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Inside Brooklyn’s Very Own Immersive “Clown Cult”
The bi-monthly variety show gathers both newcomers and veterans of the craft to help participants discover “the power in cringe.”
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Xingzi Gu’s Dreamlike Portraits of Youth
The tension between moments of quiet joy and inevitable calamity in Gu's ethereal portraits is riveting.
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It’s Time for Chryssa’s Neon Art to Shine
Chryssa, it turns out, did everything that the famous Pop and New Media artists did, simultaneously or, in some instances, first.
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Hugh Hayden Should Cut the Crap
The artist’s latest show belongs in the toilet — and that’s exactly where he put it.
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What’s Up With Those Park Avenue Sculptures of Men Missing Body Parts?
Bruno Catalano’s bronze figures are a devastatingly hyper-literal and heavy-handed interpretation of loss.
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A Close Look at Caravaggio’s Last Painting
Just two paintings are in The Last Caravaggio, both in perplexed mourning over their subject matter, and both emerging from dark places.
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Healing Japanese Art for the End Times
A show of Japanese art at The Met suggests that things might not work out for us in our own end times, but it’s worth trying.
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Unearthing the Land’s Buried Stories at the Venice Biennale
Artists at the Irish, Hãhãwpuá, Portuguese, and Dutch pavilions are exploring notions of land and rematriation — often by bringing soil itself into the gallery space.
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Of Monkeys and Men
Michaël Borremans’s paintings seem to display a pitiless, if not forbidding, irony, almost studiedly cruel in their level of dispassion.
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Abigail Dudley’s Paintings of the Observed and Imagined
I can think of no other painter who can so effectively pull the viewer into a space where clarity and puzzlement cannot be separated.
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Required Reading
This week: the link between American homophobia and Filipino nurses, super-romantic German boyfriends, personal freedoms rated in The House of Dragons, and much more.
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Six Art-World Cool Kids Take Over Abandoned High School in Upstate NY
At The Campus, pairings of works by over 80 artists yield unexpected dialogues in classrooms, hallways, a gym, and even a science lab.