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Piecing Together Romare Bearden’s Life
The best part of the new documentary about the famed artist is watching people interact with his work.
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Clouds Were Once Photography’s Greatest Challenge
The Met Museum’s “Chasing Clouds” is a pleasing romp through the technical problem of capturing clouds at photography’s beginning.
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The Prior Occupants of Westbeth Are Just Beyond Reach
A little more legibility would've benefited Alison Nguyen's fragmented short film about the famed NYC artists' housing complex.
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Before AI There Was the Octopus
Helsinki-based artist Tuomas A. Laitinen gives us an intelligence with no central neurology, no fixed shape, and no interest in being legible to us.
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Cici Wu's Memory Lanterns
Her flickering, hollow, and bandaged forms trace histories embodied across generations.
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Ilana Savdie and Chaïm Soutine Shed the Skin
An exhibition pairing paintings by the two artists guides us through the chambers of our own minds and bodies.
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Bathing With the Nymphs
Olivia Zubko combines our favored legends with humankind’s most sacred pillars: beauty and bathrooms.
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This Iranian Documentary Wasn’t Meant to Begin This Way
In Mani Haghighi’s new film, an artist’s extensive archive draws the ire of the authorities.
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Tanya Merrill's Animal Instinct
After a move upstate and a newborn, Merrill’s new work responds to the world around her.
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A Little Fantasy Goes a Long Way
In this photography exhibition, works vacillate between intimacy and unknowability, like a fractured peep show.
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When the Accessibility Conveyor Belt Jams
A malfunction in Finnegan Shannon’s installation at Pioneer Works led to new insights.
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Frank Gillette’s Anthropic Blues
Elegiac, urgent, and infinitesimal, the videos and Polaroids in "Spectra Obscura" express distinct sorts of disappearance, decay, and fleeting natural phenomena.