In Staten Island, a Teenage Tour Guide of the Maritime Wastes
By Alexander CuadrosI walked through a split in the reeds. The narrow beaten path was strewn with flattened plastic bottles, brown and green shards of glass, and withered shopping bags half-submerged in the dirt or impaled by a desiccated reed.
Express In Conversation
New Orleans’ African Retentions: Willie Birch with Billy Sothern
“In New Orleans, you still hear those drum beats coming out of Congo Square,” says Birch.
Express In Conversation
An American Griot: Gil Scott-Heron with Don Geesling
I played for Shirley Chisholm, I played for Ken Gibson, I played for anybody who was trying to do something positive for black people—just count me in and I’ll be there,” Scott-Heron says.
Art In Conversation
Joel Shapiro with Phong Bui
“What’s new and exciting in the big piece is that it’s no longer dictated by the effect of gravity on form, but rather the effect of gravity on the organization of the form, which springs off in different directions away from any fixed axis. In other words, it really breaks away from the figure as much as from the ground.” - Joel Shapiro
Art In Conversation
Martin Puryear with David Levi Strauss
In the midst of preparing for his retrospective at MoMA, Martin Puryear took time out to talk about his life and work with the Rail’s Consulting Editor, David Levi Strauss. They are neighbors in the Hudson River Valley, and the conversation took place at Strauss’s home near High Falls, not far from Puryear’s house and studio.
It’s, Like, Canonical
By David N. Meyerhis was the best Film Festival in years. The schedulers showcased filmmakers that embody the Festival canon, a notion of undeniable art meeting viable commerce that the Festival helped create and codify.
North of the Middle
By Dawn RaffelThey are both of them, mother and daughter, inflamed by something minuscule, sneezing in tissues, covert sleeves, a hand.
Editor's Message
Learning from New Orleans
By Theodore HammSome may consider New Orleans after Katrina to be a tragedy—full of sorrow, fatally flawed by its geography, and now lacking any good options in terms of what to do next. However, after going there this past month, I would simply call it a national disgrace.
ArtSeen
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Chris Marker Staring Back Film Program
– By Geoffrey Cruickshank-Hagenbuckle -
Peter Williams: Artistic Repair
– By Thomas Micchelli -
Mark Greenwold A Moment of True Feeling 1997 – 2007
– By John Yau -
Getting Over It: A Morality Tale
– By Thomas Micchelli -
Ellen Berkenblit
– By Lynn Crawford -
Richard Prince Spiritual America
– By John Yau -
Mel Kendrick
– By Ben La Rocco -
Aleksandra Mir Newsroom 1986-2000
– By Jen Schwarting -
Dawn Clements: Conditions of Desire
– By Cassandra Neyenesch -
Garbage Collection
– By Hrag Vartanian -
Making a Home: Japanese Contemporary Artists in New York
– By Robert C. Morgan -
Brooklyn Dispatches: An Unobstructed View
– By James Kalm -
Project for a New Neoist Academy
– By Warren Fry -
Manufacturing Dissent
– By Shane McAdams -
The Writer's Brush: Paintings and Drawings by Writers
– By Valery Oisteanu -
Letter from LONDON
– By Sherman Sam -
Neither New nor Correct New Work by Mark Bradford
– By Becky Brown -
Seeing in a Different Light: A Profile of Ralph Rugoff
– By Sherman Sam -
A Day with The Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation Space Program
– By Maxwell Heller -
Hiroshi Sugimoto: History of History
– By Tessa DeCarlo
Stylized Sculpture: Contemporary Japanese Fashion from the Kyoto Costume Institute
Table of Contents
Editor's Message
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Learning from New Orleans
– By Theodore Hamm
Local
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A Brief History of Beards
– By Jed Lipinski -
The Blight and Plight of Condoburg
– By B. Colby Hamilton -
Accidentally Caring
– By Shell Fischer -
In Staten Island, a Teenage Tour Guide of the Maritime Wastes
– By Alexander Cuadros -
The Digital Design Process: For All to See: The men and women behind the computer screens take center stage.
