The Brooklyn Rail

Critics Page

• Fictions Of Art

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  By Barry Schwabsky

• Picture a Picture of a Bed

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  By Edwin Frank

• Paula Rego and Balzac: A Footnote

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  By Anthony Rudolf

• The Cursed Painter

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  By Jean Frémon

• Oscar Wilde's Basil Hallward

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  By Tosh Berman

• A War on the World of Surfaces

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  By Ann Reynolds

• Elstir's Harbor at Carquethuit

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  By David Carrier

• A Hunger Artist

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  By Betsy Kaufman

• Virginia Woolf's Paragone

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  By Jonathan Gilmore

• Art World Doggerel

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  By John Yau

• The Museum Frozen In Amber

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  By Seph Rodney

• A Chance Encounter

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  By Rhona Bitner

• The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting

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  By Dalia Neis

• Nalo Hopkinson's Message in a Bottle

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  By Steven Shaviro