4+ day, 14+ 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…...

4+ day, 14+ 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   (1030+ words) Welcome Back, Maurice Béjart The Brooklyn Rail American critics loved to hate Maurice Béjart, the late French choreographer who would have turned one hundred next year. To glance at the scathing missives that tended to follow performances of his work…...

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   (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   (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…...