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Deborah Buck’s Into the Wild: To Crash is Divine at La Mama Galleria connects the thinking-through process of drawing to the loose shaping of crowds and identity.

Before delving into the social issues that Christian Walker wrestled with in his relatively short but vibrant career (spanning the mid 1970s through the mid 1990s) his quieter formal achievements should be considered.

Melissa Chiu has been the director of the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden since 2014. During that time, she has focused on bringing the museum and its collections into the twenty-first century, with direct attention to what she terms “radical accessibility.”

“When I was a boy at school,” recalls an elderly musician who has written nearly a thousand songs and performed them on stages throughout the world, “on the first days of winter we went out to the playground, in the sunlight, and sang Sur le pont d’Avignon, on y danse, on y danse.”

Steve Orth is a poet based out of Oakland, CA. His books include Lust For Life, The Life & Times of Steve Orth, and most recently Inflatable Ball. His work has appeared in Hot Pink Magazine, Afternoon Visitor, Open Space: The Blog of the SFMOMA, and Trilobite.

The Brooklyn Rail is proud to partner with The Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival to present the winners of the 2023 BCLF Short Fiction Contests. This year is particularly special as it marks Festival 5, the BCLFs fifth anniversary or in their own words, “5 years of celebrating Caribbean writers in the North American diaspora and across the 5 boroughs of New York.” Each year, the Festival awards two short fiction prizes, one to a writer of Caribbean heritage living in the United Stat...

I just made it to the last hour of the last day of a show I had been meaning to see, Blaise Cendrars (1887–1961): Poetry is Everything at the Morgan Library. Friends recommended it, knowing of my interest in ekphrasis: the interpretation of one art form via another, as in a poem written about a painting.

Stereophonic is a work of sepia-tinged realism—set inside the wood-paneled walls of a 1970s recording studio, the new play with music (written by David Adjmi, directed by Daniel Aukin, and composed by Arcade Fire alum Will Butler) depicts an incestuous rock quintet who wend their way from tedium to epiphany as they labor on a forthcoming make-or-break LP.

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 New York branch of Luxembourg + Co. is presenting an idiosyncratic, but most provocative, selection of Man Ray’s so-called “Objects.” The exhibition has been organized to explore and hopefully to justify his approved proliferation of his unprecedented plastic Dada poems (none surviving in its original version) as replicas and multiples.