Express In Conversation
The Mea Culpa of Gentrification: Danny Hoch with Williams Cole
Danny Hochs new one-man show, Taking Over, starts its run at the Public Theater on November 7th. Taking Over is comprised of diverse characters of different race and class, including Hoch as himself, who embody the dilemmas and problems of gentrification in Brooklyn.
New Image, New Reality
By David Levi StraussI felt early on, from age ten or so, that a big part of politics was emotional, and had everything to do with the collective imagination and memory.
Risky Business
By Paul MattickThe current neo-Keynesian critiques fail to confront the actual state of affairs facing global capitalism.
Art In Conversation
Susan Meiselas with Phong Bui
On the occasion of her current exhibit Susan Meiselas: In History at the ICP (International Center of Photography), on view until January 2009, Rail Publisher Phong Bui met with the photographer on-site to talk about her life and work.
Art In Conversation
Ena Swansea with Irving Sandler
On the occasion of her two recent one-person exhibits, a survey show at MUDAM Luxembourg (Musée dArt Moderne GrandDuc Jean), curated by Marie-Claude Beaud (on view till February 2, 2009), and new paintings at Arndt & Partner Zurich (on view till November 22, 2008,) Rail Consulting Editor Irving Sandler welcomed the painter Ena Swansea to his home in the West Village to discuss her life and work.
A New Type of Human Being and Who We Really Are
By Robert Hullot-KentorIt needs to be noticed: We have New Left Review and October; we have Monthly Review and Critical Inquiry; there is Rethinking Marxism and Cultural Critique; Socialist Review and Confrontation; Critique; Radical Philosophy; the Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies and shelves and shelves of critical theory of all kinds.
Books In Conversation
Geography? It Doesn't Exist: Antonio Lobo Antunes with Alessandro Cassin
Antonio Lobo Antunes agreed to meet me in his hotel on Park Avenue South on a sunny afternoon. I was greeted by a youthful, balding, 66-year-old, with slate blue eyes the color of his denim shirt. The Portuguese writer was in New York for just a few days after a twenty year absence.
RUDY RAY MOORE: RAW, RUDE & UNREPENTANT: R.I.P.
By Brother CleveKnown best by the name of a character he portrayed on record, film and in nightclubsDolemiteMoores death represents the end of an era, the Chitlin Circuit days of roadhouses and inner city nightclubs, places where respectable citizens just didnt go.
Folktronica, or What Good is a Label?
By Katy HenriksenIn a micro-trended, niche-market-driven world, musical genres and subgenres are becoming more and more finely labeled to convey the multitude of options listeners have when seeking out new music.
Dawn in New York
By Richard HellIn ancient Greece, "rosy fingered" Eos, the personification of dawn, had an insatiable desire for young men.
Some Keys to Obamas Success
By Theodore HammThe meteoric rise of Barack Obama is already the stuff of mythology.
Editor's Message
One Giant Step Forward...
By Theodore HammWhat a difference a day makes. Tuesday, November 4, 2008 brought the election of the nations first African-American president, a milestone by any standard.
ArtSeen
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Stephen Antonakos: Here and Beyond
– By Phong Bui -
What More Can You Ask of Painting? Leon Golub Did It!
– By Jonathan Smit -
Cora Cohen
– By Joan Waltemath -
He Sen
– By Robert C. Morgan -
Suitcase Paintings: Small Scale Abstract Expressionism
– By Emily Warner -
Giorgio Morandi
– By Greg Lindquist -
Pedestrian
– By Hrag Vartanian -
Abstract Expressionism: A World Elsewhere
– By John Yau -
Ron Gorchov
– By Ben La Rocco -
Cowboys without Cows Live Forever
– By Shane McAdams -
The Brainstormers
– By Warren Fry -
Whitfield Lovell: Kith and Kin
– By Kimberly Lamm -
Lee Ufan
– By Robert C. Morgan -
Merrill Wagner
– By Ben La Rocco -
Martha Rosler Great Power
– By Josh Morgenthau -
Roy Ferdinand
– By Bill Sasser -
Irving Norman
– By Valery Oisteanu -
Letter From London
– By Sherman Sam -
Brooklyn Dispatches: Resurrection of a Bad-Ass Girl, Part I
– By James Kalm -
Electronic Media Performing Arts Center
– By Ellen Pearlman -
Eyal Danieli in the mood for love
– By Thomas Micchelli -
Sustaining Institutions
– By Alexis Clements
Table of Contents
Editor's Message
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One Giant Step Forward...
