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Carter Ratcliff

Carter Ratcliff is a poet, art critic, and contributing editor of Art in America. His writings on art have been published by the Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Guggenheim Museum; the Royal Academy, London; Maxxi Museum of 21st Century Arts, Rome, and many other institutions. He has contributed to the leading journals of the United States and Europe, including Art in America, Art Forum, ArtNews, Arts, Tate, and Art Presse, as well as Vogue, Elle, and New York magazine. His books include The Fate of a Gesture: Jackson Pollock and Postwar American Art, Out of the Box: The Reinvention of Art, and monographs on Andy Warhol, John Singer Sargent, Georgia O’Keeffe, Gilbert & George, and others. Among his books of poetry are Fever Coast, Give Me Tomorrow, and Arrivederci, Modernismo. His first novel, Tequila Mockingbird, was published in 2015.

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Jonathan Feldschuh’s Visions of a Subatomic World

by Carter Ratcliff December 2, 2021December 2, 2021

Feldschuh understands that the actions and interactions of particles can be formulated mathematically but not illustrated visually.

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Visualizing Climate Change Through Abstract Painting

by Carter Ratcliff November 11, 2021November 16, 2021

Diane Burko’s images of melting glaciers and dying coral reefs are not just pictorially impressive; they have strong emotional impact.

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Revisiting the Joy of Pattern and Decoration

by Carter Ratcliff August 28, 2021August 28, 2021

The Pattern and Decoration movement was a hard-charging assault on traditions both ancient and oppressive. It was also an explosion of joyously liberated impulses.

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Every Dealer’s Nightmare: The Inevitability of Fakes

by Carter Ratcliff April 9, 2021April 12, 2021

The media almost always overlook what is truly interesting about fakes: not who made them, who sold them, or who was in on the scam and who was not, but what they tell us about art and those who produce it.

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The Originality of Joanna Pousette-Dart

by Carter Ratcliff October 17, 2020November 5, 2020

Pousette-Dart embraces the world without representing it.

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Jan Harrison’s Dream Animals

by Carter Ratcliff October 3, 2020November 5, 2020

To respond to an animal in Harrison’s imagined world is to grasp how closely its existence is linked with that of all the others.

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Brice Marden’s Intuitive Formalism

by Carter Ratcliff August 3, 2019August 3, 2019

Each work in Marden’s series Cold Mountain Studies is the trace of a transient intention, and their variety is potentially infinite.

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Alain Kirili’s Embodied Abstract Art

by Carter Ratcliff June 22, 2019June 26, 2019

Throughout his career Kirili has evoked the body in his abstract sculptures, in an era when sculpture has often sidestepped the human form.

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Expressions of the Fullness of Being

by Carter Ratcliff April 6, 2019April 8, 2019

In Natvar Bhavsar’s art, all is in flux; everything is both what it is and all that it might become.

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The Whitney’s Dilemma

by Carter Ratcliff December 15, 2018December 26, 2018

The Whitney has not had the moral courage to reject support from a benefactor who generated his wealth in socially irresponsible ways.

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Seeing Ourselves in Sculpture

by Carter Ratcliff July 7, 2018July 9, 2018

Richard Nonas’s sculptures alert each of us to the specificity of being — in a specific time and a specific place.

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Visualizing the Imaginary and Unseen

by Carter Ratcliff October 21, 2017October 20, 2017

Nicolas Carone questions our understanding of the image and gives us no definitive answers.

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