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New YorkApril 13, 2022 • View in browserMarina Abramović Is Suspended Between Self-Sacrifice and SpectacleAbramović’s art embodies a dark, personal truth: one overcomes punishment through self-sacrifice, denial, turning the hurt into a weapon of liberation, at times literally bought in blood. | Ela Bittencourt The show at Sean Kelly bears out the extent to which Abramović has come to rely on apparatuses and film craft in ways that feel counterproductive to her performance principles. The re-staging of “The Artist Is Present” is scheduled for April 16; what I saw at the gallery instead was the chair with a small contraption and drawer and two rows of video monitors replaying closeups of the artist’s and sitters’ faces… Here, the many monitors promise a spectacle but fail to convey the charged lull I felt at MoMA that made me think that each participant creates the performance for herself, with Abramović as a poltergeist. LATEST NEWS Applications for the Queer|Art Illuminations Grant, an annual award given to a Black trans woman or trans femme visual artist, are now open. A new Environmental Arts Grant will distribute awards up to $20,000 to women-identifying artists creating environmental public art projects. Author Heather Ann Thompson is suing New York prisons for banning her book “Blood in the Water” about the Attica uprising. SPONSORED REVIEWS & MORE Transformation and Dreams in Dorothea Tanning’s Later WorkAs Tanning took up midcentury painterly abstraction, key philosophical themes from her earlier phantasmal narrative paintings undergo transformations and reiterations. | Tim Keane Tanning is not invisible within the decades-long turn into semi-abstraction represented by the often captivating works in Doesn’t the Paint Say it All? In fact, this exhibition shows that as the artist adopts the anti-narrative strategies of painterly abstraction, several works can still be read as formalist or poetic counter-statements to the naïve portraiture and phantasmal narrative paintings that had put her on the Modernist map decades earlier. SPONSORED Discover Blue SchoolBlue School educates children ages two to grade eight to be adaptable thinkers, collaborative problem-solvers, and courageous innovators. Blue School’s model is founded on the balance between academic mastery, self and social intelligence, and creative thinking. Learn more about our preschool, elementary, and middle school programs at an upcoming admissions event. Register here! Shedding Light on Homelessness Through Artistic IngenuityThe unhoused can teach a masterclass on survival — and that we are all just one stroke of bad luck away from the same fate. | Billy Anania SPONSORED Last Chance to See Mildred Howard’s Glass House in Battery Park CityThis public work about home and migration closes on April 16 with a celebration featuring an artist talk and performances by poet Quincy Troupe and saxophonist David Murray. Learn more. How a Prolific Art Forger Got a New York Gallery ShowAn exhibition at Wirth Galerie aims to recognize Landis not just as a forger, but as an artist in his own right. | Jasmine Liu Become a member today to support our independent journalism. CLOSING SOON Installation view of Dawning: dust, seeds, Coplees at Lubov, New York (all images courtesy Mimi Park and Lubov; all photos by Charles Benton) UnHomeless NYC Betsy Kaufman: 14 Sculptures, 1 Painting Marina Abramović: Performative Dorothea Tanning: Doesn’t the Paint Say It All? Mungo Thomson: Time Life Julia Fish: Threshold/s with Hearth: recent paintings and a site intervention Mimi Park: Dawning: dust, seeds, Coplees Jule Korneffel: Here comes the night ON VIEW Hugh Hayden: Brier Patch Rebel, Jester, Mystic, Poet: Contemporary Persians—The Mohammed Afkhami Collection This Must Be the Place: Latin American Artists in New York, 1965-1975 Jacques Louis David: Radical Draftsman
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