The Brooklyn Rail
Cover of the July/August 2009 issue
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| Categories | Art, political, culture, progressive, literature |
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| Frequency | Monthly |
| Total circulation (2012) |
20,000 |
| First issue | 1998 |
| Country | United States |
| Based in | Brooklyn |
| Language | American English |
| Website | brooklynrail.org |
| ISSN | 2157-2151 |
The Brooklyn Rail is a 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, and poetry, and coverage of music, dance, film, and theater. The Brooklyn Rail is free and is distributed in galleries, universities, museums, bookstores, and other cultural venues throughout New York City and Brooklyn, 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 also operates a small press that publishes literary translations, poetry, and art criticism under Rail Editions, and organizes panel discussions, poetry and fiction readings, film screenings, music and dance performances, and curates exhibitions through its program the Rail Curatorial Projects.
Started as a broadsheet in 1998, with several founders, the Rail became a full-format publication in 2000, under the direction of publisher Phong Bui and then-editor Theodore Hamm. It was originally to be read on the L train between Manhattan and Brooklyn, but quickly expanded to its current form. Bui comments that it's largely the support of the art community and funding from art foundations that makes it possible for each section to offer their equal and indispensable voices to the journal. 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."
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