The Brooklyn Rails Player-of-the-Year, 2012
by Theodore HammExpress
Volumes of horse race punditry notwithstanding, the 2012 presidential campaign seemed like anything but a day at the track.
A Brand Called Brooklyn
by Norman OderLocal
If the new arena could speak, its first word would be Brooklyn.
WITHERED AND BURNED: Some Lessons from Texas
by Robert S. Eshelman, art by Andrea LauerExpress
Until recently, Americans thought ecological threats occurred in faraway places.
End of the Line in the ICU
by Kristen McConnellExpress
Some first-hand observations of a place where there are few gentle good nights.
DAVID HUMPHREY with Phong Bui
by Phong BuiArt
The painter David Humphrey welcomed Rail publisher Phong Bui to his Chelsea studio to talk about the recent work, which will be featured at his one-person exhibit David Humphrey: New Paintings at Fredericks and Freiser (November 28 December 22, 2012).
ABCs for/of Richard Tuttle
An epistolary interview with Jarrett Earnest, pt. 2 HO
by Jarrett Earnest
Art
Fire lives the death of air, and air lives the death of fire; water lives the death of earth, earth that of water.
PATRICIA CRONIN with Phong Bui
by Phong BuiArt
While preparing for her forthcoming solo show Dante: The Way of All Flesh at fordProject (November 8 December 21, 2012) Patricia Cronin welcomed Rail publisher Phong Bui to her Gowanus studio one late Sunday morning to view the new body of work and to discuss her art and life.
A Note to Our Readers
by Phong BuiI believe we will all rise above this time with a greater purpose in life and art.
The Politics of Art
by Barbara RoseReviewing current art, both locally and globally, it appears that much of it has or purports to have a political content.
- A Riot is the Language of the Unheard: An Exercise in Unrestrained Speech by Kara L. Rooney
- DAVID DIAO and WALID RAAD by Joan Waltemath
- LIN TIANMIAO Bound Unbound by Corina Larkin
- AHMED ALSOUDANI by Robert C. Morgan
- HiJack! by Noah Dillon
- DIRTY LOOKS: A Monthly Platform for Queer Experimental Film and Video by Eve Perry
- RALPH HUMPHREY by Susan Harris
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MICKALENE THOMAS
Origin of the Universe by Desi Gonzalez - TATZU NISHI Discovering Columbus by Anne Sherwood Pundyk
- In the Thick of Things by George Stolz
- The Present Age by R. H. Lossin
- JONAS MEKAS Reminiscences of a Displaced Person by Joseph Klarl
- RODNEY MCMILLIAN Prospect Ave. by Jen Schwarting
- We the People by Chloé Rossetti
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BRIAN BELOTT
A Goosh Noosh by Jonathan Goodman - FARRELL BRICKHOUSE by Jason Stopa
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RONNIE LANDFIELD
Where it all Began by William Corwin - The New Barnes Foundation Museum by David Carrier
- City of Gold: Tomb and Temple in Ancient Cyprus by Alana Shilling
- PETER SACKS New Paintings by Talia Bloch
- FRANK STELLA The Retrospective, Works 1958-2012 by David Rhodes
- SHARON HAYES Theres So Much I Want to Say to You by Kareem Estefan
ROBERT LAZZARINI with Jonathan T. D. Neil
by Jonathan T. D. NeilArt
Jonathan T. D. Neil and Robert Lazzarini met at the Brooklyn Rails headquarters in mid-October to discuss the artists newest body of work, (damage), which will go on view at Marlborough Chelsea on November 15.
In the Thick of Things
by George StolzArtSeen
The first thing one sees upon entering the Yale University Art Gallerywhich re-opens fully to the public in December after a 10-year incremental renovationis a Sol LeWitt wall drawing.
AN AMERICAN REVIVALIST: Dom Flemons and the Return of the African-American String Band
by Geoffrey ClarfieldMusic
During the height of the Depression, folklorist Alan Lomax persuaded his employers at the Library of Congress to send him across the South to collect folk music.
No One is Done Nothing is Over: Jackie Sibblies Drurys We Are Proud To Present
by Mark ArmstrongTheater
Playwright Jackie Sibblies Drury didnt set out to write a play about the German genocide on the Herero of Namibia in Southwest Africa around the turn of the 20th century.
CHEMICAL SUNDOWNS
PHIL SOLOMON with Leo Goldsmith
by Leo Goldsmith
Film
This fall has seen two New York premieres of recent works by experimental filmmaker Phil Solomon. EMPIRE, which screened at this years Views from the Avant-Garde, wittily recreates Andy Warhols film of the same name.
from I am the Robert Walser
by Mina Pam DickPoetry
Mina Pam Dick is the author of Delinquent (Futurepoem books, 2009). Recently, she has been making out and off with Hölderlin, Trakl, Nietzsche, and Büchner in hybrid translit.
