A Rookie Quarterback, Columnist, and Two Footballs

Express

I wanted to begin this inaugural sports column with something about Brazilian soccer. Such would be a global approach—a corrective to the myopia of mainstream U.S. sports coverage. “Football?” “Do you mean, ‘soccer?’” So that’s where I wanted to start.

LYNDA BENGLIS with Phong Bui

Art

On the occasion of the artist’s traveling survey, currently at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin, Ireland, and her current exhibit at Cheim and Read, Lynda Benglis welcomed Rail Publisher Phong Bui to view her new work on site.

NORBERT SCHWONTKOWSKI with Phong Bui

Art

A day before the opening reception of his current exhibit Ångström, the painter Norbert Schwontkowski welcomed Rail publisher Phong Bui to see a group of new paintings, on view at Mitchell-Innes & Nash in Chelsea until January 9, 2010, and to discuss his life and work.

DAVID ANFAM with John Yau

Art

While in New York for the opening of Norman Lewis: Pulse–A Centennial Exhibition at Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, David Anfam met with Art Editor John Yau to talk about his life and work.

SYLVIA PLIMACK MANGOLD with John Yau

Art

On the day before her exhibition Natural Sympathies opened at Alexander and Bonin, Art Editor John Yau sat down with Sylvia Plimack Mangold at the gallery to discuss her recent work.

MET 2.0

Music

Lincoln Center is different nowadays. Outside, there is a sleek new fountain and a Parisian-style grove.

Help Haiti Now

Our heart is with the people of Haiti. Here is a list of a few relief organizations.

DEPTH IN A DECADE OF DISTRACTION: The Twenty Best Films

Film

The best films of the last ten years resisted the distraction or distractedness which seems to be the decade’s signature.

RERUNS REZOOMED: a serial novel

Fiction

Herewith, the finale of Reruns Rezoomed.

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Poetry

Marcella Durand is the author of AREA and Traffic & Weather. Her collaboration with Tina Darragh, Deep Eco Pre, is forthcoming this winter from Little Red Leaves.