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Art
"America" as Filmed by Directors From Outside the United States
Film at Lincoln Center's Another Country: Outsider Visions of America offers a smorgasbord of wildly disparate cinema by foreign and immigrant directors you wouldn't normally consider in the same conversation.
Art
An Unlikely Marriage of Science and Art
In the hate-convulsed worldscape of today, Heather Dewey-Hagborg proposes oxytocin as that long looked-for potion: The Love Drug.
Art
The Defiant Undercurrents of Feminine Art
While many of Julia Kuhl's paintings are funny and provocative others are more troubling, alluding to the ways women’s personal, professional, and sexual boundaries often go broadly unacknowledged.
Art
Our Love for Fetishes
Sculptor Margaret Wharton and painter Issy Wood are both open to the irrational currents flowing through our lives.
Art
In Praise of Painting's Ambiguity
The literalism of 1960s Formalism has been replaced by an insistence on the factual, which leaves little room for the imagination or for speculation.
In Brief
Man Finds Authentic Egon Schiele Drawing in New York City Thrift Store
The shopper, a part-time art handler, found a 1918 Schiele pencil drawing in a Habitat for Humanity thrift store in Queens. The finding is valued at more than $100,000.
Art
Mapping Boundaries and Free Space in Brazil
A series of maps elucidates both literal and metaphorical walls that limit equality and freedom in Brazilian society and Latin America at large.
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News
Warren Kanders Resigns From Whitney Museum Board After Months of Controversy and Protest [UPDATED]
Warren Kanders's wife, Allison, simultaneously resigned from the museum's painting and sculpture committee. The news comes after months of protests and an emerging boycott, with eight artists withdrawing from the 2019 Whitney Biennial.
Art
"Women's Work," Artfully Revisited and Redefined
The familiar expression "women's work" persists in our cultural lexicon, but five artists/activists present visions that reshape its definition in a massive and thoughtful exhibition.
Art
A Showcase of Contemporary Dominican Cinema
The 8th Dominican Film Festival is the largest showcase of Dominican filmmaking outside the Dominican Republic itself, and its films, workshops, and panels look fascinating.
Performance
Mining Robert Mapplethorpe’s Legacy, With Missteps
Though its music, and use of Mapplethorpe’s photographs and texts by Essex Hemphill and Patti Smith were impressive in their own rights, the performance Triptych (Eyes of One on Another) ultimately appeared cheap, forced, and self-congratulatory.