Art
The American Realness Festival Returns with Diverse Contemporary Performance
The American Realness festival returns for its ninth year, staging 17 performances across the Lower East Side and areas of Brooklyn.
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New Rules Would Dramatically Limit Books In New York State Prisons
Under a new policy, prisoner access to books, warm clothing, and healthy food (among other things) will be severely restricted.
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Could You Be the Next Dammeyer Fellow? Apply by April 1
The Diane Dammeyer Fellowship in Photographic Arts and Social Issues is a unique collaboration between the Photography Department at Columbia College Chicago and Heartland Alliance, a leading global anti-poverty organization.
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A Family Portrait in Ash
The artist uses his relatives' funerary ashes, bone fragments, and old photos to explore a complex family history.
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Finding Birds Among the Ruins of an Historical Archive
In Petrit Halilaj’s current exhibition at the New Museum the artist again explores matters of excavation as a means to explore issues of nationality.
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Realizing Paul Klee’s Influence on American Abstraction
A sense of irrepressible exuberance that makes Klee’s work singular in the history of modern art infuses two current exhibitions of his work in Switzerland.
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Required Reading
This week, Shigeru Ban's Mt. Fuji Center, Basquiat in London, the Met's new admission policy, reviewing Trump's border wall prototypes, the Library of Congress's Twitter archive, and more.
Books
An Enigmatic Literary Icon of Modern China
Although Lu Xun eventually cast his lot with the communist revolutionaries, he took a dim view of literature that attempted to recover a national identity or culture.
Books
Urban Poems of Yearning and Heartbreak
John Godfrey’s poems are like pointillistic patterns more than traditional narratives, suggesting an attitude over a story.
Books
Mónica de la Torre's Poems Reimagine an Iconic Martin Kippenberger Artwork
In these enigmatic poems, de la Torre’s mode of direct address seeks to put the reader into a trance.
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Exaggerate, Lie, Repeat
Be sure to announce what you’re not going to say.
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The Contemporary Oddities of the Los Angeles Contemporary Archive
LACA's non-circulating collection is an ever-expanding project, encompassing documents and ephemera from contemporary artists, researchers, and writers working in and around Los Angeles.