The Miami Rail

08/09/2018

Relive 's breathtaking retrospective "Perfect Stranger," exhibited at Pérez Art Museum Miami earlier this year, through this interview with Friedman conducted by Amanda Sanfilippo from Issue 23:

"The studio, just like your thoughts and sense of self-worth, is contained within you. It’s not bound to real estate. Inside a person is the place that art making begins. The gallery, the museum, is the support structure often for manifested thoughts and feelings to be presented to others."

Photo: Dara Friedman, Dancer, 2011. HD Black-and-white video transferred from Super 16 mm film, with sound, 25 min. Edition 1/5. (film still)

https://miamirail.org/issue-23/dara-friedman-perfect-stranger/

08/06/2018

At last year's Miami Book Fair, Issue 23 contributor Andrew Marc Boryga sat down with horror author Victor LaValle to talk about process, fatherhood, the horror genre, and LaValle's new novel The Changeling // "Like, Toni Morrison’s Beloved is a ghost story. Half of everything Faulkner wrote are ghost stories. But because they are not labeled that, people’s defenses go up when you point it out. So, I have a conflicted feeling about labeling my stuff horror." // Read the full interview on MR online below:

https://miamirail.org/literature/widening-the-horror-genre-a-conversation-with-victor-lavalle/

05/31/2018

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05/08/2018

Issue 23 is hot off the press, featuring Archbishop Thomas Wenski, Justin Long on the Art of the Italian Two-Wheel, poetry by and YoungArts winners, on , the debut of Alyssa Nutting and Dean Bakopoulos’ pen-name noir, Victor LaValle, Carmen Maria Machado, Chantel Acevedo on Cristina Garcia and more. Available NOW on www.miamirail.org, and in and around Miami this week!

05/07/2018

It's not too late to register for Miami Book Fair's — attend small, intensive workshops, craft talks, and readings with award-winning writers like Min Jin Lee, . Ada Calhoun, and more. From May 9-12 in Downtown Miami - more info below:

04/17/2018

Dale Zine - Miami Fl's one of a kind brick and mortar shop at Mana Contemporary Miami's is eye-catching, approachable, and stocked with fun, consumable art. Dale seeks to connect with the Miami community through the inclusive art of zine-making. Read Christina Drill's profile of Dale and its founders, Lillian Banderas and Steve Saiz, on MR online now.

https://miamirail.org/web-exclusives/online-reviews/dale-zine-miami-community-as-art/

04/13/2018

""INTRO" harnesses darkly cynical, dystopian narratives, as antidote to our anxieties but we are left questioning, is anything real or is this life just another movie?" Nicole Doran reviews this fantastical show curated by featuring work by , , and more at CCEMiami, up at MR online now.

REVIEW: "INTRO" by Alan Gutierrez at CCE Miami

04/05/2018

Zaina Alsous reviews BEAST MERIDIAN, a tender new poetry collection by Vanessa Angélica Villarreal:

"While the pages of Beast Meridian open with an elegy honoring the author’s late grandmother, death serves as an aperture in this collection of poems rather than an ending; a flower bed where the legacies of women who survived, who cross borders, who wear violence on their bodies, who grow daughters, and all of the names they carry, bloom in red: '& so we hatched myself— / this is how you said we would survive.'

Read the full review below:

https://miamirail.org/book-reviews/in-the-wildness-of-daughterhood-beast-meridian-by-vanessa-angelica-villarreal/

04/04/2018

Warm congratulations to Justine Ludwig, Deputy Director and Chief Curator of Dallas Contemporary, who has been appointed Executive Director at Creative Time! Excited to see what her vision and drive will bring to the organization. Read our interview with Ludwig on MR online below. 📷 by

https://miamirail.org/visual-arts/riding-in-cars-with-curators-justine-ludwig/

03/22/2018

"Given the sheer breadth of his long career, Frank Stella: Experiment and Change strikingly reveals the consistencies that have shaped, and continue to bind, the artist’s complex oeuvre."

Nathan Timpano reviews "Frank Stella: Experiment and Change" at NSU Art Museum, on MR online.

The Justification of Modernist Painting: A Review of Frank Stella: Experiment and Change

03/20/2018

"[Clement] is a master at creating worlds that feel like tiny dioramas —modern allegories, reflecting and responding to social issues while still feeling contained and mystical, like something you’d see inside of the world’s most ornate snow globe, or a theme park — that is, until politics invade, and these worlds become recognizable as ones that exist both on and off the page."

Christina Drill reviews Jennifer Clement author's latest novel , on MR online now.

Rust and Blood: A Review of Jennifer Clement’s Gun Love

03/18/2018

Tomorrow is the last day to check out 's FREE at Under the Bridge N Miami! Catch the closing reception tomorrow, Sunday, March 18 at 3pm.

René Morales reviews FREE at MR online:

"To see Scicluna’s installations in this way, as indices of the interplay of economic relations and context that determines how a given thing within it is treated and considered, brings the exhibition’s title back into focus. “Free” as in free of charge can just as easily mean “free” as in unbound, cut loose from the sites and the systems of exchange that determine who and how and what it is we value."

Tom Scicluna, FREE, at Under the Bridge