Art
Sonia Gomes’s Sewn and Twisted Traces of History
The artist’s act of pulling materials apart and stitching them into a new form creates a tangible bridge between the past and the present.
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Art
An Artist Presents Menopausal Women's Bodies as Powerfully Sexual
Inspired by Jean Genet’s 1950 homoerotic Un Chant D’Amour, Pauline Curnier Jardin's recent film Qu’un Sang Impur (2019) interrogates patriarchal credo through the lens of its unseen bodies.
Art
Oscar Murillo's Scrawling, Seductive Tantrums
Murillo’s new exhibition, Social Altitude, uses obfuscation and movement to examine the complex conditions of a globalized world.
Art
Iraqi Performance Artists Use Silence as a Gesture of Dissent
The Vienna-based group Iraqi Autumn draws attention to the international community's silence regarding the outbreak of violence in Iraq over the past two months.
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Highway to Conflict: A Photographer Maps Out One of Iraq’s Deadliest Routes
“You think of Mosul and you think of a dangerous warzone, when actually 90 percent of it is open green fields, beautiful landscapes, dogs playing, kids out,” the artist says
Performance
Dancing Across Borders, Blurring the Line Between Hunter and Hunted
A dance company based both in Ramallah and New York City finds fertile ground for experiment working across borders.