– By Hailey Eber -
7 + 3 is 9
– By Samantha Berkley -
A College Grows in Williamsburg
– By John Bredin
Express
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An American Griot: Gil Scott-Heron with Don Geesling
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Madressa
– By Nadia Davids -
Weapons of the Weak?
– By Ryan Hagen -
A Real Man of War
– By Michael Busch -
New Orleans’ African Retentions: Willie Birch with Billy Sothern
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Starving the Christmas Beast: Rob VanAlkemade with Williams Cole
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Alumni Week
– By Doug Cordell
Art
ArtSeen
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Chris Marker Staring Back Film Program
– By Geoffrey Cruickshank-Hagenbuckle -
Peter Williams: Artistic Repair
– By Thomas Micchelli -
Mark Greenwold A Moment of True Feeling 1997 – 2007
– By John Yau -
Getting Over It: A Morality Tale
– By Thomas Micchelli -
Ellen Berkenblit
– By Lynn Crawford -
Richard Prince Spiritual America
– By John Yau -
Mel Kendrick
– By Ben La Rocco -
Aleksandra Mir Newsroom 1986-2000
– By Jen Schwarting -
Dawn Clements: Conditions of Desire
– By Cassandra Neyenesch -
Garbage Collection
– By Hrag Vartanian -
Making a Home: Japanese Contemporary Artists in New York
– By Robert C. Morgan -
Brooklyn Dispatches: An Unobstructed View
– By James Kalm -
Project for a New Neoist Academy
– By Warren Fry -
Manufacturing Dissent
– By Shane McAdams -
The Writer's Brush: Paintings and Drawings by Writers
– By Valery Oisteanu -
Letter from LONDON
– By Sherman Sam -
Neither New nor Correct New Work by Mark Bradford
– By Becky Brown -
Seeing in a Different Light: A Profile of Ralph Rugoff
– By Sherman Sam -
A Day with The Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation Space Program
– By Maxwell Heller -
Hiroshi Sugimoto: History of History Stylized Sculpture: Contemporary Japanese Fashion from the Kyoto Costume Institute
– By Tessa DeCarlo
Books
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Fiction: Prose is But a Stage
– By David Varno -
Lit(t)eral Poetics
– By Ben Tripp -
Prose Roundup
– By Jeffrey Cyphers Wright -
Poetry Roundup
– By Jeffrey Cyphers Wright -
Fiction: Pain Under a Microscope
– By Yael Korman -
FICTION: Fiction in a Flash
– By Aaron Leichter
Music
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Atrocity Exhibitions
– By Matthew Ozga -
Gogol Bordello and the American Dream
– By Dmitry Kiper -
Because I Said So
– By Grant Moser -
Elusive Butterfly
– By Tony Coulter -
Lust Will Tear Us Apart
– By Jim Feast
Dance
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Sam Kim’s dumb dumb bunny at The Kitchen
– By Carley Petesch -
The Ugly Company Performs Star
– By Carley Petesch
Film
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Thank Heaven for Little Girls
– By Tessa DeCarlo -
Unoriginal Gangster
– By Mark Asch -
Outgrowing Promise
– By Sarahjane Blum -
It’s, Like, Canonical
– By David N. Meyer
Theater
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Our Town 2007: Colin Denby Swanson’s Atomic Farmgirl
– By Justin Boyd -
Tarell Alvin McCraney’s The Brothers Size
– By John Beer -
Peering in at the Zoo: Adam Rapp and Gina Gionfriddo on American Theater
– By Adam Rapp and Gina Gionfriddo
Fiction
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Steam
– By Dawn Raffel -
North of the Middle
– By Dawn Raffel -
Nairobi
– By Terese Svoboda -
London Boy
– By Terese Svoboda -
The Stroke of Midnight
– By Terese Svoboda -
Acting Out
– By Jonathan Baumbach -
Hot
– By Roberta Allen -
Thanksgiving
– By Roberta Allen -
Staples Center
– By Larry Foundation -
High Winds
– By Larry Foundation -
The Accidental Oracle
– By Kurt Strahm
Poetry
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from Goodbye Tissues
– By Deborah Meadows -
Poetry by Carmen Gimenez Smith
– By Carmen Gimenez Smith -
by Brooke Inman
– By Brooke Inman
