The exhibition is diffuse with a sense of urgency to document this history against aggravated societal and governmental threats of erasure.
Debra Brehmer
Debra Brehmer is a writer and art historian who runs a contemporary gallery called Portrait Society in Milwaukee, WI. She is especially interested in how portraits convey meaning.
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New York City Shows to See Right Now
Repurposed objects by Kiah Celeste and Yuji Agematsu and re-imagined architecture by feminist architect Phyllis Birkby are among our favorite artworks this week.
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The Unexpected Beauty of Detritus
Through his art, Yuji Agematsu brings reverence and discipline to this job of living, and acknowledges each human’s durational condition.
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New York City Shows We Love Right Now
The exhibitions below, featuring such artists as Deborah-Joyce Holman and Luis Fernando Benedit, ask viewers to spend time with art that’s slower to reveal itself.
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A Brazilian Artist’s Intergalactic Wool Paintings
In A Head Full of Planets, Madalena Santos Reinbolt’s art celebrates her own identity and homeland, despite her marginalized status as a Black woman from rural Brazil.
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Benny Andrews Painted the Textures of Life
Collaged scraps of cloth or crumpled paper in Andrews’s portraits were a subversive and insistent means of encompassing his own non-White, non-urban roots.
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Frida Kahlo’s Elegy to Heartache
Despite the fact that most of humanity has shared the devastating emotional turmoil of a breakup, the topic is strangely elusive in the history of art.
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My Small Gallery Lost Money at an Art Fair. It Hurt.
When sales are robust, it confirms that producing and selling art is actually a viable activity. When sales falter, our world begins to feel untenable.
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William Kentridge Sees the Universe in a Pot of Coffee
The artist tells Hyperallergic about how the isolation of COVID-19 led to a streaming series set wholly within the bounds of his studio.
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An Emotional Journey Through Tracey Emin’s Art
Emin accomplishes what any great artist must do — turn the sacrificing of privacy into the spark of human connectivity.
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When Scandinavia Was a Hotbed of Black American Culture
Nordic Utopia? African Americans in the 20th Century zeroes in on a far less charted corner of Black history than that of expats to Paris: the artists who ventured north.
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Petah Coyne’s Maximalist Art Lays Bare Women’s Oppression
Coyne’s work sits between abundance and suffocation, uses seductive materials to serve uncomfortable truths about the barriers that face women.