Emanuel Hahn’s photobook Koreatown Dreaming offers readers a personal look into the stories of a generation that often remains tight-lipped about their hardships to put on a brave face for the world.
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Sanford Biggers Cracks the Code of Quilts
Billed as a “survey of quilt-based works,” Sanford Biggers: Codeswitch feels less like an overview of one section of the artist’s oeuvre and more like a record of his creative process overall.
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A Film Asks: What Is Home?
In Nadav Assor and Tirtza Even’s film Chronicle of a Fall, on immigrant cultural workers in the US, there is no singular, stable view of anything.
Posted inFilm
The Afrofuturist Musical Romance of Neptune Frost
Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman’s new film performs a radical intervention upon the science fiction genre.
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Geometric Abstraction for a Shattered World
Gary Petersen recognizes that whatever dream of unity geometric artists once pursued is no longer possible.
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Ascending Into the Realm of Naudline Pierre’s Mystical Paintings
Encountering Pierre’s dynamic, intensely colorful oil paintings, sculptures, and works on paper is like entering a spiritually charged, alternate world.
Posted inPerformance
Circle Jerk Takes the Absurdity of Modern Existence to the Extreme
Nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, the hybrid film/theatrical production is a dense and irreverent look at the performance of queerness.
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The Ocean, a Backdrop Against Which Exploitation and Pleasure Unfold
An exhibition examines how our understanding of the natural environment has degraded both the ocean and our social systems to a perilous degree.
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The Endless Realities of Evelyn Statsinger’s Art
Statsinger has created a world that is simultaneously microscopic and macroscopic, cellular and cosmological, wherein the inexplicable and enigmatic coexist.
Posted inFilm
A Queer Asian American Twist on Pride and Prejudice
In relocating the Jane Austen classic to a contemporary vacation haven, Fire Island explores intersecting issues of race and class in the gay community.
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Art, With an Asterisk
Artists Jami Porter Lara, Erin Mickelson, and Kate Ruck put terms and conditions front and center.
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Looking Back at Vivian Browne’s Shift to Abstraction
The lively colors and patterns in Browne’s Africa painting series hint at the depth and breadth of visual stimuli that she experienced traveling to West Africa.