OCT 2021

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A message from Phong Bui
Publisher and Artistic Director

Art

Ghada Amer with Amanda Gluibizzi
Tacita Dean with Jonathan T.D. Neil
Tomashi Jackson with Maddie Klett
Jorge Pardo with William Corwin
Una Stanza Per Panza
by Donald Judd
Pure Meshuggah: Anti-Semitism Invades Art History
By Francis M. Naumann

ArtSeen

Kon Trubkovich: The Antepenultimate End
By David Carrier
Tamara Gonzales: Horrible Beauty
By Amanda Millet-Sorsa
Louise Lawler: LIGHTS OFF, AFTER HOURS, IN THE DARK
By Hannah Sage Kay
Leonardo Drew
By Jillian Russo
Kon Trubkovich: The Antepenultimate End
By Nicholas Heskes
Nicky Nodjoumi: We the Witnesses
By Andrew Paul Woolbright
O-I-L Paint (for Albert Ryder)
By Bill Jensen
A Wild Note of Longing: Albert Pinkham Ryder and a Century of American Art
By Peter Acheson
A Wild Note of Longing: Albert Pinkham Ryder and a Century of American Art
By Amanda Millet-Sorsa
Jennie C. Jones: New Compositions
By Ann C. Collins
Hemali Bhuta: and the epic did not happen!
By Barbara A. MacAdam
Stacy Lynn Waddell: Mettle
By Darla Migan
Emilie Stark-Menneg: Strawberry Moon
By Alfred Mac Adam
Nicole Storm
By Bryan Martin
Ron Gorchov: Spice of Life
By Tom McGlynn
Convergent Evolutions: The Conscious Body of Work
By Charlotte Kent
Katelyn Eichwald: Never
By Elizabeth Buhe
Alex Callender: All Her Loves and All Her Disappointments
By Marcus Civin
Joanna Borkowska & Sandi Slone: Material/Immaterial
By Robert C. Morgan
Matvey Levenstein
By Andrew L. Shea
Philip Guston: 1969–1979
By David Rhodes
Lois Dodd
By Hearne Pardee
John Currin: Memorial
By Alfred Mac Adam
Alison Elizabeth Taylor: Future Promise
By Susan Harris
Daniel Johnston: I Live My Broken Dreams
By Barbara Purcell
Thomas Nozkowski: The Last Paintings
By Tom McGlynn
Liz Ahn: unobservable scavenger
By Pamela Sneed
Wallace Berman: Off the Grid
By Ann McCoy
Julian Schnabel: Self-Portraits of Others
By David Ebony
Bernar Venet: 1961 & 1963: les origins
By Joseph Nechvatal
Martha Tuttle: Wild irises grow in the mountains
By Louis Block
Elizabeth Murray: Back in Town
By Douglas Dreishpoon
McArthur Binion: Modern:Ancient:Brown
By Amanda Millet-Sorsa
Kamala Sankaram: The Last Stand
By Julie Reiss
Wardell Milan: Amerika. God Bless You If It’s Good To You
By Cat Dawson
BRUCE CONNER & JAY DEFEO: (“we are not what we seem”)
By Jessica Holmes
Lisa Yuskavage: New Paintings
By Jason Rosenfeld
Raquel Rabinovich: Portals
By Jonathan Goodman

Critics Page

Performa 2021
Guest Critic: RoseLee Goldberg
Live from New York
By Charles Aubin
The Real World
By Kathy Noble
Amazon (Proxy)
By Danielle Dean
Stalk
By Ericka Beckman
The Stage
By Tschabalala Self
notes towards becoming a spill
By Shikeith
Review
By Madeline Hollander
Down at the Arcade
By Sara Cwynar
Being Silica
By Andrés Jaque
The Sound of Morning
By Kathy Noble

Books

Aimee Parkison’s Sister Séance
By Jacquelyn Marie Gallo
Deborah Levy’s Real Estate
By Elizabeth Block
Khadija Abdalla Bajaber & Jonathan Franzen
By Yvonne C. Garrett
Shukri Mabkhout’s The Italian
By John Domini
A Woman’s Worth
By Carissa Chesanek
Revolutionary Letters: 50th Anniversary Edition
By Patrick James Dunagan
John Banville’s April in Spain
By Joseph Peschel
Clare Chambers’s Small Pleasures
By Carissa Chesanek
Lincoln Michel’s The Body Scout
By Rone Shavers
Martha Cooley with Catherine Parnell

Music

Possessed by the Moon
By Adolf Alzuphar
Into the Blue
By Scott Gutterman
Ostrava Days, Ostrava, Czech Republic, August 20–21, 2021
By Martin Longley
“A Totally Integrated Club Scene”: New York, New Music: 1980–1986 at the Museum of the City of New York
By Matthew Pessar Joseph
Time, Lost and Regained
By George Grella

