For all its bluntness, Exterminate All the Brutes never once utters the words “rape” or “capitalism.”
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Contending With Urgent Questions About Art and Feminisms in Buenos Aires
Cuando Cambia el Mundo (When the World Changes) invites audiences to deconstruct their own biases.
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Terry Winters’s Allegiance to Science and Abstraction
Winters’s art is about decisions, choices, quality of attention, the shaping of one’s existence in time.
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Yikui (Coy) Gu’s Tour of the US
There is nothing subtle about Gu’s work: it is in your face because the racism he encounters is always there.
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Sanya Kantarovsky’s Truth-Bearing Fantasy
Kantarovsky’s paintings unveil reality as a fabrication whose true form is instability and transience.
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A Flawed Retrospective for a Surrealist Rebel
There is so much information handed to us in the exhibition, Eileen Agar: Angel of Anarchy that we risk forgetting what we might think if we came fresh to a painting.
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Alex Caldiero, Outsider and Naysayer
Caldiero’s language experiments are rooted in the land and anchored in his body, at the junction between his brain and his larynx.
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Art, Branding, and the Illusion of Authenticity
Emily Segal’s novel provides a wickedly sharp depiction of the socioeconomic and cultural conditions of New York’s creative community.
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A ’70s PSA Depicts Life for the Elderly as a Funhouse Nightmare
The Lutheran Society had no idea what they were in for when they had zombie movie icon George Romero direct The Amusement Park, long lost but now restored.
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A First-Person Interrogation of a Family’s Guilt-Ridden Past
A combination video essay and road movie, Angelo Madsen Minax’s documentary North By Current understands life upheavals as rites of passage.
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Michael Richards’s Visionary Sculptures Mourn Dreams Deferred
A sense of poetic justice prevails throughout the artist’s first museum retrospective at MOCA North Miami.
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With Astonishing Tapestries, Erin M. Riley Claims Space for Healing
Riley’s work positions front and center everyday images of women’s lived experiences, unapologetically centering traumas often swept out of sight.