9 Art Events in New York This Week: Nari Ward, Jonas Mekas, Judith Linhares, and More
A guide to the next seven days.
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‘That’s the Cathedral of Cinema, Don’t You Know It?’: Jonas Mekas on the Wonders of Downtown New York
In an email from 2016, the storied filmmaker wrote about life below 14th Street.
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Jonas Mekas, Key Experimental Filmmaker, Dies at 96
Widely considered to be one of the most important figures in the history of avant-garde cinema, he was a fixture in his adopted home of New York.
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What Happens on Tour Stays on Tour: At an Exhausting Documenta, an Underwhelming Venice Biennale, an Enthralling Skulptur Projekte
In Venice, Athens, and Kassel, Münster, and Marl, Germany
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Bird Droppings, Opera, and Reading Gaol: Museum and Gallery Shows in London During Frieze
On Wilfredo Lam at Tate Modern, James Richards at Institute of Contemporary Art in London, Paula Rego at Marlborough Fine Art, and much more
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The Beat Spirit of Film: A Robert Frank Retrospective
Robert Frank's film work will be shown at the Brooklyn Academy of Music beginning August 4. A comprehensive series like this one has the potential to shift art-historical narratives. By providing acce…
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‘I’m Like an Anthropologist’: Dinner With Film Legend Jonas Mekas During His First-Ever Trip to Basel
“No, I’m not tired—I don’t know what being tired is!” said Jonas Mekas, the 93-year-old artist and filmmaker, a few hours after flying into Basel, Switzerland, from his home in New York. It…
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Here is a CBS Evening News Piece From 50 Years Ago About ‘Underground Film’
On Monday, the A.V. Club posted a YouTube video of an Andy Dugan–reported CBS Evening News story from December 31, 1965, about the emerging “underground film” movement in New York City, which…
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The Whitney Moves Downtown: Artists and Curators on the Museum’s History and Future
It’s not every day that an institution the size of the Whitney Museum moves to a different building. The Whitney began in 1914 as an informal salon founded by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney…
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