Art
Cycling Through Fischli and Weiss’s Impish World
Fischli and Weiss's sprawling retrospective creates a viewing experience that is funny, frustrating, belabored, and, ultimately, I think, productively unsettling.
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Performance
An Opera of Love Songs to Science
"Maybe there’s a physicist sitting right beside you, who can explain this better than we do, but we're in the business of art, so we’ll make a metaphor," sings Hai-Ting Chinn in Science Fair: An Opera With Experiments.
Art
In a Game, Foraging for Mushrooms with a Grandmother Who Listens
Lieve Oma is a game in which you hunt for mushrooms with your grandmother beneath trees saturated with autumnal colors. It's also about how a simple conversation can indicate so much more about a relationship, where the words unsaid echo as much as those spoken aloud.
Art
The Aesthetics of Paperwork and Cultural Theory According to Seth Siegelaub
AMSTERDAM — All of Siegelaub’s many practices can be found to revolve around one proposal: The way culture is communicated is symptomatic of the way it is produced.
Art
Photography Acts as a Weapon in a Game About the Iranian Revolution
In 1979 Revolution: Black Friday, the streets of Tehran are combustive, resistance smoldering from tensely linked groups that share a dissatisfaction with the Shah.
Art
The Pointless and Foolish in Endearing Films About Childhood and Old Age
These days, conversations about Brazil may include expressions such as “economic crisis,” “bribery,” “coup,” or “impeachment.”
Art
Detroit’s Cultural Icons Captured with Time-Lapse Scanning
DETROIT — After many decades at virtual standstill, Detroit has been quickly met with change, bringing with it new opportunities as well as growing pains.
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Painting Artforum, Cover to Cover
DENVER — With each passing decade, the images and advertisements in the monthly art magazine Artforum slowly shifted from black and white to color.
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Lee Miller’s Photographs Frame the Women of World War II
LONDON — A Lee Miller photograph often tells more than one story.
Art
The Natural Geometries of Ellsworth Kelly’s Photographs
Any exhibition of Ellsworth Kelly’s art is a bittersweet event following the artist’s recent death, a postmortem reflection on a masterful legacy.
Art
An Emotional Retrospective for Hilton Als
On March 2 the Artist’s Institute launched its latest season with an exhibition devised, curated, and installed by the writer and critic Hilton Als, an exhibition the institute describes as an “emotional retrospective.”
Art
Seeing Digitally Manipulated Landscapes Out in the “Wild"
One does not often associate a walk in the park with experiencing contemporary art presented on security fences by way of large mesh tarps. But that’s just what you’ll find at Natural Disruptions.