JACOB COLLINS with MARY ANN CAWS: Thinking About Ateliers
by Mary Ann CawsArt
Upon occasion and in some places, reading and looking seem to interconnect geographically, textually, visually, and personally with a kind of intensity. It seems to me to happen especially in the atelier system. With this in mind, I set out to visit the Grand Central Atelier in Long Island City, founded by the right-now-contemporary painter and teacher, Jacob Collins, a contemporary realist, known for his championship of the classical art revival.
MARCEL BROODTHAERS A Retrospective
by Tom McGlynnArtSeen
Marcel Broodthaers’s career has to be one of the most hermetically abstruse, at least to an American audience, of the 20th century, so it’s a signal event when a museum like MoMA, so vested in the pas de deux of Dada and Surrealism, celebrates one of that tradition’s most prodigious acolytes.
Two
by Nina PuroPoetry
Nina Puro is a poet, human, & queer weirdo whose writing is in The Atlas Review, Guernica, the PEN/ America Poetry Series, & others. A member of the Belladonna* Collaborative; author of two chapbooks (Argos Books and dancing girl press); recipient of fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Brooklyn Community Pride Foundation, the Deming Fund, & Syracuse University (MFA, 2012), Nina cries and works in Brooklyn.
Five
by Todd ColbyPoetry
Todd Colby is the author of six books of poetry. His most recent book, Splash State, was published by The Song Cave in 2014. He was recently included in MoMA PS1's, Greater New York show.
Five
by Edwin TorresPoetry
Edwin Torres’ poetry collections include, Ameriscopia (University of Arizona Press), Yes Thing No Thing (Roof Books), and The PoPedology Of An Ambient Language (Atelos Books). Recent anthologies include: In/Filtration: A Hudson Valley Salt Line (Station Hill Press) and Angels of the Americlypse: New Latin@ Writing (Counterpath). In March 2016, he started his participation in Open Sessions, a 2-year arts residency at The Drawing Center, NYC.
NANCY DAVIDSON with Ashley McNelis
Art
Nancy Davidson's large-scale, colorful, biomorphic inflatables unapologetically embody and destabilize pop culture tropes through humor, absurdity, and the grotesque. From April 30 through May 29, Lord Ludd in Philadelphia will present a solo exhibition of Davidson’s work, Ridin’ High, which will include sculptures from the nineties and new sculptures that parody themes of power and privilege. Davidson met with Ashley McNelis at her Tribeca studio to discuss her work, as well as Eva Hesse, modern feminism, and doing what you want, when you want.
MEL BOCHNER AND ALIGHIERO BOETTI Verba Volant Scripta Manent
by Kara L. RooneyArtSeen
The language of the trickster is always duplicitous, simultaneously pointing toward meaning and away from it. Duchamp famously said, “I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste,” while Oscar Wilde, master of the ironic turn, wrote, “Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.” Doubleness, contradiction, and paradox—these are the trickster’s mother tongues, the mythic embodiment of ambiguity and ambivalence.
A Pill for the Heart
by Taney RonigerBooks
Art and science: terminally uneasy bedfellows, or powerful partners in a new era of synergistic alliances? It’s a question that nags at anyone following the groundswell of enthusiasm for the convergence of these two fields.
HEDDA STERNE: Passport to Safety
Verbatim
In October 1941, Hedda Sterne arrived in New York as a World War II refugee. The artist rarely discussed details of her journey, but occasionally reflected that she had only narrowly escaped her native Romania in the face of Nazi persecution.
Dear Friends and Readers,
by Phong BuiHow grateful we are to have poetry in our lives! And what a privilege for the Rail to celebrate April Poetry Month with our Guest Critics Page!
Looking Into the Darkness of One’s Time
by Anne WaldmanI live in poetry and this is some of my world. I’ve been repeatedly asking the question how is one contemporary with one’s time? And what does it mean to look unto the darkness of one’s time? Here are some of the results from a range of poets, artists, thinkers, as well as radical projects of innovation and archive.
