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A Show on Orphism Can’t Seem to Figure Out What That Is
The problem with Harmony and Dissonance is that its narrative is neither harmonious nor dissonant, but rather fragmented and vague.
Alice Procter
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In Beatrice Glow's Art, Colonial Histories and AI Collide
The artist’s exhibition at the New-York Historical Society is clever, but it takes on a vast and messy past with a touch that is sometimes too light.
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Käthe Kollwitz’s Profoundly Human Art
As images of violence have become more ubiquitous, it’s a devastating testament to Kollwitz's artistry that her works are still so moving.
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Remedios Varo Thrives at the Edges of Perception
Varo’s drawings crack the cold flawlessness of her paintings, and it’s exciting to see the looser, simpler skeletons underneath the surface.
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Something for Every Palate at the European Fine Art Fair
The fair may be geared toward the collector rather than the casual fairgoer, but its wild mix of genres makes it unique.
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Marie Watt Creates Care Through Collage
At the core, all of Watt’s work shows a devotion to care and closeness, a desire to make tangible the layers of relations that bind and make us.
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Sonia Delaunay Was Modernism’s Renaissance Woman
With Sonia Delaunay: Living Art, we get to glimpse pockets of the artist’s work across media, and feel her expansive and collaborative production.
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A Romp Through the History of Beauty
Asking the question of how beauty is sold or how beauty trends change would be more effective in The Cult of Beauty than aiming for both and answering neither.
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What’s Lost When Activist Art Enters the Institution?
The institutionalization of radical history in Women in Revolt! inevitably blunts the message, and streamlines the complex whole into a concise lineage.
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The Met Celebrates Women Designers Without Enough Reflection
Women Dressing Women is trying to be a celebration of neglected designers and sewists, but does not offer a critical reflection on how they have been excluded.
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Judy Chicago’s Corporate Feminism
I came to Herstory hoping to see depth, guts, the ambition and potency of “The Dinner Party” and instead found nothing but surface.
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The ADAA Art Show Is the Sophisticated Aunt of Art Fairs
The sprawling Park Avenue Armory fair, thoughtfully and spaciously curated, is never too stuffy or zeitgeisty.