Art
Janine Antoni Traces the Passage of Time in a Cemetery's Catacombs
The artist’s new commission leaves much to contemplate simultaneously — mortality, desire, and the ways in which absence and longing are such a fundamental part of life.
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Week in Review: Marciano Art Foundation Closes After Union Effort, Dread Scott Stages Slave Rebellion Reenactment
Also, Nigeria's first entry into the Academy Awards was disqualified for containing too much English dialogue, goats helped save the Reagan Library from wildfire, and more.
Performance
Engaging With the Lives of Teen Immigrants in an Interactive Play
The experimental play Manmade Earth, a co-presentation of FIAF’s Crossing the Line festival and The Invisible Dog Art Center, demanded that its audience listen to the experiences and anxieties of adolescents from around the world.
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Rembrandt van Rijn Etching Sells for Over $80,000 at Swann Galleries Sale
Plus, the iconic black outfit worn by Olivia Newton-John in the film Grease has sold, along with a $4 million painting by Édouard Manet.
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Marciano Art Foundation Abruptly Closes in Wake of Unionization Effort
Citing low attendance, the Marciano Art Foundation in Los Angeles announced its decision to close indefinitely. The closure came just days after 60 employees publicly announced intentions to unionize.
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Iraqi Artists Face Travel Obstacles to Visit Gulf Wars Exhibition at MoMA PS1
Some of the artists participating in the exhibition were denied travel visas to the US, while others had no chance of attending the exhibition's opening because of Trump's travel ban or their asylum status in other countries.
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Aspiring Filmmakers Can Now Access Sundance Institute's Expansive Resources Online
Sundance Co//ab will offer educational videos, webinars, and forums.
Art
Maren Hassinger Reminds Us That Equality Is For Everyone
The power of her work comes from its suggestion that specificity and universality, when it comes to identity and experience, are not mutually exclusive concepts, but often exist side by side.
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Dread Scott's "Slave Rebellion" Promises an Empowering Take on the Historical Reenactment Trope
In 1811, hundreds of enslaved people marched through Louisiana chanting “freedom or death.” While their oft-forgotten journey ended in massacre, artist Dread Scott spent six years organizing a reenactment to celebrate the legacy of their courage, to be staged November 8-9.
Film
The Labor Rights Film That Got Both of Its Directors Murdered by the Yakuza
A special screening tour of Yama — Attack to Attack offers a chance to see this extremely rare Japanese film, which was intended to be used in perpetuity to agitate on behalf of the working class.
Art
Why an Installation About Police Killings in Pakistan Faced State Censorship
Adeela Suleman’s documentary and installation, The Killing Fields of Karachi, considered the human impact of extrajudicial police killings, focusing on the father of one victim.