PPOW Gallery and the David Wojnarowicz Foundation launched an interactive project dedicated to the artist’s iconic photo-text collage.
Art
Mika Rottenberg Mines the Banality and Allure of Spectacle
Despite themes of alienation, fragmentation, and “global domination,” there are indeed elements of lightness, wonder, and curiosity in Rottenberg’s work.
A Studio Visit With Keren Benbenisty
From the migration of fish to the cultivation and branding of new citrus varietals, Benbenisty’s practice tracks seemingly natural phenomena while questioning their political and ecological ramifications.
Leonora Carrington’s Little-Known Explorations of Jewish Mysticism
In her designs for S. Ansky’s play The Dybbuk, the artist blends various visual and mythological strands of her European background with those of her adopted home of Mexico.
Required Reading
This week, criticism of New York’s proposed “feminist jail,” activists are losing steam, cultural appropriation parodies on TikTok, and more.
A New VR Experience Takes You Into a Museum of Stolen Masterpieces
The “Stolen Art Gallery” features five works by Caravaggio, Rembrandt, Manet, Cézanne, and van Gogh, long lost to public view but fully visible in the metaverse.
Josefina Auslender’s Portraits of Argentina’s Dirty War
Auslender’s art brings personal associations and a sense of intimacy to images of torture based on the crimes of Argentina’s ruling junta from 1974 to 1983.
Dancing to the Borscht Beat
Aaron Bendich draws from his massive collection of Yiddish records to share an hour of otherwise hidden music on his radio show Borscht Beat. Recently, he also launched an independent Yiddish record label.
A Faux Sweetgreen Storefront in Chinatown Probes the Racial Dynamics of Labor
Alexander Si’s “Sweet Green” installation at Chinatown Soup, a near-replica of one of the popular salad chain’s franchises, explored the experience of blue-collar service workers and their place in a system of race-based capitalism.
Sonia Gechtoff Finally Gets Her Due
Gechtoff’s work did not fit into any of the New York art world’s narratives of progressive art. It is time we look closer at what this marvelous artist achieved.
Duke Riley’s Burlesque Spin on the Trappings of Museum Display and Folk Art
Riley’s nautical-themed exhibition brims with antic details that constitute a feat of serious world-building.
Shirley Tse’s Ecology of the Everyday
In her art, Tse confronts the hypocrisies of our larger environmental reality, in which the time to search for sustainable models is running out.