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Her death must be an expiation, her down-going as sheer, blind, and sudden as the breathless plunge of a Peruvian child hurled down a stony chasm to placate the mountain spirit.
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Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 4 May 2023
The catalog essays feature ideological arm-twisting and theoretical mind games that leave me wondering whether the people involved regard their joy as a sin demanding expiation.
—Jed Perl, The New York Review of Books, 3 Aug. 2022
So writing the play was an act of expiation?
—David Marchese David Marchesephotograph By Mamadi Doumbouya, New York Times, 23 Nov. 2022
The music and the movement enacted a ritual of sonic expiation, a freedom born in sound.
—Adam Bradley Adam Bradley Photographs By D’angelo Lovell Williams Styled By Ian Bradley Nick Haramis Photographs By Lise Sarfati Styled By Suzanne Koller Sasha Weiss Photographs By Justin French Susan Dominus Photographs By Luis Alberto Rodriguez Styled By Charlotte Collet, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2022
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Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 4 May 2023
The catalog essays feature ideological arm-twisting and theoretical mind games that leave me wondering whether the people involved regard their joy as a sin demanding expiation.
—Jed Perl, The New York Review of Books, 3 Aug. 2022
So writing the play was an act of expiation?
—David Marchese David Marchesephotograph By Mamadi Doumbouya, New York Times, 23 Nov. 2022
The music and the movement enacted a ritual of sonic expiation, a freedom born in sound.
—Adam Bradley Adam Bradley Photographs By D’angelo Lovell Williams Styled By Ian Bradley Nick Haramis Photographs By Lise Sarfati Styled By Suzanne Koller Sasha Weiss Photographs By Justin French Susan Dominus Photographs By Luis Alberto Rodriguez Styled By Charlotte Collet, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2022
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