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Alina Cohen

Alina Cohen is a Brooklyn-based arts and culture writer. You can follow her @alinacohen.

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An Itinerant Museum Picks Apart the Language of Dehumanization

by Alina Cohen August 7, 2017

The Museum of Nonhumanity, on view at the Nordic Biennial, looks at the ways language shapes “othering.”

Posted inFilm

Glimpses of Laurie Simmons’s Life and Art in Her First Feature Film

by Alina Cohen April 27, 2017

Laurie Simmons’s new feature film, My Art, screening at the Tribeca Film Festival, includes many metafictional nods to the artist’s real life.

Marina Abramovic appears in Blurred Lines: Inside the Art World (photo by Ken Ng)
Posted inFilm

A Documentary Introduction to the Art World, with Star Power and Obvious Ideas

by Alina Cohen April 25, 2017April 25, 2017

Blurred Lines: Inside the Art World, showing at the Tribeca Film Festival, is a successful crash course in the forces shaping the art market that fails to go deeper.

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A Year of Lynda Benglis Shows in a Norwegian City

by Alina Cohen August 29, 2016August 29, 2016

The Norwegian city of Bergen, home to about 265,000 people, is getting a full dose of Lynda Benglis this year.

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An Uncanny World of Manipulated Animals and Machines

by Alina Cohen August 15, 2016September 5, 2016

DALLAS, Tex. — In 2007, Italian artist Paola Pivi brazenly preempted her audience’s response to a work by titling it, “If you like it, thank you. If you don’t like it, I am sorry. Enjoy anyway.”

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Bringing a Sculptural Platoon of Female Soldiers to Life

by Alina Cohen June 20, 2016

DALLAS — In a downstairs gallery the Nasher Sculpture Center, Mai-Thu Perret has created an enclave for her newest sculptural figures — a band of female militants, plus one dog.

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A Documentary About the Artist Who Stole Banksy’s Work Out of Spite

by Alina Cohen April 22, 2016April 22, 2016

The Banksy Job looks remarkably like the 2010 mockumentary Exit Through the Gift Shop, but its co-directors maintain that the whole thing is unscripted.

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A Documentary Tribute to Chris Burden’s Extreme Oeuvre

by Alina Cohen April 18, 2016April 18, 2016

Perhaps most surprising about the new film Burden, directed by Timothy Marrinan and Richard Dewey and screening at the Tribeca Film Festival, is its depiction of artist Chris Burden’s dramatic transformation from a rabble-rousing student in the 1970s to a mild-mannered landowner in 2014.

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Restaging a 1979 Dance, Designed by Robert Rauschenberg

by Alina Cohen March 11, 2016

Robert Rauschenberg worked with dancers?

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25 Years After an Obscenity Trial, Cincinnati Reflects on Robert Mapplethorpe

by Alina Cohen February 24, 2016February 29, 2016

CINCINNATI — What do you think of when you hear the name “Robert Mapplethorpe?”

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Photos of Elizabeth Taylor’s Home Capture Its Beauty and Banality

by Alina Cohen February 11, 2016February 11, 2016

Like a closed curtain at the beginning of a performance, a red, wavy material with the name “Elizabeth Taylor” emblazoned in white lettering fills the frame.

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AIDS, Abstraction, and Absent Bodies: A Conversation with Mark Bradford

by Alina Cohen December 9, 2015December 24, 2015

At first sight, Mark Bradford’s paintings attract viewers with their bright colors and often grand scale.

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