One Uprising After Another – The Brooklyn Rail
Ideologically, the values incarnated in royalism—like racism or archaic relations between men and women—are still very present in…
Zarina: Beyond the Stars – The Brooklyn Rail
Beyond the StarsLuhring AugustineJanuary 17–March 28, 2026New York There is a lexicon of “home” that plays out across…
Anne Waldman’s Mesopotopia – The Brooklyn Rail
Anne WaldmanMesopotopiaPenguin Books, 2025 A tycoon of poetry for more than fifty years, Anne Waldman has written a…
The House of Pikachu: Art, Anime, and Pop Culture
The House of Pikachu: Art, Anime, and Pop CultureAsia Society Texas October 17, 2025–March 15, 2026 Houston, TX…
Ayoung Kim: Delivery Dancer Codex
Delivery Dancer Codex MoMA PS1 November 6, 2025–March 16, 2026 Queens In 1927, German physicist Werner Heisenberg introduced…
The Whole World is Watching Its Own Snuff Film
The “reform” offered us after the killing of Pretti was no one’s prosecution or resignation, but body cameras…
What is Radical? – The Brooklyn Rail
It was one of those pre-Christmas evenings when everyone is back in town and time starts to loosen.…
Melvin Gibbs’s How Black Music Took Over the World
Melvin GibbsHow Black Music Took Over the WorldBasic Books, 2026 That Black music has long ago conquered the…
Sol LeWitt: Works from the 1960s
Works from the 1960sPaula Cooper Gallery January 15–February 28, 2026New York A cabinet of curiosities? Trial and error?…
Odili Donald Odita: Shadowland – The Brooklyn Rail
Odili Donald Odita: ShadowlandDavid Kordansky Gallery January 15–February 28, 2026New York The spectacled face of a young boy…
Contemporary Black poetry for readers old and new
As an English student, reading poetry comprises a large part of my week-to-week, something I’m aware isn’t the…
Roberto Burle Marx: Works, 1940–1993
Works, 1940–1993Andrew Kreps GalleryJanuary 9–February 28, 2026 New York Roberto Burle Marx liked to recall the origin of…