Gail Kaplan has a thing for horses—the ones that pull carriages through the streets of Chicago’s Gold Coast with stately gaits. She is particularly fascinated with her subjects’ tufted manes and stranded tails, which she captures in soft color photographs that would be involving abstractions but for her insistence on including details that remind us that we are admiring the beauty of working-class steeds. Applying the approach of photographers who produce studies of human body parts, Kaplan makes the point effectively that we miss out on nature’s humble glories when we fail to attend to its endless complexities. Kaplan’s most beguiling images form a vertical triptych of tangled, matted and multihued tails that look like clumps of wild trodden grass and beg for the ministrations of a hair dresser applying brush and comb. (Michael Weinstein)
Sounding the City: How Experimental Sound Studio Reaches New Audiences Newcity spoke with Olivia Junell, development and outreach director of ESS, about accessibility of sound art, plans for future iterations of the festival and how the main mission of ESS has shifted to accommodate the needs of artists today.
Symbols of Life: A Review of Theaster Gates at the New Museum in New York City Gates unites his artistic beginnings as a ceramics sculptor with the impressive amount of objects that he has acquired as an archivist. Titled “Young Lords and Their Traces” it follows the lineage of his artistic and archival practice through multiple times and histories.
