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Nathalie Djurberg and Hans Berg’s Fairytales With No Heroes
The pair tell a grand drama of depravity and degradation, sometimes enacted by official powers like Church and State, other times by rogue players.
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery
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Susan Philipsz Evokes the Holocaust Through Absence
Philipsz's haunting sound and video artworks serve as a poignant witness to the lives and artistry of victims of the Holocaust.
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A Darkly Whimsical Take on Feminine Sexuality
Nathalie Djurberg and Hans Berg’s exhibition A Pancake Moon made me reflect on my experience of freezing my eggs.
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An Artist Honors Iceland's Wild Nature from a Distance
Jónsi hasn’t just utilized natural materials but has, one senses, collaborated with them, allowing them their own innate power.
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Rivane Neuenschwander's Sensuous Reflections of a Harrowing World
Fear — so pervasive these days — has long been an important theme for Neuenschwander.
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Susan Philipsz Transforms the Gentlest of Folk Forms, the Lullaby
From Hansel and Gretel to Rosemary’s Baby, Philipsz sings these bucolic songs of dark, and often violent, undertones.
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Activist Art With a Personal Touch
Songs in the Dark offers socially engaged vignettes on issues that are of clear personal importance to their makers, some of whom are activists outside of the art world as well.
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Seeking the Soul of Iceland
It is not surprising that a music star would have an exhibition at an art gallery. What is surprising is how compelling and meaningful this show, by Sigur Rós frontman Jónsi, really is.
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Sarah Sze’s Gleaming, Ephemeral Universe
Sze’s dynamic sculptures aim to capture relationships and their gaps, the solidity of objects and their discarding.
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Dana Powell and the Pleasures of Restraint
Do not mistake small size of Powell’s paintings for modesty; she wants to draw us in, to make works that can sustain close looking.
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Tomás Saraceno's Sculptures Touch the Sky
Strapped into a harness beneath Saraceno’s inflated sculpture, we are carried aloft, peaceful and ecstatic, merging with the air.