Daily Stream: Brooklyn Rail's The New Social Environment series

The arts and culture mag The Brooklyn Rail, after shifting to online-only publication with the COVID-19 pandemic, has been supporting artists, its audience and its contributors through the streaming series The New Social Environment. Each weekday, a new episode is recorded live before a Zoom audience at 1 PM EDT. It's free to RSVP.

Events typically pair an established artist with a critic or academic for a broad dialogue about the artist's career in the context of our new, pandemic-marked reality. Today at 1, for example, painter Torkwase Dyson will discuss their work with writer and College of Saint Rose professor Robert R. Shane. The program will conclude with a poetry reading by Gabriel Palacios.

If you can't make the recording, past episodes are being archived on the Rail's events and YouTube pages. The mix of makers, performers, and thinkers so far includes Julian Schnabel, photographer Chester Higgins, Noam Chomsky, the viol quartet Parthenia, and Ohio State's own Ann Hamilton and Michael Mercil.

RSVP to today's conversation between Torwase Dyson and Robert R. Shane.

Watch past episodes of The New Social Environment on YouTube.