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Surreal Glimpses of the Absurd Labor of Global Capitalism
Mika Rottenberg explores capitalist banality through video and installations centering international labor's "invisible people," using grotesque renderings of dystopian kitsch.
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The World’s Largest Indie Video Game Festival Is Still Taking Risks
Events like IndieCade offer new ways for the medium to expand creatively.
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When Barriers Between Performance and Art Didn’t Exist
MoMA's latest exhibition on the Judson Dance Theater feels like a long overdue thesis on how to correctly present performance within a museum.
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Once Forgotten, the Work of an Illustrious Princess Painter Returns to Istanbul
A look at the work of the royal Fahrelnissa Zeid, a story overshadowed by tragedy and rootlessness.
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Photographers Examine What It Means to Be English in Europe Today
This year's Brighton Photo Biennial searches for a "new Europe," while expressing sympathy for migrants.
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Nina Chanel Abney’s Intricately Dense and Critically Clear Painting
The Chicago-born artist's work is as entrenched in political discourse as it is in pop culture.
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A Show on Conspiracies Fails to Differentiate Fact from Opinion
Conspiracy theories have gone mainstream in 2018, but the Met Breuer's exhibition downplays the political importance and danger of their existence.
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Malcolm Morley's Paintings Render the Regalia of War
Morley engaged the monster of warfare by making it unreal, posing knights like children’s toys.
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Self-Portraits in a Vanished World
Segedin’s is an art of self-examination that opens out onto a real, lived, and, in many ways, vanished world.
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The Graphite Hallucinations of Gray Foy
Through his subtle, intermittent anthropomorphizing of natural forms everything in Foy's meticulous drawings begins to border on the apparitional.
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Eddie Owens Martin's Transformation into an Outsider Saint
Appreciating Martin’s sense of identity as constantly shifting is central to understanding his art.
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Suellen Rocca Turns an Inward Eye
Rocca's drawings evidence an interior gaze and the working out of psychological states.