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| frequency = Monthly

| total_circulation = 20,000

| circulation_year = 2020

| category = [[Art]], [[politics]], [[culture]], [[literature]]

| firstdate = 2000

| country = United States

| based = Brooklyn

| language = American English

| website = [http{{URL|https://www.brooklynrail.org/ brooklynrail.org]}}

| issn = 2157-2151

'''The ''The Brooklyn Rail''''' is a publication and platform for the arts, culture, humanities, and politics. The ''Rail'' is based out ofin [[Brooklyn, NYNew York]]. It features in-depth critical essays, fiction, poetry, as well as interviews with artists, critics, and curators, and reviews of art, music, dance, film, books, and theater.

The ''Rail's'' print publication is published ten times a year and distributed to universities, galleries, museums, bookstores, and other organizations around the world free of charge.<ref name="auto"/> The ''Rail'' operates a small press called Rail Editions, which publishes literary translations, poetry, and art criticism. In addition to the small press, the ''Rail'' has also organized panel discussions, readings, film screenings, music and dance performances, and has curated exhibitions through a program called Rail Curatorial Projects. Notable among these exhibitions is "Artists Need to Create on the Same Scale that Society Has the Capacity to Destroy: Mare Nostrum" co-curated by Francesca Pietropaolo and Phong Bui, an official Collateral Event of the 2019 Venice Biennale, which ran at Chiesa delle Penitenti, Venice from May to November 2019.

The ''Brooklyn'' ''Rail'' is committed to supporting artists in their journey and elevating the important role that the arts and humanities play in shaping our society.<ref>{{Cite web|titlename=The Brooklyn Rail|url=https://brooklynrail.org/about/|access-date=2018-05-07|website=The Brooklyn Rail}}<"auto"/ref>

Originally distributed as reading material for commuters on the L-train between Manhattan and Brooklyn, the ''Brooklyn Rail'' began as a small broadsheet with opinions printed in four columns in 1998.<ref>{{cite webnews|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/04/pageoneplus/corrections-november-4th-2015.html?_r=0|title=Corrections: November 4, 2015|newspaper=The New York Times|date=4 November 2015}}</ref> The founding editors included: Joe Maggio, [[Christian Viveros-Fauné]], Ted[[Theodore Hamm]], and Patrick Walsh. FernandaThe group first began publishing the paper as a weekly double-sided sheet. Smith designed the Rail’sRail's logo.<ref>{{Cite web|title=note|url=https://brooklynrail.org/notefrompub|access-date=2021-03-01|website=The Brooklyn Rail|language=en-US}}</ref>

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In 2013, the ''Brooklyn Rail'' established Rail Curatorial Projects, an initiative to manifest the journal's goals within an exhibition context. That same year, the ''Brooklyn Rail'' was invited by the Dedalus Foundation to curate an exhibition which resulted in ''Come Together: Surviving Sandy, Year One'' (2013, Industry City),<ref>Smith, Roberta, [https://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/07/arts/design/come-together-surviving-sandy-samples-300-artists.html?_r=0 "Art, A Balm After the Storm"] New York Times, December 12, 2013</ref> a momentous exhibition of hundreds of New York and Brooklyn artists. ''Come Together'' was named the #1 exhibition in New York City by [[Jerry Saltz]] in ''New York Magazine''<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://nymag.com/arts/cultureawards/2013/top-10-art-shows/|title=The 10 Best Art Shows of the Year|website=NYMag.com|access-date=2018-05-07}}</ref> and in the [[The New York Times|''New York Times'']], [[Roberta Smith]] wrote, “This egalitarian show makes palpable the greatness of New York’s real art world.”<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/07/arts/design/come-together-surviving-sandy-samples-300-artists.html|title=‘Come'Come Together: Surviving Sandy’Sandy' Samples 300 Artists|last=Smith|first=Roberta|date=2013-12-06|work=The New York Times|access-date=2018-05-07|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> In 2014, the exhibition was commemorated in a hardcover catalogue.

