Coney Island Beer Hustle
By Matthew VazFor decades, beach goers have relied on an army of venders to supply them with beer, water, pretzels, ICEEs, cotton candy, and anything else that can be carried through the sand.
The AfroCulture Wars: The "New Black Man" Cultural Criticism as Pseudoanalysis, Pt. 2
By Norman KelleyAre you one of those wobbly intellectuals or cultural critics who feels uneasy around strong black men?
Art In Conversation
Mark di Suvero with John Yau
On the occasion of the artists recent exhibit of indoor sculptures at Knoedler & Company and the installation of his large public works at Storm King Art Center,The Rails John Yau visited Mark di Suveros studio in Long Island City on a sunny spring afternoon to talk about his life and work.
Radial Asymmetries
By David Levi Strauss and Robert KellyThe essayist and fiction writer Guy Davenport died just after the first of the year, at age 77. On an afternoon in May, Robert Kelly came over from Bard to my side of the river, to High Falls, and we sat down to discuss Davenports life and works.
A Form for the Mess: The Avett Brothers Live Volume 2
By Dare DukesMidway through the enthralling new Avett Brothers CD, Live, Volume 2, Seth Avett makes clear in an aside that what we are experiencing is a different kind of musical entity than the sometimes overly precious commodities we have come to expect in our digitally enhanced age.
Talking About the Other America, Again
By Gragory ZuckerJust when I become comfortable with the idea that American narrative film has died; that it has finally suffocated from its lack of vision and its infatuation with Hollywood fashion, including the so-called indie cinema, a burst of fresh air suddenly hits me in the face.
Theater In Dialogue
Elana Greenfield
By Jason GroteIn the work of Elana Greenfield, there is a mistrust of borders and boundaries that seems to extend to the medium of writing itself. While she is putatively a playwright, her work defies classification, occupying an indeterminate space between poetry, fiction, playwriting, and sub-genres like radio plays, oral storytelling and prose poetry.
Appetite
By Jonathan BaumbachFirst of all, dont believe what youve heard about me. Given the stories circulating, you would think I was some kind of retrograde chauvinist but unless Im suffering from amnesia or have been in a psychotic state for the past month, I know Ive done nothing to warrant the current fuss. My lapses, such as they are, proceed from what might best be described as passionate excess.
New Skool Slam
In a shift from the past series of neighborhood-based reportage, students from the spring session of the Brooklyn Rail/Urban Word NYC New Skool Journalism Workshop covered the citys annual Teen Poetry Slam championships.
Dance In Conversation
Noémie Lafrance
By Vanessa MankoWith its light blue, peeling paint, remnants of broken glass bottles, cracked basin floor and graffiti, the abandoned, 50,000 sq. ft. McCarren Pool is an unlikely space for dance. But Williamsburg-based site-specific choreographer Noémie Lafrance has chosen just this site for her latest work, Agora.
The Impossible Sentence
By Edwin Torresa poem of a poem/a sentence of assent
Editor's Message
A Self-Evident Truth
By Phong BuiIn Germany, under Hitlers regime, artistic expression was banished as a form of Bolshevism. In Russia, under Stalin, it was denounced as bourgeoius cosmopolitanism. In mid-50s America, Abstract Expressionists met with aggressive censorship by members of the House Un-American Activities Committee.
ArtSeen
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Unraveling Cultural Globalization
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Always a Little Further
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Barry McGee
– By Megan Heuer -
Andrea Zittel
– By Katie Stone -
Jack Goldstein Paintings: 1980–1985
– By Robert C. Morgan -
Greater Brooklyn
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Works on Paper
– By James Kalm -
John Beech
– By Stephanie Buhmann -
Wall-to-Wall Drawings: Selections Summer 2005
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Arthur Simms
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Robert Berlind
– By Ben La Rocco -
John Jacobsmeyer
– By James Kalm -
Dana Frankfort
– By Shane McAdams -
Takeshi Yamada
– By Allison Devers -
Ideal
– By Ben La Rocco
Table of Contents
Editor's Message
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A Self-Evident Truth
– By Phong Bui
Local
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Bruce Ratner Doesn’t Use Steroids, But His P.R. Machine Won’t Stop Pumping Up the Atlantic Yards Project
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New Skool Slam
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Project Street Beat
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Nigger
– By Alisa Umanskaya -
Coney Island Beer Hustle
– By Matthew Vaz -
Rebel Music
– By Nicoletta Bumbac -
Madman or Reformer? Some Qs for CXB
– By Williams Cole -
Slammed
– By Tamara Leacock -
Keep Writing
– By Ujijji Davis
Express
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The AfroCulture Wars: The "New Black Man" Cultural Criticism as Pseudoanalysis, Pt. 2
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Talking about Class
– By Richard Wells -
The Playboy Philosophy Turns 40
– By Carrie Pitzulo -
Report from Brazil: Dark Clouds Surround an Evangelical Movement on the Rise Across the Globe
– By Jared Goyette -
Reflections on the Nation
– By Gabriel Thompson
Art
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Mark di Suvero with John Yau
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Make It Now: New Sculpture in New York
– By Daniel Baird -
Lee Friedlander
– By Farrah Karapetian -
Please Do Not Remove this Label
– By Nick Stillman
ArtSeen
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Unraveling Cultural Globalization
– By Robert C. Morgan -
Always a Little Further
– By Thomas Micchelli -
Barry McGee
– By Megan Heuer -
Andrea Zittel
– By Katie Stone -
Jack Goldstein Paintings: 1980–1985
– By Robert C. Morgan -
Greater Brooklyn
– By Stephanie Buhmann -
Works on Paper
– By James Kalm -
John Beech
– By Stephanie Buhmann -
Wall-to-Wall Drawings: Selections Summer 2005
– By Chris Howard -
Arthur Simms
– By Roger Kamholz -
Robert Berlind
– By Ben La Rocco -
John Jacobsmeyer
– By James Kalm -
Dana Frankfort
– By Shane McAdams -
Takeshi Yamada
– By Allison Devers -
Ideal
– By Ben La Rocco
Books
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Radial Asymmetries
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Alan Ziegler with Suzanne Dottino
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Stanley Kunitz with Farnoosh Fathi
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Biography: What Becomes A Legend Most?
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Poetry/Mixed Media: The Dead Spectator
– By Alex Young -
Fiction: An Audacious Talent
– By Eleanor J. Bader
Music
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Serenade to Oblivion
– By José Padua -
A Form for the Mess: The Avett Brothers Live Volume 2
– By Dare Dukes -
How Come Youre Not on American Idol?"
– By Norman Kelley
Dance
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Noémie Lafrance
– By Vanessa Manko -
In The Cold Light Of Day
– By Philippa Kaye
Film
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Talking About the Other America, Again
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2046: Wong Kar–Wai’s Finest Moment
– By Douglas Singleton -
The Relentless Sublimity of Bertoluccis Il Conformista
– By David N. Meyer -
Dont See It Now
– By Williams Cole -
Chris Marker at the Museum of Modern Art
– By Robert A. Haller
Theater
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Elana Greenfield
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Depraved New World: Jollyship the Whizbang
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Local Stop: Brooklyn in the Fringe
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Fiction
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Appetite
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The Lullabye Motel
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Roy and Belinda
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Three Stories
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Two Games
– By Rachel E. Greer
Poetry
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The Impossible Sentence
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I Wanted to Compose a Canticle of Exaltation and Praise, Stupid University Job
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Basement Office Moraine, Theater Moraine #2
– By Joanna Fuhrman