Shirin Neshat’s Land of Dreams

By Laura Valenza

JULY/AUG 2023 | Film

In Shirin Neshat’s 2021 satirical film Land of Dreams, Simin’s job as a “dreamcatcher” for the US Census Bureau is to go door-to-door asking that unusual final question: What was your last dream? And thus begins this satirical tale twisting the concept of the American Dream every which way possible until it has been wrung dry.

Jane Dickson: 99¢ Dreams

By Brendan Burdzinski

MAY 2022 | ArtSeen

An overwhelming desire for the past looms in the air; indeed, one reminder of this sentiment—and it’s a stunning one—is 99¢ Dreams, Jane Dickson’s current exhibition of new paintings at James Fuentes Gallery.

Yuri Yuan: Dark Dreams

By Vanilla Anandam

OCT 2022 | ArtSeen

The eleven oil paintings (all 2022) that comprise Dark Dreams at Alexander Berggruen Gallery, the artist’s second solo exhibition in New York, depart from the accepted conventions of Surrealism and forge ahead, past the threshold of dream and sleep.

Daniel Johnston: I Live My Broken Dreams

By Barbara Purcell

OCT 2021 | ArtSeen

Daniel Johnston: I Live My Broken Dreams opened September 11, two years to the day of his passing. The prolific, enigmatic singer-songwriter and artist, famed for his self-released music cassettes and comic-book drawings, would have turned 60 this year.