JUL-AUG 2014

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A message from Phong Bui
Publisher and Artistic Director

Art

SIR NORMAN ROSENTHAL with David Carrier and Joachim Pissarro
together with Darren Jones, Gaby Collins-Fernandez, and Alyona Valerie Dybunova
DAVID LEVI STRAUSS with Jarrett Earnest
TERESITA FERNÁNDEZ with Sara Roffino
TSIBI GEVA with Phong Bui and Jonathan T.D. Neil
ERIC FISCHL with Robert Berlind
THE HELD ESSAYS ON VISUAL ART Beyond the Relic Cult of Art
By Alexander Nagel
AARON BOBROW with Alex Bacon

ArtSeen

The Nature of Carl Andre
By Barbara Rose
JUDITH SHEA
By Robert Kushner
JEAN-BAPTISTE BERNADET Fugue
By Alex Bacon
MIKA ROTTENBERG Bowls Balls Souls Holes
By Phong Bui
GARRY WINOGRAND
By Sara Christoph
JEFF KOONS A Retrospective
By Kara L. Rooney
JO NIGOGHOSSIAN New Work
By Ed Schad
LARRY CLARK they thought i were but i aren't anymore...
By Jessica Holmes
CAMILLE HENROT The Restless Earth
By Becky Brown
BRIDGET RILEY The Stripe Paintings 1961 – 2014
By Jurriaan Benschop
This is what sculpture looks like
By Anne Sherwood Pundyk
GABRIEL KURI
By Terry R. Myers
RYAN CONRAD SAWYER
By David Carrier
JUTTA KOETHER Champrovent
By Craig Stockwell
LEE BUL
By Jonathan Goodman
CHRISTOPH SCHLINGENSIEF Now and Then
By Alana Shilling-Janoff
GREG SMITH Breakdown Lane
By Sarah Goffstein
DEREK LERNER Convenient Gratification
By Taney Roniger
Streets That Tell Stories
By Adele Tutter
BRADLEY EROS eau de cinema: constellations & contradictions
By Maya Harakawa
MANA CONTEMPORARY All the Best Artists Are My Friends
By Jeremy Butman
Railing Opinion
By Joseph Masheck
JOAN MITCHELL Trees
By Phong Bui
LUCAS SAMARAS Offerings From a Restless Soul
By Valery Oisteanu
ADRIAN SCHIESS Peinture
By David Rhodes
Skin Deep
By William Corwin
CLAUDIA HART Welcome to Alice’s Gift Shop!
By Tom McGlynn
Life in Death: Still Lifes and Select Masterworks of Chaim Soutine
By Anna Tome

Critics Page

FLUX TIME: Moving-Image Art and the Ends of Cinema
Guest Critic: Leo Goldsmith and Rachael Rakes
Suggestion for an Audiovisual Device
By Anja Dornieden and Juan David González Monroy
On the “Status and Position of Moving Image Art Today”
By Berta Sichel
ON AND ON: Thoughts on Artists’ Cinema
By Elle Burchill
THE SKIN I LIVE IN: Notes on Vimeo
By James N. Kienitz Wilkins
On “Artists’ Cinema” and “Moving-Image Art”
By Roger Beebe
Art + Cinema
By Rebecca Cleman
From a Conversation at the 2014 Flaherty Seminar
By Eric Baudelaire
Move It All Around
By Jesse McLean
Questions for the Frozen Sea
By Chris Stults
A Future to Want
By Colin Beckett
The Thing Is No More
By Lynne Sachs
Black Box in White Cube
By Bettina Steinbrügge
Cheap Seats
By Christy Lemaster
After Anthropocinema
By Mohammad Salemy
Cinematic Arts’ Attack on Actuality
By Nicole Brenez
Past Possible Futures
By Nuno Lisboa

