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A Jazz Documentary on a Summer's Day
The 1959 documentary Jazz on a Summer's Day, screening on August 23 at the New York Public Library, is considered one of the first music festival films.
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When Artists Carry the Burden of History
No burden as heavy, on view at David Castillo Gallery, feels like a response to history’s weight: how heavily the past’s truths and fictions weigh, how often they (for better or worse) repeat themselves.
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Mapping the Mysterious Ancient Carvings of Naked Women Across Ireland
No one can say for certain when, how, where, or why the Sheela-na-gigs were made, or even what they are meant to represent.
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Required Reading
This week we focus on race, with Kara Walker talking about art not answers, a timeline of Confederate monuments, how South Koreans dealt with a symbol of Japanese oppression, symbols of white supremacy, and more.
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Weekend Words: Resign
"The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign."
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Joshua Marsh’s Inimitable Drawings
Marsh might begin with close observation, but he ends up in a fever dream — a garden of otherworldly delights.
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The Big Leader's Morning Message
Citizens plug cords into their forearms, lie back, and await the word of the day.
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Tom Pnini’s Cinematic Études
Pnini’s films harken back to early cinema, as he compresses into five minutes what Andy Warhol dragged out for five hours.
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A Maine Painter's Private Realm of Becoming
John Walker has led a resurgence of abstract painters who look to nature, emotion, and, especially, place.
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Exploring Turkey's Political Crises Through Symbols of Byzantine Supremacy
Viron Erol Vert’s exhibition at Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien questions political, historical, and cultural paradigms and the role of power in them.
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An App that Lets Blind People Experience the Solar Eclipse
A new, free mobile app allows the blind and visually impaired to witness the eclipse through sound and touch.
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Seeking Escape in Paintings of a Childhood Home
In her exhibition at Sargent's Daughters, Brandi Twilley depicts windows as portals beyond the bleak circumstances of her family's house.