Scratchy and Gritty, Pauline Rintsch’s Figurative Work Explores Interiority
Rintsch’s figures, which she boxes into tight-cropped frames, possess a feeling of existential confusion and youthful dread.
Walking Around Covered in Magnets
Falling asleep thinking about Tolia, I hear a phrase: “Every parting surface is another entrance unfulfilled.”
BlackStar Celebrates Filmmaking from the Global Majority
In Philadelphia, BlackStar celebrates its 13th edition, spotlighting Black and Brown filmmakers.
Betty Tompkins’ P.P.O.W Exhibition Recontextualizes the Female Body
Tompkins reexamines imagery meant for male self-pleasure, juxtaposing them with insults and violent rhetoric against women.
Curatorial Deviations
At Arsenal Contemporary, gaoyuan makes curatorial experimentations in the group show Theater of Energies.
Music for the Eyes: “Crafting the Ballets Russes” at the Morgan Library & Museum
“I listen to music through my eyes. I want my ballets to be music for the eyes.” – Bronislava Nijinska
The Conflict Between Endless Possibilities and Reality
There is always space for endless possibilities, but there is only enough space in a lifetime for one path of living.
Paula Modersohn-Becker Is
I Am Me is about celebrating Modersohn-Becker’s singularity, desires, and personhood.
Tomás Gómez Bustillo Captures the Magical and the Real
In the Argentinian farmlands, distant flashes of lightning are sometimes attributed to “wandering souls” in popular mythology. Saints hang on walls, flickering lights seem to speak, and even exaggerated sneezes seem preordained.
Gender, Nation, and Photography
It’s this demure, yet impactful timbre that embodies In The Now with the tension of the withheld, replete with turned backs, obscured glances, missing heads, shadows, furry disguises, folds, and curtains.
Emily Strasser Speaks the Unspeakable
In her incredibly well researched book, Strasser tries to make sense of Oak Ridge's complicated past, as it transformed a place of nature and stability into a source of man-made, unstable destruction.
A Celebration of Being and Balance
△, organized by Site, presents the work of Seoyoung Kim, Soeun Bae, and Soo Park. The show acts as a conversation with their past work and explores their transformation and growth as artists, focusing on the material qualities of existence.