Hope your Easter was delightful if you celebrated. For those who didn’t, you might still enjoy the delightful array of costumes from the Easter Bonnet Parade over the weekend, featuring imaginative creations like egg carton hats, birdcage veils, and an entire family dressed as shrimp.
We attended the press preview for the Duchamp exhibition at MoMA, which occupies the entire sixth floor. The exhibition is comprehensive, engaging, and occasionally unexpected. More in-depth coverage is forthcoming, but for now, know that Duchamp’s decision to stop painting wasn’t due to a lack of talent. The exhibition opens to the public this Sunday, and it’s worth setting aside a few hours for your visit.
Have you ever experienced the sensation of encountering an artist’s work everywhere you turn? Critic Aruna D’Souza feels this way about Kamrooz Aram, having encountered his paintings, drawings, and installations in three separate exhibitions across two continents this year. His works convey a certain ease, suggesting that history, despite its harshness, can be approached with lightness.
D’Souza contends that the Iranian artist is doing more than merely blending Islamic motifs with Western abstract art. She notes, “You might recognize a painterly language so thoroughly imbued with global influences that it becomes a chimera, an idiom rooted in multiple origins without any hierarchy.”
