This week, learn about the under-sung women of the Arte Povera movement with a new spring lecture ser
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This week, learn about the under-sung women of the Arte Povera movement with a new spring lecture series from Magazzino Italian Art.
Around town, Daniella Brito peruses De Lo Mío, an intriguing if occasionally paradoxical exhibition of contemporary Dominican art. As Brito writes, the works on view “[usher] viewers into a steamy, and ultimately unforgiving climate.”
And don’t miss David Rothenberg’s nostalgic portraits of Queens commuters. Shot pre-pandemic, they’ve become a time capsule we didn’t know we needed.
—Dessane Lopez Cassell, Editor, Reviews
Art Around Town
In "De Lo Mío," Artists Push and Pull at the Seams of Dominican Collective Memory
In "De Lo Mío," Artists Push and Pull at the Seams of Dominican Collective Memory
Themes of tourism, migration, and national identity inform the exhibition’s formidable and, at times, paradoxical quest to a shared homeland.
Daniella Brito
“They Feel Like a Time Capsule”: Portraits of New York Commuters, Pre-Pandemic
“They Feel Like a Time Capsule”: Portraits of New York Commuters, Pre-Pandemic
David Rothenberg photographed passersby between 2019 and March 2020 at a subway station in Jackson Heights, Queens.
Lauren Moya Ford
Dona Nelson Stands Alone
Dona Nelson Stands Alone
The dizzying effect of Nelson’s two-sided paintings brings to mind the sensory overload of living in a city.
John Yau
Hugh Steers Melds Queerness and the Devotional
Hugh Steers Melds Queerness and the Devotional
Working amid the AIDS crisis, Hugh Steers’s paintings exude a graceful, figurative style that went under-recognized during his brief lifetime.
Ksenia M. Soboleva
An Ode to the Year That Will Live on in Infamy
An Ode to the Year That Will Live on in Infamy
The Twenty Twenty exhibition at the Aldrich uses using hand drawing to record and describe the cascade of catastrophes that made 2020 feel like an entire decade.
Seph Rodney
Lured by Two Contemporary Masters
Lured by Two Contemporary Masters
Long after I left Robert Grosvenor and David Novros at Paula Cooper, certain works floated up in my memory, calling me to return.
John Yau
Events to Check Out
Learn About the Under-Sung Women of Arte Povera in a New Lecture Series
Learn About the Under-Sung Women of Arte Povera in a New Lecture Series
“I hope that through the series, a different picture might emerge of a movement,” explains curator Teresa Kittler.
Dessane Lopez Cassell
ICYMI
Godzilla Withdraws From Museum of Chinese in America Retrospective, Citing “Complicity” in NYC Jails
Godzilla Withdraws From Museum of Chinese in America Retrospective, Citing “Complicity” in NYC Jails
The artist collective accused the Museum of Chinese in America of benefiting from mass incarceration.
Hakim Bishara
Closing Soon
Ming Smith, "America seen through Stars and Stripes, New York City, New York" (printed ca. 1976), gelatin silver print, sheet (image courtesy Virginia Museum of Fine Arts; © Ming Smith)
Ming Smith, "America seen through Stars and Stripes, New York City, New York" (printed ca. 1976), gelatin silver print, sheet (image courtesy Virginia Museum of Fine Arts; © Ming Smith)
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