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Sablo Mikawa "Too Much Mystery" @ Moosey Norwich

admin — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 18:21:59 +0000

Sablo Mikawa was born in Saitama Prefecture. Influenced by early modern and modern paintings, he is known for his dramatic oil paintings of modern things, including virtual reality such as manga and movies. Sablo’s characters have grotesque effects applied to their faces and bodies, emphasizing their character, inner self, and silhouette, which are different from...

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10 Upstate Art Weekend Destinations Worth the Trip

admin — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 12:21:10 +0000

It’s that time of the year again when the sweltering, swampy heat of New York City has even the cockroaches stumbling down its sidewalks. For those who find themselves among the swarms of city folk hopping aboard the Hudson Line this week to catch their breath and clear their heads in the Catskills, be sure...

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Felipe Baeza: to feel a then and there @ kurimanzutto, Mexico City

admin — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 06:20:03 +0000

To feel a then and there is Felipe Baeza’s first solo exhibition at kurimanzutto. The show brings together portraits, composite works that combine printmaking, collage, and embroidery, and glass sculptures. Its title references the book Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity (2009) by Cuban theorist José Esteban Muñoz, who proposes a shift in time and...

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150 Years of American Art Comes to Life

admin — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 00:19:00 +0000

Some summer days while I was in high school, my dad would give me a $20 bill, and I would take the train into the city for a drop-in life drawing class at the Art Students League of New York in Midtown. I wasn’t a very good student. Half the time, I’d pocket the money...

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Woman Having a Hard Time: Falon Stutzman @ Megan Mulrooney Gallery, Los Angeles

admin — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 18:18:08 +0000

Megan Mulrooney Gallery is pleased to present Woman Having a Hard Time, the debut solo exhibition of Omaha-based painter Falon Stutzman. Across ten new paintings, Stutzman develops a language of flattened perspective, bruised color, and big-eyed emotional states, congealing around a cartoonish archetype of personhood that’s both absurd and uncomfortably familiar. Whether curled up with...

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Artists Decry Centre Pompidou’s Cancellation of Caribbean Art Exhibition

admin — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 12:15:36 +0000

Nearly 150 artists, curators, and other cultural figures signed an open letter denouncing the Centre Pompidou-Metz’s decision to abruptly call off an exhibition centering on contemporary Franco-Creole, Caribbean French, and Guyanese art. The cancellation, which was formalized in a June 10 notice, followed months of planning and a series of tense text message exchanges between...

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The Language of Stones

admin — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 06:12:09 +0000

“The Large Tortoiseshell and the Chieftan … discuss the mystery of beginnings and ends.” Photograph by D. Stanimirovitch. “Infinitely far from the world of flowers,” sighs Novalis. What about the world of stones! And where along the way do we pick up the idea that we know what we’re talking about? Of course, the question only makes...

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Anxiety Dream Bystanders

admin — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 00:11:31 +0000

JADEN, COLLEGE STUDENT: “It was second semester senior year. I was quietly chatting with classmates before our French literature exam. That’s when an older woman, like, much older, busted into the lecture hall.” CHLOE, COLLEGE STUDENT: “We all jumped. No one knew who she was. She announced loudly that she was here to take the...

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The Japanese Shoegaze Revival, by Toby Isaac

admin — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 18:08:51 +0000

The burgeoning shoegaze movement in the United Kingdom and Ireland of the late 1980s caught the world by surprise; at the height of grunge’s popularity, a sonically opposed and ethereal soundscape emerged and carved its own mark on underground music. This dense, wall-of-sound genre has been best defined by My Bloody Valentine’s nominal Loveless (1991),...

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A Multifaceted Book and Exhibition, ‘Black Earth Rising’ Contends with Colonialism, Land, and Climate — Colossal

admin — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 12:08:07 +0000

Between 450 B.C.E. and 950 C.E., a particularly fertile soil known by researchers as terra preta, literally “black earth” in Portuguese, was cultivated by Indigenous farmers in the Amazon Basin. The soil was made with broken pottery, compost, bones, manure, and charcoal—which lends its characteristic dark shade—making it rich in nutrients and minerals. The historic,...

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