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“A Portrait in Fragments” is a reflection on biographical spaces, memory, and the physical and immaterial traces that the self leaves behind in the world. The group exhibition explores the plurality, multifacetedness, and porosity of biographical experience, which unfolds in moments of introspection and self-observation, but also in the encounter with external (and imagined) worlds and with others. It is …

Seed art by Mary Beth Leone-Getten at the Minnesota State Fair (all photos Isabella Segalovich/Hyperallergic) FALCON HEIGHTS, Minnesota — From a rotating gallery of butter sculptures to a hall bursting with quilts and embroidery, the annual Minnesota State Fair is always awash with creative endeavors. But the line is always the longest at the crop art display, the only one …

The brilliance of this film is that it feels real. Setting out on a quest to fulfill a dying wish might sound like a fable but Crossing is not a fairy tale. In fact, the premise is based on a true story Akin heard about a grandmother traveling from Georgia to Turkey in search of her trans granddaughter. Akin also …

 Art Film History #assemblage #found objects #L.V. Hull #painting August 29, 2024 Grace Ebert L.V. Hull at her home in Kosciusko, Mississippi, in 2002. Photo by Bruce West. All images courtesy of the L.V. Hull Legacy Center, shared with permission Kosciusko is a small town in the center of Mississippi with just under 7,000 residents. Known as the birthplace …

“GNOMONS 髀,” an exhibition of new works by Jay Chung and Q Takeki Maeda at Kunsthaus Glarus, revisits an artistic approach employed in the 1980s and 1990s, most prominently by artists such as Janine Antoni, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, and Roni Horn. Defying clichés of artistic originality, these artists intentionally adopted the formal language of the more established, institutionally recognized artists associated …

‣ It’s been a big year for Venezuelan ceramicist and painter Magdalena Suarez Frimkess, who celebrated her 95th birthday and just got her first museum retrospective. For the Los Angeles Times, David A. Keeps chats with the indefatigable artist and those she’s influenced: During her residency, she met Michael Frimkess, a Los Angeles potter who had studied with ceramic revolutionary Peter Voulkos at …

 Film #archaeology #documentary #humor #short film #Stolen Sun August 29, 2024 Grace Ebert  Lew Blink is a self-proclaimed “dumpster archeologist,” meaning he plunges into trash bins and waste receptacles to unearth objects that piece together a story about someone’s life. Like other researchers, Blink creates collections of finds devoted to specific people—like the couple who traveled to Paris …

“The Ruin of Exchange” presents a selection of John Miller’s artwork ranging from 1994 to the present. Miller employs a wide variety of materials and media, making it difficult to pin him down to a particular or artistic style. And yet his work is highly influential, even though its mutability and limiting of personal gestures possibly best express a certain …

Next Thursday, September 5 in Central Park, artist Edra Soto will unveil a new sculpture from her Graft series (2013–), made from corten steel and terrazzo and inspired by the wrought-iron fencing often seen outside residences in Puerto Rico. The work, which she describes as”a monument to working class Puerto Rican communities,” will mark the first phase of Historias — …