Art
A Trailblazing Lesbian Artist Gets Her Due
Harmony Hammond’s work can appear bewildering at first, expansive in its diametrical explorations, and sprawling in its material juxtapositions.
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Music
The Art Songs of Carly Rae Jepsen
If you’d told radio listeners in 2012 that the singer responsible for “Call Me Maybe” would in seven years be hailed as an eccentric avant-pop totem, nobody would have believed you, but here she is.
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A Painter Shows Her Resentment Through Satire
The five extraordinary paintings that comprise Alissa McKendrick's Resentment combine a revitalized figuration with a satiric sensibility.
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Confronting Art Critics With Their Own Portraits
Luca Del Baldo paints portraits of art critics and historians — often people he has never met — and then requests their response to complete the work.
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An Elegant Swansong at Brooklyn's NURTUREart
After 22 years of activity, the gallery bids goodbye with (Im)perfection, an exhibition that perfectly embodies its spirit and mission.
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A Handwoven Tapestry Invites Interpretation Between the Threads
Victoria Manganiello and Julian Goldman's "Computer 1.0" is an installation inspired by the Jacquard loom and computer programming.
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What the "Can You Pet the Dog?" Test Reveals About Modern Video Games
Across social media, various players love to test game realism. What do the limits of this realism say about the future of the medium?
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Imagining the Last Moments of Murdered Journalist Jamal Khashoggi
Abdulnasser Gharem's "The Safe" (2019) is an installation that puts its visitors inside a padded room that recalls the slain journalist's torture chamber.
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Inspired by Photos Taken by His Murdered Father, an Artist Offers an Eloquent View of Memory and Trauma
Ellis's manipulated drawings, watercolors, and photographs — based on shots taken by his father — are a window into the life of someone who experienced extreme deprivation and loss.
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An Artist Reconciles With Her Eye Condition Through Her Exacting Draftsmanship
Eye jailed eye is born out of Joeun Kim Aatchim’s struggle with strabismus, but is by no means defined by it.
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The Beauty and Spirit of Mexican Religious Icons
Miracles on the Border: Retablos of Mexican Migrants to the United States graces us with images of heavenly Mexican figures and tells stories of people crossing the border.
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Tilda Swinton Curates Photography Inspired by Virginia Woolf's Orlando
Swinton’s photography exhibition at Aperture, based on Woolf’s iconic novel, Orlando, does not challenge our imperious need to classify bodies, but is definitely one worth seeing.