy
By Tom Motley

Poetry

Excerpt from Voice’s Daughter of a Heart Yet To Be Born
By Anne Waldman
Five
By Edwin Torres
Two
By Nina Puro
Five
By Todd Colby

Verbatim

HEDDA STERNE: Passport to Safety

Art Books

On a Universal Serial Bus
By Madeline Weisburg

Field Notes

Editor’s Note
By Paul Mattick
BREXIT A New Crisis Acronym
By Tony Norfield
Let Us Be Terrible: Considerations on the Jacobin Club
By Jason E. Smith
An exchange on the perspectives for the world economy
By Jose A. Tapia

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