Art

A Wrongfully Incarcerated Artist Discusses Prison at the Brooklyn Public Library

From May 23 to 25, Sherrill Roland will be on-site, hoping to facilitate more open dialogues about the US criminal justice system.

Art

An Arts Festival Highlights California’s Role in Gay Liberation

The One City One Pride LGBTQ Arts Festival kicks off tonight, on Harvey Milk Day, and continues through the end of June with workshops, exhibitions, talks, performance, and more.

Opinion

In Saudi Arabia, Trump Touches Glowing Orb and Unleashes Memes

What is the orb and why is it so strange? The internet has a few suggestions.

News

Staff and Board Members Leave Brooklyn Rail En Masse

More than a dozen people, including all the current senior editorial staff, are leaving the revered culture journal.

Art

The Deceptive Power of a Drove of Horse Sculptures

When I read the captions and found out that all the pieces are cast in bronze, I was simultaneously disappointed and enlightened.

Art

New York’s New Institution Devoted to Arab and Islamic Art Seeks a Sense of Place

Zarina Hashmi's work that imagines "home" as an idea we carry with us sets the tone for the Institute of Arab and Islamic Art's first exhibition in New York.

Announcement

Rhode Island School of Design’s 2017 Graduate Thesis Exhibition

Graduate student work across 16 disciplines to be featured in showcase of hundreds of RISD artists and designers.

Art

From Daily Life to Scientific Explorations, Photos of Latin America Between 1860 and Today

Viewpoints, an exhibition at the New York Public Library, features an impressive array of photographs made in Latin America by local photographers as well as foreigners.

Art

Confronting Our Existential Dilemmas in a Live-Simulated Fantasy World

For Emissaries, Ian Cheng designed three self-playing video games that take place on a fictitious volcanic island.

Comics

The Commencement Speech I Wanted to Hear

Words can inspire in many different ways.

Art

Required Reading

This week, the world's largest watercolor painting, the bedcover Rauschenberg stole, the language of autocrats, Crapumenta, Apple's new HQ, and more.

Art

Weekend Words: Delay

"We will never be an advanced civilization as long as rain showers can delay the launching of a space rocket."