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Micaela Warren (she/her) has poetry published in The Normal Review, and is studying English at Montclair State University. She lives in Hawthorne, NJ.

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

Nell Breyer and Emily Coates continue their debate, considering recent live and digital dance productions.

Settler colonies and occupations are, among other things, laboratories of social control and incubators of technological innovation toward this end. As settler colonialism is a totalizing social structure, the methodologies and technologies developed to enforce and sustain it necessarily operate at various scales. Innovations emerge and are tested and deployed in one location at one time and, if successful, can quickly spread within imperial zones, across imperial projects, and back home to metr...

Here Everywhere at Nicelle Beauchene offers a retrospective glimpse of selected artworks created over nearly fifteen years. The “In Resin” series features objects encased in yellow resin, transformed into three-dimensional geometries that reveal glimpses of the items trapped within.

In their final body of work, artist Nancy Brooks Brody, who died of ovarian cancer in December of 2023, retains their fidelity to minimalism and a deeply personal studio practice, creating seven vertical works of tissue paper on canvas that make up Nancy Brooks Brody: Ode at Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery.

Cunningham, an alum of President Barack Obama’s first presidential campaign and subsequent White House, reimmerses us in the full swing of that first race to November. Great Expectations’s topline narrative is focused on the landmark campaign of an unnamed Black senator from Illinois, as experienced by a young Black staffer working the campaign, coming to the job with curious eyes, new to electoral politics.

Victoria Chang’s multiple-award-winning literary work is diverse in form and focus, but there are some beautiful constancies, such as a deeply sensitive ear and eye for the many flavors of human emotions, especially the ones that are so difficult to express eloquently: loss, depression, the soul weariness that affects us all, especially now.

In this imaginatively orchestrated show, Zurich-based curator and author Dieter Schwarz has creatively assembled a huge wall of Robert Moskowitz’s drawings, reproducing verbatim the arrangement that had been posted on the artist’s studio wall. It’s an enlightening and moving tribute to Moskowitz, who died just days after the opening of the show.

Isabel Boutiette lives in South Bend, Indiana where she is an MFA candidate in poetry at the University of Notre Dame. She hosts a weekly study hall and monthly creative writing club for incarcerated students at the Westville Correctional Facility. Before moving to South Bend, she lived in Madrid, San Francisco, and Seattle, where for a few years she worked at the poetry press Wave Books.