Music
Fatima al Qadiri's Poetry of Terror and Protest
Fatima Al Qadiri has just released her second full-length album, Brute. A concept album, it is, according to Al Qadiri, a protest album in the lineage of Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Going On.”
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In Hannelore Baron’s Art, a Voice of Defiant Hope and Survival
Can art born of unspeakable horrors express something other than the soul-scarring pain and trauma that forever mark its creator?
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Myth, Flesh, and Three Paintings by Charles Garabedian
There is a small exhibition in memory of Charles Garabedian (1923 - 2016) currently at Sidecar, the adjoining annex space of Betty Cuningham Gallery on the Lower East Side.
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A Claymation Moonscape Covered in Ruins
Animated by Meghan Tryon, psych-rock band Wand's new "Passage of the Dream" video fuses claymation with line drawings and paper cutouts in a densely detailed fantasy narrative.
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Watch This 'Ding Dong' Clock a Museum Timepiece
Enough is enough — when will museum visitors learn to NOT TOUCH THE ART??!
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A Flock of Rotary Phones Chirps and Purrs in a Brooklyn Basement
The phones are ringing off the hook in the basement of IDIO Gallery, and no one is answering them.
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In LA, Fear of Gentrification Greets New Nonprofit Art Space
LOS ANGELES — Art and gentrification have a long and complicated relationship.
In Brief
King Tut's Dagger Is Actually from Outer Space
King Tut lay underground in his tomb for a few thousand years, but a dagger he kept by his side has far-out origins in outer space.
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Seymour Chwast’s Graphic Battle Against War
A 5,000-year chronicle of human violence is the goal of illustrator Seymour Chwast's new book project, which follows his almost six-decades of antiwar art.
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Reduced Expectations
It's summer.
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The Conflict Around Diversity at the American Alliance of Museums
This year's AAM (American Alliance of Museums) conference, organized under the theme “Power, Influence, and Responsibility,” made a significant effort to meaningfully engage with issues of diversity and the inclusion of historically underrepresented populations.
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The Pleasures and Risks of Ahistorical Curating
PARIS — In Carambolages, currently at the Grand Palais, we are plunged into the big, fuzzy, ahistorical world of anti-categories typical of the networked global economic order.