Art
In over 100 vintage photographs, Hunt’s Three Ring Circus: American Groups Before 1950 explores how individuals in the early 20th century assembled into groups, linked together by experiences as official as military service or loose as a shared appreciation for the accordion.
Art
ISTANBUL — The group exhibition sets out to investigate whether it is possible to construct a new world from within this one, beyond the constraints of political history.
Film
When you watch a film by Stephen and Timothy Quay, those twin princes of darkness, you enter a shadow world.
Art
WASHINGTON, DC — ’Tis the season to celebrate, and the Washington Project for the Arts has much to toast.
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Painter Margaret Bowland is wrestling with the difficult, unwieldy affairs of human social interaction: economic power, police power, physical power, that ability to influence that is inescapable.
Music
We are too distracted, too stressed out to listen to music properly. That’s the idea behind Goldberg, the music concert/installation/participatory performance art piece currently at the Park Avenue Armory.
Art
Rare examples of John Singer Sargent's printmaking are on temporary view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, demonstrating his interest in the expressive shapes of the human body and lithography's potential to show these figures in darkness and light.
Art
In Both Sides of the Mirror, a show of video pieces and photographs at C33 Gallery, Marlo Koch presents the results of exposing herself to the world of mainly-male desire in ways that are amused, satirical, and ultimately tenderhearted.
Art
CHICAGO — Quickly darting up a cement cast of artist Jack Schneider’s left arm, Cthulhu, a brightly colored mantis shrimp, snatches a clam before retreating below a rock in a 75-gallon, acrylic tank.
Art
Someday the ascendant computers — having beaten us at chess, Jeopardy!, and giving directions — may share with the withering human spirit, numbed and narcotized by those same flickering screens, a moment of hideously dreamy half-consciousness.
Art
Two Chelsea galleries are simultaneously hosting the same audience-activated Yoko Ono pieces, with collaborative mending of shattered ceramic, sketching of an infinite line, and contemplating river rocks.
Art
Despite Hollis Frampton’s prolific career as a filmmaker, educator, and essayist, and his position as a mainstay of the avant-garde film movement, he is only now having his first solo exhibition in New York City.