How Ted Carey Rendered Queerness Through Folk Art

The late artist’s work subverts the genre’s conventions in its centering of the gay community members he knew or admired and the LGBTQ+ spaces he frequented. | Maya Pontone

FROM OUR CRITICS

Julia Curl

The Real Thing: Unpackaging Product Photography at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

“The exhibition captures the evolution of photographic depiction over time: We travel from the classic, painting-inspired format of an object seen head-on and centered in the frame to full modernist disorientation, and back again.”

Alexis Cements

Ruben Natal-San Miguel: Nature Finds a Way and Perfect Trouble: Queering Natureculture at Wave Hill Public Garden & Cultural Center

“Together, the exhibitions and artworks, as well as Wave Hill and the Bronx, cast a critical eye on our fantasy of nature as it crashes up against the realities of the world we humans have created.”

SCREENING ACROSS THE CITY

Dan Schindel

Hollywoodgate at IFC Center

“Not long after the last US forces left [Afghanistan], filmmaker Ibrahim Nash’at entered the country. In an impressive coup of access, he managed to become embedded with Taliban forces, spending a year watching them transition from insurgency back to governance. The result is the documentary Hollywoodgate (2023).”

Dan Schindel

Verbatim at Anthology Film Archives

“Verbatim, a new screening series at Anthology Film Archives, brings together over a dozen films that incorporate firsthand recordings or documentation of conversations and speeches. The films showcase how different artists have used this conceit, preserving dialogue and audio but playing with every other element. ”

WHAT ELSE IS HAPPENING?

• A new digital catalog raisonné will document the creative output of artist and New York City darling Florine Stettheimer.

• BlackStar Film Festival kicks off Thursday in Philly with a showcase of productions from Black, Brown, and Indigenous filmmakers.

• The Met Museum attracted over 5.5 million visitors last year in a major pandemic rebound.

• The Golden Foundation celebrates 12 years of artist residencies with an online auction and a benefit Upstate on August 3.