3+ day, 22+ hour ago   (1114+ words) The Brooklyn Rail In their monograph, At the Edge of Where God Built, L.E.FT Architects (Ziad Jamaleddine and Makram el Kadi) not only present ten years of architectural practice, but also offer an important manifesto for the discipline, laying out…...

3+ day, 22+ hour ago   (1562+ words) The Brooklyn Rail Babek Ahmedpoor in Where Is the Friend’s House? (1987). Courtesy Janus Films. A school notebook must be returned to its owner in Abbas Kiarostami’s Where Is the Friend’s House? (1987). The entire film rests on this deceptively simple premise:…...

3+ day, 22+ 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…...

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   (226+ words) Martin Scorsese and Oscar Isaac in In the Hand of Dante (dir. Julian Schnabel, 2025). Courtesy Netflix. Risen from post-9/11 ashes and founded in 2001 by Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal, and Craig Hatkoff with an ethos of hope, the Tribeca Festival…...

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…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (981+ words) The Brooklyn Rail Ali Banisadr, Weighing of the heart, 2023. Oil on linen, 48 × 60 inches. Courtesy the artist and Buffalo AKG Art Museum. The study of art history can lead to the perception that the subject of all painting is, in some…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1028+ words) The first US exhibition of Shipibo-Konibo artist Chonon Bensho, Biri biri imaboi / Your fingertips will glow, curated by Starasea Camara at ISLAA, centers the artist’s voice—quite literally. Descending into the institution’s basement, a smaller, lower-ceilinged space than the galleries…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (948+ words) The Brooklyn Rail Because Coltrane had such a strong relationship with Impulse! producer Bob Thiele, his endorsement counted for a lot. Fellow tenor saxophonist Archie Shepp (whose avant-garde credentials were impeccable; he’d worked with Bill Dixon and Cecil Taylor, and…...