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Distorted Happiness. | Johan Wahlstrom at Georges Bergès Gallery.

In The Menu, Visual Arts by Mark Bloch

t Georges Bergès Gallery, a work called Punch Them Hard, sequestered in the back room, is a left over from a recent era of the featured artist’s previous work. It combines a sea of faces representing the masses that provides a solid background pattern for foreground imagery that, unfortunately, seems all too fresh and vivid. In silhouette, anonymous thugs are …

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Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious at White Box. | Various Artists curated by Lara Pan.

In The Menu, Visual Arts by Mark Bloch

or fifty years we have been grappling with what the word “feminism” means. Somewhere between the appearance of two American films—both about nannies— one a sing-along children’s blockbuster created in 1963 and the other a cult documentary for the small screen released in 2013, every citizen of the world had to swallow at least one working definition of this problematic …