The Price of Ratner's Hoopla: Brooklyn Stadium a Money Loser
by Johannah RodgersLocal
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 AnsariExpress
When Al Jazeeras 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 hes 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 DanieliExpress
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 BTselem, a human rights organization in the occupied territories. The interview took place at the Rails office in Greenpoint.
Istvan Kantor with Daniel Baird
by Daniel BairdArt
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 ChandraFilm
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: 19792000 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 CrawfordDance
The Bessie-award winning choreographer Paul Matteson, together with friendsmostly fellow David Dorfman company membersoffered an evening of adventurous dance at Symphony Space (May).
Down the Rabbit Hole with Lynn Nottage
by Sonya SobieskiTheater
Undine: No one seems troubled by the actual charges against me. No, the crime isnt being a criminal, its being broke. Its apparently against the law to be a poor black woman in New York City.
Trusting in Theatre with Jon Fosse
by Caridad SvichTheater
Jon Fosse is Norways 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.
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- The Last Arab by Norman Kelley
- Inside Al Jazeera: Samir Khader by Mridu Chandra and Rehan Ansari
- Life in the O.T.: Anat Biletzki by Eyal Danieli
- What Makes News, News by Ryan Grim
Art
- Daniel Richter by Daniel Baird
- Alone and Together on The Stage of The World by John Yau
- Istvan Kantor with Daniel Baird by Daniel Baird
- Portraits in Richmond by Robert C. Morgan
ArtSeen
- Digital Avant-Garde: Celebrating 25 Years of Ars Electronica by Ellen Pearlman
- Fred Wilson: Objects and Installations: 19792000 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
Books
- On Gertrude Stein by Frances Richard
- The Provocations of Arthur Cravan by Andy Merrifield
- Off the Shelves by Book Staff
Music
- The Holger Czukay Academy of Spontaneous Music by Roger White
- Review: Dallam-Dougous New Destiny (Jumbie Records) by John Reed
- No Golden Throat: Lizzy Mercier Descloux (1956–2004) by Holly Tavel
- Zeb: Alien with Extraordinary Abilities by Lucas Graves
Dance
- Reviews by Jessica Weiss
- Dancing on the Rail by Vanessa Manko
- Matteson at Symphony Space by Shanti Crawford
Film
- The Filmmaker’s a Clown by Lisa Rosman
- Bukowski: Born Into This by Williams Cole
- Jehane Noujaim by Mridu Chandra
- Docs in Sight: The New Dawn of the Profitable Political Film by Williams Cole
- Yvonne Rainer: Dancing in the U.S. Interstices of Experimental Film by Michael Rowin
- Everyday People by Theodore Hamm
Theater
- Down the Rabbit Hole with Lynn Nottage by Sonya Sobieski
- Trusting in Theatre with Jon Fosse by Caridad Svich
- The Neo-Futurists Land in Brooklyn by Kyle Thomas Smith
- Review: Gimme Shelter by Christy Hutchcraft
- Don Quixote: Suffering Fools Wisely by Emily DeVoti
Fiction
- Hotbed by Shelley Stenhouse
- from Long Day, Counting Tomorrow by Jim Feast
Poetry
LastWords
- Thursday Story by Kenji Jasper



