MAY 2019

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A message from Phong Bui
Publisher and Artistic Director

Art

MARINA ADAMS with Alex Bacon
JANE BENSON with Yasi Alipour
DE WAIN VALENTINE with Michael Straus
JOSH SMITH with Phong Bui

ArtSeen

Tim Rollins and K.O.S.: Workshop
By Hovey Brock
Lawrence Lek: AIDOL 爱道
By Michael Eby
Chando Ao, Sam Ghantous, David OReilly, and Bjorn Sparrman
By Danni Shen
Moira Dryer: Paintings & Works on Paper
By David Rhodes
Louis Fratino: Come Softly to Me
By W Tao
John Sonsini
By Dan Cameron
Walid Raad
By Elleree Erdos
Sharon Horvath: Gaze at Your Own Risk
By Jeremy Sigler
Leeroy New: Aliens of Manila
By Osman Can Yerebakan
Paul Anthony Smith: Junction
By Dan Cameron
Suzanne Anker & Frank Gillette: Strata
By Taney Roniger
The Drowned World
By Nicole Miller
Haegue Yang: Tracing Movement
By Michael Eby
Adolph Gottlieb: Classic Paintings
By David Rhodes
Overture
By Joseph Lubitz
ANOHNI: LOVE
By Simon Wu
Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg: Delights of an Undirected Mind
By Alex A. Jones
Tattfoo Tan: Heal the Man in Order to Heal the Land
By Kristen Racaniello
Monumental Journey: The Daguerreotypes of Girault de Prangey
By Louis Block
Jessi Reaves: II
By Eliza Barry
In Celebration
By Joyce Beckenstein
The Symbolist Vision
By Mary Ann Caws
Radicalism in the Wilderness: Japanese Artists in the Global 1960s
By Benjamin Clifford
Barthélemy Toguo: Urban Requiem
By Ann C. Collins
Gretchen Bender: So Much Deathless
By Dan Cameron
Joan Miró: Birth of the World
By Jessica Holmes
Eric N. Mack: Lemme walk across the room
By Sophie Kovel
Leonard Cohen: A Crack in Everything
By Steven Pestana
Odette England: The Outskirts, Exposed, and Punched
By tamara suarez porras
Michelle Handelman: LOVER HATER CUNTY INTELLECTUAL
By Alex A. Jones
N. Dash
By Steven Pestana
Sheer Presence: Monumental Paintings by Robert Motherwell
By Robert C. Morgan
New York-Centric
By William Corwin
Warhol Women
By Robert C. Morgan
Zoe Avery Nelson: The Measure of a Boi
By William Corwin

1 by 1

Jorge Méndez Blake: Amerika
By Colin Edgington

Critics Page

Fictions Of Art
Guest Critic: Barry Schwabsky
Picture a Picture of a Bed
By Edwin Frank
Paula Rego and Balzac: A Footnote
By Anthony Rudolf
The Cursed Painter
By Jean Frémon
Oscar Wilde's Basil Hallward
By Tosh Berman
A War on the World of Surfaces
By Ann Reynolds
Elstir's Harbor at Carquethuit
By David Carrier
A Hunger Artist
By Betsy Kaufman
Virginia Woolf's Paragone
By Jonathan Gilmore
Art World Doggerel
By John Yau
The Museum Frozen In Amber
By Seph Rodney
A Chance Encounter
By Rhona Bitner
The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting
By Dalia Neis
Nalo Hopkinson's Message in a Bottle
By Steven Shaviro

Books

Then I Put In My False Heart: SARAH ROSE ETTER in conversation with Andrew Ervin
By Andrew Ervin
Living on the Borderlines: Stories, by Melissa Michal and Sabrina & Corina: Stories, by Kali Fajardo-Anstine
By Yvonne C. Garrett
What My Mother And I Don’t Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break The Silence
By Elizabeth Block
My Roots Were Somewhere With You
By Shohreh Laici
My Struggle: Book Six by Karl Ove Knausgaard
By Nathan Knapp
The Girls in My Town By Angela Morales
By Erin Carden
The Aesthetics of Silence: New Books by Ilya Kaminsky & Donna Stonecipher
By Kristina Marie Darling
The Fat Kid by Jamie Iredell
By Hugh Sheehy

Music

Pay the Artist
By George Grella
Hey Internet DJ
By Greta Rainbow
Kinesiology of the Viola
By Eli Zeger
Outtakes
By Steve Dalachinsky
May Listings
By George Grella and Brad Cohan
Jon Savage: This Searing Light, The Sun And Everything Else
By Dan Joseph

Dance

Take Off From the Earth, Then Go To The Moon
By Erica Getto
Amendments, New Waves, and Updates
By Gillian Jakab
Lauren Bakst’s More Problems with Form
By Rennie McDougall
Kyle Abraham’s Live! The Realest MC
By Susan Yung
Choreographing “Lines of Flight”
By George Kan

