The Price of Ratner's Hoopla: Brooklyn Stadium a Money Loser

by Johannah Rodgers

Local

The much-anticipated report on the financial feasibility of the proposed Atlantic Yards project was released on May 1, 2004, and the message was not only stark, but considering the fact that the study was commissioned by Ratner & Co., rather startling.

Inside Al Jazeera: Samir Khader

by Mridu Chandra and Rehan Ansari

Express

When Al Jazeera’s Senior Producer Samir Khader was recently in town for the theatrical release of Control Room, we met him at the Roosevelt Hotel. Born and raised in Baghdad but now living in Jordan, Khader seems right out of the world of American film noir— he’s like a Bogart character who has recognized a moral imperative and struggles with his fear of self and the world.

Life in the O.T.: Anat Biletzki

by Eyal Danieli

Express

Recently, Eyal Danieli, a Brooklyn-based artist, spoke to Anat Biletzki, who teaches philosophy at Tel Aviv University and is Chairperson of the board of B’Tselem, a human rights organization in the occupied territories. The interview took place at the Rail’s office in Greenpoint.

Istvan Kantor with Daniel Baird

by Daniel Baird

Art

Since moving to Canada in 1977, Hungarian-born artist Istvan Kantor has created an enormous and controversial body of work which has encompassed mail art, sculpture, installation, noise music, both individual and collective performance, and video.

Jehane Noujaim

by Mridu Chandra

Film

Control Room gives us an account of the first 6 weeks of the war in Iraq from the inside of Al Jazeera, the satellite news network based in Qatar and watched by millions in the Arab world.

Digital Avant-Garde: Celebrating 25 Years of Ars Electronica by Ellen Pearlman

Fred Wilson: Objects and Installations: 1979–2000 by Stephanie Buhmann

Terrorvision: Exit Art by Nick Stillman

Xiomara De Oliver: Scarlets in Ghent by James Kalm

Klaus Weber by Katie Stone

Andreas Gursky: Matthew Marks Gallery by Farrah Karapetian

Lee Bontecou: Drawings 1958-1999 by Tomassio Longhi

Two enter and one leaves: YEAR by William Powhida

Bradley Wester: When In Rome by Ben La Rocco

The Free Library: The Riviera by Sonya Shrier

Crossing the Bridge by Ben La Rocco

Jon Kessler: Global Village Idiot by Tomassio Longhi

Carol Peligian: The Seductive Quality of the Impossible by John Hawke

Willem de Kooning: Gagosian, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, and Richard Gray by Jim Long

Matteson at Symphony Space

by Shanti Crawford

Dance

The Bessie-award winning choreographer Paul Matteson, together with friends—mostly fellow David Dorfman company members—offered an evening of adventurous dance at Symphony Space (May).

Down the Rabbit Hole with Lynn Nottage

by Sonya Sobieski

Theater

Undine: No one seems troubled by the actual charges against me. No, the crime isn’t being a criminal, it’s being broke. It’s apparently against the law to be a poor black woman in New York City.

Trusting in Theatre with Jon Fosse

by Caridad Svich

Theater

Jon Fosse is Norway’s pre-eminent playwright. Regularly seen across Europe, his theatrical writing is considered to be some of the finest to be found on the Western stage.