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In “Ousmane,” Neighbors on the Margin Find Connection

“I was trying to show this feeling of invisibility that these individuals experience in our society,” Camarotti, who himself immigrated to Canada, told me. Jorge Camarotti’s “Ousmane” is a quiet film full of big emotions. Its title character, played with…

Alex Katz’s Conversations with Friends

“Gathering” is the title of the Guggenheim’s triumphant Alex Katz retrospective (on view through Feb. 20), but it might easily have been “Conversations with Friends”—and not just because a stylish detail of a Katz double portrait graces the cover of…

Barry Blitt’s “Low Tide”

In the weeks leading up to the 2022 midterms, many pundits predicted that a “red wave” of Republican victories would sweep across the country. There was precedent for this: historically, the President’s party tends to lose seats in midterm contests.…