3+ day, 20+ 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…...

3+ day, 19+ 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:…...

3+ day, 19+ 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…...

3+ day, 19+ 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…...

3+ 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, 4+ 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, 4+ 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, 4+ 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, 4+ 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…...