Essay
Thinking the politics of race in contemporary dance.
The artist talks about investigating the gender spectrum and the female gaze.
The artist talks about claiming noble lineages through hybridized portrait paintings.
The poetics of the microdose.
A mural’s ode to labor and migration.
The artists talk about the desire for blonde.
Examining the politics of representation.
With Nigella Sativa, we arrive at midnight together, to the intimacy that can come from mass hysteria.
Reza Abdoh, the first large-scale retrospective of the late Iranian-American theater director’s work, is on view through September 3 at MoMA PS1. The comprehensive exhibition was co-organized by Bidoun’s Negar Azimi, Tiffany Malakooti, and Babak Radboy alongside MoMA PS1 director Klaus Biesenbach.
The use and abuse of art in an imperfect world.