MARK DION: Mourning is A Legitimate Mode of Thinking
by Thyrza Nichols GoodeveArt
Mark Dion is the elder statesman of critical nature studies—of art that thinks, specifically about nature as a projection and extension of man’s self-interest.
ANTONY GORMLEY with Allie Biswas
Art
With sculpture as a primary medium, Gormley’s work explores the relationship of the human body to space and time, emphasizing the body as place rather than object.
INGRID ELLIOTT with Laila Pedro
Art
Curator Ingrid Elliott collaborated with Galerie Lelong on Diálogos constructivistas en la vanguardia cubana [Constructivist Dialogues in the Cuban Vanguard], an exhibition that offers an alternative take on modern art in Cuba.
Irgin Sena: 21 fiftytwo (the day after)
by Tom McGlynnArtSeen
Irgin Sena’s work is substantial in its fragility: it explores the ephemerality of the representational structures and systems that constitute the foundations of our need to project significance, and perhaps narrative coherence, onto widely disparate signs.
How Do We Sleep When the Future Is Melting? Sarah Braman: You Are Everything
by Anthony Hawley
ArtSeen
One of the first things greeting viewers in Sarah Braman’s stellar show at Mitchell-Innes and Nash is half of a white Toyota Celica. Rear fender kissing the ground, stick-straight antennae at a neat 45-degree angle, half a white car points skyward, ready for launch.
Dear Friends and Readers,
by Phong BuiLike clockwork, the last four days of every month become an intense period of collective concentration at the Rail.
The Tactic
by Huey Copeland and Hannah Feldman
Of the numerous concepts that have emerged from Michel de Certeau’s The Practice of Everyday Life (1980), few have had more productive afterlives than his formulation of the tactic: “a way of operating,” of “making do” practiced by the urban masses he describes as “invisible.”
- How Photomontage Ended the Lebanese Civil War (1975-2016) by Rasha Salti
- Tactical Institutions by Abdoumaliq Simone
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The Kinds of Marks I Wish to Make:
On Inventing Ways of Working by Theaster Gates - To Hold a We by Soyoung Yoon
- Irgin Sena: 21 fiftytwo (the day after) by Tom McGlynn
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How Do We Sleep When the Future Is Melting?
Sarah Braman: You Are Everything
by Anthony Hawley - NASREEN MOHAMEDI by David Carrier
- RAOUL DE KEYSER Drift by Stephen Truax
- Informed Painting by Tom McGlynn
- FADE IN: INT. ART GALLERY – DAY by Simone Krug
- NEÏL BELOUFA The Colonies by Terence Trouillot
- PER KIRKEBY Serial Thinking by David Rhodes
- Unbound: Narrative Art of the Plains by Christopher Green
- JUDITH BRAUN by Taney Roniger
- JOE BRADLEY Krasdale by Phong Bui
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BEAUFORD DELANEY
Resonance of Form and Vibration of Color by Joseph Nechvatal - ELENA SISTO Afternoons by Hearne Pardee
- QIU XIAOFEI Double Pendulum by Jonathan Goodman
- Unfinished: Thoughts Left Visible by Laila Pedro
Art
ArtSeen
- Irgin Sena: 21 fiftytwo (the day after) by Tom McGlynn
- How Do We Sleep When the Future Is Melting? Sarah Braman: You Are Everything by Anthony Hawley
- NASREEN MOHAMEDI by David Carrier
- RAOUL DE KEYSER Drift by Stephen Truax
- Informed Painting by Tom McGlynn
- FADE IN: INT. ART GALLERY – DAY by Simone Krug
- NEÏL BELOUFA The Colonies by Terence Trouillot
- PER KIRKEBY Serial Thinking by David Rhodes
- Unbound: Narrative Art of the Plains by Christopher Green
- JUDITH BRAUN by Taney Roniger
- JOE BRADLEY Krasdale by Phong Bui
- BEAUFORD DELANEY Resonance of Form and Vibration of Color by Joseph Nechvatal
- ELENA SISTO Afternoons by Hearne Pardee
- QIU XIAOFEI Double Pendulum by Jonathan Goodman
- Unfinished: Thoughts Left Visible by Laila Pedro
Critics Page
- How Photomontage Ended the Lebanese Civil War (1975-2016) by Rasha Salti
- Tactical Institutions by Abdoumaliq Simone
- The Kinds of Marks I Wish to Make: On Inventing Ways of Working by Theaster Gates
- To Hold a We by Soyoung Yoon
Books
- RISING TO THE OCCASION: PETER STRAUB with Joseph Salvatore
- Death Sentences by Will Chancellor
- Far-Flung Correspondent by Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke
- The Gray Scale by Geoffrey Young
- Sweet Nothings by Hilary Reid
- A CLERK IN THE HOUSE OF POETRY from Bagging the Beats at Midnight, a bookstore memoir in progress by Karen Lillis
- SHE CORRECTED IN RED INK A New Literary Series for Women Writers Launches at Brooklyn’s BookCourt MICHELE FILGATE with Joseph Salvatore
- Poetry Journal RHINO Turns Forty RALPH HAMILTON with Chris Campanioni
- That Fine Line Between Goodness and Brutality LEE MARTIN with John Dufresne
- Reframing the Death of Art: CHRIS CAMPANIONI with Giancarlo Lombardi
- Catching up with the Lovable Losers by Weston Cutter
- BOY PROBLEMS ALEXANDRA NAUGHTON with Catch Business
- Open to the What-If by Weston Cutter
Music
- Brooklyn Rail Highly Selective Music Events
- ALVIN CURRAN with Dan Joseph
- Diary of a Mad Composer by George Grella
- Dois Amigos, Um Século De Musica: Multishow Live by Adolf Alzuphar
- Outtakes by Steve Dalachinsky
Dance
Film
Theater
- Permanent Caterpillar: Was It a Dream? by Trish Harnetiaux
- Studies in Chekhov: Revealing Process with WaxFactory’s PULL YOURSELF TOGETHER! by Jeremy M. Barker
- Bringing Kentucky Home: Leah Nanako Winkler by Susan Soon He Stanton
Fiction
- The Man Who Planted Trees by Jean Giono, translated from the French by Nirmal Dass
- Two by Jeffrey Gustavson
- from Kid Coole by M. G. Stephens
- Daria, a Roma Woman's Journey by Rob Davis
- Tragic Strip by T. Motley
Poetry
Verbatim
Art Books
- David Deitcher, Stone’s Throw by Phillip Griffith
- Jonathan Griffin, On Fire by Sarah Cowan
Field Notes
Editor's Message
- The Tactic by Huey Copeland and Hannah Feldman
Publisher's Message
- Dear Friends and Readers, by Phong Bui
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