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Protected: Ileya

By Adedayo Agarau

Protected: There are nights that escape

By Irma Pineda, translated by Wendy Call

Protected: This is War

By Irma Pineda, translated by Wendy Call

Protected: Death’s night won’t come gently

By Irma Pineda, translated by Wendy Call

Roslyn Bernstein

Roslyn Bernstein is Professor Emerita of Journalism and Creative Writing at Baruch College of the City University of New York (CUNY) where she was the founding director of the Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence Program. Her latest book is Engaging Art: Essays and Interviews from Around the Globe (2020), a collection of 60 essays that explores the tangled texture of the contemporary art world. She is the co-author with the architect Shael Shapiro of Illegal Living: 80 Wooster Street and the Evolution of SoHo, published by the Jonas Mekas Foundation, and the author of Boardwalk Stories, 14 linked fictional tales set during the McCarthy years and illuminating the decades 1950-1970. She is currently working on a novel set in Jerusalem in 1961 during the Adolf Eichmann trial. Bernstein has reported on arts and culture from around the globe for such print publications as the New York Times, Newsday, the Village Voice, New York Magazine, Parents, Artnews, and the Columbia Journalism Review, and for such online publications as Tablet, Artslant, Tikkun, Huffington Post, and Guernica.
Commentary Arts & CultureBodies & Nature

Stitching and Writing on the Margin

By Roslyn Bernstein January 25, 2021
Former journalist Sabine Heinlein is charting the history of zoonotic diseases not on magazine covers, but quilts.
Review Arts & Culture

Never Shalem

By Roslyn Bernstein April 16, 2020
A dynamic new generation of Palestinian and Druze women artists is coming up in Israel.
Review Arts & CultureClassGender

Heavier Than Air

By Roslyn Bernstein November 7, 2019
Colombian artist Ruby Rumié confronts domestic violence.
El Anatsui, Three Angles, façade of CMOA, (2018). Photograph by Shael Shapiro
Review Arts & Culture

The Carnegie International Explores its Past With an Eye to the Future

By Roslyn Bernstein February 7, 2019
The exhibition's 57th edition casts a wide net, and the result is bold and thoughtful.
Review Arts & Culture

Seeing Art in Medical Archives

By Roslyn Bernstein June 27, 2018
On both sides of the Atlantic, art and medicine mingle.
Essay Arts & Culture

Shawn Walker, Cultural Anthropologist

By Roslyn Bernstein February 7, 2018
A visit with the photographer and activist, whose first solo retrospective is now on exhibit at Steven Kasher Gallery.
EssayPhotography Arts & Culture

The Incendiary Photography of Jill Freedman

By Roslyn Bernstein December 6, 2017
Irreverent and incisive photographs of a 1968 camp on the National Mall evoke the power of protest.
Commentary Arts & CultureMENA

The Greater (Grater) Divide

By Roslyn Bernstein June 19, 2017
Considering recent contemporary art in Israel.
Review Arts & CultureHistoryUSA

Cranky, Creative, and Controversial

By Roslyn Bernstein February 9, 2017
Recalling artists' collectives of the late ’50s and early ’60s.
Review Arts & Culture

Charlotte Moorman Exposed

By Roslyn Bernstein November 15, 2016
A gallery pays tribute to the avant-garde cellist and artist.
Review Europe

In the Shadow of Auschwitz

By Roslyn Bernstein August 4, 2016

Focusing on the living at the Galicia Jewish Museum and the Jewish Community Centre in Krakow, Poland

Review Arts & Culture

Mid-Century Modern Master Builder

By Roslyn Bernstein April 26, 2016

A production of the Ibsen play embraces an unorthodox space.

Essay Arts & Culture

Coloring the Grey Zone

By Roslyn Bernstein March 8, 2016

In Havana, an art world in transition.

Review Arts & CultureGenderSex

Into the Closet

By Roslyn Bernstein June 30, 2015

In the wake of the Supreme Court’s gay marriage decision, a traveling exhibit on the treatment of homosexuals under Nazism sheds light on a darker period.

Review Arts & CulturePolitics

The Left Front

By Roslyn Bernstein February 25, 2015

Re-examining the radical art of the “Red Decade.”

Report Arts & CultureAsia & Oceania

Between Underground and Above

By Roslyn Bernstein April 23, 2014

After a burst of Western interest in the mid-90s, and amid a complex system of government censorship, Vietnam’s contemporary art scene comes into its own.

Commentary Arts & Culture

Everything Grows

By Roslyn Bernstein January 14, 2014

Inside Wangechi Mutu’s A Fantastic Journey.

Commentary Arts & CultureConflict

Report from Berlin – Artists, Studios, and History

By Roslyn Bernstein July 16, 2012

How Berlin's past shapes its present and future as an artist base.

Art Arts & CultureAsia & Oceania

“Art Und Press”

By Roslyn Bernstein June 13, 2012

A new exhibit uses newspapers as instruments of art and manipulation, and shows that in our media, there is no escaping murder and mayhem.

Commentary Arts & CultureClassMENA

Spying on Reality

By Roslyn Bernstein May 2, 2012

Larry Abramson reflects on Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, and the upcoming 45th anniversary of the Six-Day War.

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