Mayor in the Middle?

by Theodore Hamm

Local

The Mayor hates politics. Oxymoronic as that statement sounds, it in many ways should have been clear from the get-go.

Isaiah Berlin and Meyer Schapiro: An Exchange

Express

Isaiah Berlin and Meyer Schapiro, the eminent philosopher and the great art historian, first met in the 1940s, either at one of Schapiro’s invited lectures at Oxford or during Berlin’s brief employment with the British government’s Information Services in Washington, D.C. Schapiro had later attended Berlin’s six famous Mellon Lectures on Romanticism at the National Gallery of Art in Washington in 1965.

Rackstraw Downes

by Phong Bui

Art

Early one July morning, the Rail’s publisher Phong Bui visited the painter Rackstraw Downes at his loft on the top floor of an old Fluxus-converted building on Greene Street.

A Tribute to Leon Golub (1922–2004)

by Phong Bui, David Levi Strauss, and Clayton Eshleman

Art

Remembering Golub by David Levi Strauss; Leon Golub 1922–2004 by Clayton Eshelman; A Tribute: Leon Golub by Phong Bui

Lee Bontecou: A Retrospective

by Daniel Baird

Art

In a soot drawing from 1958, executed with an oxyacetylene torch, brightly highlighted, tendon-like shapes rise up to a gaping, muscle-ringed hole from which stares a blank eyeball.

Curious Crystal of Unusual Purity P.S.1 by Roger White
German Drawings and Prints from the Weimar Republic (1919–33) by Stephanie Buhmann
Karel Funk 303 Gallery by Nick Stillman
Six From the Seventies by Farrah Karapetian
Counter Culture New Museum of Contemporary Art by Sonya Shrier
Darren Bader Rivington Arms by Ben La Rocco
Yeardly Leonard Elizabeth Dee by Tomassio Longhi
Bush League Roebling Hall by Ben LaRocco
Joanna Pousette-Dart Charles Cowles Gallery by Michael Brennan
Field: Science, Technology, and Nature Socrates Sculpture Park by Tom Johnson
Margrit Lewczuk All of Me Maier Museum of Art, Lynchburg, Virginia by James Kalm
DoDo Jin Ming by Jonas Mekas
Seeing Other People Marianne Boesky Gallery by William Powhida

Brian Kim Stefans with Mónica de la Torre

Books

The first time I heard about /ubu books was after a reading by Mike Scharf at the Bowery Poetry Club. I paid $5 for Verité, a printout of the pdf on UbuWeb.

Matthew Sharpe with Erinne Dobson

by Erinne Dobson

Books

Matthew Sharpe is the author of Stories From the Tube, a short-story collection, and Nothing Is Terrible, a novel, both published by Villard. His breakout novel, The Sleeping Father, was published last winter by Soft Skull Press and quickly won him accolades, including being made a Today Show selection.

Diane Torr with Sonya Sobieski

by Sonya Sobieski

Theater

This September, New Georges theater company will produce Manfest, a festival geared to challenge gender assumptions and spark conversations extending far beyond the event’s two week duration.