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Essays by critics, art historians, and fellow artists makes for a conversational reading experience, as if overhearing a group of friends gathered to reflect on the artist’s work.

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

Carl Andre, who died last week, was highly influential - but was also surrounded by controversy.

Call it a new wrinkle—the surfaces of James Siena’s recent works on paper bob and weave all over the place, often resembling a rattlesnake’s shed skin. And yet, despite the novel look of the twenty pieces now on view at Miles McEnery, the Siena of old is still palpably present: the obsessive drawing, the horror vacui, the meticulous delineation of every shape.

Robert Ryman: 1961–1964 is a valentine. It follows a tightly focused 2022 hang of eight paintings, Ryman’s last, uptown (this latter exhibition was the artist’s first show at Zwirner, which announced representation of his estate in 2021), and coincides with a presentation of drawings in London. Curated by Dieter Schwarz, the Chelsea installation, as framed in the press materials, focuses on “a critical moment in Ryman’s development,” which “elucidate[s] many of...

Lanthimos’s typical brutal curiosity for his creations, each a world of stylized sexual misanthropy and giddy, affected alienation, loses its bite, replaced instead with what Bella Baxter terms “sugar and violence”–– this time, heavy on the sugar.

Italy's undersecretary for culture, Vittorio Sgarbi, is being investigated over suspicions that he is complicit in laundering stolen art.

Together, the concurrent exhibitions Only The Young: Experimental Art in Korea, 1960s–1970s and The Shape of Time, Korean Art After 1989 offer a glimpse of the breathtakingly rapid achievement of a people, built on reservoirs of memory and imagination, optimism, extraordinary resilience, but also on tragedy.

The singular longtime SoHo art dealer Margarete Roeder, 84, passed away on 11 December, 2023 at her home in Cologne. She was notable for her fragile bohemian elegance and quirky charm with a touch of wit and a notable refinement of taste.

While the future is uncertain, two things are not: class struggle will intensify, and the ruling classes will continue their quest for profits by any means necessary. This is why we need to understand our unique material conditions and take stock of what we are up against. For these reasons, William I. Robinson’s work is indispensable.