Announcement
The Clemente Center Presents Open Doors Open Studios, on May 31 and June 1, 2019
Explore this culturally diverse community sharing music, dance, video, visual & performance art by more than 200 artists. Free and open to the public.
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Art
Rethinking the Physical Limits of Photography
A dual exhibition of works by Jennifer Brandon and Andréanne Michon destabilizes comfortable perceptions of the photographic medium, its physical limits, and relationship to time.
Art
A Creative Colony of Modernists in Coastal France
The Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen's display of artists living and working independently, but together, reinforces the modernist commitment to internationalist values.
Film
In Encountering a Sinking Migrant Ship, a Pilot Confronts the Edges of her Civilization
In the film, Styx, the protagonist's fancy yacht, independence, and wisely provisioned voyage emerge as emblems of blind exclusivity, and the technologies of her civilization are tainted with civic mercilessness.
News
Forensic Architecture Says Warren Kanders Is One Part of a Web of Possible War Crimes in Gaza
Members of the research group say their "Triple-Chaser" video at the Whitney Biennial is part of an ongoing investigation into violence at the Israeli-Palestinian border.
Art
Extreme Balloon Art that Pops
This Japanese balloon artist makes hyper-detailed animal sculptures “using only balloons.”
Performance
A Chamber Choir Musical Takes Aim at Our Tech-Driven Loneliness
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.
Art
Required Reading
This week, Kehinde Wiley creates dignified portraits of Tahiti’s Māhū community, how Sackler became the most toxic name in philanthropy, real-life Bambi, and more.
Music
Rock Without the Posturing
New albums from Mdou Moctar, Control Top, L7, and Gary Clark Jr., guitar heroes all.
Art
Josh Kline's Water World
The artist imagines a future in which an Antarctic ice sheet has broken, resulting in a catastrophic sea-level rise.
Art
George Miyasaki's Non-Western American Painting
In writing about artists of Asian descent I have repeatedly bumped up against codified prejudices in both the art and literary world.
Art
Myth, Truth, and Lynchings
In India, with the rise of Narendra Modi’s right-wing party, it has become fairly routine to encounter lethal lies about minorities, especially Muslims and Dalits.