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Essays on Art

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    Abed Elmajid Shalabi: In the Distance 

    By Leah Triplett Harrington

    For Shalabi, the exhibition considers a post-oil future of the Arab world, a time at which we have yet to arrive. This anticipation is only…

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    The Irony of Capacity: A Dark, Black Comedy

    By Wayson R. Jones

    Words fail, and then the fun begins. In his solo show at Hamiltonian Artists, Kyrae Dawaun tightly weaves concept, narrative, craft, and form into a river-of-consciousness…

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    Ara Koh: Grounding; Grounded; Ground

    By Hannah Barco

    On a recent visit to ceramicist Ara Koh’s studio, I observed a brief exchange between a deaf visitor, her translator, and the artist. The visitor…

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    Matthew Russo: Practiced Play

    By Marcus Civin

    Do we need to practice playing? Are we still too often stressed with work? Even in our free time, it seems we chase outcomes, simulate,…

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    María Luz Bravo: Glimpse, Gathered

    By Mauricio Alejo

    Good artists are always foreigners. I don’t mean in regards to the soil they come from; rather in the ways in which they relate to…

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    Mining the Mines

    By Lucy Lippard

    Stephanie Garon is uniquely prepared to mine the residue and history of a spurious “gold rush,” in northern Maine, of all places. I’ve been to…

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    More than This: The Art of Jason Bulluck

    By Gregg Bordowitz

    Jason Bulluck’s exhibition and all the work included under its title Let’s Believe Brief Utopias proceed from the foundational premise that the privileged site of…