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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.
Seph Rodney
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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.
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What Revolution Might Look Like
This show is different from many of the previous at the 8th Floor gallery precisely because it is so intertwined with the theme of voices and their sounds.
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Explore the Interior of a Rembrandt Masterpiece
A newly released app called Rembrandt Reality allows the user to enter and wander through the Rembrandt painting “The Anatomy Lesson of Dr Nicolaes Tulp."
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Bodies Lose Themselves Within Other Bodies in Erotic Watercolors
Nadine Faraj's technique, which is to work wet-in-wet with watercolors on paper, evokes the misty arcs of pleasure and the deep, deep depths of hunger that the sexual act taps.
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An Exhibition in the Bahamas Crosses Boundaries and Borders
At the ninth national exhibition of the National Art Gallery of the Bahamas, artists play with the theme of fruits and seeds in staggeringly varied and complicated ways.