Art
Sarah Lucas Makes Male Privilege Her Own
Filled with fried egg breasts and cucumber phalluses, Sarah Lucas's new retrospective at the New Museum illuminates her wry subversion of the patriarchal art historical canon.
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Making Room to Take In the Depth of John Akomfrah's "Vertigo Sea"
The three-channel film is a story of how humans are ultimately reductionists in our relationship to the ecology — in a world that feels like it is too much for us, we aim to cut it down to a digestible size.
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Artist Auctions a Rauschenberg Print Completely Covered in Ads
After selling each square inch for $92.59, Nikolas Bentel decided to auction off "The Erased Rauschenberg" (2018), ads and all.
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New Museum Triennial Takes a Global View of Aesthetic Resistance
Songs for Sabotage, the fourth installment of the New Museum triennial, brings together politically astute works by 30 artists and collectives from 19 countries.
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How Digital Art Reaches Parts of Cuba that Lack Internet Access
Since 2015, the artist Nestor Siré has been curating a selection of contemporary art in El Paquete Semenal, a one-terabyte collection of files transmitted person-to-person throughout Cuba every week.
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Finding Birds Among the Ruins of an Historical Archive
In Petrit Halilaj’s current exhibition at the New Museum the artist again explores matters of excavation as a means to explore issues of nationality.
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How Contemporary Artists Are Embracing the Ambiguities of Gender
What’s incredibly refreshing and exciting about Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon is that it’s a queer art show that specifically seeks a space beyond a taxonomic obsession.
Performance
A Performance About Queerness Emulates a Soap Opera
With humor and intellectual curiosity, the Dyke Division of the Two-Headed Calf's Room for Cream uses the lens of soap operas to investigate contemporary queerness.
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Meet Nayland Blake's "Fursona" at the New Museum
The artist will be dressed as their official furry avatar Gnomen, a bear-bison who can change sex and gender.
Performance
Performance Matriarch Vaginal Davis Upends Fixed Notions of Genre and Gender
The punk icon kicked off the New Museum’s performance series last Thursday in conjunction with the just-opened show Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon.
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The Passion and Pain of Carol Rama
Rama's paintings confront us with empowered female sexuality and insanity.
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Jordan Wolfson Evades the Politics of His Violent Images
At a screening of his work at the New Museum, the artist failed to acknowledge the privilege that lets him reduce violence to an aesthetic form.