The Brooklyn Rail

Critics Page

• Wellsprings Reconsidered

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  By Ann McCoy

• The Cracks in the Pavement

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  By Marina Warner

• Cubist, as in Cuba

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  By Enrique Pardo

• Dreamscripts in the Waking World

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  By William Kiesel

• No More Hidden Order of Art

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  By Donald Kuspit

• Cindy and Andy on the Ancient Unconscious

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  By Richard Fletcher

• A NEW JERSEY WITCH IN JOHN CALVIN'S COURT
  Excerpts from an interview with Khem Caigan, conducted, edited, and composed

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  by Linda Weintraub

• To Plow the Sea: A Note on the Unconscious

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  By Carter Ratcliff

• Everything's All Right

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  By Lesley Dill

• "Vespers Pool" (1999 – 2000)

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  By Carolee Schneeman

• Sigmar Polke's Photographic Unconscious

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  By Maika Pollack

• The Unconscious

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  By Lenore Malen

• The Matriarch's Rhapsody

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  By Jacolby Satterwhite

• VISUALIZING MADNESS
  A Long History of Madness, 2012 – Present

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  By Mieke Bal and Michelle Williams Gamaker

• MICHAEL ZANSKY
  (Documentation for the Works of Art)

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  By Michael Zansky

• RICHARD SMITH

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  By Steven Poser

• This is Not the Article, Just Coffee Talk...

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  By Barnaby Ruhe

• ...Saying These Things, I Went to Sleep...

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  By Brian Cotnoir

• The Warp and the Woof

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  By Mira Schor

• SUSAN BEE

• KIKI SMITH

• NALINI MALANI

• Mutable and Immutable Divides

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  By Joan Waltemath

• Faith & the Devil

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  By Lesley Dill

• Artists-of-the-Dream: Harbingers of Social Change

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  By Patricia Ariadne

• Why I Went from the Visual Arts to Theater

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  By Michael F. Bergmann

• Sometimes it takes an Outsider artist to remind us how the unconscious serves not only as a powerful source of inspiration but the only source that results in truly compelling art...

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  By Peter Hastings Falk

• "Even the Dumbest Dream Can Astound Us with its Art"

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  By Nor Hall

• Kris-Crossing

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  By Ellen Handler Spitz

• FORREST BESS
  A Visionary Artist's Journey into Madness

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  By Steven Poser

• Psyche

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  By Anita Sieff