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A Progressive Grows on Staten Island?

by Williams Cole

Local

While the majority of voters in the five boroughs will cast a vote against Dubya and what he stands for, some will actually go to the polls and vote for Republicans to represent them in Washington.

The Legacy of Pier 57

by Theodore Hamm

Local

The silence has been deafening. Despite the extensive press coverage of the RNC arrests—which shows that Pier 57 was either the site of wholesale preventive detention or of gross incompetence by the Bloomberg administration and the NYPD—none of the city’s top public officials have spoken out on the matter.

Campaign Dispatches

by David Levi Strauss

Express

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.

In Conversation

Andrea Fraser

Art

“Untitled” (2003) was initiated in 2002 when Andrea Fraser approached Friedrich Petzel Gallery to arrange a commission with a private collector on her behalf.

Railing Opinion

by Robert Storr

Art

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.

ArtSeen

Rudy Burckhardt: The Art of Being

by Phong Bui

Art

Only by being and being and being… can anything truly become: truly arrive —Parker Tyler

Electrifying Art: Atsuko Tanaka 1954–1968

by Katie Stone

ArtSeen

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.

Karen Liebreich with John Reed

by John Reed

Books

In 1646, the Piarist Order, which had introduced education to the masses—and not only an education in Latin but also an education in basic reading and arithmetic—was disbanded by Pope Innocent X.

Hot & Cold —A Very Brief History of Intimate Love

by Jim Savio

Fiction

Sadie’s idea of a good time was making love to Wilbur in an igloo, on a bear skin rug.

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