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How Pre-Columbian Art Influenced Josef Albers
The Josef Albers in Mexico exhibition is a necessary corrective to Albers’s reputation as more pedagogue than painter and the misconception that abstraction can ever be free of outside influence.
Dennis Zhou
Dennis Zhou is a writer living in New York City. He holds a master's degree from the University of Oxford, and his work has appeared most recently in the Times Literary Supplement.
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Jean-Luc Godard's Models for a Scuttled Exhibition Are Artworks in Their Own Right
An exhibition at Miguel Abreu Gallery gathers the intricate and rewarding models Godard created for a 2006 exhibition at the Centre Pompidou that never came to pass.
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Joseph Cornell's Boxes Coax, Captivate, and Channel Juan Gris
Viewing one of Cornell’s boxes is an almost heartbreaking encounter with inner vitality and outer limitation; like cages, they display the self-sufficiency of a circumscribed world.
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Realizing Paul Klee’s Influence on American Abstraction
A sense of irrepressible exuberance that makes Klee’s work singular in the history of modern art infuses two current exhibitions of his work in Switzerland.