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Mad World 2026: A Bag to Breathe Into
6+ hour, 25+ min ago (684+ words) The Brooklyn Rail A chain of international wire receipts wind through the So Mad gallery. It is the work of Abdel Karim Ougri, and its trail of collected material is the result of the artist sending money back to his…...
Julian Schnabel: Italy Through Its Trees
6+ hour, 31+ min ago (194+ words) Julian Schnabel, Portrait of Italy Through Its Trees V, 2025. Oil, plates and bondo on aluminum, 108 " 84 inches. " Julian Schnabel / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Courtesy Pace. Julian Schnabel, Portrait of Italy Through Its Trees Painting on Map XXI, 2026. Inkjet print…...
Jill Magid: Pooler Room
6+ hour, 25+ min ago (973+ words) The Brooklyn Rail Jill Magid's Pooler Room, now on view at Mister Fahrenheit, unfolds in a sequence of interventions and acts of replication that simultaneously trace vectors of state power and clear space for contemplation and reverie. Passing through a…...
Jane Swavely: Strawberry Fields
6+ hour, 25+ min ago (775+ words) The Brooklyn Rail Jane Swavely's new paintings at Magenta Plains are electric. They engage the optical and bodily senses in a sharp, but pleasant, way with acidic hues and metallic washes that catch and reflect the light. They are hung…...
Let's Get Free: Ecologies of Care, Love & Abolition
10+ hour, 23+ min ago (544+ words) The Brooklyn Rail Installation view: Let's Get Free: Ecologies of Care, Love & Abolition, 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA, 2026. Courtesy 1708 Gallery. From 2014 to 2024, PPC, a collaboration between Richmond Virginia-based artists Courtney Bowles and Mark Strandquist, worked with communities in Philadelphia caught up in…...
Raven Chacon: Scores for Coming Storms
6+ hour, 25+ min ago (1002+ words) The Brooklyn Rail Installation view: Raven Chacon: Scores for Coming Storms, Sikkema Malloy Jenkins, New York, 2026. Courtesy the artist and Sikkema Malloy Jenkins, New York. Raven Chacon: Scores for Coming Storms is a layered installation of sonic and visual works…...
Nalini Malani: Of Woman Born
6+ hour, 25+ min ago (1077+ words) The Brooklyn Rail Installation view: Nalini Malani: Of Woman Born, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, Venice, 2026. " Nalini Malani. Courtesy the artist and Kiran Nadar Museum of Art. Of Woman Born, Nalini Malani's multi-track projection installation in a Venetian salt warehouse,…...
Venice Biennale
6+ hour, 25+ min ago (114+ words) Nalini Malani, the Magazzini del Sale What struck me was the fastidious attention to presenting Kanwar's installation perfectly. Every detail was carefully considered and carried out, adding to the installation's brilliant lucidity. For whom is history written? After a week…...
Antonia Lucy Gehnrich: Das Parfum
6+ hour, 25+ min ago (567+ words) The Brooklyn Rail Installation view: Antonia Lucy Gehnrich: Das Parfum, Alex Berns, New York, 2026. Courtesy the artist and Alex Berns. Various clusters of cells between the brain and eyes are organized in specific hierarchies to process complex external information. Antonia…...
G. O. O. T: Greatest of Our Time
6+ hour, 25+ min ago (307+ words) It feels safe to say that Waterline, the City of Austin's first supertall and the new tallest building in Texas, takes its name from its environs: Red River Street to the east, Waller Creek to the west, the Colorado River…...