Brooklyn Rail - Art Review - May 2, 2019 “Peaceable contentment, untroubled by any curiosity, is a tangible sign of the insupportable bumptiousness that is ...

Brooklyn Rail: ArTonic - Featured Article - April 10, 2019 By the time someone noticed it was on fire, Laurelton Hall had been burning for hours. The grand m...

Brooklyn Rail - Art Review & Feature - December 20, 2018 Francis Bacon, the indomitable twentieth-century painter whose gritty and chaotic life was expresse...

Brooklyn Rail - Art Review - November 26, 2018 Entering John Bock’s current exhibition, Dead + Juicy, provokes an immediate and profound sense of unease. Th...

Brooklyn Rail - Art Review - September 22, 2018 At the entrance to The Un-Heroic Act: Representations of Rape in Contemporary Women’s Art in the U.S., on vi...

Brooklyn Rail - Art Review - September 16, 2018 The music hits you as you walk through the door of Kate Werble Gallery, where Walking Backward Running Forwa...

Brooklyn Rail - Featured Article - September 4, 2018 “I don’t actually keep a diary but sometimes I write things down on A4, and I sort of faintly hope they ...

Brooklyn Rail - Interview - July 11, 2018 For the past twenty years, Sue de Beer has been using, challenging, and subverting the tropes of horror to make ex...

Brooklyn Rail - Art Review - June 5, 2018 Berlin-based artist Jorinde Voigt is recognized for the luminosity of her cerebral, abstract drawings, which featu...

Brooklyn Rail - Interview - April 4, 2018 Mariko Mori, unafraid to shed the skins of her past, has made a career from surprising contemporary art audiences ...

Brooklyn Rail - Art Review & Feature - April 4, 2018 In dream analysis, it’s said that the familiar nightmare of one’s teeth falling out represents anxiety ...

Brooklyn Rail - Art Review - March 5, 2018 History is made up of layers. The present, like a creeping vine, overtakes the past and without studied remembran...

Brooklyn Rail: Verbatim - Featured Article - February 7, 2018 Always taciturn on the nature of his art, Alexander Calder once quipped, “That others grasp wha...

Brooklyn Rail - Art Review - February 7, 2018 A woman, face blemished with grime, sleeps in a half-sitting position, her head propped in one hand. Her body ...

Brooklyn Rail - Art Review - December 13, 2017 Gates of Paradise opens with an image of one of the Hiroshi Sugimoto’s signature subjects, the open sea, captu...

Brooklyn Rail: Critics' Page Feature - October 5, 2017 Robert Smithson took a bus ride from New York ’s Port Authority to his hometown of Passaic, New Jersey...

Brooklyn Rail: Art Books - October 5, 2017 The portrait’s subject, a young woman with a snub nose in three-quarter profile, stares back at her viewer, the wi...

Brooklyn Rail - Art Review - July 14, 2017 A convergence of influences is at play across painter Ali Banisadr’s body of work. In writing dedicated to his pai...

Brooklyn Rail - Art Review - April 1, 2017 For the artist Romare Bearden—born in 1911 in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina—the American South always loomed ...

Brooklyn Rail: Critics' Page - Featured Essay - December 6, 2016 Writing in the immediate aftermath of the U.S. presidential election, the craft of criticism...