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The Bloomberg Mystique

by Richard Wells

Local

Mayor Bloomberg sure liked to let the press do all the speculating about whether he would run for president. Meantime, his self-funded committee working straight out of City Hall pumped up his national reputation and weighed his November prospects.

Campaign Notebook: Obama at Philadelphia

by Theodore Hamm

Express

Widely viewed on YouTube and much discussed across the political media, Barack Obama’s mid-March speech about the need for a national discussion of race indeed emanated from a historic place.

Wasteland Dreaming

by Christian Parenti

Express

In the years bracketing 9/11, I was working on a book about the history of everyday surveillance and at the time suffered recurring dreams that were something like nightmares, but more fun. I was always on the run, chased by the state or some other omnipotent force that was never well-defined.

Cai Guo-Qiang with Ellen Pearlman

by Ellen Pearlman

Art

While he was installing his current retrospective I Want To Believe at the Guggenheim Museum (on view Feb. 22nd until May 28th, then traveling to the National Museum of Art in Beijing in time for the Summer Olympics), Cai Guo-Qiang took time out from his busy schedule to sit down and talk with Rail Editor-at-Large Ellen Pearlman about his work.

Lydia Dona with Phong Bui

by Phong Bui

Art

Leading up to the few days before the installation of the painter’s new work at Michael Steinberg Fine Art, which will be on view till April 26, 2008, Lydia Dona welcomed Rail publisher Phong Bui to her Tribeca studio to talk about her life and work.

Matt Connors Enjambment by Josh Morgenthau
Enantiomorphic Chamber by Cassandra Neyenesch
Tadaaki Kuwayama’s Aesthetics of Infinity by Robert C. Morgan
Marcel Dzama Even the Ghost of the Past by Shane McAdams
Dan Walsh by Cassandra Neyenesch
Guglielmo Achille Cavellini: Works from 1960 to 1990 by Valery Oisteanu
Lori Ellison by Geoffrey Cruickshank-Hagenbuckle
Joseph DeLappe Gandhi’s March to Dandi by Warren Fry
Dave Miko by Craig Olson
Ruth Root by Nora Griffin
Hungover at Whitney by David Markus
America’s Lessness by Sharon L. Butler
Kalm Before the Storm, Responses to “The Ethics of Aesthetics” by James Kalm
Brooklyn Dispatches by James Kalm
Flip: Rachel Beach and Nora Herting by Hrag Vartanian
Catherine Sullivan Triangle of Need by Thomas Micchelli
Lydia Dona FROM HEAT TO SUB-ZERO by John Yau
Jasper Johns by John Yau
June Leaf Paintings & Sculpture by John Yau
Floor Plans by Claudia La Rocco

Remembering Jonathan Williams (March 8, 1929–March 16, 2008)

by Robert Kelly

Books

I miss the elegance of the man, the energy of the poet, and above all the generosity that made sure publishing was publick-ing, and that brought to the commonwealth (as he might call it), the shivering needy children we are, news that concerned us and made us better—or at least (often) made us laugh.

Alex Cox with David Wilentz

by David Wilentz

Film

Starting with Repo Man, Alex Cox has successfully subverted mainstream culture (and the studio system) with several definitive cult films. David Wilentz recently sat down with Cox for a conversation about filmmaking, imperialism, and Spaghetti Westerns.