Thursday in Arts & Letters
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EYE ON THE MIDDLE EAST
Aperture has spent the last 50 years educating the public about photography, writes WILLIAM MEYERS. That effort continues with the first exhibition in Aperture’s new Chelsea gallery, which features works by 17 contemporary Arab photographers and offers unique insight into a part of the globe events require us to know more about.
A PASSION FOR COLOR
A retrospective of Oscar Bluemner’s work at the Whitney examines the artist’s evolution from a budding architect to a key innovator in the modernist shift to abstraction. LANCE ESPLUND reports.
GLASS IN BROOKLYN
BAM hosts the world premiere of Philip Glass’s ‘Orion.’