Features
Living and Working in Other Worlds
Tal Beery calls for making new worlds from the deconstructed raw material of our most stolid and faltering institutions.
Imagine New Monuments
Emily Wilkerson offers a case study of the New Orleans collective Paper Monuments.
Cultural Militancy: New Orleans Art After Katrina
Eric Bookhardt reports on the New Orleans art scene after Katrina, and discusses its resurgent militancy.
On Evasion
A formal and historical reading of a set of drawings probably forged by an analyst and used to make various claims about autistic people.
Vacant Presence
On how and why artists Park McArthur, Jesse Darling, and Julia Phillips use bodily supports without depicting the figure.
St. Louis: Navigating the Brick City
The urban landscape can be seen as a transcription of a city’s history. In St. Louis, the construction and destruction of brick buildings reveal a racialized history of segregation and inequality.
Out of Beirut
I never made it to Beirut until 2009. I was an adult on a career path. I had spent my life until that point confounded by the fact that so few people in the art world looked like me or bore names like mine. Where were they hiding?
Symbolic (Dis)Possession
Jerusalem is a city of competing symbols. Specters haunt its present and threaten its future.
Profile: Phong Bui
Will Corwin traces the past, present, and future of The Brooklyn Rail through the eyes of its publisher and editor-in-chief.