Since then, the Rail Curatorial Projects has curated a number of shows including ''Ad Reinhardt at 100'' at TEMP Art Space;<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://curatorialprojects.brooklynrail.org/ad-reinhardt-at-100|title=Ad Reinhardt At 100 {{!}} Brooklyn Rail Curatorial Projects|website=curatorialprojects.brooklynrail.org|language=en|access-date=2018-05-07}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.artnews.com/2013/11/13/the-semi-secret-history-of-modernist-comic-artist-ad-reinhardt/|title=The Semi-Secret History of Modernism’sModernism's Best Comic Artist|last=Cembalest|first=Robin|date=2013-11-13|website=ARTnews|language=en-US|access-date=2018-05-07}}</ref> ''Spaced Out: Migration to the Interior'' (2014, Red Bull Studios); <ref>{{Cite web|url=http://curatorialprojects.brooklynrail.org/spaced-out|title=Spaced Out {{!}} Brooklyn Rail Curatorial Projects|website=curatorialprojects.brooklynrail.org|language=en|access-date=2018-05-07}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://bullettmedia.com/article/phong-bui-on-what-brooklyn-culture-means-in-2014/|title=Artist and Curator Phong Bui On What Brooklyn Culture Means in 2014|access-date=2018-05-07|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.artcritical.com/2014/10/21/david-carrier-on-spaced-out/|title=Total Work of Art: "Spaced Out" at Red Bull Studios – artcritical|date=2014-10-21|work=artcritical|access-date=2018-05-07|language=en-US}}</ref> ''Bloodflames Revisited'' (2014, Paul Kasmin Gallery);<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://curatorialprojects.brooklynrail.org/bloodflames-revisited|title=Bloodflames Revisited {{!}} Brooklyn Rail Curatorial Projects|website=curatorialprojects.brooklynrail.org|language=en|access-date=2018-05-07}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/08/arts/design/phong-bui-curates-bloodflames-revisited.html|title=Phong Bui Curates ‘Bloodflames'Bloodflames Revisited’Revisited'|last=Johnson|first=Ken|date=2014-08-07|work=The New York Times|access-date=2018-05-07|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{Cite webjournal|url=https://frieze.com/article/bloodflames-revisited?language=de|title=Bloodflames Revisited|websitejournal=frieze.comFrieze|date=16 September 2014|issue=166|language=en|access-date=2018-05-07|last1=Akel|first1=Joseph}}</ref> and ''24/7'' (2014, Miami Beach Monte Carlo);<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/in-around-ambm/3396|title=In and Around AMBM|work=Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art|access-date=2018-05-07|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://curatorialprojects.brooklynrail.org/24-7|title=24/7 {{!}} Brooklyn Rail Curatorial Projects|website=curatorialprojects.brooklynrail.org|language=en|access-date=2018-05-07}}</ref> ''Intimacy in Discourse: Reasonable and Unreasonable Sized Paintings'' (2015, SVA Chelsea Gallery and [[Mana Contemporary]])<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-smaller-is-better-in-exhibition-of-paintings-at-mana-contemporary-and-sva-chelsea-gallery|title=Smaller is Better in Exhibition of Paintings at Mana Contemporary and SVA Chelsea Gallery|last=Kedmey|first=Karen|date=2015-11-29|work=Artsy|access-date=2018-05-07|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.sva.edu/events/events-exhibitions/intimacy-in-discourse-unreasonable-sized-paintings|title=Intimacy in Discourse: Unreasonable Sized Paintings|website=School of Visual Arts {{!}} SVA {{!}} New York City|access-date=2018-05-07}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://manacontemporary.com/2015-intimacy-in-discourse/|title=Intimacy in Discourse: and Unreasonable Sized Paintings|website=Mana Contemporary|language=en-US|access-date=2018-05-07}}</ref> as well as ''Social Ecologies'' at Industry City;<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/exhibitions/social-ecologies/|title="Social Ecologies" – Art in America|date=17 December 2015}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://curatorialprojects.brooklynrail.org/social-ecologies|title=Social Ecologies {{!}} Brooklyn Rail Curatorial Projects|website=curatorialprojects.brooklynrail.org|language=en|access-date=2018-05-07}}</ref> Patricia Cronin's Shrine for Girls <ref>{{Cite web|url=http://curatorialprojects.brooklynrail.org/shrine-for-girls|title=Shrine For Girls {{!}} Brooklyn Rail Curatorial Projects|website=curatorialprojects.brooklynrail.org|language=en|access-date=2018-05-07}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/14/patricia-cronin-shrine-for-girls-venice_n_7058554.html|title=Heartbreaking 'Shrine For Girls' Pays Tribute To Young Female Martyrs Around The World|last=Frank|first=Priscilla|date=2015-04-14|work=Huffington Post|access-date=2018-05-07|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.aestheticamagazine.com/patricia-cronin-shrine-for-girls-la-biennale-di-venezia-venice/|title=Aesthetica Magazine – Patricia Cronin, Shrine for Girls, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice|work=Aesthetica Magazine|access-date=2018-05-07|language=en-GB}}</ref> at the Venice Biennale in 2015; ''Hallway Hijack'' <ref>{{Cite web|url=http://curatorialprojects.brooklynrail.org/hallway-hijack|title=Hallway Hijack {{!}} Brooklyn Rail Curatorial Projects|website=curatorialprojects.brooklynrail.org|language=en|access-date=2018-05-07}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/blog/artists-hijacked-brooklyn-high-rise-hallway|title=19 Artists Hijacked the Hallways of a Brooklyn High-rise|date=22 June 2016}}</ref> at 66 Rockwell Place in 2016. In 2017, Rail Curatorial Projects curated ''Occupy Mana: Artists Need to Create on the Same Scale That Society Has the Capacity to Destroy;''<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://curatorialprojects.brooklynrail.org/occupy-mana|title=Occupy Mana {{!}} Brooklyn Rail Curatorial Projects|website=curatorialprojects.brooklynrail.org|language=en|access-date=2018-05-07}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.artforum.com/video/tomas-vu-and-rirkrit-tiravanija-in-occupy-mana-artists-need-to-create-at-the-same-scale-as-society-has-the-capacity-to-destroy-2017-73203|title=Tomas Vu and Rirkrit Tiravanija in “Occupy"Occupy Mana: Artists Need to Create at the Same Scale as Society has the Capacity to Destroy,”" 2017|website=www.artforum.com|language=en-US|access-date=2018-05-07}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://news.artnet.com/art-world/editors-picks-october-9-1102793|title=Editors’Editors' Picks: 18 Things to See in New York This Week {{!}} artnet News|date=2017-10-10|work=artnet News|access-date=2018-05-07|language=en-US}}</ref> ''Hallway Hijack'' (2016, 66 Rockwell Place); ''OCCUPY MANA: Artists Need to Create on the Same Scale That Society Has the Capacity to Destroy, Year 1'' (2017, Mana Contemporary).

