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Ana Krutchinsky’s Once Upon a Times
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Sometimes heartwarming, sometimes heartbreaking, always captivating. I have taken to occasionally logging onto a lurking Instagram account just so that I can read them.
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Museum of Un-natural History
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One of Walla Walla’s cultural treasures. An unexpected gem in the middle of nowhere—rooms packed with ephemera and strange dolls and tiny working fair rides, all cobbled into a surreal, Dadaist haven, packed into the second floor of the pharmacy. Free admission!
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Mathqaf
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Not to be confused with Mathaf, Mathqaf is an Instagram account that curates modern and contemporary art from WANA. Some of my favorite research projects were originally conceived from a painting or an artist that they featured (hello, Huguette Caland! Hello, Lalla Essaydi!). I feel like they’re the type of page that the internet exists for—a place where stumble upon something new and altering that you immediately want to integrate into your world view or your list of things you care about (or maybe that’s just me). They also used to have an excellent website where they published artist profiles and research papers, but it appears to be under construction at the moment.
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Youssef Nabil
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Youssef Nabil is an Egyptian artist who creates hand painted gelatin silver prints using techniques that he learned from artisans at photo studios in Cairo and Alexandria. I love how his pastel palette work with the soft edges created by the printing technique—I think his photos are so dreamy in that hazy, staring-at-the-sun-too-long way. Nabil also recently became the first contemporary Arab artist to be invited to show at the Musee d’Orsay! The photo I chose here actually headlines the exhibition.
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The Peacock Room (Freer Gallery)
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A childhood favorite of mine, and maybe the second ever artwork that I have loved! As a toddler, my mother would take me and I would sit here for as long as I could. As an adult, just as striking. If you’re into drama, I’d read about the backstory behind its creation—Darren Waterston did a freaky interpretation of the room and its history in Filthy Lucre (2015) that scared me too much to really appreciate at the time.
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Bob Fosse's Choreography from Sweet Charity
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If I ever had a baby I would show them this as a baby sensory video. I have never seen Sweet Charity, but I watch this video and Hey Big Spender a few times a month. What happens is this: I am lounging in the living room, idle, when inspiration strikes. I turn on the TV, open YouTube, watch Big Spender once, watch this clip all the way through, rewind a few times, rewatch Big Spender again, go “ugh! I just don’t know how they do it!” like I am 65 years old, and then autoplay begins and YouTube starts playing the Motownphilly music video. I went through this routine two nights ago and my roommate remarked to our friend, “oh that’s how you know she’s up too late again. She always does this.” And I do! Because I just don’t know how they do it!
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Hopie Hill
The Book of Symbols
$40
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This + Ariadne’s Clue + Katy Kelleher’s essays on color triple threat @Nina
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Glyptotek
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The beauty of the space alone makes this museum worth a visit, but the cherry on top (for me!) is that they have some of the Fayum mummy portraits. The Winter Garden is so lush and gorgeous, and they’ve got lots of Impressionists if that’s the type of thing you’re into. I was particularly fond of the wall of recreation noses and ears that had originally been created to repair ancient statues. Could take a whole day to explore—I left to get a hotdog outside the train station and then went back later.
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Anything by Mai Ta
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I have LOVED Mai Ta’s paintings for years now, and I have also loved watching the evolution of her artwork. She works with gouache on paper on a relatively small scale, and the smoothness of her shapes and shadows lend the paintings a fluid, dreamlike quality. I am especially fond of her latest output, which is darker and less figurative than the bright, colorful portraiture that initially drew me to her (I have not included these in the image here, because I think they are best experienced in sequence all together). In my dreams I have made it out of the gig economy, I have a real job, and I have the money to spend on a Mai Ta painting. One day!
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