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Newcity Art
21h ago
The exhibition, titled “Gridlock,” takes as its starting point the question “What would Giotto do?” and then figuratively applies it to a variety of visual encounters, from the things you see while stuck in traffic to the mouthwatering sights of a Sunday cookout ..read more
Newcity Art
1d ago
Looking at Suh’s relentlessly flat installation from this perspective, the portraits read less like innocuous Benday Dots and more like pixels on a massive screen projecting uniformity, monotony and opacity ..read more
Newcity Art
1d ago
A delightful, imaginative and playful respite, "Variety Show” is as exciting and fun as it is steeped in compelling consideration of systematic thinking ..read more
Newcity Art
4d ago
Eisenman’s predilection for the expansive, the possibility of a person possessing alien texture, supernatural color, engorged cartoon limbs, or dripping eyes and outsized features, lends itself to the immensity of her first major museum survey at MCA ..read more
Newcity Art
1w ago
Hilma’s Ghost's solo exhibition in three factions is part of a two-year experimental study of artists Dannielle Tegeder and Sharmistha Ray influenced by the works and practice of Hilma af Klint. They are a call in response to sidelined communities and a call to a cosmic force. The exhibition is thrumming with her spirit ..read more
Newcity Art
1w ago
Dolson is suggesting that we are, collectively and culturally, in a trance. Only humane and handmade art that answers the questions of being can rouse us from this slumber. To paint is a creative act. To decide to paint is a radical and revolutionary one ..read more
Newcity Art
1w ago
A very thought-provoking show from a photographer and meticulous printer who not only produces beautiful images but raises questions the viewer is likely to ponder long after leaving the gallery ..read more
Newcity Art
1w ago
The exhibition is a study of the illustrious career of photographer Arthur Rothstein, whose work includes documentation of the Great Depression, coincides with Gage Gallery's mission of showing documentary photography solely for educational purposes ..read more
Newcity Art
1w ago
Despite the grim premise, the mood of the exhibition is surprisingly buoyant. Resilient as ever, these creatives are deeply engaged in inventing a new visual language that expresses the possibility as well as the peril of our digitized, interfaced, networked and algorithmic, post-human future ..read more
Newcity Art
1w ago
A part of Expo since 2014, “Editions + Books” has always struck me as kind of unhip. But this year, along with new ownership, Expo is trying something a little different: the exhibitors are clustered together and form a neighborhood tucked into the northwestern corner of Expo’s urban sprawl ..read more