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The title of Henry Taylor’s first major exhibition in France, installed in a neoclassical townhouse near the Champs-Elysées, doesn’t go unnoticed. The expression, which comes from Taylor’s mother’s lexicon, turns heads along with the rich colors of his beautifully rendered, loose paintings on view in the newest outpost of Hauser & Wirth, located in an enclave in the 8th arrondissement that has been historically associated with French luxury but has also a reputation fo...

Too elegant, too tactical, too perfect: such were the characteristics of Anish Kapoor’s hyperreflective sculptures of the unforgettable and exuberant exhibition held at Lisson Gallery in New York some four years ago. With immaculately polished surfaces, those optical devices, whether immense or human in scale, appeared as matchless catalysts for arresting phenomenological inquiries into the parameters of vision and the paradoxes of visual representation.

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

Kapwani Kiwanga, an internationally recognized Canadian artist based in Paris, is known for her research-driven practice, which delves into marginalized or overlooked historical narratives. As an interdisciplinary artist, Kiwanga employs various mediums including sculpture, installation, photography, video, and performance to explore and convey her findings and ideas.

Bonnard’s Worlds, a retrospective currently on view at the Kimbell Art Museum and traveling to the Phillips Collection in 2024, is aptly named. Spanning almost five decades and comprised of 70 paintings, the show opens with bustling Parisian street scenes and panoramic Riviera landscapes. Instead of progressing chronologically, Nabi canvases are hung beside works from later in the artist’s career, and it’s all of one piece, as it turns out. In this brilliant installation, we disco...

“During World War II, it became nonsensical to get involved in painting men playing violins, or cellos, or flowers,”1 reflected Barnett Newman, as he rationalised the value of the (then) unappreciated abstract movement. Today, as we witness the escalation of regional conflicts in Africa, Eastern Europe or the Middle East, Newmans words resonate with renewed significance. In an era teetering on the brink of global conflict, abstract art emerges as a more fitting artistic expression refl...

The twenty-five works on view in Diana Al-Hadid’s debut solo show at Kasmin present an artist at the height of her powers, practiced in aligning the behavior of her materials—primarily gypsum, bronze, steel, and linen pulp paint—with the conceptual contours of her message.

A 43-year-old music critic whose beat is hard rock and heavy metal attends a concert by one of his favorite bands whose latest album he has just reviewed for France’s most influential culture magazine. Raising two daughters with his partner, who is also a journalist and began her career covering the 9/11 attacks, he often has to do his writing late at night after the kids have gone to bed (“just like doing homework in high school,” he remarks).

Interviewed by a journalist from the Yiddish daily Morgen Journal-Tageblatt, a world-famous African-American singer shares the news that he is looking around for a Yiddish opera to perform in. When asked why he is seeking an opera written in Yiddish rather than a work from the European operatic cannon, the singer replies that he feels little or no affinity with operas from Italy, France or Germany.

Atlanta-based contemporary painter Frank Morrison (b. 1971) elevates Black voices. Through the end of the year and into 2024, the artist will amplify them further in two concurrent solo exhibitions, blurring the bounds of figuration and abstraction.