21+ hour, 53+ min ago  (708+ words) The Brooklyn Rail Amid the Impressionist and modern luminaries collected by Dr. Albert C. Barnes of Philadelphia, an exhibition of paintings by Henri Rousseau (18441910) seemed implicitly to make the case for his excellence as a painter'an idiosyncratic master with the chops…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (1386+ words) The Brooklyn Rail If the Georgian era painter Thomas Gainsborough had been an English Football club his ascent through the ranks of his profession would be commensurate to that of recent phenomenon Wrexham AFC, which has gone from the National…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (963+ words) The Brooklyn Rail A visit to Munich in early 1913 prompted the American painter Marsden Hartley to write his fellow artist Alfred Stieglitz back in New York. "The new German tendency is a force to be reckoned with," Hartley reported excitedly,…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (852+ words) The Brooklyn Rail In 1975, the uncategorizable writer William H. Gass published On Being Blue: A Philosophical Inquiry, a slim but dense volume dedicated to the color blue, the hue that perhaps more than any other has stained the language with longing,…...

2+ week, 18+ hour ago  (242+ words) Two more dancers join and the soundscape changes to choral music and thunder. More enter, all in matching green jumpsuits and stocking masks, all ready to fight, and the club beat drops. They punch at the sky and throw each…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (1200+ words) The Brooklyn Rail How do you revamp Romeo and Juliet? Sergei Prokofiev's notoriously dense and difficult score, first composed in the 1930s, has vexed many choreographers looking to tell the love story anew, but Benjamin Millepied thinks he might have the…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (287+ words) cunningly creates a kind of 3 D fresco. The longtime fresco-inspired minimalist, bred in the company of Donald Judd and in the chapels of Italy, adds depth and a bit of texture to Juddian flatness and precision. He sometimes builds with…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (158+ words) Edward Kamau Brathwaite (19302020) was a Caribbean writer and critic who wrote on the experience of black cultural life throughout the worldwide African diaspora. Born in Bridgetown, Barbados, Brathwaite was educated in Barbados and England and received numerous awards for his…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (68+ words) is a concrete poet based in staten island, ny. inspired by growing up across every borough, she uses the sonic, kinesthetic, and linguistic capacities of her 1930s royal typewriter to deploy dissemblance as black vernacularity. she is the author of wordtomydead…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (743+ words) The Brooklyn Rail In college, a professor introduced me to her version of the Sorites Paradox. The class was debating physician assisted suicide, addressing the question of how policy makers draw boundaries when criteria is based on vague terms, attempting…...