"Hynes, as accomplished an artist-curator as he is a musician, has performed in concert halls with the composer Philip Glass, written music for Broadway (in the transfer of Max Wolf Friedlich's thriller "Job"), scored a half-dozen films (including Paul Schrader's "Master Gardener" and Rebecca Hall's "Passing"), and written or produced for many talented friends, on albums and accompanying art pieces."
"In Charisse Pearlina Weston's sculptures, sheets of glass are gathered into configurations of intimacy which verge on mutual destruction. Politics and history seethe from the hazardous touch of the meeting points. In the precariousness of Weston's chosen material-and of its arrangement-she finds a metaphor for Black life, its fragile metaphysical surface, the forces that give it form. The sculptures seem to hold their breath as the tenuous question of their future hovers in the air:"
Dev Hynes resumed his Blood Orange project with Essex Honey, an album that enlists collaborators such as Lorde, Caroline Polachek, Mustafa, and cellist Mabe Fratti to craft reflective songs that evoke wide-open countryside. He returned after a seven-year hiatus during which he composed for Broadway, scored films, and collaborated with other artists. Blood Orange will perform at Brooklyn Steel Nov. 29–30 and Dec. 2–5. Charisse Pearlina Weston assembles sheets of glass into intimate, precarious sculptures that metaphorically address Black life, exposing political and historical tensions through fragile surfaces that appear poised to shatter and be repaired.
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