The Bloomberg Mystique
By Richard WellsMayor Bloomberg sure liked to let the press do all the speculating about whether he would run for president. Meantime, his self-funded committee working straight out of City Hall pumped up his national reputation and weighed his November prospects.
Express From The Editor
Campaign Notebook: Obama at Philadelphia
By Theodore HammWidely viewed on YouTube and much discussed across the political media, Barack Obamas mid-March speech about the need for a national discussion of race indeed emanated from a historic place.
Wasteland Dreaming
By Christian ParentiIn the years bracketing 9/11, I was working on a book about the history of everyday surveillance and at the time suffered recurring dreams that were something like nightmares, but more fun. I was always on the run, chased by the state or some other omnipotent force that was never well-defined.
Art In Conversation
Cai Guo-Qiang with Ellen Pearlman
While he was installing his current retrospective I Want To Believe at the Guggenheim Museum (on view Feb. 22nd until May 28th, then traveling to the National Museum of Art in Beijing in time for the Summer Olympics), Cai Guo-Qiang took time out from his busy schedule to sit down and talk with Rail Editor-at-Large Ellen Pearlman about his work.
Art In Conversation
Makin Whoopee: A Conversation with J. Fiber, James Esber and Jane Fine with Jim Supanick
James Esber and Jane Fine have shared a life together since 1986, and in the last several months, their partnership has entered a new phase with the birth of a new entity by the name of J. Fiber. On the occasion of the first exhibition of their collaborative work, which will be on view at Pierogi/Brooklyn until April 14, the videomaker and writer Jim Supanick paid a visit to the artists studios.
Art In Conversation
Lydia Dona with Phong Bui
Leading up to the few days before the installation of the painters new work at Michael Steinberg Fine Art, which will be on view till April 26, 2008, Lydia Dona welcomed Rail publisher Phong Bui to her Tribeca studio to talk about her life and work.
Remembering Jonathan Williams (March 8, 1929March 16, 2008)
By Robert KellyI miss the elegance of the man, the energy of the poet, and above all the generosity that made sure publishing was publick-ing, and that brought to the commonwealth (as he might call it), the shivering needy children we are, news that concerned us and made us betteror at least (often) made us laugh.
Film In Conversation
Alex Cox with David Wilentz
Starting with Repo Man, Alex Cox has successfully subverted mainstream culture (and the studio system) with several definitive cult films. David Wilentz recently sat down with Cox for a conversation about filmmaking, imperialism, and Spaghetti Westerns.
ArtSeen
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Matt Connors Enjambment
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Enantiomorphic Chamber
– By Cassandra Neyenesch -
Tadaaki Kuwayamas Aesthetics of Infinity
– By Robert C. Morgan -
Marcel Dzama Even the Ghost of the Past
– By Shane McAdams -
Dan Walsh
– By Cassandra Neyenesch -
Guglielmo Achille Cavellini: Works from 1960 to 1990
– By Valery Oisteanu -
Lori Ellison
– By Geoffrey Cruickshank-Hagenbuckle -
Joseph DeLappe Gandhis March to Dandi
– By Warren Fry -
Dave Miko
– By Craig Olson -
Ruth Root
– By Nora Griffin -
Hungover at Whitney
– By David Markus -
Americas Lessness
– By Sharon L. Butler -
Kalm Before the Storm, Responses to The Ethics of Aesthetics
– By James Kalm -
Brooklyn Dispatches
– By James Kalm -
Flip: Rachel Beach and Nora Herting
– By Hrag Vartanian -
Catherine Sullivan Triangle of Need
– By Thomas Micchelli -
Lydia Dona FROM HEAT TO SUB-ZERO
– By John Yau -
Jasper Johns
– By John Yau -
June Leaf Paintings & Sculpture
– By John Yau -
Floor Plans
– By Claudia La Rocco
Table of Contents
Local
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Atlantic Yards Fallout
– By Brian J. Carreira -
The Bloomberg Mystique
– By Richard Wells -
Flea Market 2.0
– By Nicole Robson -
Food Not Bombs
– By Shell Fischer -
Debra Sweet, the Woman Behind World Cant Wait
– By Eleanor J. Bader -
Seeking Imperfection
– By Hailey Eber
Express
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Campaign Notebook: Obama at Philadelphia
– By Theodore Hamm -
Dispatches from the Tibetan Front: Dharamsala, India
– By Litia Perta -
Dispatches from the Tibetan Front: On the March
– By Lex Pelger -
The Church and Its Sins: Constantines Sword
– By Williams Cole -
As Vets Testify Democrats and Big Media are Nowhere to be Found
– By Matthew Hennessy -
Born in Africa: Farai Wonderful Bere
– By Nadia Davids -
Wasteland Dreaming
– By Christian Parenti -
Man of the Village, Man of the World: Vincent Livelli and His Enduring Adventures
– By Alan Lockwood -
Just Another American Dreamer
– By Vincent Rossmeier -
Seizing the Means of Production
– By Michael Busch -
Hobsbawms Empire
– By Leigh Kamping-Carder -
Amis and Islam
– By James Arnett -
