The Photograph Five: Interview with Linda Troeller

“On view at the Museum of Sex through January 9, Self Power| Self Play: 50 Years of Erotic Portraiture by Linda Troeller is a survey of nearly 50 years of her portraiture, images that celebrate intimacy and disregard cultural conventions of female beauty and so-called ladylike behavior.”

artnet News - Editors’ Picks: 10 Events for Your Virtual Art Calendar This Week

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“Curator Conversations from Art Curator Grid and Assembly Room: Curators Gemma Argüello, from Mexico, and Emily Alesandrini, of Philadelphia and New York, will discuss what it means to be a women in their field, the pay gap, and patriarchy in Western art history, for the first in a new event series from Art Curator Grid and Assembly Room.”

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Your Concise New York Art Guide for Fall

 “Wave Hill, which has in the last few years become a more prominent venue for the exhibition of contemporary art and performance, has mounted a new show that integrates that ambition with the existing context of its flourishing gardens. Figuring the Floral includes many well known artists of color who take the metaphor of a flower — that compelling agent of the natural world that buds, blooms, pollinates, and decays— and runs with it. These artists reach beyond the typical associations made to flora to consider ideas of ethnicity, class, gender, sexual orientation, aging, and other varied facets of identity and the self.”

Editors’ Picks: 16 Things Not to Miss in New York’s Art World This Week

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“Reconsidering the role of botanical imagery within contemporary art, here floral imagery’s traditional associations with the decorative and the feminine are subverted as the blossoming and decaying life cycle of the flower becomes complexly symbolic of race, gender, age, and sexuality, among myriad other aspects of identity, in works by Derrick Adams, Lina Iris Viktor, Ebony G. Patterson, and Valerie Hegarty, among others.” -Katie White

Flowers Become an Unlikely Means to Discuss Identity and Politics

“The works in Figuring the Floral start a conversation, collaborate, and even merge with the natural beauty of the public garden and cultural center Wave Hill.As the website notes, the life cycle of flowers reflects that of humans. In both we see sorrowful death and joyous growth.”
-Ilana Novick

Landings and Landscapes: Contested Geographies at Wave Hill

“The artists of “Here We Land” depict what landings across the Americas have done to the landscape. Through various means, their installations work through the disorientation of dispossession and ask us what fictions, images, and imaginary rules make such inhospitality possible.”
-Lou Cornum

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‘Here We Land,’ right where we belong

“Depending on which room you enter, you’ll either be surrounded by tree landscapes cut into silhouettes of families fleeing the U.S.-Mexico border, an open space of industrial felt and work that explores indigenous culture, or a dark room booming with sounds of nature.”
-TIFFANY MOUSTAKAS

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8 art gallery exhibitions to check out in March

“In the words of the philosopher Homer Simpson: ‘Lousy Smarch weather.’ There may be a ways to go until it actually feels like spring in Chicago, but—fortunately for us—great art waits for no one.” -Jenny Lam

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