https://brooklynrail.org/2025/06/theater/lucien-zayan-with-shonni-enelow/
The Invisible Dog at 51 Bergen hosted sixteen years of installations, performances, film screenings, readings, parties, art fairs, and all kinds of events. I...
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https://brooklynrail.org/2025/11/artseen/richard-serra-running-arcs-for-john-cage-1992/
Running Arcs (For John Cage) (1992) consists of three sections. Richard Serra originally intended to name it “Curved Straights,” but then chose a title...
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https://brooklynrail.org/2025/11/artseen/milton-avery-the-figure/
The exhibition’s figurative focus allows us to set aside the usual platitudes about Milton Avery’s late, great works of the 1950s and ’60s.
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https://brooklynrail.org/2025/11/artseen/heather-bause-rubinstein-out-of-the-woods/
Heather Bause Rubinstein’s Out of the Woods, the artist’s first solo show in New York, includes several large oil on canvas abstracted landscapes executed...
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https://brooklynrail.org/2022/06/artseen/Steeped-in-Spilled-Milk-pt2/
Steeped is defiant and elegant in its selection of varied media, united by simultaneous delicacy and strength; a complex and individualized breed of alterity...
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https://brooklynrail.org/2025/11/artseen/teddy-sandoval/
Teddy Sandoval and the Butch Gardens School of Art arrived at the Contemporary Austin in mid-September, a traveling exhibition of exhibitionism and...
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https://brooklynrail.org/2023/03/criticspage/Lubov/
Relocating Lubov to the border between the Lower East Side and Chinatown neighborhood in 2019 wasn’t a choice. It was a survival and pragmatic decision after...
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https://brooklynrail.org/2025/11/artseen/material-resistance/
The written statement for Material Resistance: Anna Barlik, Marlena Kudlicka, Magdalena Abakanowicz, and Agnieszka Kurant at Nguyen Wahed asserts that the...
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https://brooklynrail.org/2023/02/books/John-Keene-in-conversation-with-Akil-Kumarasamy/
One of the things I love about poetry books is that they have this sense that you’re going on a journey and it’s an associative journey.
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https://brooklynrail.org/2020/09/art_books/Jonathan-Lyndon-Chases-wild-wild-Wild-West-Haunting-of-the-Seahorse/
While these two attached books tell very different stories, the first about the death of the artist’s grandmother and the other a science fiction tale of a...
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https://brooklynrail.org/2025/11/artseen/lafleur-and-bogaert-in-new-york/
Lafleur & Bogaert in New York marks years of trans-Atlantic association. The exhibition presents three evolving bodies of work that suggest establishment...
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https://brooklynrail.org/2025/11/artseen/lucy-skaer-stacks-and-ledgers/
Lucy Skaer’s work has always inhabited long stretches of the timeline, incorporating materials like mahogany logs pulled from riverbeds. Her memorable use of...
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https://brooklynrail.org/2025/12/art_books/the-best-art-books-of-2025/
Our writers have reflected on their favorite art books of 2025, featuring work by Barbara T. Smith, Amanda Ross-Ho, Jeff Mermelstein, and others.
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