1+ week, 8+ hour ago  (1083+ words) The Brooklyn Rail Installation view: Kristan Kennedy and Marcus Fischer: In Sun, NOON Projects, Los Angeles, 2026. Courtesy NOON Projects. I had a funny moment outside NOON Projects in Los Angeles as I realized where this exhibition's title came from. The…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (292+ words) In'Angelic Architectures, "bitch" contains multitudes. From the derogatory to the familiar to the wondrous, the word's meaning shape shifts like the best of slang in Symara Sarai's deft choreopoem. Sarai is an interdisciplinary artist on the rise. In addition to…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (541+ words) The Brooklyn Rail No matter the fade or the wash, the blue of indigo-dyed denim fabric has been deemed, in fashion parlance, a neutral like beige or black, something unassuming that blends easily. Everything matches with denim. It is foundational…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (637+ words) The Brooklyn Rail For the Critics Page in this journal, Walter Robinson once wrote, "Artists want to be called "great" by critics, possibly more than they want anything," before adding, "critics are failed artists." Having moved between both roles, Robinson…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (263+ words) The Brooklyn Rail The exhibition divides into two rooms, a row of nine landscape pictures as a fulcrum between the two. They establish the cultivated pastoral as a pervasive sensibility; an awareness of the domestic and its staged exterior surrounding....

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (552+ words) The Brooklyn Rail Installation view: Marat Guelman and the group + - Komma: First of all, it's beautiful, Ethan Cohen Gallery, New York, 2026. Courtesy Ethan Cohen Gallery. Guelman, however, has something much more urgent in mind than dematerializing the artist. Born in…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (92+ words) Art and Technology May 2026 Hippolyte Bayard, Self-Portrait as Drowned Man, 1840. These are difficult times because we are witnessing a clash of cataclysmic proportions between two great technologies. We approach the new with the psychological conditioning and sensory responses to the…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (341+ words) Exhibitions Singing in Unison, Part 15 Curated by Michael David June 6 June 27, 2026 214 40th Street, Brooklyn Opening reception: June 6, 69 p. m. , featuring a cooking performance by Rirkrit Tiravanija, Tomas Vu, and co. Singing in Unison is an ongoing series of exhibitions aimed at bringing together…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (1027+ words) The Brooklyn Rail Colm T'ib'n has done some serious time traveling in his recent novels. House of Names (2017) reimagines the dysfunctional family sagas of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, which were first conjured 2500 years ago by the ancient Greek tragedian Aeschylus. T'ib'n…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (918+ words) Stepping into The Gallery, one expects to find a crammed-in, highly calibrated art presentation feeding on idealized nostalgia for the non'art-market-driven New York spirit of the 1970s. What one finds instead is an unprescribed sense of openness anchored in the shared…...