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Edward M. Gómez

Edward M. Gómez is a graphic designer, critic, arts journalist, and author or co-author of numerous books about art and design subjects, including Le dictionnaire de la civilisation japonaise, Yes: Yoko Ono, and The Art of Adolf Wölfli: St. Adolf-Giant-Creation. He has written for the New York Times, Art in America, the Brooklyn Rail, Salon, Reforma (Mexico), the Japan Times (Japan), and other publications. Edward is the senior editor of Raw Vision, the London-based, international, outsider-art magazine. He is based in New York and London.

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How Alexander Calder Made Modern Art Move

Avatar photo by Edward M. Gómez April 25, 2020April 24, 2020

In the second volume of a definitive biography, the art critic Jed Perl recalls how the innovative artist revolutionized sculpture.

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A Photographer’s Travels Across the Real American West

Avatar photo by Edward M. Gómez April 11, 2020April 11, 2020

In a new book, the photographer Peter Kayafas captures the contemporary soul of a region long obscured by its own enduring myths.

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A Soaring Visionary of Afrofuturism and Black Power

Avatar photo by Edward M. Gómez March 28, 2020March 27, 2020

In Atlanta, the pride-affirming work of the African American self-taught artist Charles Williams comes into focus in a new, well-researched exhibition.

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The Art of Perception

Avatar photo by Edward M. Gómez March 14, 2020March 13, 2020

In a new exhibition, the Chinese artist Guo Hongwei uses watercolor to vividly depict nature’s forms — and gently tease the eye.

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Issei Nishimura’s Soulful, Expressionistic Art

Avatar photo by Edward M. Gómez February 8, 2020February 7, 2020

Intense and deeply personal, the Japanese self-taught artist’s work, now in its first-ever New York solo survey, defies easy labels.

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Keeping it Odd — and Real — at the 2020 Outsider Art Fair

Avatar photo by Edward M. Gómez January 11, 2020January 10, 2020

With a broader, more international scope, this year’s gathering will offer fresh discoveries at every turn.

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Life-and-Death Paintings, From a Career Cut Short

Avatar photo by Edward M. Gómez November 16, 2019November 15, 2019

“I’m strongly drawn to saintly artists. I mean people who believe that each brushstroke will save the world or will represent the suffering of humanity in the face of a sheep.”

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Male Nudes, Exposed and Examined

Avatar photo by Edward M. Gómez November 9, 2019November 8, 2019

In unabashedly sexual, but not necessarily erotic paintings and drawings, the artist Aaron Skolnick focuses on men — naked and intimate.

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The “Small-Time Crook” Whose Visions Defied Apartheid

Avatar photo by Edward M. Gómez November 2, 2019November 7, 2019

An amateur photographer’s images of louche Cape Town nightlife in the 1960s capture a daring, booze-fueled, melting-pot spirit in the face of apartheid.

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Yoko Ono, More Urgent Than Ever

Avatar photo by Edward M. Gómez October 12, 2019December 21, 2021

At the Everson Museum in upstate New York, a mini-retrospective highlights the timeliness of the artist’s enduring humanistic and nature-focused themes.

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Are Joe Massey’s Prison Drawings the Next Big Thing?

Avatar photo by Edward M. Gómez September 28, 2019September 27, 2019

A remarkable cache of drawings by a now-deceased, African-American prisoner in Ohio might be just what the art market has been waiting for.

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A Memoir of Art, Love, and Jamaica

Avatar photo by Edward M. Gómez September 21, 2019September 20, 2019

The artist Judy Ann MacMillan examines changes in her understanding of herself, the world, and painting against the backdrop of Jamaica’s challenging emergence as a modern, independent nation.

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