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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.
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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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.
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Seeing What the Fish Might See
The work of cut paper by Georgia Russell might be a vision of what I fish would see as it lies gasping for breath in the bottom of a net.
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Erasing the Binaries that Attempt to Contain Our Bodies
The body glistens. It is naked. It is torqued so that the face faces one bearing and the belly and genitalia faces the opposite. The translucent surface that skins the figure gleams wet.
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In Centering West Africa, an Exhibition Tells Another Story of the Medieval Period
The medieval epoch shouldn't only be envisioned through a European lens.
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This Year, the Spring/Break Art Show Is Less Fanciful but Still Worth It
Spring/Break feels a bit different this year, which might have something to do with its location in the United Nations complex in midtown.
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An Artist Illuminates Our Need to be Seen and Recognized
The indispensability of recognition is simultaneously made both more urgent and more complicated when you realize, as Yelaine Rodriguez does, that we are mutable, never sufficing to be just one person.
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A Doll’s House that Verges on Being Livable
What kind of house is this, that ping pongs between two- and three-dimensional representations that are merely fantasy or merely decorative and pieces that have clear utilitarian use?
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Dawoud Bey Enters the Imaginations of Freedom Seekers
The photography in this show imagines what stations of the Underground Railroad might look like, as the act of escaping enslavement is also essentially an act of imagination.