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Recent Posts

  • Feb 22, 2021 Eric Goh on Mutual Aid and Friendship as a Pathway Out of Disaster
  • Feb 15, 2021 “Whose Utopia” – Cao Fei at the Museum of Modern Art
  • Jan 29, 2021 “About Time: Fashion and Duration” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • Jan 15, 2021 The works speak for themselves: Tishan Hsu at SculptureCenter
  • Oct 09, 2020 On wingless birds and permeable cages: Petrit Halilaj at the Palacio de Cristal, Madrid
  • Rist and Beyonce

    Smashing Windows: Beyoncé’s Lemonade, Intersectional Feminism, and Black Empowerment

    April 19, 2018

    Never shy about her political stance, Beyonce openly endorsed candidate Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election, making clear her belief that the future is female. Her album Lemonade, which Beyoncé produced the same year and complemented with powerful video content, illustrates her feminist stance through explicitly political, but also personal references. One of the most memorable scenes from Lemonade…

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    Han Hongzheng
  • Performing Intimacy: Lee Mingwei’s Sonic Blossom at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

    June 30, 2016

    A soprano’s voice echoes through the museum’s quiet halls. Inside the Metropolitan’s main gallery for contemporary art, the singer stands before a large, rapt audience but performs only for one. Moments earlier, she approached an unsuspecting viewer with an offer of the “gift of song”; now accepted, the soprano delivers a moving rendition of a Franz Schubert lied—a short operatic…

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    Katharine Josephson Wright
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