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Guston After Trump and Before Christmas
I don’t know if laughter is the best medicine: sometimes it is the only medicine.
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I’d Prefer Not To: 'Enacting Stillness' at The 8th Floor
Overall, the work in Enacting Stillness suggests that, contrary to some of the grander claims made about art’s political efficacy, most art intervenes in the world in a more limited, but no less essential, way.
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Liberation Theology: Ragnar Kjartansson’s “God”
At one point, watching Kjartansson’s facial expression grow increasingly blissed-out and almost absent, his eyes directed heavenward, I sensed an echo of Bernini’s ecstatic St. Teresa.
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What’s Not For Sale: Hollis Heichemer’s Imminence
The thing Hollis Heichemer depicts, if we can call it a thing, seems to be visual experience itself.
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Leah Tacha: In the Zone
Leah Tacha doesn't poach styles or genres for their own sake. She has found a personal through-line in her enthusiasms that allows her to both plumb her moment and link to our collective past.
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The Life Emphatic with Valentin de Boulogne
While the name “Caravaggio” inevitably rides along in the title of the show, it is there to assert that we are moving “beyond.”
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At Home in Harlem
The inaugural exhibition at the new Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute is concerned with demonstrating how one comes to belong to a place.
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A Computer-Generated Coliseum that Will Disintegrate for 1,000 Years
Sitting in the 20-meter-ceilinged space of the Boiler Room watching this infinite building disintegrate infinitely slowly, you cannot help but feel infinitely tiny.
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The Passionate Art of LGBTQ Prisoners in the US
In this politically polarized moment, when the notion of compassion itself seems to be on trial, exhibitions like this one have become ever more urgent.
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Measuring Life by the Stars in Greco-Roman Antiquity
The Institute for the Study of the Ancient World explores widespread modes of timekeeping in the Greco-Roman world and their continued influence today.
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Stepping into an Uncanny Reconstruction of a Detroit Apartment
The real apartment could not have provided a sharper contrast to the silent, windowless, blacked-over surfaces of the dark-side doppelgänger Anders Ruhwald has created in Cleveland.
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The Appeal and Drawbacks of a Show of Video Art from Africa
An exhibition at the Wellin Museum in upstate New York brings together nine video and moving image works by seven artists born or living in Africa.