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The Arts Intel Report

A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler
A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler

Dwelling Is the Light

Apr 15 – May 15, 2020
74 Leonard Street, New York, NY 10013, United States

In his 1798 poem “Lines Written a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey,” William Wordsworth recalls his boyish interactions with nature, and then describes what came later, “a sense sublime / Of something far more deeply interfused, / Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns, / And the round ocean, and the living air, / And the blue sky, and in the mind of man, / A motion and a spirit, that impels / All thinking things, all objects of all thought, / And rolls through all things.” This exhibition, which takes its title from Wordsworth’s poem and is curated by Katy Hessel, presents art that addresses that rolling motion, that spirit. The artists are all female and contemporary, among them Vija Celmins, Prudence Flint, Kiki Smith, and Sanam Khatibi. —L.J.

Kiki Smith, “Harbor, (Ocean-rocks-birds),” 2015. Courtesy Timothy Taylor, London.