One Decade In Brooklyn...
By Jhumpa LahiriWhat persists, what remains vivid, are the spaces, the rooms in which Ive worked. And in my case, with the exception of the first, my books have been made in Brooklyn.
Peacetime Soldier
By Matthew IgoeIts been 10 years since the post-9/11 wars began. Both Iraq and Afghanistan are miserable failuresover there and at home.
The Beauty of a Social Problem
By Walter Benn MichaelsUnemployment is both a problem and a solution. Its a problem for the unemployed, who want work, a solution for employers who not only want workers but also want the cheapest ones they can get.
Art In Conversation
SILVIA KOLBOWSKI with Emily Apter
Following the recent experimental TV broadcast of Silvia Kolbowskis video project, critic and theorist Emily Apter spoke with the artist about her two works After Hiroshima Mon Amour and A Few Howls Again?
Art In Conversation
KATIA SANTIBAÑEZ with Phong Bui
In the midst of trying to finish several paintings and drawings to be included in her forthcoming solo exhibit, Journey of a Solitary Painter, at Morgan Lehman (October 20 December 10, 2011), the painter Katia Santibañez spoke with Rail publisher Phong Bui about her life and work.
Art In Conversation
PHYLLIDA BARLOW with John Yau
Shortly after RIG, Phyllida Barlows debut installation with Hauser & Wirth (September 2 October 22, 2011) opened in London, Editor John Yau and the artist talked on the phone about her exhibition.
Art In Conversation
LAWRENCE WESCHLER with Jed Lipinski
Lawrence Weschler, the director of the New York Institute for the Humanities at New York University and the author of many mind-altering books, including the newly released Uncanny Valley: Adventures in the Narrative, braved the elements on a monsoon-like evening to pay a visit to the Brooklyn Rail headquarters, where Rail contributor Jed Lipinski spoke with him about his life and work.
Make Way For DE KOONING
By Terry R. MyersWillem de Kooning couldnt have been more clear about what he thought of retrospectives, despite his reluctant agreement to a mid-career survey in the late 1960s: They treat the artist like a sausage, tie him up at both ends, and stamp on the center Museum of Modern Art, as if youre dead and they own you.
BILLY BRAGG: Content Over Style
By KK KozikThe irony is that somehow Ive built an entire career on working to change the world, states Billy Bragg. Irony? That thankless job is what Bragg is known for.
ONE IMAGE DOESNT TAKE THE PLACE OF THE PREVIOUS ONE
Harun Farockis Images of War (at a Distance) at MoMA
By Leo Goldsmith and Rachael Rakes
The centerpiece of Harun Farockis Images of War (at a Distance), on view at the Museum of Modern Art through January 2, 2012, is a four-screen installation entitled Serious Games I-IV (2009-10) that documents the use of video game technology in the imaging and imagining of war.
Theater In Dialogue
MAC WELLMAN Explains, Or Doesnt Explain, What Is Near And What Is Far
By Trish Harnetiaux and Matthew KorahaisMac Wellman drinks Amstel Light because, in his words, its the best light beer. Hes less choosy about the tequilaneatthat accompanies it, demanding only that its present. When we were compiling questions to ask Wellman about his new play opening at Dixon Place in October, there was a certain fear that he would answer none of them.
For the Voice, For the Fragile Echo
By Munira al-Fadhel | Translated from the Arabic by William M. HutchinsWhen we sat scattered around the yard, which we secured with this old iron bolt, as we did each lunar month, it was easy to miss her arrival, which she dissimulated and wished to cache in an atmosphere that she caressed affectionately with her constant motion, because she valued a beautiful surprise or the possibility of a hush-hush entrance veiled in tranquility.
Editor's Message From The Editor
CITY NOTES: Thanks, Banks?
By Theodore HammMore than a few observers sympathetic to the Occupy Wall Street protests have criticized the movement for a lacking a traditional organizational structure and a clear agenda. But not doing so may be precisely the gatherings most salient message.
ArtSeen
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BROOKLYN DISPATCHES
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Pain by Numbers -
SUSAN ROTHENBERG
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NICOLA TYSON
– By Kara L. Rooney -
MIKE WOMACK Spectres, Phantoms, and Poltergeists
– By Shane McAdams -
LINDA CROSS: Excavation Painting
– By Robert C. Morgan -
MPA Directing Light onto Fist of Father
– By Litia Perta -
Make Way For DE KOONING
– By Terry R. Myers -
FREDERICK HAMMERSLEY: The Origins of Pictorial Space
– By Robert C. Morgan -
ANDREW MOORE Detroit Disassembled: Photographs
– By David St.-Lascaux -
ART = TEXT = ART curated by Elizabeth Schlatter
– By Joan Waltemath -
JENNIFER DALTON Cool Guys Like You
– By Abbe Schriber -
Letter from BERLIN
– By David Rhodes
SERGEJ JENSEN Master of Color -
ANDREW GBUR, KELTIE FERRIS, JACKIE SACCOCCIO
– By Charles Schultz -
ANN PIBAL & SIAH ARMAJANI
– By Charles Schultz
Table of Contents
Editor's Message
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CITY NOTES: Thanks, Banks?
– By Theodore Hamm
Local
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One Decade In Brooklyn...
– By Jhumpa Lahiri -
REPORT CARD On Stealing from Kids
– By Liza Featherstone -
Long Islands Wages of Sin
– By Eleanor J. Bader -
MARIJUANA ARRESTS Gateway into the Criminal Justice System
– By Harry Levine -
Lessons of the Brooklyn Bounty
– By Rachel Signer
Express
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Peacetime Soldier
– By Matthew Igoe -
WHEN ONE IS NOT ENOUGH An Excerpt from Secrets and Wives
– By Sanjiv Bhattacharya -
Joe, We Hardly Knew Ya
– By Gabriel Thompson -
The Sharpest Beach Bums Youll Ever Meet
– By Ross Barkan -
The 1920s: The Good Times?
