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Art • Weekend
The Southern Gothic Moods of Allison Janae Hamilton
Hamilton’s immersive installation allows visitors to wrestle with a mysterious land, its racial realities, and its mythic past.
Music • Weekend
Ragnar Kjartansson’s Panorama of Love and Death
The artist’s Death Is Elsewhere conveys an understanding that humans — relatively recent additions to a 4.5-billion-year-old planet — will come and go. The planet will remain.
Marley Freeman Charts the Abstract Space of Memory
Freeman transmutes a recollection into a color-based relationship between abstract forms.
Art • Weekend
The Divine Light of Josef Strau
Strau’s collage-paintings merge the word and the light, while positing the shared slipperiness of language and faith.
Articles
A Roundup of Web Documentaries on Debbie Harry, Climate Denial, and More
Some exciting things to stream right now include “The IMAX of the 1890s,” a video essay on My Own Private Idaho, and “How Silent Films Invented the Soundtrack.”
Features
Inside the Studios of Four Artists at the Eyebeam Residency Program
Here’s what I learned from an intimate studio visit where these artists showed me their process, vision, and the goals fueling their work.
Film
The Mutations We May Endure When Our Global Environment Becomes Uninhabitable
Joel Potrykus’s new film Relaxer is at once his smallest — following a single protagonist isolated in his apartment for the entire runtime — and his most visionary.
How Mohamed Melehi Helped Forge a Colorful, Moroccan Form of Modernism
New Waves at the Mosaic Rooms illustrates how Melehi’s painted waves spread across Morocco to create a cultural scene that celebrated tradition.
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Celebrate World Pride at the New York Public Library After Hours
The Library After Hours: Pride event is happening on Friday, June 21, 2019 at 7pm.
Books
The Knotty Legacy of Weirdo, R. Crumb’s Underground Comix Magazine
A new book chronicles the decade-long run of Weirdo, an oddball magazine founded by the comix world’s enfant terrible.
Film
Werner Herzog Adds to Mikhail Gorbachev’s Endlessly Strange Pop Culture Legacy
In the documentary Meeting Gorbachev, Herzog finds nostalgia for a lost past.