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By Samuel AdamsJanuary 12, 2017 0

Art and Accountability: Carrie Mae Weems and Dell Hamilton Share Space at Harvard

For decades, Carrie Mae Weems’s staged photographs and videos have served as aids for processing the legacies of slavery, racism, and sexism in the United States. The elegant solutions in Weems’s compositions, their gravitas and narrative content, appear to operate…

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By Samuel AdamsDecember 1, 2016 1

trans/draw at Gallery 263: Gender Outside the Lines

Since the ascendance of the term “identity politics” into mainstream discourse in the 1980s, the debate, vitriol, and confusion over what it means to acknowledge our unique subject-positions in the world is enough to drive one away from using the…

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By Samuel AdamsNovember 16, 2015 0

Feelers: The 24th Drawing Show at the Boston Center for the Arts

“Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Triangles, Squares, Pentagons, Hexagons, and other figures, instead of remaining fixed in their places, move freely about, on or in the surface.” Thus begins Edwin Abbott’s 1884 novel Flatland: A…

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By Samuel AdamsApril 30, 2015 0

Björk at the MoMA: An Exhibition, Possibly Maybe

The Icelandic singer Björk Guðmundsdóttir inaugurates the world tour for her new album Vulnicura with seven concerts in New York City, beginning in March 2015 in Carnegie Hall and ending in July at the Governors Ball Music Festival. She took…

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By Samuel AdamsMarch 19, 2015 0

Business in the Front, Party in the Back: The New Harvard Art Museums

The remaining brick façade from 1927, facing Harvard Yard, suggests an institution steeped in tradition. From the front, one expects to step inside and see art by dead white men, displayed according to national styles and chronology. The backside, however,…

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By Samuel AdamsMarch 11, 2015 0

Rehabilitating Silence: Susan Philipsz’s Part File Score

Twelve narrow speakers are distributed evenly around the perimeter of New York’s Tanya Bonakdar Gallery. A solo violin sustains an E. Another violin comes in with an E-flat. The dissonance is disquieting, but so intense that few visitors can turn…

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