The Morozov Collection: Icons of Modern Art

By Natalia Gierowska

MARCH 2022 | ArtSeen

The Morozov Collection: Icons of Modern Art brings to light the forgotten story of Russian brothers Mikhail Morozov (1870–1903) and Ivan Morozov (1871–1921), who amassed one of the world’s most spectacular collections of Impressionist and modern art. It is the first time that the Morozov Collection, which comprises nearly two hundred paintings and sculptures, has been shown outside Russia.

Through the Uncertainty, Agnes Borinsky and the Working Group for a New Spirit Are Taking Inventory of Our Lives

By Daniel Krane

NOV 2020 | Theater

How can we find assurance and community in our upside down world? It is an especially taxing effort for theater artists, whose work and livelihoods depend on collaboration and communion. Enter the Working Group for a New Spirit, playwright Agnes Borinsky’s free initiative that offers a virtual home for transient artists, seminars in how to take stock of our lives, and more. Daniel Krane dives into this effort—”a series of gatherings for clarity and direction in our messy moment of distance and collapse”—that the Bushwick Starr is hosting now through December 7.

Rubbing Elbows: The Criterion Collection’s “World of Wong Kar Wai”

By Anthony Hawley

MARCH 2021 | Film

The Criterion Collection's new box set assembles seven of the director's pivotal and recently restored works, occasioning a (re)encounter with the Hong Kong master’s cinema of longing and fragmentation.

The Saddest Thing Is That I Have Had to Use Words: A Madeline Gins Reader

By Megan N. Liberty

APRIL 2020 | Art Books

Including a full facsimile reproduction of Madeline Gins’s out-of-print 1969 novel WORD RAIN, as well as previously unpublished essays and poems, this collection illustrates Gins’s ability to capture the embodied experience of reading and celebrates her mastery as an experimental writer.