Art Review
An Exhibition Lets Self-Taught Artists Speak for Themselves
At the Folk Art Museum, “Self-Made” overcomes the problem of “insiders” ventriloquizing self-taught artists.
Ekin Erkan
Ekin Erkan is a writer, curator, and researcher whose academic background combines philosophy and art history. Erkan’s areas of specialization include the history of modernist aesthetics and German Idealism.
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Chronicles of an American Abyss
By surveying 150 years of social strife, the artists in Model Home (New York) dispel rosy clichés of the "American ideal."
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Edward Hopper’s Views of Isolation
He was interested in a kind of realism, inseparable from the cold structures and isolated people that populate his compositions.
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Shining a Light on a Dark Chapter of American Pottery
Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina brings awareness of both Edgefield’s awesome artistry and poet-potter David Drake’s odds-defying life to a sizable audience.
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Nellie Mae Rowe’s Story of Freedom
Really Free: The Radical Art of Nellie Mae Rowe is brimming with examples of the artist’s imaginative allegorical art.