George Eastman Museum’s current exhibit, “Bea Nettles: Harvest of Memory,” marks the artist’s first major retrospective in her 50-year career and highlights a lifetime of femme, maternal, and dream-like works.
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Mortal coils
Currently presented at Rochester Contemporary is “Earthen,” a set of three short video artworks that are gorgeous little meditations on our experiences with nature and time.
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Anderson & Low evoke awe at Eastman
Jonathan Anderson and Edwin Low have collaborated for decades, creating mind-bending bodies of photographic work and films that vary drastically in style from project to project. But the enduring common denominator in everything they do is observing some fascinating phenomena in the world, taking the deepest dive into studying it, and finding the cleverest way to share what they saw.
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MAG’s Mucha exhibit deeper than decorative arts
Even as we applaud their beautifying services, artists are often dismissed as dreamers and idealists, painting pictures that can serve as either mirrors of society or better-case-scenarios. This role has too often put a target on their backs.
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‘Play/Ground’ transforms old Medina High
The weekend-long art pop-up was co-presented again this year with Rochester and Buffalo-based arts organizations, and the school was filled with installations and events presented by a set of returning and new artists.
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‘Crafting Democracy’ fights fire with fiber
“Crafting Democracy” explores the 2016 presidential campaign and its (ongoing) aftermath as its main focus, using the language of traditionally women-oriented crafts — subversive embroidery, soft sculpture, quilts, and other resistance art.
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Review: Eastman’s moon photography and ‘Woven’ exhibits
In a way, the exhibits are macro and micro mirrors of one another, representing order and chaos, growth and entropy. And all of life as we know it is suspended between the two, ultimately helpless.
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Review: “The 66th Rochester-Finger Lakes Exhibition”
This year’s iteration of the biennial Rochester-Finger Lake Exhibition has a strong emphasis on experimental drawings and many from that group were among Rebecca’s favorite works in the show. She discusses her top 20 picks from the group of 62 featured artists.
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‘Verified’ curator Amanda Chestnut talks identity
“Culturally we tend to speak about race very much in dichotomy. It’s an ‘or’ situation. And for the most part, many people are ‘and,’ but linguistically and culturally we don’t give them space to be ‘and.'”
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‘Lessons of the Hour’ brings Frederick Douglass to MAG
Isaac Julien’s film installation is non-linear cinema, unfolding in episodes as an A/V collage across 10 large and small screens. Yet each richly-constructed scene reads as an immersive film, bringing Douglass to life.
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Review: Alan Singer’s ‘Shapely’ at AXOM
Singer writes computer code that recreates the natural phenomena of form and color, creating geometry-based abstractions that become dazzling monotype prints, which in turn inform the geometric visuals he paints in oil and acrylic.
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‘#Mobilize’ summons traces of social movements
Using GPS info from tweets with social justice hashtags, art collective Larson Shindelman creates images at the sites where the tweeter stood. The duo’s images are on view at Eastman Museum.
