Performance
Revising on the Fly: Adjua Greaves in Performance
In my many years of attending poetry readings, I’ve never encountered a performance technique quite like Greaves’ revisions.
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Books
Alan Felsenthal Emerges from His Song Cave and Sings to Us
In all of his poems, you feel Felsenthal finding his way from word to word and from line to line: he is not trying to tell a story or replay an anecdote so much as go where the words and phrases, sounds and meanings, lead him.
Art
Peter Acheson’s Argument with Painting
Instead of thinking of Acheson’s works as paintings, I have come to think of them as battered talismans, unfinished letters, and broken odes to his heroes, many of whom are artists.
Art
All Ideas Are Not Equal
What does it mean to depict anything? Is a point of view implied by straightforward depiction? Does it amount to (oh, shit) an endorsement?
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The Sweet Life: Carlo Dolci at the Davis Museum, Wellesley
Dolci (1616-1686), like Michelangelo and Botticelli 150 years before him, worked in Florence in the employ of the Medici family.
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Gina Ruggeri’s “Maneuver X”
Beginning around 2012, Ruggeri’s work underwent a shift, then an overhaul, then something like a transformation.
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In Texas, Valton Tyler’s Unusual Art Conjures Up an Extraordinary World
Tyler not only believes that his art-making prowess is a gift from God, and that he is merely the vehicle through which such a divine gift must be dutifully expressed, but he also regards his drawn or painted “shapes” as somehow alive.
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Painting on Message at the 2017 Whitney Biennial
This year, the Whitney Biennial includes plenty of painting. And — for the most part — the painting is on message. It’s eccentric figuration with political content.
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Digging into the History of Cake at Mrs. Gallery
Learn about the history of this many-layered dessert — and pick up a freshly baked cake art zine — on March 19 at the Maspeth, Queens gallery.
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Perform the Movements of a Santa Monica Neighborhood
Brendan Fernandes has been studying people's movements in the area around 18th Street Arts Center. On March 18, he'll lead a workshop on what he's found.
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Mourning Extinction with a Museum’s Animal Artifacts
In Next of Kin at the Harvard Museum of Natural History, artist Christina Seely repurposes natural history specimens for an emotional exhibition about animal extinction.
In Brief
Creative Responses to Trump’s Plan to End the National Endowment for the Arts
It's only been a little over a day since Donald Trump formally proposed defunding the National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities, but already people in creative fields are responding, well, creatively.