In May 2019, the ''Rail'' was invited to curate an exhibition for the [[58th Venice Biennale|2019 Venice Biennale]]. The show was a continuation of 2017's ''OCCUPY MANA,'' curated by the Rail's [[Phong Bui]] and Italian art historian, critic and curator Francesca Pietropaolo, the show consisted of 73 different artists; with works discussing the social and ecological climate of our reality titled ''Social Environment: Artists Need to Create on the Same Scale that Society Has the Capacity to Destroy: Mare Nostrum '' (2019, Venice Biennale)''.''<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=https://venice.brooklynrail.org/?hp#social-environment|title=The Rail at the 2019 Venice Biennale|website=Brooklyn Rail|language=en|access-date=2019-07-24}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.culturedmag.com/environmental-impact-venice-biennale/|title=Science and Magic: Environmental Impact at the Biennale|date=2019-05-10|website=Cultured Magazine|language=en-US|access-date=2019-07-24}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://news.artnet.com/art-world/climate-change-venice-biennale-1532290|title=There's a Flood of Climate Change-Related Art at the Venice Biennale. Can It Make a Difference—Or Is It Adding to the Problem?|date=2019-05-06|website=artnet News|language=en-US|access-date=2019-07-24}}</ref> The Rail Curatorial Projects opened ''OCCUPY COLBY: Artists Need to Create on the Same Scale That Society Has the Capacity to Destroy, Year 2'' (2019, Colby Museum of Art).<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.colby.edu/museum/exhibition/occupy-colby-artists-need-to-create-on-the-same-scale-that-society-has-the-capacity-to-destroy-year-2/|title=Occupy Colby: Artists Need to Create on the Same Scale That Society Has the Capacity to Destroy, Year 2|website=Colby College Museum of Art|language=en-US|access-date=2019-07-24}}</ref> The show was on the same lengths of ''OCCUPY MANA''<ref name=":0" /> as well as ''Social Environment''.<ref name=":1" />

