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ROBERT RUBSAM Empire of Signs Brady Corbet’s ‘The Brutalist’ Teotihuacan was once the center of the world. The pre-Aztec Teotihuacanos modeled their great capital in what is now central...
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ARTS ROBERT RUBSAM All Darkness ‘Käthe Kollwitz’ at the Museum of Modern Art Her earliest works are all self-portraits: the young woman with her round face and unruly hair and brows so heavy...
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ROBERT RUBSAM Not What
but How ‘Manet/Degas’ at the Metropolitan Museum of Art It is a truth only rarely acknowledged that when an artist succeeds, their peers will smile and applaud and...
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Consider the Birds ROBERT RUBSAM Imagine yourself as a star-nosed mole. You are about the size of a hamster, and you live most of your life underground in darkness. For this reason, you depend...
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ROBERT RUBSAM Frozen Moments ‘The Fabelmans’ & ‘Aftersun’ Two films, two views of filmmaking—and of film’s relationship to memory. Not two philosophies or programs, but two views, arising...
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ARTS ROBERT RUBSAM Alone in
the City ‘Edward Hopper’s New York’
at the Whitney Museum I like walking the streets of New York. Sometimes I’ll head up through Greenpoint to the Newtown Creek,...
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BOOKS Braced for Disappointment ROBERT RUBSAM THE COPENHAGEN TRILOGY Childhood; Youth; Dependency tove ditlevsen Trans. by Tiina Nunnally and Michael Favala Goldman Farrar, Straus and Giroux...
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ARTS ROBERT RUBSAM What Screens Can't Show Gerhard Richter's Birkenau paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art In the summer of 1944, a camera was smuggled out of Auschwitz. Inside it was a...
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SCREEN ROBERT RUBSAM The Cinema of Atrocity Amazon's 'Hunters' and Elem Klimov's 'Come and See' Midway through his novel Seiobo There Below, Laszlo Krasznahorkai tells the story of a master...
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ART Robert Rubsam Outside the Frame 'ART OF NATIVE AMERICA' & 'ARTISTIC ENCOUNTERS WITH INDIGENOUS AMERICA' AT THE MET American Indians have always served a largely symbolic purpose for most...
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LAST WORD Everyone a Cosmos Robert Rubsam The middle third of Francisco de Goya's Los desastres de la guerra, separating the endless graphic dismemberments, the bodies tied to posts, and the...
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‘The Brutalist’
(March 2025)
