Neil Baldwin
Neil Baldwin is Emeritus Professor in the College of the Arts at Montclair State University. His review of the exhibition, Man Ray: When Objects Dream at the Metropolitan Museum of Art appeared in the November 2025 issue of the Brooklyn Rail.
Entering the vast Martha Graham Company studio space quietly, I slide into my customary seat on a church pew beneath arching windows. The dancers, warming up, stretch, torque, and twist, each in their own way. Inward gazes alternate with breath-pauses. Even after more than fifteen years’ observing and writing about the Graham corpus, I remain enthralled.
Anish Kapoor continues to situate a corpus of “singular presences” among all manner of spaces in our quotidian world.
The knowing curatorial hands of Stephanie D’Alessandro and Stephen C. Pinson, with the assistance of research associate Micayla Bransfield, were in evidence as I entered Man Ray: When Objects Dream.


