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James Prosek’s show Trespassers reorients the subject of the Amon Carter Museum to the Texas prairie tall grass. Knowing full well that we implicate ourselves when we observe something, that the gaze reduces both what is seen and who envisions it, Prosek returns to the earth in a post-humanist strategy of subject building—perceiving secluded worldings, where Galleta grows in the Edwards Plateau, and where Turk’s-cap Lilies bloom within the Blackland Prairie.

In 2019–2020, I worked on a project titled “Insufficient Memory.” It began when I stumbled upon the first commercially successful digital camera in my new office at Tulane University, while I was engaged in a project researching the history of queer hate crimes.

Tyriek White is the 2023 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize winner for his debut We Are a Haunting. Set in East New York, Brooklyn, the novel follows Colly, a teen growing up in public housing who is left under the guardianship of an absent father when his mother dies from cancer. But since Key and Colly possess the same supernatural ability to see and communicate with the dead, they continue their bond even after her death. The novel alternates between Key's life in New York in the eighties and nineties and Colly’s from the early 2000s to the present day. White elegantly uses Key and ...

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

This is a playful exercise in freedom for this artistic couple, opposite the formal presentations normally required as part of their lengthy, well-established professional careers. Here, we are drawn into the midst of their creative processes.