Needless to say, it’s been an exhausting few weeks. Now feels like an especially great time to curl u
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Needless to say, it’s been an exhausting few weeks. Now feels like an especially great time to curl up with some of the best documentaries of the year.
Contributor Daniel Larkin also takes a deep dive into the Metropolitan Museum’s (oddly heralded) anniversary exhibition, which “botched several opportunities to truly reckon with own history.” 
Check out other reflectionson exhibitions featuring the work of Etel AdnanTheaster Gates, and Fred Tomaselli, among others.
Staff writer Valentina Di Liscia also writes of an election day performance that honored the courageous legacy of Ona Maria Judge Staines, a woman who escaped from George and Martha Washington’s enslavement.
– Dessane Lopez Cassell, Editor, Reviews
The Met Misses the Mark
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, European Paintings Galleries; View of installers hanging paintings. Photographed in November 1928 (all images courtesy the Metropolitan Museum of Art)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, European Paintings Galleries; View of installers hanging paintings. Photographed in November 1928 (all images courtesy the Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Making the Met, the anniversary exhibition chronicling the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s first 150 years, botches several opportunities to truly reckon with own history.
Latest Reviews
Etel Adnan Reflects on Aging With Gentle Hues
Welcome to the Empty Gallery That Speaks Volumes
On Election Day, a Performance Remembers a Woman Who Fled Enslavement
Theaster Gates and the Shapes of Black History
Cathartic Art for Precarious Times
Monumental Art No Bigger Than a Postcard
A Statue of Leonard Peltier, Leader of 1970s American Indian Movement, Is Overlooking Alcatraz
Closing Soon
Michael Berryhill: Solo Exhibition at Kate Werble Gallery, through November 12
At a time when quirkiness often feels contrived, and a widespread attitude seems to all but insist that art deliver its content front and center, Michael Berryhill has developed a powerful, resistant, and important alternative. – John Yau
Adebumni Gbadebo: A Dilemma of Inheritance at Claire Oliver Gallery, through November 14
Gathering hair, indigo, and artifacts from two South Carolina plantations, Adebunmi Gbadebo: A Dilemma of Inheritance considers the materiality of the past. – Erica Cardwell
Feliciano Centurión: Abrigo at the Americas Society Art Gallery, through November 20
Intertwining local folk-art traditions with mass-produced materials, Centurión pioneered a decorative, kitschy, feminized, and decidedly queer aesthetic. – Cassie Packard
Leilah Babirye: Ebika Bya ba Kuchu mu Buganda at Gordon Robichaux, through November 22
Spanning two galleries at Gordon Robichaux, these objects stand proudly like subjects of a royal court: majestic ceramic and carved wooden heads glazed in variegated earth tones bode dignified smiles. – Daniella Brito
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