Dance

Light and Desire: Illuminating Anger and Transformation
By Jen C. George
Taylor Returns—But What Holds the Future?
By Susan Yung
How Do We Stage a World?
By George Kan

Film

Emma Dante’s The Macaluso Sisters
By Laura Valenza
Angelo Madsen Minax’s North By Current
By Anna Cahn

Theater

Write Me Back: P.S. Offers a Unique Window into Pen Pals’ Isolation
By Joey Sims
The Dramaturg’s Perspective: A Conversation with Amauta Firmino
By Alexi Chacon
For Your Eyes OnlyFans: Playwright Gage Tarlton on Sex, Confessions, and the Digital Age
By Kyle Turner

Fiction

Miss Weinburger
By Alec Niedenthal
Coda: Waiting by the Shore
By Kate McIntyre

Poetry

two
By I.S. Jones
three
By Charles Theonia
The Autobiography of Jean Foos
By Jessica Grim and Melanie Neilson
Moon with David
By Ed Steck
three
By Kendra Sullivan
Late Humans and Other Animals
By Jason Morris

Art Books

Sara Cwynar’s Glass Life
By Karen Gu
Kristin Bedford’s Cruise Night
By Nicole Kaack
Designing Motherhood: Things That Make and Break Our Births
By Ksenia Nouril
Edith Young’s Color Scheme
By Alana Pockros
Derek Sullivan’s Evidence of the Avant Garde Ex-Library
By Megan N. Liberty
Richard Tuttle’s The Role of the Story Teller
By Louis Block

ArTonic

The Foundation for Contemporary Arts
By Charlotte Kent

Field Notes

Occupied
By Paul Mattick
Buying Time: Evictions and Tenant Organizing at the Pandemic Slow End
By Nathan Eisenberg and Daniel Tutt
The Present and Future of Engineers
By Nick Chavez

The Miraculous

71. (The Studio Museum in Harlem)
By Raphael Rubinstein
72. (Various walls around the city)
By Raphael Rubinstein
73. (Various museums and galleries)
By Raphael Rubinstein
74. (402, 404 & 414 East 14th Street)
By Raphael Rubinstein
75. (Pier 18, Hudson River)
By Raphael Rubinstein

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OCT 2021

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OCT 2021

Find the RAIL in print

Subscribe now

A message from Phong Bui
Publisher and Artistic Director

Art

Ghada Amer with Amanda Gluibizzi
Tacita Dean with Jonathan T.D. Neil
Tomashi Jackson with Maddie Klett
Jorge Pardo with William Corwin
Una Stanza Per Panza
by Donald Judd
Pure Meshuggah: Anti-Semitism Invades Art History
By Francis M. Naumann

ArtSeen

Kon Trubkovich: The Antepenultimate End
By David Carrier
Tamara Gonzales: Horrible Beauty
By Amanda Millet-Sorsa
Louise Lawler: LIGHTS OFF, AFTER HOURS, IN THE DARK
By Hannah Sage Kay
Leonardo Drew
By Jillian Russo
Kon Trubkovich: The Antepenultimate End
By Nicholas Heskes
Nicky Nodjoumi: We the Witnesses
By Andrew Paul Woolbright
O-I-L Paint (for Albert Ryder)
By Bill Jensen
A Wild Note of Longing: Albert Pinkham Ryder and a Century of American Art
By Peter Acheson
A Wild Note of Longing: Albert Pinkham Ryder and a Century of American Art
By Amanda Millet-Sorsa
Jennie C. Jones: New Compositions
By Ann C. Collins
Hemali Bhuta: and the epic did not happen!
By Barbara A. MacAdam
Stacy Lynn Waddell: Mettle
By Darla Migan
Emilie Stark-Menneg: Strawberry Moon
By Alfred Mac Adam
Nicole Storm
By Bryan Martin
Ron Gorchov: Spice of Life
By Tom McGlynn
Convergent Evolutions: The Conscious Body of Work
By Charlotte Kent
Katelyn Eichwald: Never
By Elizabeth Buhe
Alex Callender: All Her Loves and All Her Disappointments
By Marcus Civin
Joanna Borkowska & Sandi Slone: Material/Immaterial
By Robert C. Morgan
Matvey Levenstein
By Andrew L. Shea
Philip Guston: 1969–1979
By David Rhodes
Lois Dodd
By Hearne Pardee
John Currin: Memorial
By Alfred Mac Adam
Alison Elizabeth Taylor: Future Promise
By Susan Harris
Daniel Johnston: I Live My Broken Dreams
By Barbara Purcell
Thomas Nozkowski: The Last Paintings
By Tom McGlynn
Liz Ahn: unobservable scavenger
By Pamela Sneed
Wallace Berman: Off the Grid
By Ann McCoy
Julian Schnabel: Self-Portraits of Others
By David Ebony
Bernar Venet: 1961 & 1963: les origins
By Joseph Nechvatal
Martha Tuttle: Wild irises grow in the mountains
By Louis Block
Elizabeth Murray: Back in Town
By Douglas Dreishpoon
McArthur Binion: Modern:Ancient:Brown
By Amanda Millet-Sorsa
Kamala Sankaram: The Last Stand
By Julie Reiss
Wardell Milan: Amerika. God Bless You If It’s Good To You
By Cat Dawson
BRUCE CONNER & JAY DEFEO: (“we are not what we seem”)
By Jessica Holmes
Lisa Yuskavage: New Paintings
By Jason Rosenfeld
Raquel Rabinovich: Portals
By Jonathan Goodman

