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Sexual and Playful Inflatable Bodies
PHILADELPHIA — Nancy Davidson’s sculptures have a bombastic quality, like an overbearing, gaudily dressed aunt who has just arrived late to a family gathering.
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An Evening of Modern Dance in Need of an Authority Figure
I received an invitation to attend a show titled “Authority Figure,” subtitled: “An immersive choreography exploring our relationships to surveillance, big data, and policing as it mingles with our psychology.”
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Moyra Davey Channels the Ghost of Derek Jarman
7 Albums is elliptical; it is poetic. The show works as an additive — but one that’s both nuanced and gentle.
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A Half-Documentary, Half-Fantasy Telling of the Caribbean’s Colonial Past
MIAMI — There is a dizzying effect in Beatriz Santiago Muñoz’s short film “Otro usos (Other Uses).”
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Revisiting the First American Folk Art Museum, Founded by a Modernist Sculptor
The rough finishes and loose poses of Elie Nadelman's sculptures of circus performers, pianists, and dancers were influenced by his incredible collection of folk art.
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For a World Losing Its Head, an Artist Proffers Shamanism as a Solution
The terror incited by the sight of heads rolling down the plank of a guillotine one after another is difficult to conjure in the 21st century.
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Recording the Stories of Marginalized Students
TUCSON, Ariz. — Underrepresentation of marginalized and minority communities in society is nothing new; neither is it in the art world.
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The Self-Taught Artist Who Casts Cardboard "Actors" in All His Films
NANTES, France — Benjamin Franklin’s maxim that “you can do anything you set your mind to” could not ring truer for the French self-taught filmmaker and artist Guy Brunet.
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The Ambiguity of Films Left Unfinished
An unfinished film can be any number of things.
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The Visual Indulgences of Furniture Made from Scraps
Stepping into Jessi Reaves's show at Bridget Donahue gallery, I was at once slightly thrown by the sense of having entered a showroom display.
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Yale's Center for British Art Reopens Its Historic Louis Kahn Building
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — At last week's reopening of the Yale Center for British Art, Matthew Hargraves, chief curator of art collections, called its Long Gallery "one of the great undiscovered spaces of the 20th century."
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Resurrecting the First VR Installation to Cross the Atlantic
HONG KONG — Maurice Benayoun’s new show at the Osage Gallery in Hong Kong, Just Dig It, consists of five latticed, skeletal metal sculptures capped by circular projector screens showing various 2D projections.