Art

The title of Daniel Lind-Ramos’s captivating MoMA PS1 summer exhibition, El Viejo Griot — Una historia de todos nosotros, translated as The Elder Storyteller — A Story of All of Us, got things half right. The artist’s bricolage sculptures of humanoid forms do tell a story with universal implications. But that story succeeds because its particulars are rooted in the …

On the southern end of Eldridge Street in Manhattan’s Chinatown, between densely stacked grocery stores and restaurants, soaring arches unfold like a pop-up book. This is the Eldridge Street Synagogue — the first Jewish great house of worship constructed in the United States by Eastern European Jews. Chinese knotwork, Jewish stars, and tightly curved “neo-Moorish” arches jostle together here on …

LOS ANGELES — There’s a meditative quality to Slavs and Tatars: Hang Don’t Cut, on view at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery through September 9. Step through “Soft Power” (2023), a carpeted black and white doorway, and you’ll find an array of blown glass lamps. They look like melons (in Slavic etymology, “melon” and “to blow” are close kin), and they glow …

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It is not often that an art exhibition radically alters one’s understanding of, and orientation within, a major urban landmark. Rowan Renee’s multifaceted The Perimeter Path in Brooklyn’s renowned Green-Wood Cemetery is definitely one of those times.   Numerous well-known people are interred at Green-Wood and many visitors flock to their graves: Leonard Bernstein, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Boss Tweed, Charles Ebbets …

PORTLAND, Oreg. — If you are looking to see art in the City of Roses, a couple of museums would give you a great introduction. There’s the Portland Art Museum, which is co-curating Jeffrey Gibson’s solo exhibition for the United States Pavilion at the 2024 Venice Biennale. You could also visit the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at Portland State …

For some, the name of filmmaker and New German Cinema pioneer Werner Herzog is inseparable from the sensation that is “Sad Beige Werner Herzog” — the viral creation of writer, comedian, and public librarian Hayley DeRoche. Since December 2021, DeRoche has garnered hundreds of thousands of followers and worldwide news headlines by using satire to highlight the trend of #AestheticMoms …

Former President Donald Trump’s booking mug shot at the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta, Georgia (courtesy the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office) It has already been called “the mug shot seen round the world” by the Washington Post, “a historic image that will be seared into the public record and referred to in perpetuity” by the New York Times, and “the most …

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