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For poet Carlos Soto Román, the task is not to ask about the after with respect to memory but to think it as a field of counter-documentation—one that does not, unlike many oft-criticized sociological studies and Truth Commissions, instantiate an arbitrary finality and closure—that continues to enclose/foreclose on itself, only to contradictorily acknowledge these same historical fissures and cuts.

How to Dance in Ohio, the first Broadway musical with openly Autistic actors playing Autistic characters, is currently running at the Belasco Theatre. This is quite ironic for me because recent neurodiverse representation on that particular stage has historically been… not great. 

A few weeks after our first studio visit in December 2022, I received an accidental text message from Hannah Beerman containing a photograph of a handwritten note that read “I am in love with painting. I wish it could have sex with me.” A fortunate accident, as it gave me the kind of intimate glimpse into Beerman’s mind that I had not yet quite earned at that early point in our acquaintance—like winning a prize without having enrolled in the competition.

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

Allie Rowbottom’s debut novel, Aesthetica, alternates between the world of nineteen-year-old nascent influencer @annawrey and that of the thirty-five-year-old Anna Wrey who wears the scars of countless elective surgeries that, when seen in the full context of industrial beauty, don’t seem particularly elective at all. More than anything else, Aesthetica investigates the fallacy of reversibility. When young, don’t we all imagine that life is a series of attempts that can more or le...

The material conditions of being an artist in New York have a direct impact on the aesthetics and considerations taken in the studio and within an artist’s practice. While the return of the influence of Arte Povera and the prominence of post-studio practices can both can be attributed to ideological and conceptual decisions or to new “structures of feeling” in Raymond Williams’s terms, they can also be translated and defined through the prices of lumber, rising studio costs, ...

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

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

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

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