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Christopher Snow Hopkins

Christopher Snow Hopkins is an independent writer and critic living in Boston. He recently received an M.A. from the Courtauld Institute of Art in London.

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A Cybernetic Bestiary Made of Disposable Packaging

by Christopher Snow Hopkins August 25, 2017August 25, 2017

At the Worcester Art Museum, Shih Chieh Huang has assembled bioluminescent kinetic sculptures made of dollar store materials.

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A Journey Through James Turrell’s Disorienting World at the Newly Expanded MASS MoCA

by Christopher Snow Hopkins June 14, 2017June 13, 2017

Into the Light, which will remain on long-term view at the museum, brings together installations from every stage of Turrell’s five-decade career.

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Death and Perseverance in the Lodz Ghetto, Captured by One of Its Inhabitants

by Christopher Snow Hopkins May 31, 2017June 1, 2017

An official photographer in the ghetto administration, Henryk Ross defied the laws of the Nazi regime by taking clandestine photographs of Jewish residents as they confronted poverty, squalor, debasement, and death.

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Re-performing the Histories of African American Public Figures

by Christopher Snow Hopkins December 14, 2016December 15, 2016

In Written in Smoke and Fire, Edgar Arceneaux reappropriates blackface and examines the legacy of a quasi-sacral figure in national history, Martin Luther King, Jr.

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On Election Day, Revisiting Carrie Mae Weems’s Endorsement of Hillary Clinton

by Christopher Snow Hopkins November 8, 2016November 8, 2016

Carrie Mae Weems presents the country as a place of division, a bubbling brew of hope and desperation and love and hate.

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Drivel, Drool, Babble, Blabber: An Evening with Mel Bochner

by Christopher Snow Hopkins October 25, 2016October 26, 2016

The highly influential conceptual artist Mel Bochner recapitulates his 50-year dalliance with the English thesaurus.

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An Artist Attempts to Resensitize Us to Images of Violence

by Christopher Snow Hopkins September 27, 2016September 27, 2016

BOSTON — In “Inextinguishable Fire,” a digital video by Cassils, the artist assumes the aspect of a martyr while being enveloped by flames.

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Digital Colonialism and the Marginalization of Australia’s Indigenous Peoples

by Christopher Snow Hopkins August 8, 2016August 9, 2016

LONDON — Inside Furtherfield Gallery, one is confronted by the noxious fruits of British colonialism.

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In Tate Modern’s New Wing, a Broader, More Global View of Art

by Christopher Snow Hopkins June 16, 2016June 17, 2016

LONDON — The day began in the Turbine Hall, the 85-foot-tall atrium at the heart of Tate Modern, the most visited museum of modern and contemporary art in the world.

National Portrait Gallery Announces the 2025 Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition
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National Portrait Gallery Announces the 2025 Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition

The first prize winner will receive $25,000 and a commission to portray a remarkable living American for the Smithsonian museum’s collection.

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