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A Showcase of Strange and Striking Hairdos at MoMA PS1
The event is inspired by the Hair Wars showcase, which began in Detroit's nightclubs in the mid-1980s.
MoMA PS1
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Best of 2017: Our Top 20 NYC Art Shows
It was a powder keg of a year in visual art, with strong, politically inflected, deeply personal, and wildly inventive exhibitions that touched on the classics, courted controversy, and yielded new favorites.
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Confronting and Correcting Racist Narratives in Media and Art
Five artists and writers will take on the racist narratives that shape American culture in a day of events at MoMA PS1.
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Carolee Schneemann on Five Decades of Meat, Harnesses, and Innovation
In which Schneemann discusses rejecting academic language, reveling in flesh, how any respectable gallery needs a "token cunt," and, naturally, cats.
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Confronting Our Existential Dilemmas in a Live-Simulated Fantasy World
For Emissaries, Ian Cheng designed three self-playing video games that take place on a fictitious volcanic island.
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An Artist Examines the Rise of New European Nationalism
At MoMA PS1, Tomáš Rafa examines the rising tide of xenophobic nationalism in Europe.
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Maureen Gallace’s Uneasy Sublime
Gallace’s gorgeous paintings tap into a pervasive national anxiety, an ill-defined feeling of threat coupled with a nagging sense that a bright promise is faltering and may be already gone.
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A Performance Featuring an Anxiety-Filled Superhero at MoMA PS1
On April 9, artist Hannah Black, musician Bonaventure, and designer Ebba Fransén Waldhör will immerse viewers in the exploits of a figure named Anxietina.
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Breaking the Gender Binary with Genesis Breyer P-Orridge at MoMA PS1
In a lecture at MoMA PS1, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge will trace how their beginnings in the music scene helped them to shatter preconceived notions of gender.
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Against a Feathered Headdress: A Tale of Two Performance Festivals and Native American Voices [UPDATED]
The same day that Latifa Laâbissi donned a faux-Sioux headdress at MoMA PS1, Emily Johnson created a collaborative event that championed indigenous voices and values
Interview
“I Am an Invented Character”: A Performance Artist on Living in His Utopia
“I am back in New York. My lungs need poison air,” began Papo Colo in one of his recent emails to me.
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Cao Fei’s Fantastical Take on China’s Sociopolitical Climate
In Italo Calvino’s novel Invisible Cities, Marco Polo regales Kublai Khan with tales of his travels, musing about the strange poetry of each city and their intersections with memory and selfhood.