Mindiashvili’s installations strike a teasing balance between disclosure and concealment.
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A History of Holocaust Denial Comes Under Scrutiny in The Evidence Room
The Hirshhorn Museum exhibition, filled with reproductions and plaster casts of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, works through the wounds and scars of a gruesome history.
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Surreal Glimpses of the Absurd Labor of Global Capitalism
Mika Rottenberg explores capitalist banality through video and installations centering international labor’s “invisible people,” using grotesque renderings of dystopian kitsch.
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An Artist Mends Cracks in the Sidewalk with Gold
Inspired by the Japanese practice of ceramic repair, artist Rachel Sussman mends cracks in our urban environment with gold as part of her Sidewalk Kintsukuroi series.
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Among Intimates at New York’s Queer Experimental Film Festival
When I arrived early on opening night of this year’s MIX NYC festival at a former manufacturing space in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, I heard a rumor that there used to be a panty factory there.
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Bringing a Constellation Down to Earth at a Ruined Castle on the Hudson
For the next two years, a constellation built by human hands over the ruins of a Hudson River castle is mingling with the stars.
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Turning a Beloved Novel into Art (Prospect 2 Spotlight)
NEW ORLEANS — Of all the stories about New Orleans, John Kennedy Toole’s A Confederacy of Dunces is one of the most universally beloved. So an artist who attempts to engage it in a different medium has their work cut out for them from the get-go: anyone who’s read Toole’s posthumously published comedic opus already has their own idea of how Ignatius J. Reilly and his world should be brought to life.
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Sophie Calle Brings Her Baggage to New Orleans (Prospect 2 Spotlight)
Sophie Calle moves into New Orleans’ 1850 House for her Prospect 2 installation and brings dozens of objects and stories with her — with mixed results.
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Anthony Goicolea’s Slowly Approaching Apocalypse
The vibe of Anthony Goicolea’s first traveling museum solo show is a slow melancholy. Looking at the photos, videos, paintings and installation in Alter-Ego: A Decade of Work by Anthony Goicolea at the Telfair Museum in Savannah, Georgia made me sink slowly into thoughts of living with apocalypse. Goicolea’s work envisions apocalypse not as an abrupt event followed by an aftermath, but as a slow and definitive ruin that continues throughout life.
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This Is Jersey City Part II, A Closer Look at the Gallery Scene
There is something anomalous about running an art gallery in Jersey City. This is a land of discount liquor stores, nail salons, Chinese take-out restaurants and check-cashing joints.
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New Orleans and the Summer of Swoon
There’s more compelling art being produced in the Crescent City these days than at any point in its history. And there may be no better place to start looking at it this summer than the Great Hall of the New Orleans Museum of Art.