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3 weeks ago | 
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Saya Woolfalk Ania Szremski
A riotous multitude coheres into a defined cosmos in a new exhibition at the Museum of Arts and Design. Saya Woolfalk: Empathic Universe, installation view. Courtesy Museum of Arts and Design. Photo: Jenna Bascom.
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Feb 14, 2025 | 
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Sun City Ania Szremski In Tove Jansson’s newly reissued novel set in a Florida retirement home, old age is not wasted on the elderly.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
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On the Calculation of Volume Ania Szremski Remember, remember, the eighteenth of November: in Solvej Balle’s strange and thrilling septology, an antiquarian bookseller contends with the mystery of having to relive the same day repeatedly.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
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No Other Land Ania Szremski An exceptional documentary chronicles the last five years of destruction, violence, and friendship in a community of Palestinian villages in the West Bank. Basel Adra in No Other Land. Courtesy Cinetic Media.
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
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Andrea Blum Ania Szremski The artist’s new exhibition teases the boundaries between captivity and freedom, terror and desire. Andrea Blum: BIOTA, installation view. Courtesy Hunter College Art Galleries.
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Jun 13, 2024 | 
4columns.org | Ania Szremski
Green Border Ania Szremski In Agnieszka Holland’s tragic film about the refugee crisis at the Belarus–Poland crossing, a provocation to bear witness and reflect on complicity. Talia Ajjan as Ghalia and Jalal Altawil as Bashir in Green Border. Courtesy Kino Lorber. Photo: Agata Kubis.
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Mar 7, 2024 | 
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The Extinction of Irena Rey Ania Szremski Of mushrooms and mayhem: In Jennifer Croft’s novel, eight translators who work in eight different languages gather in their author’s rural home . . . what could possibly go wrong? The Extinction of Irena Rey, by Jennifer Croft, Bloomsbury, 309 pages, $28.99• • •Poland is one of Europe’s largest nesting grounds for storks—20 to 25 percent of the world’s population flies to the country every March after wintering in Africa.
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Feb 15, 2024 | 
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Mika Tajima Ania Szremski Soft numbness gives way to surprising politics in an exhibition at Pace Gallery. Mika Tajima: Energetics, installation view. Courtesy Pace Gallery. Mika Tajima: Energetics, Pace Gallery, 540 West Twenty-Fifth Street, New York City, through February 24, 2024• • •Mika Tajima’s ongoing Negative Entropy series, seven examples of which appear in Energetics, her solo exhibition at Pace in Chelsea, are woven representations of human energies.
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Oct 12, 2023 | 
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The Halt during the Chase Ania Szremski Dreadful rooms, dreadful colors, dreadful love: in Rosemary Tonks’s 1972 novel, a woman on the verge is desperate for a way out. The Halt during the Chase, by Rosemary Tonks, New Directions, 218 pages, $17.95• • •English author Rosemary Tonks’s compact 1972 novel The Halt during the Chase—the third recent reissue of her long-inaccessible work—is a love story that’s not really about love at all, in love’s truest sense.
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Jun 29, 2023 | 
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