1+ week, 5+ day ago   (1000+ words) Tyhe Cooper (Rail): I’m thinking about what “Pageant at MoMA” means when Pageant is itself a kind of room—when you put that room somewhere else, what happens? Alexa West: What you’re saying about the room—that’s what we used…...

1+ week, 5+ 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, 5+ day ago   (297+ words) The Brooklyn Rail Peter Hujar, Fayette, 1971. Gelatin silver print, 19 ⅞ × 15 ⅞ inches. © The Peter Hujar Archive / Artists Rights Society (ARS). Courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco and Ortuzar, New York. Without question, Smith’s formal analysis—paired with Olivia McCall’s heroic decipherment of Hujar’s…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (247+ words) it felt like every person in the video was swimming.a person was swimming. a video was swimming.a person in a video was swimmingand the remote controls were growing out of the water.it was like everyone in the…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (898+ words) Portrait of Tala Madani, pencil on paper by Phong H. Bui. Madani: Ambivalence connects to what you were saying as well—giving up agency. But ambivalence is a great word, because it’s sort of both deeply caring and almost traumatized by…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (173+ words) The Brooklyn Rail The same relation emerges in the water/landscape paintings, whose near-abstraction is inversely related to the geometry and fracture of the urban works. Water becomes a reflective surface of distorted, dispersed, and doubled images. Estes does not…...