APRIL 2020

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A message from Phong Bui
Publisher and Artistic Director

Art

RICHARD LONG with Robert C. Morgan
SUSAN BEE with Phong H. Bui
GRACIELA ITURBIDE with Sara Roffino
MERLIN JAMES with Louis Block
CRAIG KALPAKJIAN with Yasi Alipour
Letter from Dusseldorf
By Toby Kamps

ArtSeen

Landscapes of the South
By Susan Breyer
Richard Long
By Robert C. Morgan
Arlene Shechet: Skirts
By David Rhodes
Joanna Pousette-Dart
By Barbara A. MacAdam
Georges de La Tour: L'Europa della Luce
By Bartolomeo Sala
Angela Fraleigh: Sound the Deep Waters
By Ann C. Collins
Jutta Koether: 4 the Team
By Alfred Mac Adam
Julian Schnabel: The Patch of Blue the Prisoner Calls the Sky
By Alfred Mac Adam
Rita Ackermann: Mama '19
By Charlotte Kent
Jordan Casteel: Within Reach
By Nina Wolpow
Jana Euler: Unform
By Katherine Siboni
Jennifer West: Future Forgetting
By Olivia Gauthier
Kelly Akashi: Mood Organ
By Ann C. Collins
Nicole Eisenman: Sturm und Drang
By Phyllis Tuchman
Zsófia Keresztes: Glossy Inviolability
By Veronika Molnar
Jennifer Bolande: The Composition of Decomposition
By Sahar Khraibani
Christopher Wilmarth: Sculpture and Drawings from the 1970s
By Jan Avgikos
Alison Rossiter: Substance of Density, 1918-1948
By Zach Ritter
Totally Dedicated: Leonard Contino, 1940-2016
By Robert R. Shane
Donald Judd: Maker, Baker
By Elizabeth Buhe
Against, Again: Art Under Attack in Brazil
By Sumeja Tulic
A Delian Mode: Dear Delia
By Israel Lund
Robert Frank: After The Americans
By Lyle Rexer

Critics Page

From the Threshing Floor
Guest Critic: Norma Cole
Goodbye Pork Pie Hat
By David Marriott
Thresh:
By Cole Swensen
Notes on The New Threshing Floor
By Cedar Sigo
The Trajectory of a Bullet Never Shot
By Susan Briante
from Another Sky
By Dale Martin Smith
Mirage As Errata
By Will Alexander
Resolved
By Laura Moriarty
A chessboard drawn by the child Kuba
By Erín Moure
[Exemplary Title in the Theme of “From the Threshing Floor ”] [?]
By Carlos Lara
Three Threshing Floors
By Susan Gevirtz
Shake
By Aaron Shurin
from A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure
By Hoa Nguyen
Video Tryouts for an American Grammar Book
By Farid Matuk
The Prayers of the Saints
By Steven Seidenberg

Books

Shokoofeh Azar’s The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree
By John Domini
JOHN GALLAHER with Tony Leuzzi
MARIE MUTSUKI MOCKETT with Eric Farwell
ELAINE KAHN with Rachel Rabbit White
Emily St. John Mandel’s The Glass Hotel
By Yvonne C. Garrett
Samuele F.S. Pardini’s In The Name of The Mother
By Fiore Sireci
Talking to My Sons about Varoufakis—and the Economy
By William Stroud
Mary South’s You Will Never Be Forgotten
By Yvonne C. Garrett

Music

Quarantine Hall
By George Grella
Dance Punks Punk Dance
By Steve Erickson
Outline: A Festival for All Seasons
By Scott Gutterman
Opus Jazz Club
By Martin Longley

Dance

A Dancer’s View: Pavel Zuštiak’s Hebel
By Doug LeCours
Tales of Hopper: The Additive Adaptation from Painting to Dance
By Hannah Foster
OXANA CHI and LAYLA ZAMI with Gillian Jakab
By Gillian Jakab

Film

MATIAS PIÑEIRO with Jessica Dunn Rovinelli
PIETRO MARCELLO with Dan Sullivan
Before the Circus Left Town: Rachel Mason’s Circus of Books
By Daniel Gerwin

Theater

Let Constraints Set You Free
By Billy McEntee
DAVE HARRIS with Kimber Lee
Building an Invisible Theater
By Karen Thorla
A selection of virtual theater spaces to gather in
By Karen Thorla

