9+ hour, 20+ min ago  (518+ words) Rail: You've mentioned the concept of eschatology to me before, and looking at this exhibition, that focus on "the end of things" is undeniable. It comes through so clearly in the apocalyptic dimensions of your work and your portrayal of…...

5+ day, 10+ hour ago  (1176+ words) The Brooklyn Rail Paul Cezanne occupies a central place in the Fondation Beyeler collection'which is blessed with an outstanding selection of late Impressionist works from France'with a total of seven works (paintings and watercolors). It may therefore come as something…...

4+ day, 15+ hour ago  (453+ words) Home to Roost" is rooted in the specifics of that time, 50 years ago, but it also includes some surprising insights about our time, now. She talks a lot about the rise of public relations" and the prominence of images, but…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (853+ words) The Brooklyn Rail Watching the reentry of the capsule containing the Artemis II team on April 10 was deeply moving, for complicated reasons. Here was an endeavor deploying the best of human scientific and technical expertise carried out with competence and…...

2+ week, 3+ hour ago  (1186+ words) Everyone I met in Marfa knew about the play. With a population right around 1, 500, the Texas town is the kind of place where a single event registers high on the Richter scale. But unlike other events that bring visitors to…...

2+ week, 4+ hour ago  (302+ words) At the same time that New York's leading photo-focused museum is exhibiting luminous Parisian scenes by the legendary Eug'ne Atget, and the richly detailed color photographs of Nuits Baln'aires and Fran'ois-Xavier Gbr', it presents HARD COPY NEW YORK, a sprawling…...

2+ week, 6+ hour ago  (887+ words) Today, the housing crisis is affecting cities and their inhabitants globally. The house and its larger type, "housing," are amongst the most prevalent structures that architects and designers are commissioned to design. Can the work of architects de-commodify the home,…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (303+ words) Trump's threat is itself a war crime under international law, in Article III of the Genocide Convention, signed by the US as a convention in 1948 and ratified as a treaty in 1988. Nobel Prize winner Paul Krugman immediately came out with…...

2+ week, 6+ day 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…...

1+ mon, 4+ 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…...