Books

REDEMPTION SONG SEAN MADIGAN HOEN with Stephen O’Connor
The Life-Long Sentence MARY RUEFLE with Tony Leuzzi
Picking Over The Crumbs
By John Domini
Drifting Away
By Geoffrey Young
Betting Big
By Christopher Michel
In a Waters World
By Katharina Smundak
Queerly Familiar
By T Clutch Fleischmann
A General Strangeness
By Anne Margaret Daniel
A Crisis of Faith
By Brian Gresko
Grieving the Lost And The Found
By Patricia Park
THE SKEWED WORLD OF THE BOOK: JOSH WEIL with Matt Bell
By Matt Bell
Looking for (Mrs) Laura (Riding) Jackson, the anti-social people’s poet, from Jamaica (Queens) to Woodruff Avenue (Brooklyn)
By Benjamin Hollander

Music

Brooklyn Rail Highly Selective Music Events
DAVID GREILSAMMER with Alessandro Cassin
DOWNTOWN INTERNATIONAL Suoni Per Il Popolo, Part 1
By Marshall Yarbrough
GOING ON A SONIC VACATION TIM PRESLEY of White Fence with Donald Breckenridge
BOY Carla Bozulich’s Foray Into Pop
By Allyson Polsky McCabe
Outtakes
By Steve Dalachinsky
Downtown International Nostalgia in Tompkins Square and Suoni per il Popolo, Part II
By George Grella

Dance

DANCE AND PROCESS Kim Brandt, Alan Calpe, Rebecca Patek, and Gillian Walsh, curated by Sarah Michelson
By Leslie Allison
STEPHEN PETRONIO with Nancy Dalva
The Ghost in You, She Don’t Fade
By Risa Shoup
On the Runway with Cedar Lake
By Brian Schaefer

Film

LIFE IN THE NO-GO ZONE Two Views of Husbandry and Decline at Japan Cuts
By Benjamin Schultz-Figueroa
ANCESTREE An excerpt from The George Kuchar Reader
by George Kucher, edited by Andrew Lampert
The Complexities of Robert Darroll
By Huckleberry Lain

Theater

Unfolding Form: Daredevil, Gary Winter with Ariel Stess
By Ariel Stess
Polybe + Seats Comes to Bay Ridge Sarah Sakaan’s Anna Asli Suriyah (I Come from Syria)
By Libby Emmons
Let’s Talk about The Weather Project Making Theater of Community in the Catskills
By Jordan G. Teicher
Sex, Blogs, and eBooks Laura Eason’s Sex With Strangers
By Kathryn Walat

Fiction

Moment of Return
by Luisa Valenzuela, translated from the Spanish by Marguerite Feitlowitz
At The Glass Exposition In Peking
by Paul Scheerbart, translated from the German by Alex Verdolini
from Miransù
by Monica Sarsini, translated from the Italian by Maryann De Julio
What Girl Built
By Rita Bullwinkel
The Selected Correspondence of Louis-Ferdinand Céline
translated from the French by Mitch Abidor
Tastemakers
By M. M. De Voe
Tragic Strip
By Tom Motley
Elevator Jenny
By Keren Katz
New Totalities
By Aaron Cockle

Poetry

from Agon of the City, Ahoy of the City
By Matt Reeck
Four
By Daniel Bouchard
Two
By Ed Coletti
Eight
By Barbara Henning
Memory
By Chris Martin

Art Books

Circling the Square: Maidan and Cultural Insurgency in Ukraine
By Olga Kopenkina
Bertolt Brecht
By Gregory Sholette
Walker Evans: The Magazine Work
By Adam Bell
Undermining: A Wild Ride Through Land Use, Politics, and Art in the Changing West
By Maya Harakawa
Both Visible and Invisible, Object and Interface: Site proposition and completion in painting, sculpture, and participation
By Greg Lindquist
Walter Benjamin: Recent Writings
By Clancy Martin

Field Notes

Editor’s Note
By Paul Mattick
EDUCATION REFORM Beneath the Surface Part III: Paving the Roads to Inequality
By John Garvey
Sweet 15
By Phil A. Neel
PORTUGAL: Forty Years of Democracy
By Charles Reeve

