3+ day, 14+ 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, 14+ 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…...

3+ day, 13+ 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…...

3+ day, 13+ 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, 13+ 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, 13+ 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, 13+ 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   (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, 4+ day ago   (184+ words) With the recent return to figuration and ascendance of portraiture in contemporary painting, historical reference has returned as a viable method to convey authenticity and engage with tradition in an unironic manner.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 hundred years of…...