December/January 2025–26
Featuring interviews with Anselm Kiefer, Jeff Koons, Alex Strada, and Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum. Guest Critic Pamela Kort: “Subversion in the Arts”
The “December/January 2025–26” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on December 9, 2025.
ArtSeen
Like Cotyledons Buckled with Loam
– By Jason RosenfeldFra Angelico
– By Christian K. KleinbubEric N. Mack: Fishers of Men
– By Killian Wright-JacksonSteve Joy: Recent Paintings
– By Charles SchultzJustin Bradshaw & Maria Robledo: Materia: Memoria
– By Andrew Paul WoolbrightWhy Look at Animals? A Case for the Rights of Non-Human Lives
– By Jurriaan BenschopEndless Limits: The Work of James Howell, 1962–2014
– By Tom McGlynnFaktura 10
– By Dan RocheHelen Frankenthaler: A Grand Sweep
– By Amanda GluibizziFranz Gertsch: Presence
– By Saul OstrowMary Bauermeister: St.one-d
– By Ekin ErkanGyula Kosice: Intergalactic
– By Rosa Boshier GonzálezRon Norsworthy: American Dream
– By Killian Wright-JacksonFall Show
– By Steven PollockRobert Storr: Fits and Starts
– By Raphy SarkissianRobert Storr: Fits and Starts
– By Ekin ErkanDavid Wojnarowicz: Arthur Rimbaud in New York
– By Natalie PrizelWayne Thiebaud: American Still Life
– By William DavieJoe Overstreet: To the North Star
– By Saul OstrowLloyd Foster: Height and Soil
– By Maggley VielotJulian Schnabel: Plate Paintings, 1978–2025
– By Alfred Mac AdamVoice of Space: UFOs and Paranormal Phenomena
– By Amanda GluibizziSean Scully
– By David CarrierDon Porcaro: Lost Stories
– By William CorwinTo the Holy Sepulcher: Treasures from the Terra Sancta Museum
– By Ann McCoyRuth Asawa: A Retrospective
– By Laura ValenzaGeoffrey Holder: Saturday Night
– By Joseph AkelDarren Bader: Youth
– By Selena ParnonMarlene Dumas: Cycladic Blues
– By Joe FyfeIsaiah Davis: Confessions of Fire
– By Lily KwakJack Howard-Potter: Body Part Bouquets
– By Killian Wright-JacksonThe God of the Bay of Roses
– By Hovey BrockDreamworld: Surrealism at 100
– By Jonathan FinebergJenny Saville: The Anatomy of Painting
– By Madison FordMaren Hassinger and Senga Nengudi: Las Vegas Ikebana
– By Silvia BenedettiMan Ray: Shapes of Light
– By Lyle RexerBlack Photojournalism
– By Stephen FraileyRichard Long: FULL MOON
– By Alfred Mac AdamHenri Rousseau: A Painter’s Secrets
– By Rebecca SchiffmanJacob Lawrence: African American Modernist
– By Charles MooreSpectrum of Desire
– By Natalie PrizelLuc Tuymans: Fruit Basket
– By Donatien GrauThe Magical City: George Morrison’s New York
– By Robert McKenzieNigerian Modernism
– By Bartolomeo SalaPegan Brooke: Into absence, MIST
– By Mark Van ProyenTopographies of Dissent: Armenian Art from the Dodge Collection
– By Choghakate KazarianIn Practice: Coco Klockner
– By Selena ParnonBetween Distance and Desire: African Diasporic Perspectives
– By Lee Ann NormanAgnes Martin: Innocent Love
– By Alfred Mac AdamDowntown/Uptown: New York in the Eighties
– By Matilda Lin BerkeKader Attia: Shattering and Gathering our Traces
– By Leah Triplett HarringtonSigrid Sandström: Penumbra
– By Elizabeth BuheMing Fay: Midnite Porridge
– By Ryan SteadmanArchie Rand: Sons
– By Andrew Paul WoolbrightAli Banisadr: Noble/Savage
– By Patricia L LewyDorothea Rockburne and Hanna Hur
– By Eana KimAnish Kapoor: Early Works
– By Neil BaldwinPhoebe Helander: Paintings from the Orange Room
– By Matt MomentRuby Sky Stiler: Long Pose
– By Ann C. CollinsTina Braegger: The Dream Relatives
– By Patrick HillRichard Prince: Folk Songs
– By Ekin ErkanPiero Manzoni: Total Space
– By Ron HorningI hold it towards you
– By Sarah Fritchey