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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.
Performance Icon Kembra Pfahler Promises a “Harrowing Evening” at the Kitchen
In an evening covering her practice since the 1980s, Kembra Pfahler and her collaborators bring transgressive, wildly inventive, take-no-prisoners performance to the Kitchen.
Your Concise Guide to Gowanus Open Studios 2017
Over 300 artists participate in this year’s event highlighting Gowanus’s creative community.
Cuba’s Longest Running Independent Gallery to Launch Workshops on Art Outside Official Culture
Sandra Ceballos and Coco Fusco will create a series of workshops and educational programs exploring trends and developments in Cuban art beyond state-sponsored culture.
Two Days of Activism, Blackness, and Visual Culture with Sondra Perry
The artist has collaborated with the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School to organize two days of screenings and panels focused on investigating the intersections of black identities and activism in contemporary visual culture.
Topsy-Turvy Art for a World Turned on Its Head
P.P.O.W.’s exhibition is perfectly timed to dig into the rich seam of madness at the heart of our present cultural and political moment.
When Conceptual Art Makes You Acutely Aware of Your Body
Invisible Man, a group show at Martos Gallery curated by Ebony L. Haynes, gathers works by four artists that subtly call attention to embodied experience and the histories embedded in utilitarian objects.
Paintings that Sensuously Shift in Tone and Texture
Nathlie Provosty’s current exhibition at Nathalie Karg Gallery, (the third ear), is a study in the emotional, sensuous (and sensual) potential of tightly bound, minutely considered, rigorously constructed abstraction.