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I’ve been obsessed with doppelgangers for as long as I can remember, so I’m pleased to see that fixation reflected in some of the writers in this week’s newsletter. There’s Ron Norsworthy’s preoccupation with Narcissus, who famously fell in love with his own reflection, which Damien Davis teases out beautifully in his interview; there’s Carmelita Tropicana, the better-known alter-ego of Alina Troyano, whose performance at Soho Rep is reviewed by Alexis Clements. Maybe there’s something in the air, a sensitivity to the surreal induced by weather that fluctuates unnervingly between freezing and suspiciously nice. I’m particularly struck by Clements’s description of the lead-up to visiting Tropicana’s performance. It was the day the election was called, and she was understandably skeptical of platitudes about art being able to save us. I don’t know that she felt saved that day, but I do know that she took her seat in the second row, and opened herself up to that experience. When that kind of threshold opens up for you, I think you walk through. Salvation, or even something much less grand as reward, isn’t always a given — but we live on the chance, don’t we?
— Lisa Yin Zhang, Associate Editor
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Norsworthy and I sat down to discuss his recent works, which wield the Ancient Greek myth of Narcissus to examine the power of beauty, who defines it, and how we can reclaim it. | Damien Davis
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FROM OUR CRITICS
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Give Me Carmelita Tropicana! at Soho Rep
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“The sets change with the drawing of a curtain or the spin of a piece of scenery: We move from a bland office to a photographic facsimile of Troyano’s apartment to a neon cavern made of cardboard to a nightclub somewhere in a mirage of Cuba — and at one point we find ourselves nowhere at all, listening…”
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CLOSING SOON
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WHAT ELSE IS HAPPENING?
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Cattelan’s duct-taped banana artwork just sold at Sotheby’s for $6.2 million. That didn’t sit well with Senior Editor Hakim Bishara.
We are hosting an exclusive holiday event for Friend-level members at the Gochman Family Collection with artist-in-residence Rachel Martin and Jeremy Dennis on Wednesday, Dec. 12. Become a member here.
Brooklyn Navy Yard is seeking public art proposals for a large-scale public art installation along Flushing Avenue in mid-2025.
This Friday Nov. 29 through Sat. Nov. 30, Brooklyn-based Pamenar Press hosts a 24-hour reading in expression and solidarity with Palestine and Lebanon [youtube.com]
This Saturday, Nov. 30, Malene Barnett, author of Crafted Kinship will be at peace & RIOT for a gathering. [eventbrite.com]
Next Monday, Dec. 2, Lynne Tillman will be previewing new work-in-progress and Robert Reid-Pharr will be reading at Performance Space New York. [instagram.com]
It’s Thanksgiving weekend — a perfect time to take a breather from the constant running around and think about what we’re grateful for.
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