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Janet Tyson

Janet Tyson is an independent art historian, critic and artist. She lives and works in a semi-rural part of Michigan for about nine months a year, and in London for about three months a year.

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For First Public Project in the UK, Theaster Gates Builds a Sanctuary in a Bombed-Out Church

by Janet Tyson November 2, 2015November 17, 2015

BRISTOL, UK — On Saturday night here, in a concert hall whose former life as a church moved him to sing hymns, artist Theaster Gates gave a site-specific performance that brought many audience members to tears and prompted others to walk out.

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Finding Art in the Smallness of Everyday Enthusiasms

by Janet Tyson October 28, 2015October 28, 2015

INDIANAPOLIS — The domestic and personal are generally accorded critical attention when cast as dysfunctional; Michelle Grabner presents the domestic as a relatively positive creative force.

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Slicing Through the Noise at an Alternative Art Fair in London

by Janet Tyson October 21, 2015October 23, 2015

LONDON — After visiting two of the art fairs being held in London this fall, I couldn’t help but compare and contrast Frieze London 2015 and Sluice_2015.

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Sussing Out Subtlety at the Frieze Art Fairs in London

by Janet Tyson October 14, 2015October 15, 2015

LONDON — Last year was my first Frieze London fair, and I was baffled that it could seem so desultory, given that it was chock-a-block with pointlessly novel artworks.

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So You Want to Start a College Art Museum…

by Janet Tyson September 10, 2015

HOLLAND, Mich. — When I first heard that Hope College was building a new art museum my first thought was: Why?

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The Little-Known Engineer Who Made the First Abstract Paintings in the US

by Janet Tyson July 9, 2015July 12, 2015

MUSKEGON, Mich. — What’s especially significant about Manierre Dawson is that he made his breakthrough to non-objective imagery prior to any exposure to modernist art.

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A 19th-Century Paper Mill Transformed into a Space for Art

by Janet Tyson July 6, 2015July 7, 2015

PLAINWELL, Mich. — In Sarah Lindley’s current installation at the historic Plainwell Paper Mill Company in southwestern Michigan, she traces the watershed of the Kalamazoo River.

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