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To conclude that Gilliam produced the work being shown at Pace in a moment of denial, as if to negate his mortality, that a return to the past would cancel out an inevitable future, would imply despair. This work has nothing to do with anxiety and everything to do with vocation: Gilliam was going to follow his calling until the light went out.

Equally painter and poet, Fain’s literary work was inseparable from painting. Modern-ish aims to represent the richness of Fain’s life and career by exhibiting his paintings, books, ephemera, and a video interview all in the same space.

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 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...

Sylvie Baumgartel is the author of two books of poetry: Song of Songs (FSG, 2019) and Pink (FSG, 2021). Her poems and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Financial Times, The Nation, The New York Review of Books, Subtropics, Raritan, Harvard Review, Ploughshares, The Virginia Quarterly Review, the PEN Poetry Series, Zyzzyva and elsewhere. Her essay, “Fat Man & Little Boy” was chosen by Vivian Gornick as one of the Best American Essays 2023. She lives in Santa ...

The first time I met Ben Manley, he told me he would sleep in his car for his next musical project.

The days when anti-war agitation by radicals like Rosa Luxemburg, Karl Liebknecht, or, for that matter, Lenin resonated with millions of workers tired of being cannon fodder for their rulers are clearly long gone, and so is the period of turmoil around 1968, when rebellious GIs subverted America’s military adventure in Vietnam. A world order marked by imperial tensions ready to spill over into full-out war, however, is still very much with us, arguably more so than in recent decades.

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

If Ezra Tessler’s recent paintings call to mind pillows, it is not only due to their lumpy disposition, but also the harmony between surface, substrate, and support that lends them a dreamlike quality. His constructions of wire, resin, and paper pulp swell outwards, their edges failing to contain the colors and patterns that wrap around their backs.