Critics Page

Performa 2021
Guest Critic: RoseLee Goldberg
Live from New York
By Charles Aubin
The Real World
By Kathy Noble
Amazon (Proxy)
By Danielle Dean
Stalk
By Ericka Beckman
The Stage
By Tschabalala Self
notes towards becoming a spill
By Shikeith
Review
By Madeline Hollander
Down at the Arcade
By Sara Cwynar
Being Silica
By Andrés Jaque
The Sound of Morning
By Kathy Noble

Books

Aimee Parkison’s Sister Séance
By Jacquelyn Marie Gallo
Deborah Levy’s Real Estate
By Elizabeth Block
Khadija Abdalla Bajaber & Jonathan Franzen
By Yvonne C. Garrett
Shukri Mabkhout’s The Italian
By John Domini
A Woman’s Worth
By Carissa Chesanek
Revolutionary Letters: 50th Anniversary Edition
By Patrick James Dunagan
John Banville’s April in Spain
By Joseph Peschel
Clare Chambers’s Small Pleasures
By Carissa Chesanek
Lincoln Michel’s The Body Scout
By Rone Shavers
Martha Cooley with Catherine Parnell

Music

Possessed by the Moon
By Adolf Alzuphar
Into the Blue
By Scott Gutterman
Ostrava Days, Ostrava, Czech Republic, August 20–21, 2021
By Martin Longley
“A Totally Integrated Club Scene”: New York, New Music: 1980–1986 at the Museum of the City of New York
By Matthew Pessar Joseph
Time, Lost and Regained
By George Grella

Dance

Light and Desire: Illuminating Anger and Transformation
By Jen C. George
Taylor Returns—But What Holds the Future?
By Susan Yung
How Do We Stage a World?
By George Kan

Film

Emma Dante’s The Macaluso Sisters
By Laura Valenza
Angelo Madsen Minax’s North By Current
By Anna Cahn

Theater

Write Me Back: P.S. Offers a Unique Window into Pen Pals’ Isolation
By Joey Sims
The Dramaturg’s Perspective: A Conversation with Amauta Firmino
By Alexi Chacon
For Your Eyes OnlyFans: Playwright Gage Tarlton on Sex, Confessions, and the Digital Age
By Kyle Turner

Fiction

Miss Weinburger
By Alec Niedenthal
Coda: Waiting by the Shore
By Kate McIntyre

Poetry

two
By I.S. Jones
three
By Charles Theonia
The Autobiography of Jean Foos
By Jessica Grim and Melanie Neilson
Moon with David
By Ed Steck
three
By Kendra Sullivan
Late Humans and Other Animals
By Jason Morris

Art Books

Sara Cwynar’s Glass Life
By Karen Gu
Kristin Bedford’s Cruise Night
By Nicole Kaack
Designing Motherhood: Things That Make and Break Our Births
By Ksenia Nouril
Edith Young’s Color Scheme
By Alana Pockros
Derek Sullivan’s Evidence of the Avant Garde Ex-Library
By Megan N. Liberty
Richard Tuttle’s The Role of the Story Teller
By Louis Block

ArTonic

The Foundation for Contemporary Arts
By Charlotte Kent

Field Notes

Occupied
By Paul Mattick
Buying Time: Evictions and Tenant Organizing at the Pandemic Slow End
By Nathan Eisenberg and Daniel Tutt
The Present and Future of Engineers
By Nick Chavez

The Miraculous

71. (The Studio Museum in Harlem)
By Raphael Rubinstein
72. (Various walls around the city)
By Raphael Rubinstein
73. (Various museums and galleries)
By Raphael Rubinstein
74. (402, 404 & 414 East 14th Street)
By Raphael Rubinstein
75. (Pier 18, Hudson River)
By Raphael Rubinstein

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