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Aubrey Levinthal Chronicles the Estrangement in Everyday Encounters

Finding her subject matter in ordinary, everyday encounters, Levinthal hints at a subject’s interiority and to the way strangers are separated from each other. | John Yau

Her use of color and her sense of scale are in service of her subject matter, which explores passing moments and the different unvoiced feelings, such as tenderness, that are stirred up when we have a transaction with a stranger.

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BAM Presents Gisèle Vienne’s Magnetic Work, CROWD

Gisèle Vienne stops time in CROWD, a hypnotic dance work that conjures up a rave. It’s “a magnetic work… consumed with love and longing,” writes The New York Times. “Vienne, 46, creates choreography that exists on another artistic plane — of vibrations, of energy, of rhythm and of timing.”

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Photo by Estelle Hanania

OPENING THIS WEEKEND

USA. Water Valley, Mississippi. 2018. These images were made in conjunction with women who are part of a Knit Club in the small town of Water Valley. From the project, “Knit Club”.

Close Enough: New Perspectives from 12 Women Photographers of Magnum
International Center of Photography, opening September 30

This exhibition of 150 works by 12 women photographers ranges from Bieke Depoorter’s documentation of a Parisian club performer to Alessandra Sanguinetti’s collaboration with two cousins in rural Argentina, Guille and Belinda.

Indisposable: Tactics for Care and Mourning
Ford Foundation Gallery, opening October 1

This exhibition comes at the heels of the gallery’s three-year, eight-part event series that examined the question of whose lives were deemed “disposable” in American society.

Ecce Homo: The Drawings of General Idea
The Drawing Center, opening October 7

General Idea was a collective guided by radical queer politics and a performative orientation. Drawings executed in the spirit of mass reproduction between 1985 and 1993 spotlight motifs like poodles, stilettos, and masks.

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Special Talk by Tauba Auerbach Talk October 9 at the Clark

Artist Tauba Auerbach shares stories from a winding path of research on nineteenth-century mathematician Giuseppe Peano and his influence on her work. Auerbach’s drawings, paintings, and sculptures are on view at the Clark Art Institute in Tauba Auerbach and Yuji Agemastu: Meander through October 16.

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