The French television program does a good job exploring how people cope with work-related drama and its impact on relationships.
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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Shahzia Sikander Draws the Immeasurability of Women
The artist uses her technical and artistic gifts to render a clear vision of women who defy stereotypes.
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Seeing the Armory Art Fair as a Chance to Reconnect
Art fairs always seem to privilege and fete consumptive behavior. But they also give me an opportunity to reconnect, to revisit, to see an artist’s work, and share the brilliance of my community.
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Breathing More Deeply With Art in the Hudson River Valley
The second edition of the Upstate Art Weekend offered glimpses of some of the myriad flavors of art in the Hudson River Valley.
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Painterly Visions of Zimbabwe Emerge in Soho
In this small art exhibition, the rich figural painting tradition of this southern African nation shines through.
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Art! Come Out, Come Out Wherever You Are!
In Art Hiding in New York, you can explore the art all around a city that can’t seem to get enough of it.
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On Grieving and Mourning With Art
Confronted with a new national consciousness around racial inequity, two New York City art exhibitions focus on mourning with varying degrees of success.
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Michael Rakowitz Makes a Life Out of Fragments
Rakowitz has installed at the Wellin a partial reconstruction of “Room H” within the Northwest Palace of the ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud.
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With David Hammons, Meaning and Process Hold Hands
In Hammons’s body prints, the veteran artist melds method, intention, and significance.
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An Ode to the Year That Will Live on in Infamy
The Twenty Twenty exhibition at the Aldrich uses using hand drawing to record and describe the cascade of catastrophes that made 2020 feel like an entire decade.
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A Premature Celebration of the Ascension of Black Artists
Black Art, HBO’s documentary on Black visual artists, unwittingly demonstrates what a community gives up when it strives toward the mainstream.
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Representation Alone Will Not Save Us
We love representation, the power of signifying, and the incisiveness of well-argued critique, but by themselves, these tools won’t effect structural change.