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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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The Unknowable Ray Johnson

by Edward M. Gómez September 30, 2017September 30, 2017

When Ray Johnson killed himself at the age of 67, the air of mystery surrounding his personality, life, and art only thickened.

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Olivia Munroe’s Art Goes Mystic

by Edward M. Gómez September 23, 2017September 22, 2017

A funny thing happened to Munroe’s works on their way to finding physical form.

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An Artist Who Conveys Messages from the Dead

by Edward M. Gómez September 9, 2017September 9, 2017

Self-taught artist George Kornegay created found-object environments for communing with the spirit world.

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In Venice, With That Sinking Feeling

by Edward M. Gómez August 12, 2017August 16, 2017

The book Migropolis: Venice, edited by Wolfgang Scheppe, examines the migrant and tourist crises afflicting Italy’s fabled “water city.”

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Yoko Ono’s Music of the ’70s is Back

by Edward M. Gómez July 15, 2017July 14, 2017

Three new re-releases showcase Ono’s technical innovations and vocal range, from screams, yelps, wails, grunts, and guttural bursts to ballads, Latin beats, and the blues.

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An Artist Couple’s Domestic Gesamtkunstwerk

by Edward M. Gómez July 8, 2017July 7, 2017

The outsider artist Eugene Von Bruenchenhein and his wife, Marie, created a miniature universe in their bungalow in a Milwaukee suburb.

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The Sexual Ambiguity of Henry Darger’s Vivian Girls

by Edward M. Gómez June 24, 2017June 24, 2017

An exhibition sheds new light on the Chicago recluse’s most provocative images.

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Minoru Onoda, Circle Master from Japan’s Gutai Group

by Edward M. Gómez June 17, 2017June 16, 2017

Onoda daydreamed about the power of his dots and circles to poke a defiant thumb in the eye of “the world we are now living in.”

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Molly Nesbit Chases the Big Ideas

by Edward M. Gómez May 20, 2017May 19, 2017

“I’m interested in how ideas function in the world, in questions of practice, not just theory,” Nesbit told me. “I’m not interested in theory per se, but rather in thinking.”

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In Hiroyuki Doi’s Tiny Circles, Expanding Miniature Universes

by Edward M. Gómez May 13, 2017May 13, 2017

Doi has written that “using circles to produce images” provided him with “relief from the sadness and grief” he felt following his brother’s death. Since that time, his circle motif has alluded to such themes as “the transmigration of the soul, the cosmos, the coexistence of living creatures, human cells, human dialog and peace.”

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Toshio Yoshida Emerges from Gutai’s Grasp

by Edward M. Gómez May 6, 2017May 5, 2017

Even for viewers familiar with the diversity of art forms cooked up by the Gutai artists and the attitudes that informed them, much of what is on display in this Yoshida show may come as a surprise.

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Franklin Furnace at 40: Still Radical After All These Years

by Edward M. Gómez April 15, 2017April 14, 2017

For Martha Wilson and her collaborators at the Franklin Furnace Archive in New York, the avant-garde spirit is alive and well, and as relevant as ever.

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