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Sophia Stewart

Sophia Stewart is an editor and writer from Los Angeles. She lives in Brooklyn and tweets at @smswrites.

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Maira Kalman Considers All That Women Hold

Avatar photo by Sophia Stewart December 25, 2022January 3, 2023

By turns whimsical and poignant, Kalman’s Women Holding Things combines two of her most consistent subjects: women and beloved objects.

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Is There Anything Left to Say About the Male Gaze?

Avatar photo by Sophia Stewart December 14, 2022December 14, 2022

Nina Menkes’s Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power wants to join the ongoing conversation about gender and film. The trouble is that it has nothing new to say.

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How One Woman Built a Famous Male Architect’s Legacy

Avatar photo by Sophia Stewart December 4, 2022December 5, 2022

Eva Hagberg’s new book sheds light on the relationship between critic and publicist Aline Louchheim and architect Eero Saarinen.

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When a Woman Chooses Art Over All Else

Avatar photo by Sophia Stewart July 18, 2022July 26, 2022

Both Celia Paul and Gwen John oriented their lives around being artists and were diverted by romantic entanglements with famous male artists that reduced them to muses. Was it worth it?

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A Bruce Mau Documentary Can’t Explain What the Man Does

Avatar photo by Sophia Stewart May 9, 2022May 9, 2022

MAU is too charmed by its subject to nail down what he has achieved, or why people should even care about him in the first place.

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The Complicated Legacy of Modernist Minoru Yamasaki, Architect of World Trade Center

Avatar photo by Sophia Stewart November 28, 2021November 29, 2021

Yamasaki’s most well-known projects — the twin towers and the Pruit-Igoe housing project — were both destroyed on national television.

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What Might a New, 21,000-square-foot Art Space Bring to Brooklyn?

Avatar photo by Sophia Stewart September 28, 2021September 30, 2021

With the opening of the new, $40 million structure in East Williamsburg, it poses the question of its role in the local arts community — one of collaboration or conquest?

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Enough with the Ableist Worship of Frida Kahlo

Avatar photo by Sophia Stewart July 15, 2021July 15, 2021

Emily Rapp Black’s new book cuts though self-serving interpretations of disabled bodies like Kahlo’s, which have long emphasized the comfort or pleasure of others.

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No Wave Musician Lydia Lunch Gets Her Due

Avatar photo by Sophia Stewart June 30, 2021June 30, 2021

Beth B’s biographical documentary The War is Never Over has a DIY sensibility befitting the No Wave performer.

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Resonant Adventures in Art and Intimacy From Larissa Pham

Avatar photo by Sophia Stewart May 2, 2021April 30, 2021

A memoir-in-essays, Pop Song is at its most satisfying when the author assembles an arsenal of visual artists to express the ineffable.

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A Documentary Rectifies Bill Traylor’s Omission From History

Avatar photo by Sophia Stewart April 15, 2021April 15, 2021

Bill Traylor: Chasing Ghosts works with the scant available details of the artist’s life to tell his story.

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