The Brooklyn Rail
 The cover of the July/August 2009 issue. |
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| Categories | Art, political, culture, progressive, literature |
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| Frequency | Monthly |
| Publisher | Phong Bui |
| Total circulation (2012) |
20,000 |
| First issue | September 2000 |
| Country | United States |
| Based in | Brooklyn |
| Language | American English |
| Website | www.brooklynrail.org |
The Brooklyn Rail is a free monthly 501(c)(3) non-profit journal of arts, culture, and politics based in Brooklyn. Coverage includes local reporting, art criticism, fiction, and poetry, as well as coverage of music, dance, film and theater. The journal also publishes a small press imprint focused on literary translation, poetry, and art criticism called Black Square Editions.
Started as a broadsheet in 1998, the Rail became a full-format publication in 2000, under the direction of publisher Phong Bui and editor Theodore Hamm. The Rail is distributed to museums, galleries, cafes, and other cultural venues throughout New York City, including Anthology Film Archives, PS1, BAM, La MaMa, The Kitchen, and Columbia University.
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[edit] Mission and Operation
The Rail is unusual, for a periodical, in that it does not have an Editor-in-Chief. The respective editor of each of its sections has curatorial autonomy. Sections include: Local (local reporting), Express (international political coverage and commentary), Art (interviews with artists and art historians), Artseen (reviews of art exhibits), Art Books (reviews of artists' publications), Books (reviews of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry), Music (album and concert reviews), Dance (dance criticism), Film (film criticism), Theater (theater and performance criticism), Fiction (original fiction, newly translated fiction), and Poetry (experimental poetry).[1]
[edit] Staff
The Rail's publisher Phong Bui is an artist, curator, and former curatorial advisor of PS 1 Contemporary Art Center, a Museum of Modern Art affiliate.
[edit] Praise
Robert Storr has called it "the murmur of the city in print." Paul Auster has said that it "covers the waterfront in a highly responsible and original way, mixing controversial political journalism with poetry, the arts, and nearly everything else of importance in this complex, ever-changing city."
[edit] Other Projects
The Rail commissioned a drawing by William Powhida called How the New Museum Committed Suicide with Banality for the cover of the November 2009 issue. The drawing featured caricatures of individuals involved in the controversial Skin Fruit exhibition at the New Museum, including Jeff Koons.[2]
- In 2006, Hanging Loose Press published The Brooklyn Rail Fiction Anthology, edited by Donald Breckenridge, the Rail's fiction editor.
- The Brooklyn Rail / Black Square Editions is also publishing forthcoming original work by Franck Andre Jamme, Pierre Reverdy, Jean Freman and Jonas Mekas.
- Pieces of a Decade: Brooklyn Rail Nonfiction 2000-2010, October 2010.
[edit] Notable Interviews
- Carl Andre
- Lynda Benglis
- Paul Chan
- Leonard Lopate
- Alex Katz
- Brice Marden
- Richard Serra
- Roberta Smith
[edit] See also
- List of New York City newspapers and magazines
- Media of New York City
- List of art magazines
- List of literary magazines
[edit] References
- ^ Hamm, Theodore. "What the Hell is the Brooklyn Rail?". The Huffington Post. September 27, 2010
- ^ Pogrebin, Robin. "Other Voices on the New Museum's Exhibition". New York Times. November 11, 2009.
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