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Campaign Dispatches
by David Levi StraussExpress
Watching Jimmy Carter last night, all white hair and teeth in the lights, I remembered his candidacy in 1976, when Hunter S. Thompson endorsed him in Rolling Stone right before the election, guaranteeing the youth vote.
Railing Opinion
by Robert StorrArt
As part of our interest in revitalizing art criticism and theory, in giving them both sharp edge and broad, encompassing vision, the Rail has initiated this column.
Rudy Burckhardt: The Art of Being
by Phong BuiArt
Only by being and being and being can anything truly become: truly arrive Parker Tyler
Electrifying Art: Atsuko Tanaka 19541968
by Katie StoneArtSeen
A piercing bell breaks the silence in the gallery. It sounds like a fire alarm or a high-pitched human scream, startling, warning, terrifying, a harbinger of destruction.
Hot & Cold A Very Brief History of Intimate Love
by Jim SavioFiction
Sadies idea of a good time was making love to Wilbur in an igloo, on a bear skin rug.
- Electrifying Art: Atsuko Tanaka 19541968 by Katie Stone
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Lester Johnson
Four Decades of Painting by James Kalm -
Peter Caine
You’re a Sensation by Nick Stillman - Bjørn Melhus by William Powhida
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Halsey Rodman
YK is Multiplied — The Swirling Mists Freeze and the Stars Melt Across the Sky by Roger White - White Matter(s) by Chris Howard
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Mark Esper
Gizmology by William Powhida - Gerta Conner by Tomassio Longhi
- The Wedding Project by Shane McAdams
- Todd Hido. Roaming: New Landscapes by Stephanie Buhmann
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Jason Alan Klotz and Mikhail Leykin
Robot
by Sonya Shrier -
Jon Gregg
Heads, Hands, and Leaves
by Ben La Rocco -
William Eggleston
Los Alamos
by Farrah Karapetian
The Legacy of Pier 57
by Theodore HammLastWords
The silence has been deafening. Despite the extensive press coverage of the RNC arrestswhich shows that Pier 57 was either the site of wholesale preventive detention or of gross incompetence by the Bloomberg administration and the NYPDnone of the citys top public officials have spoken out on the matter.
Full Contents
Local
- A Progressive Grows on Staten Island? by Williams Cole
Express
- The Triumph of Conservatism by Norman Kelley
- Campaign Dispatches by David Levi Strauss
- Letter from Tennessee by Marjory Garrison
- Long Live Indian Larry! by Brian Molyneaux
- Happy Sixty-Fifth Birthday! Now Get Back to Work by Stanley Morgan
- Exchanges: On Cornel West, and Uncle Peter
Art
- Andrea Fraser by * Praxis
- Chronophobia: On Time in the Art of the1960s, by Pamela Lee by Daniel Baird
- Railing Opinion by Robert Storr
- Rudy Burckhardt: The Art of Being by Phong Bui
- Deep Space by Joan Waltemath
- Jamaica Flux: Jamaica Center for the Arts Evolves by William Powhida
ArtSeen
- Electrifying Art: Atsuko Tanaka 19541968 by Katie Stone
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Lester Johnson
Four Decades of Painting by James Kalm -
Peter Caine
You’re a Sensation by Nick Stillman - Bjørn Melhus by William Powhida
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Halsey Rodman
YK is Multiplied — The Swirling Mists Freeze and the Stars Melt Across the Sky by Roger White - White Matter(s) by Chris Howard
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Mark Esper
Gizmology by William Powhida - Gerta Conner by Tomassio Longhi
- The Wedding Project by Shane McAdams
- Todd Hido. Roaming: New Landscapes by Stephanie Buhmann
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Jason Alan Klotz and Mikhail Leykin
Robot
by Sonya Shrier -
Jon Gregg
Heads, Hands, and Leaves
by Ben La Rocco -
William Eggleston
Los Alamos
by Farrah Karapetian
Books
- Karen Liebreich with John Reed by John Reed
- James Sherry with Farnoosh Fathi by Farnoosh Fathi
- Off the Shelves by Book Staff
Music
- Visions of the Future Built on Tatters of the Past: Decasia at St. Ann's Warehouse by Ellen Pearlman
- review: Ilhan Mimaroglu and Kenneth Patchen by Fred Cisterna
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Simon Finn
Pass the Distance
by David Shirley
Dance
- Gabri Christa’s Dominata at Dance Theater Workshop by Vanessa Manko
- De Keersmaeker’s Mozart/ Concert Arias: un moto di gioia by Shanti Crawford
- Dancing on the Rail by Vanessa Manko
- Thirteen ways of looking at Shen Wei by Claudia La Rocco
Film
- Michael Cimino’s Heaven’s Gate by David N. Meyer
- The Passion for The Passion: Mel Gibson's Passion Goes DVD by Michael J. Thompson
- Docs in Sight by Williams Cole
Theater
- In dialogue: Inhabiting The Clean House with Sarah Ruhl by Lila Rose Kaplan
- Antigones in New York by Saviana Stanescu
- review: Reality Theater: Guantanamo by Pamela Newton
- review: An Earnest Start: Brooklyn's Brave New World by Alan Lockwood
- review: Playing Underground by Michael Smith
- Antigones in New York by Saviana Stanescu
Fiction
- excerpt from: The Book of Jon by Eleni Sikelianos
- Reflection from Lisbon by John Stewart
- Hot & Cold A Very Brief History of Intimate Love by Jim Savio
Poetry
- Able, After These Messages by Amy King
- SPOOK MOON, WHAT FORTUNE TELLS DUMB BEAUTY SPELLS by Geoffrey Cruickshank-Hagenbuckle
Streets
- Chinatown: The Last Frontier by Amy Zimmer
LastWords
- The Legacy of Pier 57 by Theodore Hamm


