No Room at the Inn: Ratner Continues to "Game" Officials and the Public
By Brian J. CarreiraOn May 26th, the Economic Development Committee of the City Council held a public hearing about Forest City Ratner’s Atlantic Yards proposal.
Digging up Gov. Clinton
By Peter Lamborn WilsonRecently waves of neo-conservative historical revisionism have been washing over us in New York, exalting as true patriots such Founding-Father figures as Alexander Hamilton and his reactionary clique of bankers and would-be aristocrats.
Art In Conversation
Thomas Ruff with Vicki Goldberg
The German photographer Thomas Ruff achieved international recognition in the 1980s alongside Thomas Struth and Andreas Gursky, all students of Bernd and Hilla Becher.
Art In Conversation
Catherine de Zegher and Hendel Teicher with Chris Martin
The Brooklyn Rail talked recently with Catherine de Zegher, the Director of The Drawing Center, and Hendel Teicher, curator and art historian, about their show, 3 x Abstraction: New Methods of Drawing.
A Reporter at War: Meditations on Death and Truth
By David BuchbinderWar makes news, even if it destroys nearly everything else. The magnitude of martial events, wherein a single fatality can symbolize the shifting fortunes of a civilization, is so extravagant, so epochal, that media coverage is a necessary by-product.
The Collected Essays of Milton Babbitt
By Richard KostelanetzAnyone who has ever heard the composer Milton Babbitt speak, informally or formally, has come away awed by his sheer verbal facility. In the highly verbal community of contemporary music, he has long been regarded as a composer-talker’s talker.
Theater In Dialogue
White girl, I mean Greek girl, got flavor: Angela Kariotis
By C. Denby SwansonFronteraFest is the largest fringe festival in the southwest and, I betcha, the most populist. It is an unjuried, first-come-first-served, four-week grassroots bacchanalia of performance in Austin, Texas.
Film Docs In Sight
The End of PBS?
By Williams ColeOver a decade ago Jesse Helms began the earnest evisceration of public television and radio by the right wing, beginning what has become a drawn-out, hackneyed story.
excerpts from Citizen (a novel in progress)
By Steven Paul LanskyKeep your head down, I told myself. Somehow I managed to get on a train leaving New York City. Penn Station was a nightmare. I had sat in a waiting area for the Long Island Railroad trying to read, watching people and wishing like hell I had brought the laptop computer.
FUSES (after Carolee Schneemann)
By Caroline BergvallRED GREEN glistening mouthcock RED tree cat Seasound RED shadow RED Sea GREEN bodies fall back burnt film
Chosen, A Jewish Joke
By Peter WortsmanIt’s an unlikely story, I know, but history is full of the unlikely. Look at David and Goliath. Look at Jonah, the reluctant prophet, ferried to his destiny in the belly of a whale. Look at Arthur Miller and Marilyn Monroe, for heaven’s sake!
Editor's Message From The Editor
Summer Break
By Theodore HammI’m on-leave for the next few issues, in order to work on a political campaign.
ArtSeen
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Sophie Calle
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OK/OKAY: Recent Art From Europe
– By Thomas Micchelli -
Under The Rainbow
– By William Powhida -
Neo Rauch
– By James Kalm -
Unica Zurn: Drawings from the 1960s
– By Geoffrey Cruickshank-Hagenbuckle -
Ron Gorchov
– By Ben La Rocco -
Michael Ryan
– By Roger Kamholz -
Charles Cajori
– By Ben La Rocco -
Thomas Trosch
– By James Kalm -
Karin Davie
– By Roger Kamholz -
Cai Guo-Qiang
– By William Powhida -
Jasper Johns
– By Tomassio Longhi -
Kara Walker
– By M. Weimer
Table of Contents
Editor's Message
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Summer Break
– By Theodore Hamm
Local
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No Room at the Inn: Ratner Continues to "Game" Officials and the Public
– By Brian J. Carreira -
Skipping Rope
– By Kate Greer -
Dope in the Slope
– By Benjamin James -
Reindeer Games
– By Megha Bahree -
Fort Greene's Poetry Park
– By Jenny Clevstrom -
Art in a B.A.G., or Art Calisthenics
– By Lela Moore
Express
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Democracy, A New Idea in Europe
– By Francois Cusset -
Digging up Gov. Clinton
– By Peter Lamborn Wilson -
The Afro-Culture Wars: Bill Cosby vs. Michael Eric Dyson Cultural Criticism as Pseudo-analysis, Pt. 1,
– By Norman Kelley -
Gun Boy Acts Like a Man
– By Christian Parenti -
On Liberals
– By Jason Flores-Williams -
Lessons for the War on Terrorism: Pam Yates In Conversation with Williams Cole
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University, Inc.: Jennifer Washburn with Norman Kelley
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Chillin’ with Calvin Trillin with Pamela Ryckman
Art
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Thomas Ruff with Vicki Goldberg
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Sarah Sze
– By Daniel Baird -
Catherine de Zegher and Hendel Teicher with Chris Martin
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Railing Opinion
– By Wilfred Brendel
ArtSeen
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Sophie Calle
– By Megan Heuer -
OK/OKAY: Recent Art From Europe
– By Thomas Micchelli -
Under The Rainbow
– By William Powhida -
Neo Rauch
– By James Kalm -
Unica Zurn: Drawings from the 1960s
– By Geoffrey Cruickshank-Hagenbuckle -
Ron Gorchov
– By Ben La Rocco -
Michael Ryan
– By Roger Kamholz -
Charles Cajori
– By Ben La Rocco -
Thomas Trosch
– By James Kalm -
Karin Davie
– By Roger Kamholz -
Cai Guo-Qiang
– By William Powhida -
Jasper Johns
– By Tomassio Longhi -
Kara Walker
– By M. Weimer
Books
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Off the Shelves
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A Reporter at War: Meditations on Death and Truth
– By David Buchbinder -
Agent Provocateur: Harry Matthews with Johannah Rogers
Music
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From Mambo to Salsa
– By Alan Lockwood -
The Collected Essays of Milton Babbitt
– By Richard Kostelanetz -
Remember Fun?
– By Grant Moser
Dance
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Bridging the Latino Diaspora Through Dance
– By Tina Louise Vasquez -
Making Intentions Clear
– By Nicole Pope -
Dancing on the Rail: Body Politics
– By Vanessa Manko
Film
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Star Wars: The Aliens and the Critics
– By Gragory Zucker -
His Master's Voice
– By David N. Meyer -
The End of PBS?
– By Williams Cole -
Straight Outta Compton
– By Douglas Singleton
Theater
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White girl, I mean Greek girl, got flavor: Angela Kariotis
– By C. Denby Swanson -
Pillow-in-Yer-Face
– By David Kilpatrick -
Channeling Oedipus
– By Pamela Ryckman
Fiction
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excerpts from Citizen (a novel in progress)
– By Steven Paul Lansky -
excerpt from Queen Cocaine
– By Nuria Amat
Poetry
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FUSES (after Carolee Schneemann)
– By Caroline Bergvall -
Three Photographs, Lucca: Twenty-Minute Walk
– By Robert Hershon -
A Brand New Dance, Forget the Island, What Leads
– By Chet Weiner
LastWords
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Chosen, A Jewish Joke
– By Peter Wortsman
