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Julia Friedman

Julia graduated from Barnard with a B.A. in European History, and from NYU with an M.A. in Visual Arts Administration. She works as Senior Curatorial Manager at Madison Square Park Conservancy.

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The Allusive, Improvisational Artworks of Thaddeus Mosley

by Julia Friedman April 13, 2020April 13, 2020

The formal aspects of Mosley’s work have been thoroughly considered over the years, perhaps at the expense of exploring symbolism in his individual works.

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The Many Blues of Matthew Wong

by Julia Friedman December 17, 2019December 17, 2019

A rising art-world star, Wong planned his exhibition Blue before his suicide in October. The show reveals a marked tension between beauty and melancholy, making it difficult at times to keep his biography and work separate.

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A Feminist British Illustrator Who Satirized the British Middle Class

by Julia Friedman September 16, 2019September 16, 2019

Posy Simmonds was known for her particularly wry voice, but Paul Gravett’s book gives its namesake short shrift, not placing her clearly enough in the context of other illustrators.

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Composites of a Constantly Changing Female Identity

by Julia Friedman September 12, 2019September 12, 2019

Zohra Opoku’s sensitive and nuanced consideration of female, cultural, and cross-cultural identities are highly personal and profoundly politically relevant.

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Tackling Gentrification and Other Injustices Through Landscape Painting

by Julia Friedman August 26, 2019January 22, 2020

Eddie Arroyo decidedly updates the genre of American landscape painting, recording real-estate developments and gentrification and capturing the flux of contemporary urban landscapes.

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Edmund de Waal’s Relationship to Precious Materials at the Frick Collection

by Julia Friedman August 13, 2019August 13, 2019

The exhibition Elective Affinities draws viewers into stories of the Frick’s permanent collection and a contemporary artist’s intellectual and aesthetic reckonings and inventions with them.

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Dismantling Beauty Through Extreme Self-Portraiture

by Julia Friedman July 16, 2019July 16, 2019

Artist Mari Katayama uses objects both to reference her body and to submerge the viewer in a world where the expected limits of the bodily form are reimagined.

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An Artist Provides a Stage for Us to Make Political Decisions

by Julia Friedman May 22, 2019

Björn Meyer-Ebrecht’s objects provide a stage, and the viewer is the actor who must perform the uprising.

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An Iconic Collection of African American Culture Moves Back to Its Harlem Home

by Julia Friedman April 23, 2019April 23, 2019

The Art & Artifacts division of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem has finally moved its collection back home after years of offsite storage.

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The Disturbing Yet Hopeful Paintings of an Outsider Artist

by Julia Friedman March 15, 2019March 15, 2019

Bernard Gilardi’s exhibition suggests a positive grouping of misfits, a hopeful interpretation of the ambiguity within Gilardi’s paintings as a sanctuary for the odd.

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Candida Höfer Takes Her Expansive Lens to Mexico

by Julia Friedman March 14, 2019

In Mexico foregrounds Höfer’s images as records of a site’s architectural and sociopolitical history.

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A Book Traces the Evolution of Smooching for the Camera

by Julia Friedman February 28, 2019

People Kissing: A Century of Photographs begins in the Victorian era and traces attitudes about kissing from “chaste” to “performance for the camera.”

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