For almost three decades, Alan Michelson has attended to place, histories, and futures, and the lived realities of Indigenous peoples in North America.
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Lutz Bacher’s Elliptical Cosmologies
Her posthumous exhibition Aye! makes space for gaps in understanding and sonic vibrations to cultivate cosmic wonder.
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Sexual Liberation From Pasolini to Bruce LaBruce
LaBruce’s The Visitor shows that physical desire can lead the way to something more as his characters redefine themselves in new, potentially radical ways.
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Mona Hatoum’s Videos Make a Presence From Absence
Hatoum’s early videos confront viewers with the body of the artist as a synecdoche for the collective trauma experienced by the dispossessed
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The Horror and Banality of American Racism
Christy Chan’s Who’s Coming to Save You? makes clear the perpetual nature of American bigotry.
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A Photography and Video Triennial Is Coming to NYC in 2023
The Museum of the City of New York is inviting artists from NYC and beyond to submit to an open call for works.
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Arthur Jafa’s Medley of Joy Everlasting Versus Hell on Earth
The video installation akingdoncomethas is an epic montage of sermons and performances from Black churches.
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Ulysses Jenkins, a Daring Video Artist, Expanded Ideas of Blackness
Jenkins’s videos do more than talk back to a racist screen.
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The Edgy and Lucid Video Art of Rafael França
Video art was something you watched “with the lights on,” as França insisted, without pretenses of high art.
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In Neelon Crawford’s “Moving Paintings,” the Natural and Manmade Face Off
MoMA’s exhibition Neelon Crawford: Filmmaker is a retrospective of his experimental work documenting machinery, travels in South America, and more.
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For Shigeko Kubota, Video Lived in the Moment of Its Transmission
The Museum of Modern Art’s retrospective exhibition Liquid Reality showcases how Kubota turned video art into sculpture.
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Shimon Attie Resurrects “Hitler on Ice” With Afro-Brazilian Dance
The intention behind the seemingly bizarre combination was, according to Attie, “to give visual form to the shared American and Brazilian reality of nationalistic divisions that defines our political present.”
