EventsThe New Social Environment#1240
Diana Al-Hadid: unbecoming
Featuring Al-Hadid and Elizabeth Buhe
Friday, May 30, 2025 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific
These free events are produced by The Brooklyn Rail.
Artist Diana Al-Hadid joins Rail contributor Elizabeth Buhe for a conversation.
Diana Al-Hadid

Photo by Charlie Rubin
Diana Al-Hadid creates freestanding sculptures, wall-based relief paintings, and works on paper to examine the narrative frameworks that inform human culture. Al-Hadid’s solo exhibition at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University runs between June and December 2025. In Fall 2025, she will unveil a monumental, site-specific commission for the Princeton University Art Museum’s new building. Her work is held by the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Denver Art Museum and other institutional collections.
Elizabeth Buhe

Photo by Jason Mandella
Elizabeth Buhe is a widely-published critic and art historian based in New York. Her writing addresses expanded modernisms and spatial ontologies in Europe and North America in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Elizabeth has taught at the Whitney Museum of American Art and at Fordham University, and is a contributing critic for the Brooklyn Rail and Studio International. Her writing has earned support from the Fulbright Program, the Luce Foundation, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Getty Research Institute, The Courtauld, and the Terra Foundation for American Art, among others. She is currently completing a book titled Beside Painting on abstract painting and perception.
We’d like to thank The Marion Boulton Kippy Stroud Foundation and Teiger Foundation for making these conversations possible, and for their support of our growing archive 🌈✨