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What Properly Addressing the Migrant Crisis Might Look Like

Avatar photo by Laura Raicovich September 23, 2019September 23, 2019

Artist Alicia Grullon performs the role of a UN representative for refugees to address the migration crisis at the southern US border.

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Performing the Legacy of Caribbean Junkanoo

Avatar photo by M. Charlene Stevens September 23, 2019September 22, 2019

Through “Junkanooacome” (“Junkanoo is coming” in Jamaican patois), Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow offers an adaptation of a pan-Caribbean festival with a parade of masked dancers.

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A Political Opera With Big Ambitions Feels Off-Key

by Gabriel Grossman September 20, 2019September 20, 2019

Despite a gorgeous, impressively conducted score, David Lang’s prisoner of the state felt overstuffed, unsatisfying, and contradictory.

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How Performance Art Leans Into the Unknown

by Lindsay Costello September 13, 2019September 13, 2019

At the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art’s Time-Based Art Festival, performances by Mia Habib and Ligia Lewis stood out for their engrossing contributions to the ever-evolving medium.

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The Complicated Staging of Experimental Music in Art Spaces

Avatar photo by DeForrest Brown, Jr. September 4, 2019September 4, 2019

Veteran musician Onyx Ashanti’s performance prompted larger questions of how personal, cultural works hold value in commodified spaces of leisure, excess and consumption.

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For Six Hours, Four Performers Freeze in the Act of Falling

by Renée Reizman August 19, 2019

In Just a Blink of an Eye, the performers lean backwards, appearing as victims of an unseen violence.

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When Artists Recreate Lost Children for Mourning Mothers

Avatar photoby Angelica FreyJuly 25, 2019September 16, 2020

While entertaining at first, Reborning, which deals with the phenomenon of hyperrealistic “reborn dolls,” progressively unveils what it means to be an artist in the 21st century.

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Mining Robert Mapplethorpe’s Legacy, With Missteps

by Gabriel Grossman and John Sherer July 24, 2019July 29, 2019

Though its music, and use of Mapplethorpe’s photographs and texts by Essex Hemphill and Patti Smith were impressive in their own rights, the performance Triptych (Eyes of One on Another) ultimately appeared cheap, forced, and self-congratulatory.

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A Strange Loop Stages the Double Consciousness of Being Black and Queer

Avatar photo by Zachary Small July 11, 2019July 11, 2019

Michael R. Jackson’s subversive sermon on the conflicted heart of a Black, queer man writing a musical about a Black, queer man details an artist’s fight against society’s expectations of what he should be.

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Anne Imhof’s Sex Creates Drama but Not Desire

by Nicholas Chittenden Morgan July 2, 2019October 29, 2019

Imhof’s performance Sex is dramatic, even melodramatic, yet its drama is not sensual; it removes bodily urges from the mix.

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A Chamber Choir Musical Takes Aim at Our Tech-Driven Loneliness

by Catherine Yu May 27, 2019May 23, 2019

The show demonstrates that human connection isn’t dead in spite of the forest of technology that separates us from each other, and that we can have our limbic state reset through music.

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Dance Performances in Historic Churches Revive Spiritual Histories

Avatar photo by Megan Voeller May 20, 2019May 21, 2019

The Grounds that Shout! project put Reggie Wilson in the role of curator as well as choreographer to present his own work alongside the dances of seven Philadelphia choreographers and companies who created the performances.

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Iranian Artist Minoo Emami’s Retrospective Opens at the Hartford Art School Galleries
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Iranian Artist Minoo Emami’s Retrospective Opens at the Hartford Art School Galleries

Featuring two decades of interdisciplinary art along with new work created in response to the ongoing Women’s Rights Movement in Iran, the exhibition is on view in Hartford, Connecticut.

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