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Sara Cwynar

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Gleefully Voyeuristic, Sara Cwynar Invites Us to Spy on the Workings of Consumerism

Avatar photo by Isabel Ling August 9, 2021August 9, 2021

Amidst the frenzy of accelerated consumption and existential doom, Glass Life provides a lucid meditation on how and why we consume.

Posted inFilm

Twisting the Familiar Into Uncanny Cinematic Forms

Avatar photo by Abbey Bender November 14, 2019September 16, 2020

Surface Knowledge, the latest Flaherty NYC screening series, presents enthralling experimental documentary shorts which play with ways of seeing and experiencing the world.

Posted inArt

The Color Palette of Materialism, from Rose Gold iPhones to Millennial Pink Shopping Bags

Avatar photo by Megan N. Liberty May 1, 2017January 4, 2022

In her latest exhibition, Sara Cwynar probes our complicated relationship with image-saturated advertising.

Posted inArt

Art that Acknowledges Death Without Showing the Body

Avatar photo by Allison Meier December 28, 2015December 28, 2015

Every autumn in New York, leaves fall, grass turns brittle, and people are reminded of death.

Posted inArt

MoMA PS1’s Citywide Survey Shows New York’s Greats (and Not-so-Greats)

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton October 9, 2015October 14, 2015

Every five years MoMA and MoMA PS1 team up to take the pulse of New York City’s contemporary art scene, filling the latter institution with works made recently by artists based in the metropolitan area.

Posted inArt

Surveying Surveys of New American Sculpture and Photography

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton March 24, 2015July 10, 2015

Concurrent surveys of new American art in two specific media — New American Sculpture at FiveMyles and Under Construction – New Positions in American Photography at Pioneer Works — reinforce just how interdisciplinary their respective fields have become.

Posted inArt

An Encyclopedia of Kitsch

by Alicia Eler September 16, 2014September 20, 2014

LOS ANGELES — It took a while for me to actually sit down and stop flipping through the channels and start leafing through Sara Cwynar’s gorgeous book, The Kitsch Encyclopedia.

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