We the Immigrants is a project that at promotes and elevates [[immigrants]] in the many communities across America. It honors the artists and innovators who have immigrated to the U.S. and made an impact across the sciences, arts, and humanities.<ref>{{Cite web|title=We The Immigrants|url=https://brooklynrail.org/projects/we-the-immigrants/|access-date=2021-02-10|website=brooklynrail.org|language=en-us}}</ref> It is an ongoing online project, featuring links to Wikipedia pages and organizes immigrants along with their name, country of origin and year of birth in a checkered layout inspired by Zoom.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-11-25|title=‘We'We The Immigrants’Immigrants' photo exhibit on Payne Avenue latest in project to elevate immigrant voices|url=https://www.twincities.com/2020/11/25/we-the-immigrants-photo-exhibit-on-payne-avenue-latest-in-project-to-elevate-immigrant-voices/|access-date=2021-03-01|website=Twin Cities|language=en-US}}</ref>

In March, 2020, as the [[COVID-19 pandemic in New York City]] forced arts organizations and museums around the world to close their doors, the team at the Brooklyn Rail shifted their operations online and started hosting daily conversations with artists, writers, poets, filmmakers, dancers, and musicians around the world. Called The New Social Environments, these daily lunchtime conversations wink at artist [[Joseph Beuys]]’s concept of [[Social sculpture|Social Sculpture]], where making art is less fleeting and precious and more woven democratically into our lives.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Prosek|first=James|date=2020-10-23|title=Artists in Isolation Make a New Window on the World|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/23/arts/isolation-pandemic-artists.html|access-date=2021-02-10|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> There have been over 200 archived conversations as of January 2020 and guests have included [[Kent Monkman]], [[Kay Gabriel]], [[Njideka Akunyili Crosby]], [[Giuseppe Penone]], [[Noam Chomsky]], [[Thelma Golden]], [[Ai Weiwei|Ai Wei Wei]], [[Rosa Barba]], [[Jordan Casteel]], [[Paul D. Miller (academic)|Paul D. Miller]], [[Luca Buvoli]], [[Eric Fischl]], and [[Yvonne Rainer|Yvonne Rainier]].

*I Love [[John Giorno]] (June 2017) <ref>{{cite web|title=The Brooklyn Rail – An Independent Forum for Visual Arts, Culture, and Politics – I LOVE JOHN GIORNO|url=http://brooklynrail.org/special/I_LOVE_JOHN_GIORNO/|website=brooklynrail.org}}</ref>

[[Robert Storr (art academic)|Robert Storr]] has called it "the murmur of the city in print."<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|title=TheAbout Brooklyn Rail|url=https://brooklynrail.org/about/|access-date=2018-05-08|website=The Brooklyn Rail}}</ref>

Former ''[[The Nation|Nation]]'' publisher [[Victor Navasky]] considered it "a non-establishment paper that questioned the establishment's assumptions without falling victim to the counterculture's pieties."

American painter [[Alex Katz]] has said that the ''Rail'' "has the young energy that goes with the young people who come to New York to grow in the arts. It would be a bad city without it. If it wasn't for the ''Brooklyn Rail'', the city would be a desert.”<ref>{{Cite web|titlename=The Brooklyn Rail|url=https:"auto"//brooklynrail.org/about|access-date=2018-05-07|website=The Brooklyn Rail}}</ref>

In 2013 the ''Rail'' was awarded the Best Art Reporting by the [[International Association of Art Critics]], United States Section (AICA-USA).<ref>{{cite web|title=AICA Announces Best Show Awards for 2013 – News – Art in America|url=http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/news-features/news/aica-announces-best-show-awards-for-2013/|access-date=11 May 2015|work=Art in America |first1=Brian |last1=Boucher |date=Apr 9, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150905185700/http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/news-features/news/aica-announces-best-show-awards-for-2013/ |archive-date= Sep 5, 2015 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=AICA-USA ARTSArts AWARDSAwards HONORHonor EXCELLENCEExcellence INin ARTArt CRITICISMCriticism and Curatorial Achievement |date=8 ANDApril CURATORIAL2014 ACHIEVEMENT|url=http://www.aicausa.org/news/aica-usa-arts-awards-honor-excellence-in-art-criticism-and-curatorial-achie|access-date=11 May 2015|publisher=AICA USA |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150607151611/http://www.aicausa.org/news/aica-usa-arts-awards-honor-excellence-in-art-criticism-and-curatorial-achie |archive-date= Jun 7, 2015 }}</ref>

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