Black Square Editions
Cover of the July/August 2009 issue
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| Categories | Art, politics, culture, literature |
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| Frequency | Monthly |
| Total circulation (2012) |
20,000 |
| First issue | 2000 |
| Country | United States |
| Based in | Brooklyn |
| Language | American English |
| Website | brooklynrail.org |
| ISSN | 2157-2151 |
The Brooklyn Rail is a 501(c)(3) non-profit journal of arts, culture, and politics published monthly in Brooklyn, NY. The journal features in-depth interviews with artists, critics, and curators, as well as critical essays, fiction, poetry, reviews of music, dance, film, and theater. The Brooklyn Rail is free and is distributed in galleries, universities, museums, bookstores, and other organizations including Anthology Film Archives, the Brooklyn Public Library, the Brooklyn Museum, MoMA PS1, BAM, La MaMa, The Kitchen, Columbia University School of the Arts, The New School, and Yale University, among others.The Rail operates a small press called Rail Editions that publishes literary translations, poetry, and art criticism. In addition to its small press The Rail has also organized panel discussions, readings, film screenings, music and dance performances, and curated exhibitions through a program called Rail Curatorial Projects.
Originally distributed as reading material for commuters on the L train between Manhattan and Brooklyn, The Brooklyn Rail began as a small broadsheet in 1998, with several founders. By 2000 the journal had quickly grown into a full-format publication, with Phong Bui and then-editor Theodore Hamm sharing oversight duties. Bui comments that it's largely due to support from the arts community, and funding from art foundations, that has made it possible for the journal to maintain its creative autonomy. Hamm notes that The Rail's non-profit funding, largely provided by private donors, has preserved the magazine's original aspiration to publish "a crucible of slanted opinions, artfully delivered."
Co-founder and Artistic Director, Phong Bui, made a statement in the June 2017 issue about the origin and ultimate mission of the journal.
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