3+ day, 20+ hour ago   (931+ words) Literary translation is a personal and ever-evolving pursuit. No project will be conceived of or approached the same exact way as another. Literary translators are tasked with balancing a faithful translation with demands of art, honoring, and grounding the work…...

3+ day, 19+ hour ago   (664+ words) Adrián Villar Rojas: First Gods, Lost Animals The Brooklyn Rail The nature of Villar Rojas’s engagement with Lascaux and Chauvet—not merely as static monuments to prehistoric creativity, but as energetically charged sites from where meaning can continually emerge—makes…...

3+ day, 19+ hour ago   (55+ words) The vocabulary reflexively applied to Ana Mendieta’s work, especially her land-based body imprints, brims with a romance of primordial forces: ritual, spiritual, numinous. The Cuban American artist called it “magic,” a word that feels at odds with the logic of…...

4+ day, 2+ hour ago   (783+ words) Sarah Minor’s Carousel: An Essay on Seeing The Brooklyn Rail Sarah Minor's Carousel: An Essay on Seeing opens with a professor teaching art history into the rectangular frame of Zoom, with many of her students’ cameras off or angled not…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1797+ words) Portrait of Emily Rauh Pulitzer, pencil on paper by Phong H. Bui. Emily Rauh Pulitzer: It’s the library of collectors—not of an institution—because there are great strengths and weaknesses. It goes back to books that Joe—Joseph Pulitzer Jr....

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1338+ words) The Brooklyn Rail When an artist departs this realm at a relatively early age, acolytes frequently seek a sense of how that curtailed creativity would have evolved. Miles Davis was expected to continually enhance his interest in funk, groove, electronics,…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (708+ words) Historicism’s Modernity: Modernism is History The Brooklyn Rail Among the shibboleths of the orthodox narrative touted by MoMA and American art history textbooks for much of the twentieth century, none has proved more stubborn than this: that modernism and historicism…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (989+ words) Portrait of Malcolm Peacock, pencil on paper by Phong H. Bui. Malcolm Peacock: I think that what I’ve become interested in—and in fact what I was already interested in prior to making Five—is the situation the work is traveling…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (542+ words) The Brooklyn Rail On a corner that formerly housed a gas station in the gentrifying neighborhood of Clinton Hill, a clean white box with massive windows and orange entry points, 272 Greene Avenue, designed by Inès Lamunière of Switzerland and architect…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (265+ words) Ralph J. Gleason: ‘Cause you’re an explorer, this is obvious, right?John Coltrane: …! don’t know, man. I’d like to … at the moment, I don’t really know- May, 1961 interview Well, I think I’m gonna let the nature of the songs determine just…...