This weekend marks the first Independence Day since the nation’s four-year calamity lurched to its fo
| This weekend marks the first Independence Day since the nation’s four-year calamity lurched to its foregone bloody conclusion. As the dregs of that depraved era persist in uncoiling their tentacles, artists and others continue to hash out the role that art can play in the face of social regression. When things get really bad, what difference can it really make?In an interview published this week in The New York Times, the pianist Igor Levit reflects on the recent death of his friend and mentor, the politically committed composer Frederic Rzewski: “Frederic was never so naïve as to believe that [his compositions] would change the world’s political outcomes. But he must have believed in the possibility of what music can do to people. It can provide people with an idea. A piano piece can’t save the world. But we can.”— Thomas Micchelli, Co-Editor, Hyperallergic Weekend Please Note: After the current edition, Hyperallergic Weekend will take a one-week hiatus and resume on Saturday, July 17. | |
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| | JR, Down the Barrel of the Camera This is a public, political art that invites us to see the world differently, and even encourage the spirit of community. Michael Glover |
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| | New Views of the Everyday World Emily Pettigrew and Aubrey Levinthal are two painters who have much in common, but their differences run deeper and are more telling. John Yau |
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| | A Coming-of-Age Film That Sidesteps Cliché Ena Sendijarević’s debut feature, “Take Me Somewhere Nice,” follows a young Bosnian refugee as she sets off to visit a native country she no longer knows. Eileen G'Sell |
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| Required Reading This week, the funniest article of the year, online novels, reviewing a new museum building in Houston, hating on Cézanne, defining art, and more. Hrag Vartanian |
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