Amy Gerstler

1 month ago | artillerymag.com | Emma Christ |Amy Gerstler

This beautiful show grapples with the history and purpose of habitat dioramas—those eerily lifelike tableaus found in darkened museum halls—and, by extension, questions the past and present life of natural history museums. What is the role of a natural history museum in 2025, and what do 20th-century dioramas mean in a 21st-century context? Because the exhibition involves institutional self-critique, a few contradictions crop up within its extended inquiry.

Jan 17, 2025 | artillerymag.com | Emma Christ |Amy Gerstler

Even though the term ‘performance art’ has become a catch-all phrase, it still feels too narrow to convey the onstage antics of Dynasty Handbag, the performance persona of writer, visual artist and actor Jibz Cameron. When Titanic Depression debuted in New York in 2023, its sensibility was described by the New York Times as “queer vaudevillian.” That’s a more intriguing, and perhaps more accurate label.

Jan 24, 2024 | msn.com | Amy Gerstler

Jan 24, 2024 | theatlantic.com | Amy Gerstler

Today I’ll listen to whatever music Spotify has in mind. Concerto for Black Holes and Slime Molds by the Panty Sniffers? That algorithm knows me so well! I’ve pitched myself under this magnolia tree, heart first, before I get lobbed anyplace worse.

Mar 27, 2023 | nytimes.com | Amy Gerstler |Brenda Shaughnessy |Alfred A. Knopf

Book Review|Love, Absence and Loss, Filtered Through Philosophical Poemshttps://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/27/books/review/tanya-poems-brenda-shaughnessy.htmlPoetryIn Brenda Shaughnessy’s collection “Tanya,” the self is fluid and love is “timelessness itself.”Send any friend a storyAs a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Anyone can read what you share.