Accumulated dust like an aerial landscape. Man Ray and Marcel Duchamp (from 1920) in the Marcel Duchamp retrospective at MoMA.
Playing with surreal cast shadows. Marcel Duchamp (from 1918) in the Marcel Duchamp retrospective at MoMA.
A multiplied self-portrait of Marcel Duchamp. Broadway Photo Shop (from 1917) in the Marcel Duchamp retrospective at MoMA.
Dark figures in ritualistic poses. Romare Bearden (from 1964) at DC Moore Gallery.
Punching fists and cutout eyes. Per Barclay (from 2007) in the Inside Voices, Outside Light group show at the Scandinavia House.
A Greenlandic artist suffocated by a beaded necklace in the stars and stripes. Lisbeth Karline Poulsen (from 2025) in the Inside Voices, Outside Light group show at the Scandinavia House.
Performative play with sea foam. Arctic Creatures in the Inside Voices, Outside Light group show at the Scandinavia House.
The deep connection of an embrace. Agnieszka Sosnowska (from 2020) in the Inside Voices, Outside Light group show at the Scandinavia House. Sosnowska’s 2024 photobook För was reviewed here.
The American Flag as a barrier, with a reaching hand that can’t get past. Chester Higgins (“State of Affairs” from 2018) at Bruce Silverstein Gallery.
Chicken wire and the touch of an early full body cyanotype. Sheila Pinkel (from c1974-1977) at Higher Pictures.
Seeing an Arizona border wall as a patchwork of images and screen printed patterns. Hannah Smith Allen at Baxter St at CCNY.
Using a toner transfer process on adhesive tape to reimagine a gridded view. Spencer Vazquez at Baxter St at CCNY.
The arrival of a fist, among port workers in Naha, Japan, where the artist owned and ran a bar. Mao Ishikawa (from 1983-1986) at Alison Bradley Projects.
The slats of chair turned into echoing stripes. Robert Rauschenberg (from 1995) in the Chair Show at 125 Newbury.
A heterogeneous jumble of stacked chairs. Yto Barrada (from 2013-2015) in the Chair Show at 125 Newbury.
Marking time with photography and ceramics. Sam Falls (from 2023) at 303 Gallery.
A portrait behind cracked glass. Rose Mandel (from 1952) in the Five West Coast Photographers group show at Deborah Bell Photographs.
Layering a face across the side of a steel mill. Edmund Teske (from 1956) in the Five West Coast Photographers group show at Deborah Bell Photographs.
Shelves of scientific glassware, seen at an angle. Alma Lavenson (from 1931) in the Five West Coast Photographers group show at Deborah Bell Photographs.
Tactile geometric planes of boards and shingles. Dorothea Lange (from 1936) in the Five West Coast Photographers group show at Deborah Bell Photographs.
