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Watch All the Year's Best Documentaries in One Place
The online edition of DOC NYC presents the highlights of 2020's nonfiction cinema.
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Sophia Narrett Traces Her Embroideries to “Playing With Dolls”
By creating “a space of play,” Narrett says, “you can reach some sort of truth within yourself or with the other person.”
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Welcome to the Empty Gallery That Speaks Volumes
Mike Zahn gives us an image of Shrine’s empty gallery projected in the empty space, offering a commentary both meta and melancholic.
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Required Reading
This week, visiting Trump State Park, human zoos, toxic individualism, science of Baby Yoda, and more.
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Cathartic Art for Precarious Times
Fred Tomaselli’s incorporation of printed news in his paintings long before the pandemic now seems downright prescient.
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Monumental Art No Bigger Than a Postcard
Toying with blob-like shapes and the illusion of depth, the Austrian self-taught artist Leopold Strobl packs mystery and expressive power into small-scale drawing-collages.
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Theaster Gates and the Shapes of Black History
Gates reminds us of the many hidden, unacknowledged, and under-recognized histories of Black culture in America.
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A Haunting Installation Reexamines the Ideals of Spanish Modernist Architecture
Rather than celebrating the Francoist Hexagon Pavilion, Alvaro Urbano asks whether the lingering ghosts of the dictatorship are simply decaying or actively festering.
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The Beautiful Ofrendas That Blossomed on Day of the Dead
Multimedia journalist Lexis-Olivier Ray drove around on Election Day and the day after, documenting ofrendas and memorials on 35mm film, while reflecting on a difficult year.
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Etel Adnan Reflects on Aging With Gentle Hues
A sense of longing pervades Seasons, which opened at Galerie Lelong just as New York City reached peak autumn foliage.
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The Dire Need for a Decentralized News Media
Moving toward smaller-scale organizations would help engage younger audiences left out by the companies that preside over 90% of what’s on-air and online.
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Stirring Video Art Questions the Notion of “Freedom”
Borders of Freedoms / Contornos de Libertad presents video work by six artists living in El Salvador and its diaspora.