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The Radical, Gender-Bending Photographs of Ulrike Ottinger
In the German artist and filmmaker's work from the '70s and '80s, Glinda the Good Witch becomes a bearded queen in a shopping mall, and that's just the beginning.
Bridget Donahue
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The Poetry of Eileen Myles’s Intimate, Imperfect Instagram Photos
Myles’s photographs don’t feel precious at all, though there is something relentlessly intimate in their flat-footed irreverence.
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Paintings that Are Like Whispers and Secrets
“Visual poetry” is a phrase that gets thrown around quite a lot these days. Poetry has its own complexities, as captured by Monique Mouton’s subtle work.
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A Day of Healing Through Mending Clothes
Bring your discarded sewing, or the sewing you never started, or the sewing you wish you knew how to do, for a day of personal and community mending.
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A Painter's Fantasies Rendered as Cartoonish Dramas
Satoshi Kojima’s paintings don’t examine human relationships — they fondle them like a bear fondles picnic food.
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16 Manhattan Galleries Host 36 Out-of-Town Art Spaces
Condo New York is a sprawling, collaborative omnibus exhibition spanning spaces in Chelsea, the Lower East Side, and Tribeca.
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The Visual Indulgences of Furniture Made from Scraps
Stepping into Jessi Reaves's show at Bridget Donahue gallery, I was at once slightly thrown by the sense of having entered a showroom display.
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A Painter's Progress: Monique Mouton’s Rough Edges
Deceptively casual and casually deceptive, Monique Mouton’s abstract paintings at Bridget Donahue on the Lower East Side are simple statements wrought from a density of decision-making, starting with the often irregular shape she chooses as a surface.