4+ day, 1+ hour ago   (664+ words) Adrián Villar Rojas: First Gods, Lost Animals The Brooklyn Rail The nature of Villar Rojas’s engagement with Lascaux and Chauvet—not merely as static monuments to prehistoric creativity, but as energetically charged sites from where meaning can continually emerge—makes…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1797+ words) Portrait of Emily Rauh Pulitzer, pencil on paper by Phong H. Bui. Emily Rauh Pulitzer: It’s the library of collectors—not of an institution—because there are great strengths and weaknesses. It goes back to books that Joe—Joseph Pulitzer Jr....

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (542+ words) The Brooklyn Rail On a corner that formerly housed a gas station in the gentrifying neighborhood of Clinton Hill, a clean white box with massive windows and orange entry points, 272 Greene Avenue, designed by Inès Lamunière of Switzerland and architect…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1039+ words) The Brooklyn Rail With the recent return to figuration and ascendance of portraiture in contemporary painting, historical reference has returned as a viable method to convey authenticity and engage with tradition in an unironic manner.Now, artists wade through six…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (871+ words) Cecilia Vicuña, Sam Frésquez, Lola Ayisha Ogbara: Spatial Poems The Brooklyn Rail Installation view: Spatial Poems, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA, 2026–27. Courtesy MASS MoCA. Spatial Poems set a big agenda for itself with an “aim to disrupt the art world’s…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (981+ words) The Brooklyn Rail Ali Banisadr, Weighing of the heart, 2023. Oil on linen, 48 × 60 inches. Courtesy the artist and Buffalo AKG Art Museum. The study of art history can lead to the perception that the subject of all painting is, in some…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (870+ words) The Brooklyn Rail Installation view, Whitney Biennial 2026, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 2026. It’s 2026, and three vast museum surveys coincide, with the shared aim of informing the public about what’s new. What contemporary art most authentically responds to our…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (1086+ words) It’s easy to believe that Trevor Winkfield’s paintings, bristling with precisely rendered, deeply enigmatic visual detritus, are riddled with hidden meanings. This exhibition of paintings from 1991–2001 offered viewers countless opportunities to spelunk themselves into the artist’s distinctive, phantasmagoric iconography, while…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (1029+ words) Reykjavík is the world's northernmost capital of a sovereign state. With a population of 140,000, the city supports approximately seven major museums, eight established commercial art galleries, and twenty or so non-commercial galleries. Among these are a number of dedicated feminist…...