Criticism, Reviews, Art Leonie Ettinger Criticism, Reviews, Art Leonie Ettinger

Rewriting Nora: Ibsen, Gender, and the Struggle for Self-Determination

“I’m not fit to be a mother. There’s something else I’d have to do first — to change myself from a doll to a real human being.” With these words, Nora Helmer (Sarah Wharton) leaves her husband Torvald (Stephen Dexter) at the end of Royston Coppeneger’s new translation of Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll House (2024).

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Criticism, Reviews, Art Anna Gregor Criticism, Reviews, Art Anna Gregor

Raoul de Keyser: The Dialectical Freedom of Painting

Often, you'll hear a painter mutter enviously while looking at a painting something along the lines of ”Damn. He just did whatever the hell he wanted.” Variations of this phrase were doubtlessly uttered many times over the last month throughout the adjoining galleries of David Zwirner’s 19th Street location, where Raoul de Keyser’s paintings hang on the walls, their apparent haphazardness inoffensively contrasting with the sky-lit gallery space.

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