I’ve studied dance nearly my whole life. I understand well the ways it can be inscrutable and transcendent. More often than not, the new documentary reveals how little dance is understood, and the pitfalls of trying to represent it.
Laila Pedro
Laila Pedro is a writer and scholar based in New York. She holds a PhD in French from the Graduate Center, CUNY, and is currently at work on a book tracing artistic connections between Cuba, France, and the Francophone Caribbean.
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Billionaire Loans $110M Basquiat to the Brooklyn Museum
The painting will feature in the museum’s One Basquiat exhibition, January 26–March 11.
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Drawing on Art and Ritual to Connect with Lost Ancestors
Through rituals, recipes, artworks, and film, remembering and reclaiming the past and the present.
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New Rules Would Dramatically Limit Books In New York State Prisons
Under a new policy, prisoner access to books, warm clothing, and healthy food (among other things) will be severely restricted.
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Do We Really Have to Ask if Trump Is a Conceptual Artist?
Trying to label the border wall prototypes as Land Art (and Trump and the American people as engaged in a collaborative artwork) artist Christoph Büchel raises some unpleasant questions.
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An Evening of Imaginative Fetishes and GIFs
To conclude her exhibition Speculative Fetish, Faith Holland curates an evening of GIFs by over 35 artists.
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Marking the Winter Solstice with a Shout at the Whitney Museum
Celebrate the winter solstice with Sibyl Kempson’s rituals tuning in to the sun.
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France Declares 120 Days of Sodom Manuscript a National Treasure, Saving It from Auction
The French government has declared the original manuscript of the Marquis de Sade’s notorious novel a national treasure and forbidden its removal from France.
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Tania Bruguera, Hank Willis Thomas, and Eric Gottesman on Making Art in Times of Turmoil
The final event in the Hirshhorn Museum’s Ai Weiwei series will discuss the challenges and necessity of art making amid political turmoil.
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An Artist-Led Variety Show at the Knockdown Center, Whoop Dee Doo!
Whoop Dee Doo’s installation at the Knockdown Center will conclude in a high-energy, community-driven performance.
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Stars Align for Charles White and Leonardo da Vinci at the Museum of Modern Art
A night of astrology, tarot, community, and Leonardo da Vinci at MoMA.
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Tinkering with the Technophilia of Fernand Léger
Léger’s sophisticated, imaginative examinations of the machine aesthetic coincided with one of history’s most fraught technological periods.