1+ day, 15+ hour ago  (1405+ words) Like everyone else who has just returned from ten days in China, I feel compelled, if not authorized, to hold forth on the place. Unlike New York Times opinionizers and world-class pundits, I was not taken to see the robotized…...

1+ day, 15+ hour ago  (1887+ words) The Bicentennial occurred at the height of national investment in culture; the semiquincentennial arrives in the wake of devastating blows to a public cultural infrastructure that had been gradually eroding since the 1980s. In 2026, the understandable response of the art world…...

1+ day, 14+ hour ago  (1003+ words) The Brooklyn Rail To casual readers, Maggie O'Farrell may be known solely as the author of Hamnet, her devastating portrait of William and Agnes Shakespeare published in 2020 and made into a celebrated film last year. Hamnet (the movie) is a…...

1+ day, 14+ hour ago  (802+ words) Hannah Burns (Rail): So I need to talk about the second epigraph as a Phoebe Bridgers fan. I'm starting from the very beginning, the quote from "Scott Street: "Do you feel ashamed / When you hear my name? I'd love to…...

1+ day, 14+ hour ago  (1029+ words) Portrait of Anicka Yi, pencil on paper by Phong H. Bui. Rail: And in those early conversations with Nora'who has been with Storm King for so long and really knows the history'did those things come up in terms of what other…...

1+ day, 14+ hour ago  (1077+ words) The Brooklyn Rail Hito Steyerl, Mechanical Kurds, 2025. Single-channel HD video installation (color, sound). Commissioned by the New Museum. Courtesy the artist and Andrew Kreps, New York. Video art has a bad rep. In contemporary art terms, video art is hard…...

1+ day, 14+ hour ago  (785+ words) The Brooklyn Rail When we meet Aubrey, the protagonist in Shannon Sanders's debut novel, The Great Wherever, she is falling apart. Reeling from a heavy and unexpected break-up and still mourning the loss of her father, Aubrey'to her surprise'finds herself…...

1+ day, 14+ hour ago  (409+ words) On the occasion of the book's publication in May 2026 by Abrams Press, I spoke with Mc Dougall over Zoom, discussing his research process, dance as a form of care, and what gets lost when spaces for collective movement begin to…...

1+ day, 14+ hour ago  (1024+ words) The Brooklyn Rail I arrive at the Marian Goodman Gallery in Tribeca for John Jasperse's Wandering, prepared to follow seven dancers as they respond to the art of Julie Mehretu displayed throughout the gallery's three floors. Mehretu's abstract paintings for…...

1+ day, 19+ hour ago  (51+ words) The Brooklyn Rail Featuring interviews with Mary Ellen Carroll, Cristina Iglesias, Nancy Rubins, Anicka Yi. Guest Critics Katy Siegel & Elise Armani: "An Unfinished Revolution" The "July/August 2026" Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on June 30, 2026. Sarah Minor's Carousel: An…...