3+ day, 13+ hour ago   (1011+ words) The Brooklyn Rail ANIMAL [a listening gym] is a chance to feel in our bodies again. A return to the senses that is neither an escapist attempt at the club nor a guilt ridden hour at the gym. Our ears…...

3+ day, 13+ 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, 12+ hour ago   (757+ words) The Brooklyn Rail The exhibition Never The Less at Guild Hall in East Hampton, New York, presents 185 small paintings (measuring 10 by 8 inches or vice versa) and ten large paintings of varying sizes by Ross Bleckner. This contrast in scale highlights…...

3+ day, 12+ 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   (1214+ words) The Brooklyn Rail John Coltrane. Creative Commons License. As his life unfolded, it became increasingly clear that John Coltrane was destined for greatness. Not because he was a prodigy—far from it. Coltrane was a journeyman, moving from North Carolina…...

1+ week, 4+ 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, 4+ day ago   (184+ words) With the recent return to figuration and ascendance of portraiture in contemporary painting, historical reference has returned as a viable method to convey authenticity and engage with tradition in an unironic manner. Now, artists wade through six hundred years of…...

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   (1012+ words) Emma Tholozan’s Self-Worth The Brooklyn Rail In Emma Tholozan’s debut novel, Self-Worth, it’s not surprising that protagonist Anna’s sudden influx of cash comes with moral and ethical complications. After all, there are plenty of cautionary tales about wealth and what…...

1+ week, 4+ 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…...