Art
At a Historic House in Harlem, Artists Weave the Past into the Present
Sometimes it’s good to focus on the small victories.
Seph Rodney
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Building a Black Identity That's Both Ancient and Contemporary
The first time I saw Stan Squirewell’s work was around two or three years ago.
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Questioning the Idea of Progress in an Exhibition on the Black Panthers
I’m looking at photographs of the Black Panthers: men in formation wearing black leather jackets, with buttons featuring Huey P. Newton’s image fixed to their lapels.
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A Weighty Rashid Johnson Show that Doesn't Take Off
The dream embedded in the hymn “I’ll Fly Away” is rest — a cessation of struggle, labor, drudgery.
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Torpedoing the Masculinity of Military Power
Marianne Vitale’s exhibition at Invisible-Exports, Equipment, cannily alludes to the preening masculine vanity that comes to the surface through the machinery of military power.
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Sculptures that Abstract the Data of Income Inequality
I should like the exhibition Measures of Inequity by the artists Richard Ibghy & Marilou Lemmens at the International Studio and Curatorial Program.
Performance
A Play Caught Between the Lies and Truth of Storytelling
When I first encounter the artist Lin Bo discussing his work “The Cage,” there is something about him that doesn’t sit quite right with me.
Books
Skinheads, Patterned Sweaters, and Other Favorites from the NY Art Book Fair
I made the bold decision to venture into the NY Art Book Fair presented by Printed Matter at MoMA PS1. There were throngs of people examining books, chatting about books, buying books, and having books thrust upon them.
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Artists Consider Race in Response to the American Revolution
The curatorial scheme of the Race and Revolution exhibition at Nolan Park on Governors Island is bold and seditious.
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Gathering the Work of Guyanese Artists Far from Home
I visited Aljira, a Center for Contemporary Art, to see Un l Fixed Homeland less because of the ideas behind it and more because it features a group of Guyanese artists I didn't know — artists I thought might offer diverse views of history, memory, perception, and documentation.
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Choosing Between a Folk Artist’s Story and His Work
Ronald Lockett believed in magic. So said sculptor Kevin Sampson during a talk in July at the American Folk Art Museum.
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Artists Crank Up the Transcendent Power of Music
What is a DJ? Maybe you can get to an answer by understanding where the DJ is — that pivot point, that hub around which we as dancers oscillate, in the orbit of the music the DJ arranges and organizes.