– By David Rosen -
Thirst For Debt
– By Allen Wilcox -
ARE YOU WHAT YOU WEAR? The Politics of Fashion
– By David Rosen
Art
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SILVIA KOLBOWSKI with Emily Apter
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KATIA SANTIBAÑEZ with Phong Bui
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PHYLLIDA BARLOW with John Yau
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LAWRENCE WESCHLER with Jed Lipinski
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MARY CALDER ROWER (1939 2011)
– By Jessica Holmes -
The Beauty of a Social Problem
– By Walter Benn Michaels -
ALEX KATZ
– By Phong Bui
ArtSeen
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BROOKLYN DISPATCHES Pain by Numbers
– By James Kalm -
SUSAN ROTHENBERG
– By Thomas Micchelli -
NICOLA TYSON
– By Kara L. Rooney -
MIKE WOMACK Spectres, Phantoms, and Poltergeists
– By Shane McAdams -
LINDA CROSS: Excavation Painting
– By Robert C. Morgan -
MPA Directing Light onto Fist of Father
– By Litia Perta -
Make Way For DE KOONING
– By Terry R. Myers -
FREDERICK HAMMERSLEY: The Origins of Pictorial Space
– By Robert C. Morgan -
ANDREW MOORE Detroit Disassembled: Photographs
– By David St.-Lascaux -
ART = TEXT = ART curated by Elizabeth Schlatter
– By Joan Waltemath -
JENNIFER DALTON Cool Guys Like You
– By Abbe Schriber -
Letter from BERLIN SERGEJ JENSEN Master of Color
– By David Rhodes -
ANDREW GBUR, KELTIE FERRIS, JACKIE SACCOCCIO
– By Charles Schultz -
ANN PIBAL & SIAH ARMAJANI
– By Charles Schultz
Books
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LITERARY BIOGRAPHY A Binary Star with Anonymous
– By William S. Niederkorn -
BEER IS TWO SUBWAY STOPS AWAY FROM MYSTICISM: SHARON MESMER with Bart Plantenga
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FICTION An Art Family
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FICTION The Thing About Harry
– By Andrea Scrima -
FICTION The Dangling Publication
– By Meghan Roe -
FICTION Romantic Interlude
– By Molly Gallentine -
ESSAYS Wandering Through Lifes Wilderness
– By Winston Len -
MEMOIR Roots Music
– By Tatiaana L. Laine -
RAPID TRANSIT Image Makers in Photography and Poetry
– By Jeffrey Cyphers Wright -
FICTION Art, War, and Captivity
– By Zachary Slingsby -
FICTION Knife Music
– By Bruce Seymour
Music
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BILLY BRAGG: Content Over Style
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Dont Mind the Maggots
– By Dann Baker -
In Exile on Main Street
– By Geoffrey Clarfield -
OUTTAKES
– By Steve Dalachinsky -
Being Patti Smith
– By Allyson Polsky McCabe
Dance
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LETTER FROM MANHATTAN: Death Takes A Holiday
– By Nancy Dalva -
2 KILOS OF SEA (After Deganit Shemy)
– By Christine Hou -
Increasingly More Movements For L.
– By Patricia Milder -
US-THEM|THEM-US
– By Siobhan Burke -
A Review of "Traces" (in comic strip form)
– By Jeremy Finch
Film
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ONE IMAGE DOESNT TAKE THE PLACE OF THE PREVIOUS ONE Harun Farockis Images of War (at a Distance) at MoMA
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Eye Washes: ROBERT BREER, 19262011
– By Tom McCormack -
WE ARE ALL SCABS: Some Contradictions in U.S. Independent Film Culture
– By Donal Foreman
Theater
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lifting the Curtain Sound Designers: Robert Kaplowitz, Cricket S. Myers, and Matt Hubbs
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JESSICA SILSBY BRATER with KARA FEELY Or, Object Collection Meets Polybe + Seats
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MAC WELLMAN Explains, Or Doesnt Explain, What Is Near And What Is Far
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Which side are you on boys, which side are you on? Canal Park Playhouses revival of Joe Rolands On the Line
– By Michelle Memran -
The Mindscape of Septimus and Clarissa: Ripe Time Adapts Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway
– By Patricia Laurence
Fiction
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A Womans Pains Never End
– By Fatima Yousef al-Ali | Translated from the Arabic by William M. Hutchins -
For the Voice, For the Fragile Echo
– By Munira al-Fadhel | Translated from the Arabic by William M. Hutchins -
Tragic Strip
– By T. Motley -
Some Films in Which Kitty Dawson Appears
– By Sarah Falkner
Poetry
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american fossil
– By Nico Vassilakis -
Two
– By Catherine Wagner -
from Palm Lines
– By Ben Fama -
TINA CHANG with David St.-Lascaux
Art Books
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Canal Zone Richard Prince Yes Rasta: Selected Court Documents, &c., &c
– By Andrea Neustein and Alex Neustein -
JOAN MITCHELL, Lady Painter
– By John Ganz -
Tantra Song
– By Craig Olson -
A NEW MAP OF ITALY: The Photographs of Guido Guidi
– By Adam Bell -
AI WEIWEIS BLOG: Writings, Interviews, and Digital Rants, 2006-2009
– By Justin Terry