Film

Change as Real as New York Schist: “This Used to Be New York” at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival
By Williams Cole
The Craftsman
By Giovanni Marchini Camia
Otro Mundo: The Wandering Soap Opera
By Violet Lucca
An Antidote for These Trying Times: Diamantino
By Kristen Yoonsoo Kim
There are no rules!: Restored and Revisited Avante–garde Films from the Netherlands
By Marius Hrdy
Losing Control of the Nightclub: Everybody in the Place
By Matt Turner

Theater

SEAN DONOVAN with Sara Farrington
Gina Femia and Blayze Teicher with Phoebe Brooks
LUCAS HNATH with Jim Knable

Fiction

From The New York Jail
by Plinio Garrido, translated from the Spanish by Harry Morales
From My Friends
by Emmanuel Bove, translated from the French by Janet Louth
Tragic Strip
By Tom Motley
inSerial: part eight The Mysteries of Paris
by Eugène Sue, translated from the French by Robert Bononno

Poetry

Anemone
By Norma Cole
Grand Army Plaza
By James Loop
five from Cosmic Bottom
By Lucas de Lima
three
By Catherine Wagner
four
By Kate Colby
four
By John Williams Narins
%NSFW
By Joshua Escobar
dandy aisle
By Mike Lala

Art Books

Anna Ostoya's and Ben Lerner's The Polish Rider
By Taylor Dafoe
R. Crumb's Dream Diary
By Lily Majteles
Saul Fletcher, Essays by Ralph Rugoff and Kirsty Bell
By Nick Bennett
Olivier Schrauwen's Parallel Lives
By Bill Kartalopoulos

Field Notes

Frontera/Frontier: Chaos at the US-Mexico Border
By Marisela Barrera
Algeria: A Historic and Ambivalent Movement
by Nedjib Sidi Moussa translated by Janet Koenig
Why 3508 Economists Are Probably Wrong
By José A. Tapia
Freaky Realism: Michael Taussig's Palma Africana
By McKenzie Wark

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MAY 2019

By Tom Motley

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Tom Motley

Tom Motley is a cartoonist, illustrator, and educator. His publications include Tragic Strip (a monthly strip in the Brooklyn Rail), The Golden Ass, The One Marvelous Thing, and contributions to the indie anthology Cartozia Tales. He teaches cartooning at the School of Visual Arts and illustration at Pratt.

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MAY 2019

Find the RAIL in print

Subscribe now

A message from Phong Bui
Publisher and Artistic Director

Art

MARINA ADAMS with Alex Bacon
JANE BENSON with Yasi Alipour
DE WAIN VALENTINE with Michael Straus
JOSH SMITH with Phong Bui

ArtSeen

Tim Rollins and K.O.S.: Workshop
By Hovey Brock
Lawrence Lek: AIDOL 爱道
By Michael Eby
Chando Ao, Sam Ghantous, David OReilly, and Bjorn Sparrman
By Danni Shen
Moira Dryer: Paintings & Works on Paper
By David Rhodes
Louis Fratino: Come Softly to Me
By W Tao
John Sonsini
By Dan Cameron
Walid Raad
By Elleree Erdos
Sharon Horvath: Gaze at Your Own Risk
By Jeremy Sigler
Leeroy New: Aliens of Manila
By Osman Can Yerebakan
Paul Anthony Smith: Junction
By Dan Cameron
Suzanne Anker & Frank Gillette: Strata
By Taney Roniger
The Drowned World
By Nicole Miller
Haegue Yang: Tracing Movement
By Michael Eby
Adolph Gottlieb: Classic Paintings
By David Rhodes
Overture
By Joseph Lubitz
ANOHNI: LOVE
By Simon Wu
Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg: Delights of an Undirected Mind
By Alex A. Jones
Tattfoo Tan: Heal the Man in Order to Heal the Land
By Kristen Racaniello
Monumental Journey: The Daguerreotypes of Girault de Prangey
By Louis Block
Jessi Reaves: II
By Eliza Barry
In Celebration
By Joyce Beckenstein
The Symbolist Vision
By Mary Ann Caws
Radicalism in the Wilderness: Japanese Artists in the Global 1960s
By Benjamin Clifford
Barthélemy Toguo: Urban Requiem
By Ann C. Collins
Gretchen Bender: So Much Deathless
By Dan Cameron
Joan Miró: Birth of the World
By Jessica Holmes
Eric N. Mack: Lemme walk across the room
By Sophie Kovel
Leonard Cohen: A Crack in Everything
By Steven Pestana
Odette England: The Outskirts, Exposed, and Punched
By tamara suarez porras
Michelle Handelman: LOVER HATER CUNTY INTELLECTUAL
By Alex A. Jones
N. Dash
By Steven Pestana
Sheer Presence: Monumental Paintings by Robert Motherwell
By Robert C. Morgan
New York-Centric
By William Corwin
Warhol Women
By Robert C. Morgan
Zoe Avery Nelson: The Measure of a Boi
By William Corwin

