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Sondra Perry Offers Viewers a Drone Perspective
Surveilling the landscape of Cleveland, Sondra Perry’s latest exhibition A Terrible Thing fashions an institutional critique of MoCA Cleveland.
Seph Rodney
Seph Rodney, PhD, is a former editor for Hyperallergic, and is now a regular contributor to Hyperallergic and the New York Times. He received the Rabkin Prize for arts journalism in 2020 and an Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant in 2022.
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The Sensory Tethers You'll Find in Textiles
Woven Walls, a tightly curated summer show at Morgan Lehman Gallery, explores a language between the threads of different textiles.
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Balancing the Weight of Provenance
One of the first things that Neckles does with her work here is convey where her head is at, yet there’s still much in this exhibition that is enigmatic.
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The Layered Metaphors of Broken Windows
Rather than lamenting the holes he finds in the social and material fabric of his culture, Justin Sterling fills them with stories and novel vistas.
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The Layered Metaphors of Broken Windows
Rather than lamenting the holes he finds in the social and material fabric of his culture, Justin Sterling fills them with stories and novel vistas.
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The Arcs, Lines, and Body of Sheree Hovsepian's Studio Photography
In the artist's work, flagrant playfulness reigns supreme, and the human body points at an unresolved sense of geometry.
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Lorna Simpson Searches for Meaning in the Arctic Ice
Darkening, an exhibition of Lorna Simpson’s glacial paintings, submerges us in an icy desert largely devoid of language and far from human habitation.
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Probing the Proper Grounds for Criticism in the Wake of the 2019 Whitney Biennial
In the wake of numerous critiques regarding the lack of perceived “radicality” in the Whitney Biennial, a critic analyzes the implications of artist Simone Leigh’s response.
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Photography Still Has the Potential to Reveal the Uniqueness of the Human Body
At the CONTACT photography festival in Toronto, the most compelling pieces are variations on portraiture, searching and incantatory.
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Has El Museo del Barrio Betrayed Its Mission?
There is a particular way to think about the conflict around El Museo del Barrio that hasn’t yet been broached by the art press: the shift in its priorities may be generational.
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How Bodies in Peril Might Help Us See Our Humanity
Perilous Bodies, an exhibition at the Ford Foundation's newly opened gallery, suggests the inescapable vulnerability of embodiment.
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Yinka Shonibare Restages the Trauma of the Gilded Age
In some respects, it makes sense that Shonibare has installed his work in the Driehaus Museum, a monument and tomb consecrated to the gilded age.