Art Project Summary: Holding Ice

By Zak Hajjaoui

JUNE 2019 | Critics Page

Innu people have always been involved in fighting to protect the land, and this project was a way for me to showcase the beauty the land has.

New York Cycle, a Diary

by Catherine Cusset, an excerpt translated from the French by Armine Kotin Mortimer

DEC 18-JAN 19 | Fiction

Fifteen years later, New York has changed. The twin towers no longer fill the view when you cycle down Fifth Avenue or rollerblade toward Downtown beside the Hudson. The East Village, Alphabet City, and the Lower East Side have gentrified. The Williamsburg Bridge has been repaired and now leads on both sides to neighborhoods inhabited by trendy young people.

MOTHA and Chris E. Vargas: Consciousness Razing—The Stonewall Re-Memorialization Project

By Danilo Machado

DEC 18-JAN 19 | ArtSeen

The Museum of Transgender Hirstory and Art (MOTHA), a semi-fictional institution led by Chris E. Vargas, counters the stable, hetero/cis-normative, “serious” structure of the museum with fluid, playful objects and images that center trans people, narratives, and subjectivities. Vargas’s project Transgender Hirstory in 99 Objects began in 2015 and now continues at the New Museum in an exhibition entitled curated by Johanna Burton and Sara O’Keeffe.

Silky Shoemaker: Billboard Project

By Ksenia Soboleva

OCT 2020 | ArtSeen

If art is to play a role in political change, the first step is to get it out of the galleries and into the streets. Silky Shoemaker’s Billboard Project, a series of four graphically striking anti-Trump billboards installed in rural Pennsylvania, is one example.