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JUL-AUG 2014

Find the RAIL in print

Subscribe now

A message from Phong Bui
Publisher and Artistic Director

Art

SIR NORMAN ROSENTHAL with David Carrier and Joachim Pissarro
together with Darren Jones, Gaby Collins-Fernandez, and Alyona Valerie Dybunova
DAVID LEVI STRAUSS with Jarrett Earnest
TERESITA FERNÁNDEZ with Sara Roffino
TSIBI GEVA with Phong Bui and Jonathan T.D. Neil
ERIC FISCHL with Robert Berlind
THE HELD ESSAYS ON VISUAL ART Beyond the Relic Cult of Art
By Alexander Nagel
AARON BOBROW with Alex Bacon

ArtSeen

The Nature of Carl Andre
By Barbara Rose
JUDITH SHEA
By Robert Kushner
JEAN-BAPTISTE BERNADET Fugue
By Alex Bacon
MIKA ROTTENBERG Bowls Balls Souls Holes
By Phong Bui
GARRY WINOGRAND
By Sara Christoph
JEFF KOONS A Retrospective
By Kara L. Rooney
JO NIGOGHOSSIAN New Work
By Ed Schad
LARRY CLARK they thought i were but i aren't anymore...
By Jessica Holmes
CAMILLE HENROT The Restless Earth
By Becky Brown
BRIDGET RILEY The Stripe Paintings 1961 – 2014
By Jurriaan Benschop
This is what sculpture looks like
By Anne Sherwood Pundyk
GABRIEL KURI
By Terry R. Myers
RYAN CONRAD SAWYER
By David Carrier
JUTTA KOETHER Champrovent
By Craig Stockwell
LEE BUL
By Jonathan Goodman
CHRISTOPH SCHLINGENSIEF Now and Then
By Alana Shilling-Janoff
GREG SMITH Breakdown Lane
By Sarah Goffstein
DEREK LERNER Convenient Gratification
By Taney Roniger
Streets That Tell Stories
By Adele Tutter
BRADLEY EROS eau de cinema: constellations & contradictions
By Maya Harakawa
MANA CONTEMPORARY All the Best Artists Are My Friends
By Jeremy Butman
Railing Opinion
By Joseph Masheck
JOAN MITCHELL Trees
By Phong Bui
LUCAS SAMARAS Offerings From a Restless Soul
By Valery Oisteanu
ADRIAN SCHIESS Peinture
By David Rhodes
Skin Deep
By William Corwin
CLAUDIA HART Welcome to Alice’s Gift Shop!
By Tom McGlynn
Life in Death: Still Lifes and Select Masterworks of Chaim Soutine
By Anna Tome

Critics Page

FLUX TIME: Moving-Image Art and the Ends of Cinema
Guest Critic: Leo Goldsmith and Rachael Rakes
Suggestion for an Audiovisual Device
By Anja Dornieden and Juan David González Monroy
On the “Status and Position of Moving Image Art Today”
By Berta Sichel
ON AND ON: Thoughts on Artists’ Cinema
By Elle Burchill
THE SKIN I LIVE IN: Notes on Vimeo
By James N. Kienitz Wilkins
On “Artists’ Cinema” and “Moving-Image Art”
By Roger Beebe
Art + Cinema
By Rebecca Cleman
From a Conversation at the 2014 Flaherty Seminar
By Eric Baudelaire
Move It All Around
By Jesse McLean
Questions for the Frozen Sea
By Chris Stults
A Future to Want
By Colin Beckett
The Thing Is No More
By Lynne Sachs
Black Box in White Cube
By Bettina Steinbrügge
Cheap Seats
By Christy Lemaster
After Anthropocinema
By Mohammad Salemy
Cinematic Arts’ Attack on Actuality
By Nicole Brenez
Past Possible Futures
By Nuno Lisboa

