Art
Pavel Pepperstein's Obsession with a Utopian Apocalypse
In these works, the present moment remains altogether elusive.
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‘Facundo de Zuviría: Siesta Argentina and other modest observations’ at Americas Society
Inspired by the vernacular architecture, design, and urban landscape of Buenos Aires, photographer Facundo de Zuviría (b. 1954) captures the intimate and often unnoticed details of daily life in his images of the Argentine capital. On view January 25 to April 1, 2017.
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Remembrances of Betty Blayton-Taylor, Studio Museum Co-Founder and Harlem Arts Activist
Betty not only opened doors, she built new doors — doors that, nearly 50 years later, remain permanently open in her students' own backyard.
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At the Shanghai Biennale, a Desire to Disrupt the Status Quo
At this year's Shanghai Biennale, curated by the Raqs Media Collective, artists question and disrupt the status quo in multiple ways, presenting the world with new possibilities.
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Required Reading: Women's March Posters
The largest protests in US history took place yesterday, and people's sign creativity was on full display.
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Weekend Words: Lies
"Truth exists; only lies are invented."
Books
Reader’s Diary: The Importance of Being a Simile
Although the poetry in Geoffrey Nutter’s Cities at Dawn is almost always calmly descriptive, whatever it describes is somehow something else and not itself.
Books
The Omni American Author: An Albert Murray Collection
Albert Murray: Collected Essays & Memoirs opens with a seminal piece, The Omni-Americans. In 1970, Murray took on black protest writers and defied establishment thinking with his claims of “a folklore of white supremacy and a fakelore of black pathology.”
Music
A Tribe Called Quest's Communal Monument
A communal monument to one rapper that also celebrates community in the context of political horror (they didn’t predict the election either). Phife, inevitably, becomes a symbol. So does the whole Tribe.
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The Nocturnal Worlds of Katherine Bradford
In this exhibition, it struck me that what Katherine Bradford keeps getting better at is incoherence: she can meld divergent details without coming across as contrived or arbitrary.
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Progress Report: Marina Adams’s Recent Paintings and Gouaches
This is Marina Adams’ breakthrough show. There is nothing formulaic about her use of color, line or shape. The paintings are eccentric, but do not feel willfully so.
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I am HORRIFIED.