Plenty of artists have leaned on Jorge Luis Borges for inspiration. Far fewer can say that Borges himself lent a helping hand.
Raquel Rabinovich was one: In one of many conversations they had in Buenos Aires, Rabinovich pondered how to translate her English title for a series of paintings — “The Dark Is Light Enough” — into Spanish. Borges’s solution had a touch of poetry: “La oscuridad tiene su luz,” (“Darkness has its light”).
Two paintings from that series — both using black or deep brown hues to conjure night skies over shadow lands — are included in this show: a retrospective of sorts for Rabinovich, who died last year at 95.
