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In 2010, husband and wife artistic duo Sedrick and Letitia Huckaby purchased Sedrick’s grandmother’s home. A decade and a half later, it has come to be known as Kinfolk House, a site of remembrance and generative creation, a place with a personal and community history.

Suzanne McClelland has been exploring relationships among visual, written, and spoken language figures and their coded representation throughout her career as a painter.

The Brooklyn Rail is a journal committed to providing an independent forum for visual arts, culture, and politics throughout New York City and beyond.

Congolese-Belgian rapper, actor, and filmmaker Baloji’s first feature, Omen, elevates a dizzying storytelling full of magical realism, chromatic punch, rituals, and cultural superimpositions.

“In [Sonia Delaunay’s] studio,” a 1927 advertising flyer promised, “you will know that you are seeing something new, something that… will transform your life into a work of art.” Delaunay’s Paris atelier in the twenties was producing textiles, carpets, garments, movie sets, furniture, books, and paintings—everything a person might need for an artful existence and all made in the “simultaneous” (simultané) style that the artist developed wi...

Edmund Berrigan is the author of More Gone (City Lights, 2019). He is co-editor with Anselm Berrigan, Alice Notley, and Nick Sturm of Get the Money (Collected Prose 1961-1983) by Ted Berrigan (City Lights, 2022).

Maryam Taghavi’s installations, paintings, and institutional interventions appear meditative, tranquil on jewel-toned surfaces, yet they are charged with a consciousness that embraces the impossibility of fully understanding the mysteries between spiritual and ordinary worlds.

Songs of My Softening, a new collection by poet Omotara James, is a clear pronunciation of the pristine spaces in which you are seen. Equal parts hurt and joy, in her poems’ many iterations, the throughline is that they are unwavering in their truths, a feat when Omatara’s life experience is so specific—her talent, her race, her gender, her sexuality, her size—she is speaking of you. You are complicit in every direction—every entry an ear and a prayer.

Richard Serra speaks with Michael Auping about the importance of site-specificity and artistic intention.

I sat with Christian Kerez in a Milanese apartment, in which he houses his home and architecture office. In the sequence of spaces one tiny room has six doors and a single door divides 3 zones of the flat. The art in his practice is to simply describe the medium. In doing so Christian Kerez offers a zero-degree architecture, where space is revealed and not designed.