Film
A Grandmother’s Clutter Is Transformed into Intricate Dioramas in This Magical Realist Film
In 306 Hollywood, two sibling filmmakers open up the house in which their grandmother lived for 70 years and the sea of objects within it.
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Performance
A Fantasia of Queer Kink Channeled Through Dance
This experimental dance show has everything: astronauts, Furries, the national anthem, a pyramid of cocaine, Pope John Paul II.
Art
Detroit's Downtown Synagogue Puts Their Best Sukkah Forward
With Sukkot, the age-old Jewish celebration of life and bounty coinciding with this year’s Detroit Design Festival, the sukkahs on display in nearby Capitol Park are quite innovative and tasteful.
Art
Painter Rackstraw Downes’s Methodical Vision to Extract Poetry from the Mundane
As many artists develop visual ideas through fits of revision and reworking, the consistency in the evolution of paintings in Rackstraw Downes's current exhibition is remarkable.
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Compressing Time With David Wojnarowicz
“Time is now compressed and every painting I do... I make with the sense that it may be the last thing I do," Wojnarowicz wrote after his AIDS diagnosis in 1987.
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The Dazzling and Dooming Art of Cecilia Vicuña
The Chilean-born artist commemorates calamity while transfiguring its ruin into another tomorrow.
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Contemporary Hopi Artists’ Mural Travels From Flagstaff to Dallas, Animating Indigenous Art
A small but powerful exhibit, shows intense commitment to the power of individual artists, within the broader context of communal history.
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Looking Back at Bodys Isek Kingelez's Future Cities
By integrating the real with the imagined in his maquette of cities, Kingelez works toward a topography of unity, a world without boundaries.
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Los Angeles Resists Easy Definition in Aperture Magazine’s New Issue
The issue is as much about prevailing ideas around Los Angeles as it is about the people who lived, and continue to live, there.
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Artists Remix and Riff Off Oberlin’s Architecture
As part of FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art, artists have transformed the Oberlin College campus with sculptural reflections on architecture.
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Alison Bechdel’s Mission to Make Lesbian Culture Visible Through Comics
A new retrospective charts the graphic novelist's journey from her dysfunctional family's funeral home to being appointed Vermont's Cartoonist Laureate in 2017.
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Exquisite Scrolls that Unravel Imaginary Journeys
Anne Gilman's super-sized scrolls feel like hand-drawn maps, perhaps charting a journey through a metaphysical region.