Full Contents
Local
- A Brand Called Brooklyn by Norman Oder
- ANDREW CUOMO: New Yorks Scott Walker? by Ari Paul
- The Graying of AIDS by Eleanor J. Bader
Express
- End of the Line in the ICU by Kristen McConnell
- WITHERED AND BURNED: Some Lessons from Texas by Robert S. Eshelman, art by Andrea Lauer
- DOC NYC: Gothams Documentary Film Festival by Williams Cole
- Holding Court by Leigh Kamping-Carder
- A City in Crisis by David Rosen
- Sciences Last Romantics by Courtney Fiske
- The Brooklyn Rails Player-of-the-Year, 2012 by Theodore Hamm
Art
- DAVID HUMPHREY with Phong Bui by Phong Bui
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ABCs for/of Richard Tuttle
An epistolary interview with Jarrett Earnest, pt. 2 HO by Jarrett Earnest - PATRICIA CRONIN with Phong Bui by Phong Bui
- Reflections on Gerhard Richter: Painting 2012 by Alex Bacon
- Marcel Duchamp Slept Here by Francis M. Naumann
- ROBERT LAZZARINI with Jonathan T. D. Neil by Jonathan T. D. Neil
ArtSeen
- A Riot is the Language of the Unheard: An Exercise in Unrestrained Speech by Kara L. Rooney
- DAVID DIAO and WALID RAAD by Joan Waltemath
- LIN TIANMIAO Bound Unbound by Corina Larkin
- AHMED ALSOUDANI by Robert C. Morgan
- HiJack! by Noah Dillon
- DIRTY LOOKS: A Monthly Platform for Queer Experimental Film and Video by Eve Perry
- RALPH HUMPHREY by Susan Harris
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MICKALENE THOMAS
Origin of the Universe by Desi Gonzalez - TATZU NISHI Discovering Columbus by Anne Sherwood Pundyk
- In the Thick of Things by George Stolz
- The Present Age by R. H. Lossin
- JONAS MEKAS Reminiscences of a Displaced Person by Joseph Klarl
- RODNEY MCMILLIAN Prospect Ave. by Jen Schwarting
- We the People by Chloé Rossetti
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BRIAN BELOTT
A Goosh Noosh by Jonathan Goodman - FARRELL BRICKHOUSE by Jason Stopa
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RONNIE LANDFIELD
Where it all Began by William Corwin - The New Barnes Foundation Museum by David Carrier
- City of Gold: Tomb and Temple in Ancient Cyprus by Alana Shilling
- PETER SACKS New Paintings by Talia Bloch
- FRANK STELLA The Retrospective, Works 1958-2012 by David Rhodes
- SHARON HAYES Theres So Much I Want to Say to You by Kareem Estefan
Books
- A Question of (Soma)tics by Alex Estes
- Misery Loves Company With a Sense of Humor by Laura Smith Terry
- Relative Triangles and The Dangers of Proximal Alphabets by Elianna Greenberg
- In Exile by Michael McCanne
- Unsung Hero by Amy Wolfe
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RAPID TRANSIT
MAPPING THE GRAIN: Silver, Mercury, and Lead Go into a Bar by Jeffrey Cyphers Wright - Southern Exposure by Laura Cesarco Eglin
- ELIZABETH KOKE and AMY SCHOLDER of the Feminist Press with Gabriel Don by Gabriel Don
- MICHAEL BRACEWELL with Kathy Battista by Kathy Battista
- PENINA ROTH with Nicolle Elizabeth by Nicolle Elizabeth
- Noises Nectar by Joseph Nechvatal
- The Light Pours Out of Me by Brendan Byrne
- Tell It Quick by Nicolle Elizabeth
Music
- AN AMERICAN REVIVALIST: Dom Flemons and the Return of the African-American String Band by Geoffrey Clarfield
- Previously Unreleased Footage of BoulezCage Tennis Match Discovered by David St.-Lascaux
- Outtakes by Steve Dalachinsky
- Brooklyns Children are Singing by George Grella
- Tomorrows Parties, Today by Todd Simmons
- Still Ragin After All These Years by Billups Allen
Dance
- Present in the Absence by L. J. Sunshine
- An Ineffective Upheaval by Evan Namerow
- Gathering Momentum by Siobhan Burke
- KYLE ABRAHAM with Ryan Wenzel by Ryan Wenzel
Film
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THE PROBLEMS OF FICTION
PABLO LARRAÍN with José Miguel Palacios by José Miguel Palacios -
IN RETROSPECT
Jeff Preisss STOP by Giampaolo Bianconi -
CHEMICAL SUNDOWNS
PHIL SOLOMON with Leo Goldsmith by Leo Goldsmith - New Fangled Old Things: Views from the Avant-Garde 2012 by Felix Bernstein
Theater
- Ich Bin Ein Pumpkin Deity by Eliza Bent
- Drunken History with Cusi Cram by Marin Gazzaniga
- No One is Done Nothing is Over: Jackie Sibblies Drurys We Are Proud To Present by Mark Armstrong
- Esther, Muriel, and Yvette: The Roots by Dan Trujillo
Fiction
- Week 13 by Emily Flake
- Professor Greyhound’s Poetry Tests by Keren Katz
- Dark Tomato by Sakura Maku
- Telegram by Andrea Tsurumi
- Single Girl, Chicken Soup by Connie Sun
- Tragic Strip by T. Motley
- Spooky Action at a Distance by Eugene Lim
- Vestigial Features by Mary Stein
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from the novella
A Familiar Beast by Panio Gianopoulos - If a Body Meet a Body by Jason Lees
Poetry
- Three from The Garden by Ed Steck
- from I am the Robert Walser by Mina Pam Dick
- Three by Brian Blanchfield
Art Books
Editor's Message
- The Politics of Art by Barbara Rose
Publisher's Message
- A Note to Our Readers by Phong Bui



