Greta Rainbow

New York

Freelance Writer at Freelance

mellow, dramatic // research editor @ BDG // writing @ Dirt, Hobart, LARB, Interview, Guardian, SSENSE, The Whitney Review, Vulture etc. [email protected]

Articles

Impossible Familiar: On Julia Kornberg's "Berlin Atomized" — Cleveland Review of Books

1 month ago | clereviewofbooks.com | Greta Rainbow

According to some interpretations of Vedic cosmology, our solar system has reached its fourth and final age. We’ll experience gradual decline in the form of social alienation, natural disasters, ill health, atheism, and so on until the destruction of all of it after 51,840 years. And with a new cycle comes a Golden Age, where gods walk among men.
The European Fine Art Fair Is a Cabinet of Curiosities

1 month ago | hyperallergic.com | Greta Rainbow

The European Fine Art Fair’s (TEFAF) reputation for being at the top of the luxury spectrum lent it the air of a frenzied spring shopping spree on Thursday afternoon in New York City. Underneath bobbing strings of purple alliums, VIPs strode through the Park Avenue Armory previewing art, design, jewelry, and antiquities from 91 galleries and dealers, dodging the metal buckets of wandering oyster shuckers as one might a perfume kiosk spritz at a mall.
A Review of Barbara

Mar 27, 2025 | thebeliever.net | Greta Rainbow

Greta Rainbow Before we consumed movies under duvet-cover mountains or on airplanes flying over oceans, people dressed up to watch them in theaters. Heavy red curtains peeled back to reveal the silver screen as if it were a stage.
Flowers for Barragán

Mar 20, 2025 | nyra.nyc | Greta Rainbow

“A beautiful garden,” Luis Barragán remarked in his Pritzker Prize acceptance speech, delivered in English by a surrogate on June 3, 1980, “is the most efficient haven against the aggressiveness of contemporary life.” On February 11, 2025, seeking an efficient haven from the bitter New York cold and a relentless barrage of bad news (including the proclamation, two days earlier, of our nation’s first-ever Gulf of America Day), I visited the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx—right across...
Hurry the Hell Up

Mar 20, 2025 | family.style | Tina Isaac-Goizé |Jane Lewis |Greta Rainbow

Fabien Baron never planned on moving back to Paris full-time. He originally left in 1982, but it wasn’t until the outcome of the 2024 U.S. election that he gave himself some extra space for gratitude. ‍“I do miss the city, but recently I said to myself for the first time, I’m really glad to be here,” he ventures, taking a beat to measure his words.
Family Style - Feels Like Home

Mar 20, 2025 | family.style | Jane Lewis |Greta Rainbow |Tina Isaac-Goizé |Sahir Ahmed

A courtyard entryway with arched plaster walls and modern, concrete floors creates the feeling of entering the home of a close friend in the middle of Manhattan. The 2,500 square-foot-space on Madison Avenue, however, is not residential but rather it is Vince’s new New York City flagship, which opened last month, and indeed it is special.
Family Style - Make It Up

Mar 20, 2025 | family.style | Greta Rainbow |Tina Isaac-Goizé |Sahir Ahmed

Lynne Tillman hates the term “creative nonfiction.” The MFA program buzzword, bestowed on hybrid essays, lyrical prose, and any true narrative that doesn’t read as totally dull, could apply to the writer, if she didn’t stand so outside of genre or so reliably upend literary conventions. ‍“Anything you write requires making up something,” Tillman tells me over the phone from her apartment in New York’s East Village, the neighborhood she’s lived in since the 1980s. “You make up the order of things.
Marshmallow Laser Feast Won’t Save the Planet

Mar 7, 2025 | artreview.com | Greta Rainbow

While Entwined at Bitforms gallery makes Earth look pretty, the sources of the artists’ AI imagery are being burned, razed and floodedAnyone who’s ever left a Windows 98 OS unattended in the family computer room can remember the trippy, shapeshifting graphics that used to pop up on the black screen. The three-man artist collective Marshmallow Laser Feast, based in London and active since 2011, revives the easy hypnotism of these images in the exhibition Entwined at bitforms gallery.
Raven Chacon’s Colonial History in Birdsong

Feb 24, 2025 | artreview.com | Greta Rainbow

In Aviary, the Diné artist fills the stately American Academy of Arts and Letters building with sweet chirps and rippled shrieks in a reminder of what America once wasIn Washington Heights, a hilly neighbourhood in northern Manhattan far from the usual gallery districts, Raven Chacon’s soundscape Aviary (2024) fills a large, echoey Beaux-Arts room at the back of a campus of stately buildings known as the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Potemkin Village

Dec 12, 2024 | nyra.nyc | Greta Rainbow

Standing on the corner of Avenue A and East Sixth Street, I couldn’t tell what was real and what was fakity-fake-FAKE. For Darren Aronofsky’s adaptation of a wrong-man crime thriller, a Hollywood film crew transformed the façades of vape-juice shops and Bitcoin ATM–equipped bodegas to approximate the literal-dollar-slice-pizza and cyber-café storefronts of the late 1990s.