Reviews
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“A Story in Three Parts”
The story, set in the early 1900s, has been passed down through multi-generational oral traditions, acquiring an almost mythical quality in its reiterative representation of human suffering and endurance in the material and spiritual worlds.
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New Museum Triennial: ” Soft Water Hard Stone”
“Soft Water Hard Stone” is the fifth edition of the Triennial at the New Museum in the Bowery, Lower East Side, Manhattan. This exhibition has always been known for showcasing a variety of talented emerging and early mid-career artists, and this current version has held to that practice.
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Susan Dobson
Susan Dobson’s exhibition “Slide/Lecture” makes me homesick. Standing in the darkened, silent gallery space, I am transported back in time, twice, to two difference decades, two different cities, two different lifetimes.
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Nicholas Party
There’s a lot to unpack in a stroll through the immersive and multifaceted exhibition by Swiss artists Nicolas Party, “L’heure mauve.”
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Thomas Hirschhorn
I want to express the complexity and contradiction of the world into a single collage. I want to express the world that I am living in, not the whole world as the entire world but as a fragmented world. —Thomas Hirschhorn, 2006
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Subjectivity of an Artist’s Object: A Participant’s View of Alvin Luong’s “Workers Dance”
…Luong seeks to create irony through a sense of dissonance between the state and the symbolism of state heads, while simultaneously undermining the “power” of the state by giving back power to the working class.
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Alison Yip
What will cause me great embarrassment? What new skill will I develop?
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Miriam Cahn
Swiss artist Miriam Cahn’s exhibition “ME AS HAPPENING” occupies both floors of The Power Plant, a rare accommodation for a venue that generally hosts multiple artists.
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Candice Breitz
There actually are 1,001 pieces of videotaped film in the boxes, though we can’t find out what they are without destroying them as artworks.
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Cliff Eyland
The Library of Babel, if indeed it did exist, would be an infinite labyrinthine space of boundless freedom, much like the space Eyland created for himself within his practise: the room to operate in whatever way he pleased.
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Buffy Sainte-Marie
Sainte-Marie’s work opens up what she calls—in reference to her treatment of Indigenous themes through new media—an “alter-native” dimension.
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“A Pea Can Be Chopped Up and Reassembled Into The Sun”
How is one assembled? How does one assemble themselves? What do we do when the pieces oppose one another?
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