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Leah Tacha: In the Zone
Leah Tacha doesn't poach styles or genres for their own sake. She has found a personal through-line in her enthusiasms that allows her to both plumb her moment and link to our collective past.
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The Life Emphatic with Valentin de Boulogne
While the name “Caravaggio” inevitably rides along in the title of the show, it is there to assert that we are moving “beyond.”
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At Home in Harlem
The inaugural exhibition at the new Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute is concerned with demonstrating how one comes to belong to a place.
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A Computer-Generated Coliseum that Will Disintegrate for 1,000 Years
Sitting in the 20-meter-ceilinged space of the Boiler Room watching this infinite building disintegrate infinitely slowly, you cannot help but feel infinitely tiny.
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The Passionate Art of LGBTQ Prisoners in the US
In this politically polarized moment, when the notion of compassion itself seems to be on trial, exhibitions like this one have become ever more urgent.
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Measuring Life by the Stars in Greco-Roman Antiquity
The Institute for the Study of the Ancient World explores widespread modes of timekeeping in the Greco-Roman world and their continued influence today.
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Stepping into an Uncanny Reconstruction of a Detroit Apartment
The real apartment could not have provided a sharper contrast to the silent, windowless, blacked-over surfaces of the dark-side doppelgänger Anders Ruhwald has created in Cleveland.
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The Appeal and Drawbacks of a Show of Video Art from Africa
An exhibition at the Wellin Museum in upstate New York brings together nine video and moving image works by seven artists born or living in Africa.
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In a Show of African Portrait Photography, the Figure Fades Away
The exhibition looks beyond the horizon of defining an African identity, beyond the notion of authentically representing what this identity is supposed to be, as both local and foreign photographers have sought to do.
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Lorraine O'Grady Stars in a New Music Video by Anohni
"Marrow" consists simply of O'Grady lip-synching to Anohni's three-minute song of the same title against a black background.
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A Tech Collective Sets Up a Sleek Boutique — to Help Visitors Elude Big Data
From the street, The Glass Room may look like another boutique, but inside is an exhibit that makes visible the implications of corporate and government data collection.
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Hybrid Objects for a Binary World
In ektor garcia's exhibition in Mexico City, sculptural assemblages that evoke altars, everyday tools, and sex toys blur conventional distinctions between types of artifacts.