- Rhizome of Poets by Alystyre Julian
- After Rilke by Bernadette Mayer
- A Winsome Pinnock by Lisa Jarnot
- Notebook, 1981 by Eileen Myles
- as if your life depends on it by Evie Shockley
- How We Cause the Universe to Exist by Alice Notley
- Holland Tunnel by Emily Skillings
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Corpses, Arts and Dreams Of
An Excerpt by Poupeh Missaghi - La Peira | (The Stone) by Marcela Delpastre, translated from the Occitan by Nicole Peyrafitte & Pierre Joris
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LOST AND FOUND
Excerpts from Murderers Criminals Join Sunlight by Kathy Acker -
LOST AND FOUND
Dharma Committee Rules by Joanne Kyger -
LOST AND FOUND
Barcelona, 19361 by Muriel Rukeyser -
LOST AND FOUND
I. The Boat is Tethered to the Floor by Helene Johnson - Song for the Deadbeat by Laura Hinton
- Land Art by Jennifer Foerster
- Excerpt from “Contes d’une tête tranchée” in Blessures au vent by Rachida Madani, translated by Pierre Joris
- Ugly Duckling Presse
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UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE
Stop by Jennifer Nelson -
UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE
i. Preface, Part I of Love, Delight, and Alarm by Karen Weiser - UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE with Anne Waldman
- DAVID HINTON
- Premonition of Barrel Bombs (Syria) by Sterrett Smith
- Good Stock by Dawn Lundy Martin
- DAWN LUNDY MARTIN with Anne Waldman
- Excerpt from A Year from Today by Stacy Szymaszek
- Oracle, or, Utopia by Eleni Sikelianos
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Infrastructure Poetics
STACY SZYMASZEK with Anne Waldman - Friday March 25 at 4 pm by Etel Adnan
- Dixie Don’t Shoot by Kristin Prevallet
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NEW YORK STREETS: 2013 - 2015
Cement Resistance, Fume through a Vacuum by No Land - Drawings from Markets in (New) Delhi by Miriam Gross
- To Err on the Side of Peace by Allison Adelle Hedge Coke
- Dead Horse Watch by Allison Adelle Hedge Coke
- ALLISON ADELLE HEDGE COKE with Anne Waldman
- Shall We Cut The Cake by Anne Carson
- VIVIEN BITTENCOURT with Vincent Katz
- ALEXIS MYRE Power of Limits by Amy Matterer
- ALEXIS MYRE with Anne Waldman
- Use Alternate Route by Alan Gilbert
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HOMAGES TO LEROI JONES
Excerpt from Diary by Kathy Acker -
HOMAGE TO LEROI JONES
Dream by Joanne Kyger -
HOMAGE TO LEROI JONES
[John Wieners to Joanne Kyger] -
HOMAGE TO LEROI JONES
Poem from John W. [to Joanne Kyger]
September, 1972 by John Weiners -
HOMAGE TO LEROI JONES
For O.B. by Muriel Rukeyser - Rachida Madani
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THOMAS SAYERS ELLIS with Anne Waldman
(January 2016) -
Diaries of an Artist
The Art and Writing of Rosemary Mayer by Marie Warsh and Gillian Sneed - Champion Flowers by Emily Skillings
- Nora Griffin: Modern Love by Darragh McNicholas
- MARCEL BROODTHAERS A Retrospective by Tom McGlynn
- JULIANA CERQUEIRA LEITE: INTRANSITIVE by Phillip Griffith
- Late Medieval Panel Paintings II: Materials, Methods, Meanings by David Carrier
- JEAN SHIN Surface Tension by Jonathan Goodman
- MOLLY LOWE Redwood by Samuel Feldblum
- CHELSEA CULPRIT Blessed With a Job by Ashton Cooper
- GABRIEL LIMA life, vest ; coffee, tray by Joyce Beckenstein
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SOUNDING THE NEW
CARRIE MOYER Sirens by Clarity Haynes - TAMARA JOHNSON No Your Boundaries by Kate Harding
- Munch and Expressionism by Hovey Brock
- TIM HAWKINSON Counterclockwise by Jessica Holmes
- KAREN KILIMNIK by Jessica Caroline Holburn
- BERLINDE DE BRUYCKERE No Life Lost by Sarah Goffstein
- SUZANNE MCCLELLAND Articulate Muscle 1976 by Terence Trouillot
- MEL BOCHNER AND ALIGHIERO BOETTI Verba Volant Scripta Manent by Kara L. Rooney
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HERMENEUTICS OF EVERYTHING
MARK GREENWOLD The Rumble of Panic Underlying Everything by Phong Bui - NICKY NODJOUMI You and Me by Yasaman Alipour
- THE LADY IS A TRAMP Vigée Le Brun by Adele Tutter
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Truth in the Visual Arts
Skepticism in the Work of Ellen K. Levy and Patricia Olynyk by William Corwin - Torkwase Dyson: Unkeeping by Alexandra Fowle
- CARL BOUTARD Life is Elsewhere by Jonathan Goodman
- THOMAS NOZKOWSKI Works on Paper by Margaret Graham
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“I’ll Stick With Exactly What I Said.”
