The artist’s playful paintings of medieval women saints fighting monsters and dragons have a Jewish angle.
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Brooklyn’s A.I.R Gallery to Launch Its First Feminist and Queer Art Book Fair
The veteran feminist, artist-run nonprofit will offer a selection of books by publishers that prioritize feminist and queer histories.
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Revisiting a Seminal Exhibition on “Third World” Feminist Art at A.I.R. Gallery
Dialectics of Entanglement: Do We Exist Together? revisits A.I.R.’s 1980 exhibition Dialectics of Isolation, important for its promotion of women artists of color at a time when the New York art world was painfully exclusive and discriminatory.
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Reflecting on a Family Tragedy, an Artist Looks at Aleppo
An interview with artist Christine Gedeon about her current exhibition explores her personal history in Aleppo and a particularly painful family story.
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Best of 2016: Our Top 15 Brooklyn Art Shows
We could never leave Brooklyn and still miss a slew of shows in our home borough. From outdoor art along the waterfront to group shows in Bushwick and ambitious political projects at Dumbo nonprofits, there was no shortage of great work in Brooklyn in 2016.
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An “Act of Love”: Knitted Portraits of Feminist Artists and Their Work
Kate Just, an American-born Australia-based artist, has long been committed to making feminist work that examines the human body experience.
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A Black American Artist Explores Her Refusal of Christianity
“Direct Downward Cut at the Head; Overhand Knife Thrust”; “and where the blood ran fastest, there he whipped”; “To them God has appeared as a Negro”; “syntactical slips and breaks” — these are a sample of the bits of text affixed to the walls in Kameelah Janan Rasheed’s On Refusal.
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DUMBO Brooklyn Galleries Open New Ground Floor Spaces
Five galleries in the vibrant Brooklyn neighborhood of DUMBO will open brand new, expanded ground floor spaces this spring/summer.
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Traces of Human Civilization, Cast from Styrofoam Packaging
The exhibition in the back room of A.I.R. Gallery’s new space in Dumbo feels like a cross between a temple and an archaeological site.
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Real Estate Company Will Relocate Galleries in Brooklyn’s Dumbo Neighborhood
The lion’s share of the art galleries in Brooklyn’s Dumbo neighborhood, long housed along a hallway on the second floor of 111 Front Street, will move this spring.
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In Pursuit of the Glittering Point
The title of Shanti Grumbine’s current exhibition at A.I.R. Gallery, The Glittering Point, comes from the phrase “glittering generalities,” which, according to the artist, became popular in the mid-nineteenth century. The term describes propaganda that champions vagueness to evoke positive feelings rather than actually communicating information. Grumbine begins her process with this phrase in mind, as she collects startling imagery of war, scintillating images of luxury items, and both iconic and candid political campaign photos from the New York Times.
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Queer Art Grows in Brooklyn
Queer arts have been gaining momentum and paying healthy homage to history as they take root in Brooklyn. On the heels of an eventful December with World AIDS Day events throughout the city, Illegitimate And Herstorical opened at A.I.R. Gallery on January 5. Curated by Emily Roysdon (a collaborator with MEN and a founder of “feminist genderqueer” artist collective LTTR), Illegitimate And Herstorical is one of the strongest group shows culled from open-call submissions that I’ve seen of late.
