4+ day, 19+ hour ago   (1011+ words) The Brooklyn Rail ANIMAL [a listening gym] is a chance to feel in our bodies again. A return to the senses that is neither an escapist attempt at the club nor a guilt ridden hour at the gym. Our ears…...

4+ day, 18+ hour ago   (757+ words) The Brooklyn Rail The exhibition Never The Less at Guild Hall in East Hampton, New York, presents 185 small paintings (measuring 10 by 8 inches or vice versa) and ten large paintings of varying sizes by Ross Bleckner. This contrast in scale highlights…...

4+ day, 19+ hour ago   (55+ words) The vocabulary reflexively applied to Ana Mendieta’s work, especially her land-based body imprints, brims with a romance of primordial forces: ritual, spiritual, numinous. The Cuban American artist called it “magic,” a word that feels at odds with the logic of…...

1+ week, 5+ 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, 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   (291+ words) The Brooklyn Rail Earl Dotter, Jess Bishop, a black lung victim, takes his last breaths while his sons —also coal miners— keep vigil in Logan County, W.Va., 1976. Silver Gelatin Print. Courtesy the artist and West Virginia Mine Wars Museum....

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (864+ words) The Brooklyn Rail The exhibition Betty Parsons: An Expanded World at the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College’s Hessel Museum of Art showcases Parsons’s achievements as an artist, framed within her inescapable status as a legendary American gallerist. Parsons…...

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   (179+ words) Willem de Kooning, Untitled (Reclining Figure), ca. 1945. Oil and charcoal on Masonite, 15 × 19 ⅞ inches. © 2026 The Willem de Kooning Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Courtesy the Collection of Gene and Sueyun Locks. After immigrating as a stowaway from the Netherlands…...

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…...