1 by 1

Jorge Méndez Blake: Amerika
By Colin Edgington

Critics Page

Fictions Of Art
Guest Critic: Barry Schwabsky
Picture a Picture of a Bed
By Edwin Frank
Paula Rego and Balzac: A Footnote
By Anthony Rudolf
The Cursed Painter
By Jean Frémon
Oscar Wilde's Basil Hallward
By Tosh Berman
A War on the World of Surfaces
By Ann Reynolds
Elstir's Harbor at Carquethuit
By David Carrier
A Hunger Artist
By Betsy Kaufman
Virginia Woolf's Paragone
By Jonathan Gilmore
Art World Doggerel
By John Yau
The Museum Frozen In Amber
By Seph Rodney
A Chance Encounter
By Rhona Bitner
The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting
By Dalia Neis
Nalo Hopkinson's Message in a Bottle
By Steven Shaviro

Books

Then I Put In My False Heart: SARAH ROSE ETTER in conversation with Andrew Ervin
By Andrew Ervin
Living on the Borderlines: Stories, by Melissa Michal and Sabrina & Corina: Stories, by Kali Fajardo-Anstine
By Yvonne C. Garrett
What My Mother And I Don’t Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break The Silence
By Elizabeth Block
My Roots Were Somewhere With You
By Shohreh Laici
My Struggle: Book Six by Karl Ove Knausgaard
By Nathan Knapp
The Girls in My Town By Angela Morales
By Erin Carden
The Aesthetics of Silence: New Books by Ilya Kaminsky & Donna Stonecipher
By Kristina Marie Darling
The Fat Kid by Jamie Iredell
By Hugh Sheehy

Music

Pay the Artist
By George Grella
Hey Internet DJ
By Greta Rainbow
Kinesiology of the Viola
By Eli Zeger
Outtakes
By Steve Dalachinsky
May Listings
By George Grella and Brad Cohan
Jon Savage: This Searing Light, The Sun And Everything Else
By Dan Joseph

Dance

Take Off From the Earth, Then Go To The Moon
By Erica Getto
Amendments, New Waves, and Updates
By Gillian Jakab
Lauren Bakst’s More Problems with Form
By Rennie McDougall
Kyle Abraham’s Live! The Realest MC
By Susan Yung
Choreographing “Lines of Flight”
By George Kan

Film

Change as Real as New York Schist: “This Used to Be New York” at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival
By Williams Cole
The Craftsman
By Giovanni Marchini Camia
Otro Mundo: The Wandering Soap Opera
By Violet Lucca
An Antidote for These Trying Times: Diamantino
By Kristen Yoonsoo Kim
There are no rules!: Restored and Revisited Avante–garde Films from the Netherlands
By Marius Hrdy
Losing Control of the Nightclub: Everybody in the Place
By Matt Turner

Theater

SEAN DONOVAN with Sara Farrington
Gina Femia and Blayze Teicher with Phoebe Brooks
LUCAS HNATH with Jim Knable

Fiction

From The New York Jail
by Plinio Garrido, translated from the Spanish by Harry Morales
From My Friends
by Emmanuel Bove, translated from the French by Janet Louth
Tragic Strip
By Tom Motley
inSerial: part eight The Mysteries of Paris
by Eugène Sue, translated from the French by Robert Bononno

Poetry

Anemone
By Norma Cole
Grand Army Plaza
By James Loop
five from Cosmic Bottom
By Lucas de Lima
three
By Catherine Wagner
four
By Kate Colby
four
By John Williams Narins
%NSFW
By Joshua Escobar
dandy aisle
By Mike Lala

Art Books

Anna Ostoya's and Ben Lerner's The Polish Rider
By Taylor Dafoe
R. Crumb's Dream Diary
By Lily Majteles
Saul Fletcher, Essays by Ralph Rugoff and Kirsty Bell
By Nick Bennett
Olivier Schrauwen's Parallel Lives
By Bill Kartalopoulos

Field Notes

Frontera/Frontier: Chaos at the US-Mexico Border
By Marisela Barrera
Algeria: A Historic and Ambivalent Movement
by Nedjib Sidi Moussa translated by Janet Koenig
Why 3508 Economists Are Probably Wrong
By José A. Tapia
Freaky Realism: Michael Taussig's Palma Africana
By McKenzie Wark

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