4+ day, 4+ 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, 4+ hour ago   (674+ words) Primarily centering around textile history from the eighteenth century to the present, Costume Art juxtaposes each outfitted mannequin with a non-textile work from the Met’s permanent collection. The exhibition explores how both couture and artistic depictions of fashion reflect changing…...

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   (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   (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   (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words) The Brooklyn Rail With the recent return to figuration and ascendance of portraiture in contemporary painting, historical reference has returned as a viable method to convey authenticity and engage with tradition in an unironic manner.Now, artists wade through six…...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, 5+ day ago   (741+ words) The Brooklyn Rail Rubble piles into mounts in the British director Ken Loach’s 1991 film Riff-Raff, which chronicles the lives and struggles of a group of construction workers tasked with transforming a dilapidated hospital into luxury housing in London’s Tottenham Square....

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (740+ words) The Brooklyn Rail Yet this survey of more than two hundred drawings is demonstrable proof of an arts practice of integrity even as it gives us an intimate view of a genuinely searching—as well as provocative—talent. The advantage…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (652+ words) Portrait of Adam Caruso, pencil on paper by Phong H. Bui. Nile Greenberg (Rail): It seems that architecture is in a state of turmoil. Your practice has been faithful to architecture as a source. Faith in architecture’s ability to be meaningful…...