Every summer, when most New Yorkers are out and about, galleries in New York City either close or put up group shows culled from their collections. These shows are usually mildly interesting in that they show a variety of work reflecting the galleries’ specific interests and tastes. But the downside is that these shows generally […]
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There’s got to be more to it
The photographs currently on exhibit at A\V in the Public Market remind us of Cindy Sherman’s Untitled Film Still series or the documentary photographs in Nan Goldin’s book, The Ballad of Sexual Dependency. In their own ways, both of these photographers deal with the complexities of gender, identity politics, and sexuality. Goldin portrays the people […]
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Convulsive anatomies
In 1992 Paul Schimmel, chief curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, curated the infamous Helter Skelter: L.A. Art in the 1990’s. In his catalogue essay Schimmel equated the anxiety at the end of the 19th century and the work of the Symbolists — which was imbued with an obsessive fear that […]
