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

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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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