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Cynthia Cruz

Cynthia Cruz’s poems have been published in the New Yorker, Paris Review, Boston Review, American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review, and others. Her first collection of poems, RUIN, was published by Alice James Books and her second collection, The Glimmering Room, was published by Four Way Books in 2012. Her third collection, Wunderkammer, is forthcoming in 2014. She has received fellowships from Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony, as well as a Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University. She teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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Finding Birds Among the Ruins of an Historical Archive

by Cynthia Cruz January 8, 2018

In Petrit Halilaj’s current exhibition at the New Museum the artist again explores matters of excavation as a means to explore issues of nationality.

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A Romanian Artist Tackles Art and Freedom in Authoritarian Times

by Cynthia Cruz December 12, 2017December 11, 2017

Geta Brătescu’s work positions the artist as a creator of freedom even in oppressive times.

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Videos that Question the Politics of Different Bodies

by Cynthia Cruz August 25, 2017

At the Met Breuer, four works by David Hammons, Arthur Jafa, Steve McQueen, and Mika Rottenberg overlap with and inform one another.

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Carol Rama’s Resistant Desire

by Cynthia Cruz May 25, 2017

A survey of Rama’s work at the New Museum shows an almost manic motion between ideas and styles — the Italian artist’s way of defying reduction.

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A Democratic Dance Moves Visitors at MoMA

by Cynthia Cruz April 6, 2017

Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s Work/Travail/Arbeid is a kind of communal performance in which everyone is welcome.

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Hanne Darboven Reflects the Infinite Feeling of History

by Cynthia Cruz March 8, 2017March 8, 2017

The artist’s “Kulturegeschichte 1880–1983” (“Cultural History 1880–1983”) is a seemingly endless archive that renders the viewer mute.

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The Beauty of a Museum Show that Feels Not Quite Finished

by Cynthia Cruz January 5, 2017

Kai Althoff’s paintings, drawings, sculptures, and artifacts at the Museum of Modern Art provide questions rather than answers.

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Lost in an Art Historian’s Annals of 1960s–70s NYC

by Cynthia Cruz October 19, 2016October 20, 2016

To enter Douglas Crimp’s exhibition at Galerie Buchholz is to enter a state of overwhelm.

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Andrea Zittel’s Sculptures for Survival

by Cynthia Cruz October 6, 2016

The artist’s current exhibition at Andrea Rosen Gallery explores and interrogates what it means to be a participant in American culture.

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Seeing the Deterioration of Technology in Thomas Struth’s Photographs

by Cynthia Cruz September 9, 2016September 10, 2016

BERLIN — Thomas Struth’s current exhibit at the Martin-Gropius-Bau is compact yet compelling.

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Finding Love and Community in Nicole Eisenman’s Paintings

by Cynthia Cruz June 20, 2016June 17, 2016

One thing that is immediately apparent in Al-Ugh-Ories, Nicole Eisenman’s show at the New Museum, is her streak of resistance.

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Fatima al Qadiri’s Poetry of Terror and Protest

by Cynthia Cruz June 4, 2016June 3, 2016

Fatima Al Qadiri has just released her second full-length album, Brute. A concept album, it is, according to Al Qadiri, a protest album in the lineage of Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Going On.”

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