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Tina Modotti: The Eye of Revolution
At the Museum Bria Purdy At the Museum Bria Purdy

Tina Modotti: The Eye of Revolution

Tina Modotti’s life was lived through the lens of revolution. Her political beliefs fueled her photography, and her photographs are what remains. They are tender and they are strong. They capture the fraught and symbiotic relationship between art and politics, between everyday life and systems of rebellion.

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Rosemary Mayer’s Image-Text Works
At the Museum Charlotte Youkilis At the Museum Charlotte Youkilis

Rosemary Mayer’s Image-Text Works

Rosemary Mayer: Words in Art are Signs Returned, an exhibition at the Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia University, turns to Mayer’s lesser-known body of work with the written word, reconsidering the artist’s legacy in relation to feminist and conceptual practices. Curated by Farren Fei Yuan, the exhibition presents a range of Mayer’s image-text work, from large-scale artist’s books and literary magazines to a wall-mounted mixed-media series, displayed for the first time in its entirety.

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Hannah Black’s “Politics” (2022) and “Broken Windows” (2022)
At the Museum Anna Prudhomme At the Museum Anna Prudhomme

Hannah Black’s “Politics” (2022) and “Broken Windows” (2022)

Based in Marseille [France], Hannah Black’s creative approach harmoniously integrates thought and emotion, through written texts, prints, videos, sculptural installations, or performances. She is most notably recognized for co-authoring alongside writer Ciarán Finlayson and critic Tobi Haslett, The Tear Gas Biennial an impactful open letter in which they critiqued, the co-chair of the Whitney Museum's board Warren Kanders, for his controversial philanthropic initiatives funded by the sale of tear gas and various weaponry through the American equipment company Safariland.

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Vous les Entendez? [Do You Hear Them?]: Laura Lamiel’s Solo Exhibition at Palais de Tokyo 
At the Museum Anna Prudhomme At the Museum Anna Prudhomme

Vous les Entendez? [Do You Hear Them?]: Laura Lamiel’s Solo Exhibition at Palais de Tokyo 

For more than four decades, Laura Lamiel has been crafting a body of work characterized by a unique formal consistency, delving into various states of perception, cognition, and emotion. Through the artful arrangement and juxtaposition of found objects, raw materials, colors, and lights, her creations unveil spaces that straddle both the tangible and the psychological.

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Senga Nengudi: Spirit Crossing at Sprüth Magers, New York
At the Museum Allison Abdallah At the Museum Allison Abdallah

Senga Nengudi: Spirit Crossing at Sprüth Magers, New York

Nengudi’s work has historically existed at the periphery of the art world - deemed too specific for the white women of the conceptual art movement to relate to, and too conceptual to be considered among other Black artists of her generation. (2) Nengudi’s remarkable body of work has resisted the confines of categorization. Consequently, its influence has spanned several decades, defying space and time - allowing itself to have applicability on varying scales - global, local, modern, and historic.

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Kenturah Davis: Dark Illumination at OXY ARTS
At the Museum Lauren Guilford At the Museum Lauren Guilford

Kenturah Davis: Dark Illumination at OXY ARTS

Kenturah Davis' practice is often situated in obscure and shadowy spaces such as these, in twilight zones that evade omniscient thinking, turning our flimsy blueprint constructions of perception into slippery jello. Davis makes us sensitive to the emergent vibrations that echo in the pit of a shadow, in the shadow beneath another shadow's shadow, rippling and cascading outward and falling back in on itself.

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