Fiction

Diary of a Foreigner in Paris
by Curzio Malaparte, translated from the Italian and French by Stephen Twilley
Shark Fins
by Enrique Serpa, translated from the Spanish by Andrew Feldman
God Bless You
By T. Motley
inSerial: part sixteen The Mysteries of Paris
By Eugène Sue, translated from French by Robert Bononno
Entering the Glitch: EMMALEA RUSSO with Sarah Hicks

Poetry

two
By Leopoldine Core
four
By Nikki Wallschlaeger
four
By Edwin Torres
three
By Benjamin Friedlander
from Water & Power
By Alli Warren
two
By Tony Towle
Love Mountain
By Emmalea Russo

Art Books

Rosanna Mclaughlin’s Double-Tracking: Studies in Duplicity
By Esmé Hogeveen
The Saddest Thing Is That I Have Had to Use Words: A Madeline Gins Reader
By Megan N. Liberty
Gustav Metzger’s Writings
By Joseph Nechvatal
Patrick de Vries’s Alberto Giacometti and the Perception of Reality
By Isabella Boorman

In Memoriam

S/HE IS (STILL) HER/E
By Jarrett Earnest
Lia Gangitano
Carl Abrahamsson
Edley ODowd
William Breeze
Roxy Farman
Clarity Haynes
Akiko Hada
Leigha Mason
Alan Russell
Ron Athey
Jarrett Earnest
Meena Ysanne
Benjamin Tischer
Jane Ursula Harris
Michael Fox
Douglas Rushkoff
Enok Ripley
James Birch
Jordi Valls
Marie Losier
Paul Bee Hampshire
Robert Wilson
Susana Vico Valero
Genesis Breyer P-Orridge on he/r art

Field Notes

Editor’s Note: End Times Politics
By Paul Mattick
Fear is more powerful than facts
By Natalie Baker
Life Comes At You Fast
By Jason E. Smith
A Day without Women
By David Schmidt
Diary from a Genocide in the Making
By Margaret M. Seiler

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APRIL 2020

Find the RAIL in print

Subscribe now

A message from Phong Bui
Publisher and Artistic Director

Art

RICHARD LONG with Robert C. Morgan
SUSAN BEE with Phong H. Bui
GRACIELA ITURBIDE with Sara Roffino
MERLIN JAMES with Louis Block
CRAIG KALPAKJIAN with Yasi Alipour
Letter from Dusseldorf
By Toby Kamps

ArtSeen

Landscapes of the South
By Susan Breyer
Richard Long
By Robert C. Morgan
Arlene Shechet: Skirts
By David Rhodes
Joanna Pousette-Dart
By Barbara A. MacAdam
Georges de La Tour: L'Europa della Luce
By Bartolomeo Sala
Angela Fraleigh: Sound the Deep Waters
By Ann C. Collins
Jutta Koether: 4 the Team
By Alfred Mac Adam
Julian Schnabel: The Patch of Blue the Prisoner Calls the Sky
By Alfred Mac Adam
Rita Ackermann: Mama '19
By Charlotte Kent
Jordan Casteel: Within Reach
By Nina Wolpow
Jana Euler: Unform
By Katherine Siboni
Jennifer West: Future Forgetting
By Olivia Gauthier
Kelly Akashi: Mood Organ
By Ann C. Collins
Nicole Eisenman: Sturm und Drang
By Phyllis Tuchman
Zsófia Keresztes: Glossy Inviolability
By Veronika Molnar
Jennifer Bolande: The Composition of Decomposition
By Sahar Khraibani
Christopher Wilmarth: Sculpture and Drawings from the 1970s
By Jan Avgikos
Alison Rossiter: Substance of Density, 1918-1948
By Zach Ritter
Totally Dedicated: Leonard Contino, 1940-2016
By Robert R. Shane
Donald Judd: Maker, Baker
By Elizabeth Buhe
Against, Again: Art Under Attack in Brazil
By Sumeja Tulic
A Delian Mode: Dear Delia
By Israel Lund
Robert Frank: After The Americans
By Lyle Rexer

