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August 10, 2018 by Imani Roach

Newsreel ‘68 and the histories we repeat at Lightbox Film Center

…towards justice if we bend it. Newsreel ‘68 Program 2, Thursday, August 23, at 7 PM, features Columbia Revolt (Newsreel #14), and El Pueblo Se Levanta (The People Are Rising)…

May 24, 2018 by Roberta

Souls Grown Deep expands mission into economic justice for artists, Plus Opportunities from Fleisher Wind Challenge and Practice Gallery

…pieces in its collection from more than 180 artists, including some well known names like Lonnie Holley, Purvis Young and the Gees Bend quilters and many more who are deserving…

February 13, 2018 by Andrea Kirsh

National Gallery’s Outliers and American Vanguard Art, blockbuster show with many gems but too much work

…were happy to be represented by mainstream art galleries as long ago as the 1930s. But the majority of outsider artists – the quilters of Gees Bend being notable exceptions…

November 3, 2017 by Imani Roach

Marc Bamuthi Joseph builds a raft out of an Opera

…inclusive,” but here is what being more inclusive actually means: it means that we’re gonna bend borders a little bit, and maybe you’re outside of them. I: During intermission, an…

June 7, 2017 by Matthew Rose

Stanley Greene, chronicler of wars, atrocities, disasters (1949 – 2017)

…Boris Yeltsin tried to bend Parliament to his will, Greene’s images of those hiding out in the White House and the attacks record what the world saw during that critical…

April 9, 2017 by Ilana Napoli

Loving Blackness at Asian Arts Initiative, a complex exhibition about color

…well-used clothing, and recycled into an object used as a mattress and blanket. The parallels to the Alabama women quilters from Gees Bend, descendents of slaves, who are now-celebrated for…

February 12, 2017 by Flora Ward

Andrea Hornick’s metamorphoses – Unbounded Histories at the Barnes

…and listened, I felt the edges of reality bend and blur–I saw the familiar paintings in front of me, but also the fanciful stories Hornick was telling me about rampaging…

October 23, 2014 by Noreen Kress

Apollonian/Dionysian — a packed show at the Painted Bride

…meant to destroy. Through the material, the rationality of the tool is replaced by irrationality, further echoing the dichotomy of the show’s title. “Bend” by DECHEMIA. DECHEMIA, the collaborative force…