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Painting in The Age of Anxiety
I have an innate distrust of work that has a whiff of nostalgia drifting off its surface, whether it is for Andy Warhol, Jackson Pollock, or, further back, Albert Pinkham Ryder.
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How Tessa Boffin, One of the Leading Lesbian Artists of the AIDS Crisis, Vanished From History
Boffin explained in a 1991 radio interview that she was trying to put lesbians back on the political agenda, but her risqué performances frequently drew criticism from inside the LGBTQ community.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: cities across the US examined their holdings of Confederate monuments, “Trumpy the Rat” made its debut, and a de Kooning stolen in 1985 was recovered.
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Your Concise New York Art Guide for Fall 2019
Your list of must-see, fun, insightful, and very New York art events this season.
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Still Photographs that Convey the Passage of Time
In the ’60s, photographers anxious about the art form’s legitimacy set out to distinguish fine art from documentary practices.
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A Photographer Who Turns Viewers into Voyeurs
Matthew Morrocco arrived at the café fashionably late, wearing an army jacket and floral print flats. Before sitting down he ordered his coffee.
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Early Photographs of a Child Getting Spooked by Bogeymen
What child doesn’t dread the unseen monsters potentially lurking under the bed, or stalking around the shadows outside the window? These photographs from the 1920s realize this terror in a series of comical and upsetting staged horror.
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Allen Ginsberg’s Beat Photographs on Display
I had no idea renowned beat poet Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997) was an avid amateur photographer. A current exhibition of his black and white snapshots are on display at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, and they are annotated by Ginsberg himself, who rediscovered his early photos (made between 1953 and 1963) in the 1980s.