Slavs and Tatars Mirrors for Princes by Anthony Hawley - MARTIN PURYEAR Multiple Dimensions by Kate Liebman
- MARYAM JAFRI Economy Corner by Tom McGlynn
Art
- JACOB COLLINS with MARY ANN CAWS: Thinking About Ateliers by Mary Ann Caws
- HILTON ALS with Jarrett Earnest
- ANDREA FRASER with Thyrza Nichols Goodeve
- BARKLEY L. HENDRICKS with Laila Pedro
- BILL CONLON with Barbara Rose
- BETTY WOODMAN with Phong Bui
- “I’ll take a picture of you, do you want to hide behind the code?” Michael Riedel and Jarrett Earnest at the American Museum of Natural History by Jarrett Earnest
- NANCY DAVIDSON with Ashley McNelis
ArtSeen
- Nora Griffin: Modern Love by Darragh McNicholas
- MARCEL BROODTHAERS A Retrospective by Tom McGlynn
- JULIANA CERQUEIRA LEITE: INTRANSITIVE by Phillip Griffith
- Late Medieval Panel Paintings II: Materials, Methods, Meanings by David Carrier
- JEAN SHIN Surface Tension by Jonathan Goodman
- MOLLY LOWE Redwood by Samuel Feldblum
- CHELSEA CULPRIT Blessed With a Job by Ashton Cooper
- GABRIEL LIMA life, vest ; coffee, tray by Joyce Beckenstein
- SOUNDING THE NEW CARRIE MOYER Sirens by Clarity Haynes
- TAMARA JOHNSON No Your Boundaries by Kate Harding
- Munch and Expressionism by Hovey Brock
- TIM HAWKINSON Counterclockwise by Jessica Holmes
- KAREN KILIMNIK by Jessica Caroline Holburn
- BERLINDE DE BRUYCKERE No Life Lost by Sarah Goffstein
- SUZANNE MCCLELLAND Articulate Muscle 1976 by Terence Trouillot
- MEL BOCHNER AND ALIGHIERO BOETTI Verba Volant Scripta Manent by Kara L. Rooney
- HERMENEUTICS OF EVERYTHING MARK GREENWOLD The Rumble of Panic Underlying Everything by Phong Bui
- NICKY NODJOUMI You and Me by Yasaman Alipour
- THE LADY IS A TRAMP Vigée Le Brun by Adele Tutter
- Truth in the Visual Arts Skepticism in the Work of Ellen K. Levy and Patricia Olynyk by William Corwin
- Torkwase Dyson: Unkeeping by Alexandra Fowle
- CARL BOUTARD Life is Elsewhere by Jonathan Goodman
- THOMAS NOZKOWSKI Works on Paper by Margaret Graham
- “I’ll Stick With Exactly What I Said.” Slavs and Tatars Mirrors for Princes by Anthony Hawley
- MARTIN PURYEAR Multiple Dimensions by Kate Liebman
- MARYAM JAFRI Economy Corner by Tom McGlynn
Critics Page
- Rhizome of Poets by Alystyre Julian
- After Rilke by Bernadette Mayer
- A Winsome Pinnock by Lisa Jarnot
- Notebook, 1981 by Eileen Myles
- as if your life depends on it by Evie Shockley
- How We Cause the Universe to Exist by Alice Notley
- Holland Tunnel by Emily Skillings
- Corpses, Arts and Dreams Of An Excerpt by Poupeh Missaghi
- La Peira | (The Stone) by Marcela Delpastre, translated from the Occitan by Nicole Peyrafitte & Pierre Joris
- LOST AND FOUND Excerpts from Murderers Criminals Join Sunlight by Kathy Acker
- LOST AND FOUND Dharma Committee Rules by Joanne Kyger
- LOST AND FOUND Barcelona, 19361 by Muriel Rukeyser
- LOST AND FOUND I. The Boat is Tethered to the Floor by Helene Johnson
- Song for the Deadbeat by Laura Hinton
- Land Art by Jennifer Foerster
- Excerpt from “Contes d’une tête tranchée” in Blessures au vent by Rachida Madani, translated by Pierre Joris
- Ugly Duckling Presse
- UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE Stop by Jennifer Nelson
- UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE i. Preface, Part I of Love, Delight, and Alarm by Karen Weiser
- UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE with Anne Waldman
- DAVID HINTON
- Premonition of Barrel Bombs (Syria) by Sterrett Smith
- Good Stock by Dawn Lundy Martin
- DAWN LUNDY MARTIN with Anne Waldman
- Excerpt from A Year from Today by Stacy Szymaszek
- Oracle, or, Utopia by Eleni Sikelianos