Critics Page

From the Threshing Floor
Guest Critic: Norma Cole
Goodbye Pork Pie Hat
By David Marriott
Thresh:
By Cole Swensen
Notes on The New Threshing Floor
By Cedar Sigo
The Trajectory of a Bullet Never Shot
By Susan Briante
from Another Sky
By Dale Martin Smith
Mirage As Errata
By Will Alexander
Resolved
By Laura Moriarty
A chessboard drawn by the child Kuba
By Erín Moure
[Exemplary Title in the Theme of “From the Threshing Floor ”] [?]
By Carlos Lara
Three Threshing Floors
By Susan Gevirtz
Shake
By Aaron Shurin
from A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure
By Hoa Nguyen
Video Tryouts for an American Grammar Book
By Farid Matuk
The Prayers of the Saints
By Steven Seidenberg

Books

Shokoofeh Azar’s The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree
By John Domini
JOHN GALLAHER with Tony Leuzzi
MARIE MUTSUKI MOCKETT with Eric Farwell
ELAINE KAHN with Rachel Rabbit White
Emily St. John Mandel’s The Glass Hotel
By Yvonne C. Garrett
Samuele F.S. Pardini’s In The Name of The Mother
By Fiore Sireci
Talking to My Sons about Varoufakis—and the Economy
By William Stroud
Mary South’s You Will Never Be Forgotten
By Yvonne C. Garrett

Music

Quarantine Hall
By George Grella
Dance Punks Punk Dance
By Steve Erickson
Outline: A Festival for All Seasons
By Scott Gutterman
Opus Jazz Club
By Martin Longley

Dance

A Dancer’s View: Pavel Zuštiak’s Hebel
By Doug LeCours
Tales of Hopper: The Additive Adaptation from Painting to Dance
By Hannah Foster
OXANA CHI and LAYLA ZAMI with Gillian Jakab
By Gillian Jakab

Film

MATIAS PIÑEIRO with Jessica Dunn Rovinelli
PIETRO MARCELLO with Dan Sullivan
Before the Circus Left Town: Rachel Mason’s Circus of Books
By Daniel Gerwin

Theater

Let Constraints Set You Free
By Billy McEntee
DAVE HARRIS with Kimber Lee
Building an Invisible Theater
By Karen Thorla
A selection of virtual theater spaces to gather in
By Karen Thorla

Fiction

Diary of a Foreigner in Paris
by Curzio Malaparte, translated from the Italian and French by Stephen Twilley
Shark Fins
by Enrique Serpa, translated from the Spanish by Andrew Feldman
God Bless You
By T. Motley
inSerial: part sixteen The Mysteries of Paris
By Eugène Sue, translated from French by Robert Bononno
Entering the Glitch: EMMALEA RUSSO with Sarah Hicks

Poetry

two
By Leopoldine Core
four
By Nikki Wallschlaeger
four
By Edwin Torres
three
By Benjamin Friedlander
from Water & Power
By Alli Warren
two
By Tony Towle
Love Mountain
By Emmalea Russo

Art Books

Rosanna Mclaughlin’s Double-Tracking: Studies in Duplicity
By Esmé Hogeveen
The Saddest Thing Is That I Have Had to Use Words: A Madeline Gins Reader
By Megan N. Liberty
Gustav Metzger’s Writings
By Joseph Nechvatal
Patrick de Vries’s Alberto Giacometti and the Perception of Reality
By Isabella Boorman

In Memoriam

S/HE IS (STILL) HER/E
By Jarrett Earnest
Lia Gangitano
Carl Abrahamsson
Edley ODowd
William Breeze
Roxy Farman
Clarity Haynes
Akiko Hada
Leigha Mason
Alan Russell
Ron Athey
Jarrett Earnest
Meena Ysanne
Benjamin Tischer
Jane Ursula Harris
Michael Fox
Douglas Rushkoff
Enok Ripley
James Birch
Jordi Valls
Marie Losier
Paul Bee Hampshire
Robert Wilson
Susana Vico Valero
Genesis Breyer P-Orridge on he/r art

Field Notes

Editor’s Note: End Times Politics
By Paul Mattick
Fear is more powerful than facts
By Natalie Baker
Life Comes At You Fast
By Jason E. Smith
A Day without Women
By David Schmidt
Diary from a Genocide in the Making
By Margaret M. Seiler

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