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An XiaoAn Xiao grounds her urban photography in the aesthetics of East Asia.
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Brooklyn's Beachfront Romance With Cinema Continues at the Coney Island Film Festival
By Joshua GlickDEC 19-JAN 20 | Film
The 19th Annual Coney Island Film Festival (CIFF) wrapped, per ritual, in an epic bumper car bash. Filmmakers, organizers and spectators found themselves colliding into one another at the Eldorado Auto Skooter rink on Surf Avenue. The event was thoroughly in the spirit of the festival, which does not simply take place at the storied amusement destination, but is of it in distinct ways. The cultural geography of the region shapes all aspects of exhibition and programming.

Barbara Takenaga and Patricio Guzmán: telescopes and other visions
By Joan WaltemathFEB 2019 | 1 by 1
The buzz about Barbara Takenaga’s recent show, Outset at DC Moore Gallery, had already reached me by the time I got back from my summer on the Great Plains and was standing in front of her lush new paintings.

Visions of Brazil
By Madeline Murphy TurnerJUNE 2019 | ArtSeen
Visions of Brazil is an ambitious exhibition that seeks to locate itself within a contemporary discourse on the construction of Brazilian Modernism. Curated by Sofia Gotti for Blum & Poes New York gallery, the exhibition begins with historian Walter Mignolos assertion that coloniality is the darker side of modernity.
Boyle Family: Nothing is more radical than the facts
By Mark BlochAPRIL 2021 | ArtSeen
In their first solo presentation in New York in over 40 years, the Boyle Familys earthprobes are disorienting re-creations of randomly selected areas of the earths surface, made from resin, fiberglass, and found materials, that combine Robert Smithsons earthiest visions with the uncanny eeriness of a Duane Hanson clone.