This week, the editors look back at artist Jeanne Silverthorne’s “Onwards & Sideways: The Films of Pedro Almodóvar,” from March 1990. In Artforum’s January issue, Anna Shechtman and D. A. Miller weigh in on the director’s latest, Parallel Mothers, in theaters now.“Comedy and tragedy blend to portray a surreal and perverse fable of contemporary life,” Silverthorne succinctly notes of Almodóvar’s exceptional, joyful oeuvre. In an essay that is as insightful as it is comprehensive, she leads readers from one of his earliest films, Dark Habits (1983), onward to his then most recent, Women on the
WATERBURY â The Mattatuck Museum invites the public to preview A Face Like Mine, a major exhibition organized in collaboration with the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and a new installation of work by artist Jeanne Silverthorne from 1 to 3 p.m. Sunday, May 2 on the Green at 144 West Main St. Remarks by Director Bob Burns and Museum Curator Dr. Cynthia Roznoy will be broadcast on Facebook Live at 2 p.m. for those who cannot attend in person.
Filmmaker Mya Sareeâ Gray will be screening an excerpt of her original documentary, A Face Like Mine from 1 to 3 p.m. and teaching artists will be on site to preview summer workshops @ The MATT for both adults and kids. There is a fee for non-members of the museum.
Waterbury s Mattatuck Museum opens A Face Like Mine May 2
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Kerry James Marshall (b. 1955), Supermodel, 1994, Acrylic and collage on canvas, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; The John Axelrod Collection Frank B. Bemis Fund, Charles H. Bayley Fund, and the Heritage Fund for a Diverse Collection, 2011.1825,Image courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York / Contributed photoShow MoreShow Less
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Jeanne Silverthorne (b. 1950), Purple Fluorescent, 2013 Platinum silicone rubber, fluorescent pigment, wire, 24 ¼ x 20 ½ x 5 in.Courtesy of the artist and Marc Straus Gallery / Contributed photoShow MoreShow Less
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WATERBURY The Mattatuck Museum inviteS the public to preview “A Face Like Mine”, a major exhibition organized in collaboration with the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and a new installation of work by artist Jeanne Silverthorne, 1-3 p.m. May 2.