– By Theodore Hamm
Local
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Williamsburg Writer Opens Dialogue on Tough Issues
– By Eleanor J. Bader -
A Tale of Two Fort Greenes
– By Terésa Stern -
Representing Central Brooklyn: Mark Winston Griffith with Nicholas Jahr
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The Mysterious Life and Death of Queenie the Bull
– By Matt Schwarzfeld
Express
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The Mea Culpa of Gentrification: Danny Hoch with Williams Cole
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Risky Business
– By Paul Mattick -
Some Keys to Obamas Success
– By Theodore Hamm -
Learning from the Malaise: a speech by President Jimmy Carter
– By Jimmy Carter -
Excerpt from Clash of Civilizations Over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio
– By Amara Lakhous -
Andrzej Wajda: Poland and the Screens of History
– By Alan Lockwood -
Art You Can Believe In
– By Eric Triantafillou -
Games Without Frontiers
– By Gabriel Thompson -
Americas Downfall: Ron Suskind and the Years After Sept. 11
– By Justin Jouvenal -
Dark Youth
– By Nicole Robson -
Start Em Young
– By Abigail Kramer -
Interview with Sean Wilsey
– By Jed Lipinski -
The Mea Culpa of Gentrification: Danny Hoch with Williams Cole
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New Image, New Reality
– By David Levi Strauss
Art
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Susan Meiselas with Phong Bui
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A New Type of Human Being and Who We Really Are
– By Robert Hullot-Kentor -
Ena Swansea with Irving Sandler
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A Tribute to Petrus Schaesberg (19672008)
– By Nathlie Provosty -
Re: Michael Corris In Conversation with Joan Waltemath on Ad Reinhardt
ArtSeen
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Stephen Antonakos: Here and Beyond
– By Phong Bui -
What More Can You Ask of Painting? Leon Golub Did It!
– By Jonathan Smit -
Cora Cohen
– By Joan Waltemath -
He Sen
– By Robert C. Morgan -
Suitcase Paintings: Small Scale Abstract Expressionism
– By Emily Warner -
Giorgio Morandi
– By Greg Lindquist -
Pedestrian
– By Hrag Vartanian -
Abstract Expressionism: A World Elsewhere
– By John Yau -
Ron Gorchov
– By Ben La Rocco -
Cowboys without Cows Live Forever
– By Shane McAdams -
The Brainstormers
– By Warren Fry -
Whitfield Lovell: Kith and Kin
– By Kimberly Lamm -
Lee Ufan
– By Robert C. Morgan -
Merrill Wagner
– By Ben La Rocco -
Martha Rosler Great Power
– By Josh Morgenthau -
Roy Ferdinand
– By Bill Sasser -
Irving Norman
– By Valery Oisteanu -
Letter From London
– By Sherman Sam -
Brooklyn Dispatches: Resurrection of a Bad-Ass Girl, Part I
– By James Kalm -
Electronic Media Performing Arts Center
– By Ellen Pearlman -
Eyal Danieli in the mood for love
– By Thomas Micchelli -
Sustaining Institutions
– By Alexis Clements
Books
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Graphic Novel: The A. for Anybody
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Geography? It Doesn't Exist: Antonio Lobo Antunes with Alessandro Cassin
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Poetry: A Guilty Conscience for her Time
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Non-Fiction: Better Me than Democracy
– By Dave Mandl -
Poetry: Language and Love
– By Alexander Nazaryan -
Poetry: Back on the Warhorse
– By Ben Mirov -
Non-Fiction: Little Lies and Literati
– By Sierra Feldner-Shaw -
Non-Fiction: Ted-time Letters
– By Jackson Taylor -
The Regulation That Didnt Save Us: David Hajdu with Roland Kelts
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Prose Roundup
– By Michele Filgate, Ben Mirov, Ralph Clare, Ben Mirov, and Clinton Krute -
Poetry Roundup
– By Jeffrey Cyphers Wright
Music
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Thirty Days at the Stone: Highlights from a Month Curated by J. G. Thirlwell
– By Sergei Tcherepnin -
Folktronica, or What Good is a Label?
– By Katy Henriksen -
Beyond Comparison: Vivian Girls and Crystal Stilts
– By Kate Silver -
Kevin Barnes Settles Downor Does He?
– By Kurt Gottschalk -
Remain in Touch
– By Todd Simmons -
Outtakes
– By Steve Dalachinsky
Dance
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Bill T. Jones' A Quarreling Pair at the Brooklyn Academy of Music
– By Beatrice Barbareschi -
Tragicomic Throwdown: Dada von Bzdülöws Factor T.
– By April Greene -
Lights up on the Audience
– By Simone Larson
Film
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Omnibus 08: The 2008 New York Film Festival
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RUDY RAY MOORE: RAW, RUDE & UNREPENTANT: R.I.P.
– By Brother Cleve -
Charm School? Hardly
– By Mary Hanlon -
Some Wild Wedding
– By Camila de Onís -
A Paler Shade of Nixon
– By Melina Neet
Theater
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Looking to the Neo-Future: (Not) Just Another Day Like Any Other
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What Wall Street Can Learn From Actors
– By Tara Bracco -
Poland in Perspective: A Festival of Plays in New York
– By Caridad Svich
Fiction
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From Bunker Anatomy
– By Claro -
Tragic Strip
– By T. Motley -
Woodchuck & Lemur
– By Ted Pelton -
Super Fudge Chunk
– By Peter Conners -
Trail
– By Jessica Treat -
From Under Every Spreading Tree
– By Carl Peterson -
From 02:51
– By Thomas D'Adamo -
Two Stories
– By Larry Fondation
Poetry
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Hommage a Ponge
– By Charles North -
Bicycle Day
– By Mel Nichols -
Blaise Memories 1-4
– By Vincent Katz -
"People I wish I'd Known"
– By David Novros
LastWords
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Dawn in New York
– By Richard Hell