If a digital site is described as an “exhibition” I go to it wanting a visual experience animated by lively and inventive juxtapositions and means of navigation.
Seph Rodney
Seph Rodney, PhD, is a senior critic for Hyperallergic and has written for the New York Times, CNN, MSNBC, and other publications. He is featured on the podcast The American Age. His book The Personalization of the Museum Visit was published by Routledge in 2019. In 2020 he won the Rabkin Arts Journalism Prize. Find him at sephrodney.com.
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The Coexistence of Beauty and Evocations of Race and Power
“Behold” here, in this exhibition, is an invitation to see the intertwining of aesthetic concerns and the rigors of political and historical exploration.
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Renée Stout is a Do-It-Yourself Conjurer
Her witchery is mischievous, aiming to trick the beholder into a quite fragile enchantment.
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The Sun Also Shines In Florida
BOCA RATON, FL — One of the first things I see as I walk into the gargantuan Schmidt Center Gallery on the campus of Florida Atlantic University is a wall assemblage that in the aggregate, from a distance, looks like the profile of a fish gaping its mouth to swallow some floating trinkets. I get […]
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Tschabalala Self Dramatizes the Struggle to See and Be Seen
Sounding Board does not do what I expect from contemporary performance with its staged acting and scripted plot and dialogue, but it still succeeds.
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The Voices Dawoud Bey Hears
Unless you were already familiar with Bey’s documentary work, the horror he refers to might not be recognizable to you.
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The Sounds That Get Lost in the Shuffle
We are waiting for spectacle and when the quotidian, yet incongruous actions occur I wonder whether there is any real payoff coming.
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Mourning a Tree That Has Lain Down
Jean Shin’s “Fallen” bids goodbye to the longevity we thought we had and mourns it, so that we might let it go.
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Cloaked in Power and the Tutored Gaze, the Medici Portraits at the Met
My sense is that people come to this museum and this show wanting to learn other histories by having their way of looking tutored and trained.
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The Galactic Visions of Leonardo Drew
This exhibition could use some more acreage to convey the feeling of standing at a doorway leading to a universe sparkling with abundant energies.
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Pulling the Caribbean into Conceptual Focus
Six artists provide distinct ways of seeing the Caribbean in its proper orientation.
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The Urgency and Resonance of Chakaia Booker
The intentionality of Booker’s abstraction gives me the impetus to discuss something about the current zeitgeist that’s been on my mind for a while.