Hilary Irons finds a major theme of empathy and connection in the work of seven graduates from Maine College of Art’s MFA program, highlighting how artists are responding to the precarity and isolation of the world and setting out to change it.
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In Somnyama Ngonyama, Zanele Muholi uses the performativity of photography to rewrite a Black queer and trans visual history of South Africa.
Before Projection: Video Sculpture 1974–1995 at MIT’s List Center defines video sculpture, asking viewers to grapple with the spatial and social realities of video.
Graeme Kennedy, in a series of community discussions, speaks with The Chart Editor Jenna Crowder and Julien Langevin about the complexities of Nan Goldin at the Portland Museum of Art.
Emily Mae Smith’s art historical and illustrative paintings summon Marxist interpretations of the performativity of gender. by Frances Barker