Dont Hate the Nader, Hate the Game
– By Charly Wilder -
The Most Everything in the World
– By Elizabeth Crane
Art
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Cai Guo-Qiang with Ellen Pearlman
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Makin Whoopee: A Conversation with J. Fiber, James Esber and Jane Fine with Jim Supanick
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Lydia Dona with Phong Bui
ArtSeen
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Matt Connors Enjambment
– By Josh Morgenthau -
Enantiomorphic Chamber
– By Cassandra Neyenesch -
Tadaaki Kuwayamas Aesthetics of Infinity
– By Robert C. Morgan -
Marcel Dzama Even the Ghost of the Past
– By Shane McAdams -
Dan Walsh
– By Cassandra Neyenesch -
Guglielmo Achille Cavellini: Works from 1960 to 1990
– By Valery Oisteanu -
Lori Ellison
– By Geoffrey Cruickshank-Hagenbuckle -
Joseph DeLappe Gandhis March to Dandi
– By Warren Fry -
Dave Miko
– By Craig Olson -
Ruth Root
– By Nora Griffin -
Hungover at Whitney
– By David Markus -
Americas Lessness
– By Sharon L. Butler -
Kalm Before the Storm, Responses to The Ethics of Aesthetics
– By James Kalm -
Brooklyn Dispatches
– By James Kalm -
Flip: Rachel Beach and Nora Herting
– By Hrag Vartanian -
Catherine Sullivan Triangle of Need
– By Thomas Micchelli -
Lydia Dona FROM HEAT TO SUB-ZERO
– By John Yau -
Jasper Johns
– By John Yau -
June Leaf Paintings & Sculpture
– By John Yau -
Floor Plans
– By Claudia La Rocco
Books
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Remembering Jonathan Williams (March 8, 1929March 16, 2008)
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Jeanette Winterson with TK Wetter
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Nonfiction: Youthful Anarchy
– By Jim Feast -
Fiction: The Trojan War Will Take Place
– By Eugene Lim -
Nonfiction: Two Sides of a Showdown
– By Ken Murray -
Fiction: To Come Back Rich, or Die There
– By David Varno -
Nonfiction: Weird America
– By Thomas Rogers -
Poetry Roundup
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Prose Roundup
– By Michael Lindgren, Lu Chen, and Ben Mirov -
David Shankbone with Colleen Asper
Music
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Noise-Pop, Rachael Ray, and the Magic Box: SXSW 2008
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The Purest One: Iva Bittová with the Bang on a Can All-Stars,
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The Monday Night Band: Recording Live at the Village Vanguard
– By Michelle Chen -
Passionless Play
– By Matthew Ozga -
The Kids Are Badass
– By Paula Crossfield -
Alain Neffes Potlatch Music
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A Bridge That Will Bring Us Together (Again)
– By David Varno -
Brought to You by the Letter G
– By Grant Moser
Dance
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Diana Vishneva at City Center: A Review
– By Margaret Fuhrer -
Ballet as a Reality Show
– By Margaret Fuhrer -
Georgian Ballet's Sweet Renaissance
– By April Greene
Film
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Alex Cox with David Wilentz
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Crying Over Broken Eggs
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If two of them are dead
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Big, Fat, Piece O' Pie
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Love You to Death
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In One Word: Emotion
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Two Lane Blacktop
– By David Wilentz -
The Draughtsman's Contract
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Thanatos and Eros Sitting Around Talking
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Grasping at the C-list
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The Return of Prodigal Son: Jonas Mekas Center for the Visual Arts
– By Robert A. Haller
Theater
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Woman Center Stage: Chiori Miyagawa
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Sex, Lies, and Videotape à la Aguirre-Sacasa
– By Kathryn Walat -
Nothing But Novel: Elevator Repair Service Does Faulkner
– By Claire Epstein -
From Outrage to Stage: George Packer's Betrayed
– By Justin Boyd -
Lush Life: Adam Bock's The Drunken City & Excerpt
– By Adam Bock
Fiction
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Genomica
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Floats Horse-floats or Horse-flows
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Triptych
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Dionysus the Liberator
– By Andrea Lawlor -
Triptych
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Tragic Strip
– By T. Motley
Poetry
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Three Poems
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Le Cupcake; Castaway
– By Dana Ward -
Untitled Soap Bubble
– By Rod Smith
LastWords
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Paying for War
– By Jed Lipinski