4+ day, 13+ hour ago   (1114+ words) The Brooklyn Rail In their monograph, At the Edge of Where God Built, L.E.FT Architects (Ziad Jamaleddine and Makram el Kadi) not only present ten years of architectural practice, but also offer an important manifesto for the discipline, laying out…...

4+ day, 12+ hour ago   (1562+ words) The Brooklyn Rail Babek Ahmedpoor in Where Is the Friend’s House? (1987). Courtesy Janus Films. A school notebook must be returned to its owner in Abbas Kiarostami’s Where Is the Friend’s House? (1987). The entire film rests on this deceptively simple premise:…...

4+ day, 12+ 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, 5+ day ago   (708+ words) Historicism’s Modernity: Modernism is History The Brooklyn Rail Among the shibboleths of the orthodox narrative touted by MoMA and American art history textbooks for much of the twentieth century, none has proved more stubborn than this: that modernism and historicism…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (989+ words) Portrait of Malcolm Peacock, pencil on paper by Phong H. Bui. Malcolm Peacock: I think that what I’ve become interested in—and in fact what I was already interested in prior to making Five—is the situation the work is traveling…...

1+ week, 5+ 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, 5+ day ago   (1034+ words) Organized by assistant curator Adria Gunter, former senior curatorial assistant Habiba Hopson, associate curator Yelena Keller, assistant curator Jayson Overby Jr., and curatorial assistant Kiki Teshome, Fade is the sixth group exhibition in the Studio Museum’s series of shows designed…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (833+ words) The Brooklyn Rail In school, I was interested in tabula rasa. I had this rather naïve notion that there was a kind of political and ethical purity in the avant-garde, which was pretty much outlawed in the Soviet Union, and…...

1+ week, 5+ 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…...