
Thomas Ruff with Vicki Goldberg
Art
The German photographer Thomas Ruff achieved international recognition in the 1980s alongside Thomas Struth and Andreas Gursky, all students of Bernd and Hilla Becher.

Sarah Sze
by Daniel BairdArt
The world is now largely artificial, at least for those of us living in affluent capitalist countries held together by an intricate web of systems and subsystems.

Catherine de Zegher and Hendel Teicher with Chris Martin
Art
The Brooklyn Rail talked recently with Catherine de Zegher, the Director of The Drawing Center, and Hendel Teicher, curator and art historian, about their show, 3 x Abstraction: New Methods of Drawing.

Railing Opinion
by Wilfred BrendelArt
Having read the exchange between David Levi Strauss and James Kalm in the last two issues of The Brooklyn Rail, Im compelled to respond to their views, respectively, on satire versus irony.