Art
The Gnarly, Sassy Minimalism of Tom Doyle
Doyle's sculpture offers an opportunity to contemplate the beauty of pure form, but without a hint of nostalgia.
Phong Bui
Art
Reconciling Secular Art in Sacred Spaces
Surprises and puzzles in Venice and Vienna, from Sean Scully to Tintoretto.
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
Why Are There So Many Art Exhibition Revivals?
A big part of the art world is art history, and nowhere is that clearer than in the recent spate of exhibition revivals.
Art
An Artist Caught Between Two Floods
As has been all too visible in the tossed wreckage of homes and devastation of whole neighborhoods from the recent storm, floods ravage what they consume into fragments, pulling away some things and leaving the rest in disorder ready for decay. Although Phong Bui's current exhibition at Show Room, W
Opinion
Required Reading
This week's edition of Required Reading comes a little later than usual, but aren't all good things worth the wait? We'll be back to our morning publishing schedule next Sunday. Enjoy the linkage.
Opinion
Required Reading
This week on Required Reading … William Powhida has devised a new power axis of art world affirmation … New York Observer explains the thing called the "professional collector" … at Idiom they ask an important question "Can an art experience be authentic even if the status of the work of art remains
Opinion
Required Reading
This weekend's Required Reading brings us up to speed on the situation of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, plus catches up on some of the things we missed while breaking the news, from movies demystifying the myth of the artist to video games histories and questions of morality and happiness.
Opinion
Required Reading
The Left Rights's "I'm on Crack" — Souren Melikian on 20th C Italian figural artists — Glenn Lowry speaks about new plans to expand the MoMA — the 10 best British buildings of the 21st C — Peter Saul interview in the Brooklyn Rail — From the Archives: "How I Got My DIt Degree" — Grayson Perry talks
Books
Reading Brooklyn Rail's November Issue
This month's Brooklyn Rail didn't just update me on the critical reception of the past months' art exhibitions, it also kept me well-informed about the state of vegetarian burritos, Indian call centers and the misunderstood G train! The November issue (my copy is elegantly covered in a Jonas Mekas l