With The Sassoons, the Manhattan museum missed an opportunity to look more critically at the family’s opium trade, and to delve into the lives of its women.
Rebecca Schiffman
Rebecca Schiffman (she/her) is a Brooklyn-based writer, editor, and art historian. She is currently working towards her Master’s at Hunter College and is the assistant editor at Art & Object. Some of her interests include Manet and the French salon, female Surrealists, and the role of criticism in art history.
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A Rear View of Art History
A new exhibition offers a sensitive and probing critique of what it is like to both view and occupy a contemporary female body.
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Doses of Relief in Ibrahim El-Salahi’s Drawings of Pain
His “Pain Relief Drawings” demonstrate how art serves as a way for the artist to cope with strife.