- Infrastructure Poetics STACY SZYMASZEK with Anne Waldman
- Friday March 25 at 4 pm by Etel Adnan
- Dixie Don’t Shoot by Kristin Prevallet
- NEW YORK STREETS: 2013 - 2015 Cement Resistance, Fume through a Vacuum by No Land
- Drawings from Markets in (New) Delhi by Miriam Gross
- To Err on the Side of Peace by Allison Adelle Hedge Coke
- Dead Horse Watch by Allison Adelle Hedge Coke
- ALLISON ADELLE HEDGE COKE with Anne Waldman
- Shall We Cut The Cake by Anne Carson
- VIVIEN BITTENCOURT with Vincent Katz
- ALEXIS MYRE Power of Limits by Amy Matterer
- ALEXIS MYRE with Anne Waldman
- Use Alternate Route by Alan Gilbert
- HOMAGES TO LEROI JONES Excerpt from Diary by Kathy Acker
- HOMAGE TO LEROI JONES Dream by Joanne Kyger
- HOMAGE TO LEROI JONES [John Wieners to Joanne Kyger]
- HOMAGE TO LEROI JONES Poem from John W. [to Joanne Kyger] September, 1972 by John Weiners
- HOMAGE TO LEROI JONES For O.B. by Muriel Rukeyser
- Rachida Madani
- THOMAS SAYERS ELLIS with Anne Waldman (January 2016)
- Diaries of an Artist The Art and Writing of Rosemary Mayer by Marie Warsh and Gillian Sneed
- Champion Flowers by Emily Skillings
Books
- A Pill for the Heart by Taney Roniger
- The Imponderable Bloom by Dustin Illingworth
- Escape from American Noise by John Domini
- Don’t Think by Ryan Krull
- CHRIS BACHELDER with Weston Cutter
- The Art of Stepping Away from the Internet by Gretchen Schmid
Music
- Brooklyn Rail Highly Selective Music Events
- Masters of Their Own Reality by George Grella
- Shapeshifter Star by Yvonne Juris
- The Amateur Sound: nonkeen by Marshall Yarbrough
- Outtakes by Steve Dalachinsky
Dance
- A Slippery and Elusive Quality by Erica Getto
- Notes on PLASTIC by Stormy Budwig
Film
- Girl’s Best Friend: Alexander Chee and The Earrings of Madame de... by Brittany Stigler
- PEMA TSEDEN with Lu Yangqiao
- Planetarium of Blended Dreams BEN COONLEY Moonley by Felix Bernstein
- On John Latham’s Films by Nathan Dunne
- Radu Jude’s Aferim! and the Politics of Distance by Mihai-Dan Cirjan
Theater
- Tragedy in Spades: A Crime Documentary TELE-VIOLET’s Reenactment Ceremony by Roger Babb
- The Play, Space, and Grace of Antlia Pneumatica ANNE WASHBURN with Peggy Stafford
- For This Moment I Would Give My Whole Life! Robert Lyons and Kristin Marting’s Idiot by Erin Courtney
- Getting Graphic with finkle: U R ★ by Trista Baldwin
Fiction
- Sandy Cinderella A Scene from Daily Life in al-Najaf, Iraq by Faleeha Hassan, translated from the Arabic by William M. Hutchins
- A False Accounting by Tan Lin
- Masters of Despair by Anna Mockler
- The Joyous Science, Part 1 The True Story of the Famous Bruce, Composed in Verse from the Accounts of Several Eyewitnesses by Maxim Amelin, translated from the Russian by Derek Mong and Anne O. Fisher
- from Kid Coole by M. G. Stephens
- Les Halles, Belly Of Paris from Paris Vagabond by Jean-Paul Clebert with photographs by Patrice Molinard, translated from the French by Donald Nicholson-Smith, out now from NYRB Classics
- Guy by T. Motley
Verbatim
Poetry
- Excerpt from Voice’s Daughter of a Heart Yet To Be Born by Anne Waldman
- Five by Edwin Torres
- Two by Nina Puro
- Five by Todd Colby
Art Books
- On a Universal Serial Bus by Madeline Weisburg
Field Notes
- Editor’s Note by Paul Mattick
- BREXIT A New Crisis Acronym by Tony Norfield
- Let Us Be Terrible: Considerations on the Jacobin Club by Jason E. Smith
- An exchange on the perspectives for the world economy by Jose A. Tapia
Editor's Message
- Looking Into the Darkness of One’s Time by Anne Waldman
Publisher's Message
- Dear Friends and Readers, by Phong Bui
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