Mousse Magazine: Omer Fast at Arratia, Beer
“Omer Fast’s works examine how individual and collective histories interact. Focusing on narratives, Fast mixes sound and image into stories that test the line between personal and media accounts of current and historical events. In his concern with the strategies of digital manipulation and perception, Fast’s work draws attention to the permeable boundaries between documentary and fiction …”
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Insatiable Critic: En Japanese Brasserie
“Then as the evening stretches on and on, with smoke-filled terrariums and radishes no bigger than a pearl among exotic crudities on ice, and sublime broth simmered mysteriously flame-defying parchment, approving nods dissolve into an irrepressible chorus of sighs and cries. I’m trying to recall another Japanese roller coaster ride as exhilarating as this one …”
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The New York Times: Studio Museum’s Art Prize Awarded to Jennie C. Jones
“The Studio Museum in Harlem is awarding its Wein Prize, one of the most lucrative in contemporary art, to Jennie C. Jones, a 44-year-old Brooklyn-based painter and sculptor whose work – which she describes as ‘listening as a conceptual practice’ – centers on music.
“The prize, with a $50,000 award, has been given every year since 2006 to established or emerging African-American artists. It was started by George Wein, a founder of the Newport Jazz Festival, in honor of his wife, Joyce Alexander Wein, a longtime trustee of the museum who died in 2005 …”
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