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At twenty-six feet high, Roy Lichtenstein’s Bauhaus Stairway Mural (1989) towered over me, projecting a playful spirit despite the seemingly impersonal means of its creation. I was awestruck by the monumental scale of the painting, imagining the energy that goes into creating an artwork of this size. But as I stood there longer, the novelty faded away and I began to feel a sense of detachment, wondering how to make a deeper connection. 

“The reason to do it is the way that it resonates in this moment and to do it with the people in the room,” director Arin Arbus said, though she recognized that it’s “rare that there’s a strong production” of Godot. Now, she’s taking her swing at the oft-produced (and befuddling) play, a staple of absurdist playwriting largely associated with French existentialism, though the openness of the text has encouraged highly varied interpretations.

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.

Featuring eleven essays and three transcripts from Rethinking Residencies Symposiums, the book examines residencies as networked entities uniquely positioned to address the evolving needs of artists and communities.

Like the real-life Silva, the film’s Sebastián is a gay Chilean film auteur in his mid-forties. Uninspired, cynical, and above all, deeply insecure, Sebastián spends his waking hours doomscrolling, wasting away in his room, and imagining his death.

We like to think of culture as providing a balancing and healing element for the human condition. And the present political circumstances all over the world make us all the more aware of how important such balance is—how important it is for us to act in harmony with, and with consideration for, each other.

Organized by Buffalo AKG (where the exhibition will travel next year as part of a multi-venue tour), Marisol: A Retrospective now open at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts seeks to resurrect Marisol’s reputation and shed new light on her recently, and undeservedly, neglected life and career.

Across essays and short stories, animating details provoke consternation—a father receives a heart transplant from a pig, a friend gets facial implants that illuminate beneath her skin. In our conversation, we touched on a number of topics in Stagg’s new and previous books, discussing what currently informs her work.

Walking in the street today I saw a father on the sidewalk holding his child’s hand. Involuntarily my mind’s eye formed an image, taken from the daily series in the news, of a parent holding a child, wrapped in white cloth, taken from the rubble of a bombed building in Gaza.