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Category: Visual Art
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“Wrath — Force of Nature” at Wave Hill
“Seven Deadly Sins: Wrath — Force of Nature” at Wave Hill in the Bronx brings together twelve artists who have their fingers on the pulse of climate change and extreme weather.
Shifting Sands: New Dynamics in the Bronx Art Scene
The dialogue went far deeper than a mere discussion of the current landscape of the Bronx art scene. It raised questions, and some hackles, about competing community needs, gentrification, constituencies that are too frequently powerless, and big money.
“Frida Kahlo: Art, Garden, Life”
Adriana Zavala, guest curator, qualified Kahlo’s home as an “extension of her personal cosmology,” saying, “There are still things to learn about Kahlo.”
Ellen Weider: Drypoints in a Digital Age
Weider is preoccupied with an examination of domestic objects. Her visual terrain is repeatedly populated with diaristic contemplations of ordinary furniture: dressers, chairs, tables, beds.
Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning
In the book, “Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning,” Lange’s photography is presented with equal weight given to Lange’s intuitive eye for structure and composition, as well as to her burning commitment to social justice.
The Work of Artists Is Not Play
Art workers need to be remunerated in order to survive.
Marisol: Sculptures and Works on Paper at El Museo del Barrio
Marisol said, “I’ve always wanted to be free in my life and art. It’s as important to me as truth.”
Egon Schiele: Portraits at Neue Galerie
By the age of twenty, Schiele had found his voice and personal style.
Crossing Brooklyn: Art from Bushwick, Bed-Stuy, and Beyond
The Brooklyn Museum prides itself on being in touch with the borough’s wide-ranging neighborhoods.