Books

REDEMPTION SONG SEAN MADIGAN HOEN with Stephen O’Connor
The Life-Long Sentence MARY RUEFLE with Tony Leuzzi
Picking Over The Crumbs
By John Domini
Drifting Away
By Geoffrey Young
Betting Big
By Christopher Michel
In a Waters World
By Katharina Smundak
Queerly Familiar
By T Clutch Fleischmann
A General Strangeness
By Anne Margaret Daniel
A Crisis of Faith
By Brian Gresko
Grieving the Lost And The Found
By Patricia Park
THE SKEWED WORLD OF THE BOOK: JOSH WEIL with Matt Bell
By Matt Bell
Looking for (Mrs) Laura (Riding) Jackson, the anti-social people’s poet, from Jamaica (Queens) to Woodruff Avenue (Brooklyn)
By Benjamin Hollander

Music

Brooklyn Rail Highly Selective Music Events
DAVID GREILSAMMER with Alessandro Cassin
DOWNTOWN INTERNATIONAL Suoni Per Il Popolo, Part 1
By Marshall Yarbrough
GOING ON A SONIC VACATION TIM PRESLEY of White Fence with Donald Breckenridge
BOY Carla Bozulich’s Foray Into Pop
By Allyson Polsky McCabe
Outtakes
By Steve Dalachinsky
Downtown International Nostalgia in Tompkins Square and Suoni per il Popolo, Part II
By George Grella

Dance

DANCE AND PROCESS Kim Brandt, Alan Calpe, Rebecca Patek, and Gillian Walsh, curated by Sarah Michelson
By Leslie Allison
STEPHEN PETRONIO with Nancy Dalva
The Ghost in You, She Don’t Fade
By Risa Shoup
On the Runway with Cedar Lake
By Brian Schaefer

Film

LIFE IN THE NO-GO ZONE Two Views of Husbandry and Decline at Japan Cuts
By Benjamin Schultz-Figueroa
ANCESTREE An excerpt from The George Kuchar Reader
by George Kucher, edited by Andrew Lampert
The Complexities of Robert Darroll
By Huckleberry Lain

Theater

Unfolding Form: Daredevil, Gary Winter with Ariel Stess
By Ariel Stess
Polybe + Seats Comes to Bay Ridge Sarah Sakaan’s Anna Asli Suriyah (I Come from Syria)
By Libby Emmons
Let’s Talk about The Weather Project Making Theater of Community in the Catskills
By Jordan G. Teicher
Sex, Blogs, and eBooks Laura Eason’s Sex With Strangers
By Kathryn Walat

Fiction

Moment of Return
by Luisa Valenzuela, translated from the Spanish by Marguerite Feitlowitz
At The Glass Exposition In Peking
by Paul Scheerbart, translated from the German by Alex Verdolini
from Miransù
by Monica Sarsini, translated from the Italian by Maryann De Julio
What Girl Built
By Rita Bullwinkel
The Selected Correspondence of Louis-Ferdinand Céline
translated from the French by Mitch Abidor
Tastemakers
By M. M. De Voe
Tragic Strip
By Tom Motley
Elevator Jenny
By Keren Katz
New Totalities
By Aaron Cockle

Poetry

from Agon of the City, Ahoy of the City
By Matt Reeck
Four
By Daniel Bouchard
Two
By Ed Coletti
Eight
By Barbara Henning
Memory
By Chris Martin

Art Books

Circling the Square: Maidan and Cultural Insurgency in Ukraine
By Olga Kopenkina
Bertolt Brecht
By Gregory Sholette
Walker Evans: The Magazine Work
By Adam Bell
Undermining: A Wild Ride Through Land Use, Politics, and Art in the Changing West
By Maya Harakawa
Both Visible and Invisible, Object and Interface: Site proposition and completion in painting, sculpture, and participation
By Greg Lindquist
Walter Benjamin: Recent Writings
By Clancy Martin

Field Notes

Editor’s Note
By Paul Mattick
EDUCATION REFORM Beneath the Surface Part III: Paving the Roads to Inequality
By John Garvey
Sweet 15
By Phil A. Neel
PORTUGAL: Forty Years of Democracy
By Charles Reeve

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