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Blink First

Written by Kate Prengel on . Posted in Arts our town, Arts our town downtown, Arts west side spirit, Our Town, Our Town Downtown, West Side Spirit

Luigi Ghirri’s photographs give new perspective A few of the images in Luigi Ghirri’s “Kodachrome” series (on view now at the Matthew Marks gallery) are unexpectedly religious. A wooden bench with a soft, curved back sits on a pink and white tiled floor in an old hotel. An arched brick doorway reveals a folded beach
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Asian Overtures

Written by Kate Prengel on . Posted in Arts our town, Arts our town downtown, Arts west side spirit, Our Town, Our Town Downtown, West Side Spirit

Four Pieces of White by Wah Nu Tin Win Aung New artists and new promise in Guggenheim overview It’s exciting to walk into the Guggenheim’s new contemporary South Asian exhibit “No Country: Contemporary Art for South and Southeast Asia.” There’s the glitter of silver, the sheen of gold, and the vibrant colors of a wall-to-wall mural: and there’s the promise of a show full of
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Candid Humanity: Homai Vyarawalla’s Artful Histories of India and Politics

Written by Kate Prengel on . Posted in Arts & Film, Arts our town, Arts our town downtown, Arts west side spirit, Museums, Our Town, Our Town Downtown, West Side Spirit

Candid600   The Rubin Museum is now showing the first American retrospective of Homai Vyarawalla, India’s first female photojournalist, in “Candid: The Lens and Life of Homai.” Vyarawalla started out as an outsider, taking furtive shots of Bombay street life. She ended her career photographing heads of state and dignitaries. Along the way, she may have
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Chinese Riches Shortchanged at The Met

Written by Kate Prengel on . Posted in Arts & Film, Arts our town, Arts our town downtown, Arts west side spirit, Museums, Our Town, Our Town Downtown, West Side Spirit

guardian The sees itself as a teaching museum, which may be why its curators are trying to cram the entire history of Chinese printmaking into one exhibit: The Printed Image in China: 8th-21st Centuries. Ninth-century Buddhas, 16th-century peonies and 20th-century peasants are all lined up in the back rooms of The Met’s Asian wing for your
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Painter Alice Neel Captures Slices of Life in Her New Exhibition

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Alice Neel’s subjects stare calmly out from the canvas. They’re in the middle of a conversation or they’re in the middle of just being themselves—whatever it is, Neel’s late paintings, on exhibit now at the David Zwirner gallery, are richly intimate. Even the still lives here show signs of an inner life, and the people,
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Cops and Blotters: Looking Behind the Scene of a Crime

Written by Kate Prengel on . Posted in Arts & Film, Arts our town, Arts our town downtown, Arts west side spirit, Lifestyle, Museums, Our Town, West Side Spirit

In 1972, the photographer Leonard Freed set out to document the daily lives of New York City police officers. He wanted to humanize the police force, arguing that “if we do not concern ourselves with who the police are—who they really are…we run the real risk of finding that we no longer have public servants
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