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Abstract Art Did Not Begin With Paul Cézanne
Odili Donald Odita challenges the long-held belief that abstract art is a purely Western tradition.
John Yau
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Girls, Gods, and Rabbits
Leiko Ikemura is concerned with the meeting place of the spiritual and physical, the ineffable and material worlds.
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Shirley Jaffe’s Outlier Beginnings
A show of early works by Jaffe challenges viewers to think about the road she pursued in her art, and what it means to go your own way.
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Siobhan McBride Unsettles the Familiar
What makes Siobhan McBride's work as a whole interesting is her interest in the ambiguity, suggestibility, and elusiveness of everyday life.
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Yun-Fei Ji's Great Leap Forward
The Chinese painter learned the state-sanctioned style of Socialist Realism and then elected to unlearn it in order to reinvent himself.
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Philip Taaffe Digs Deeper Into the Rabbit Hole
It seems Taaffe is looking at the present as an extinction event, and that one purpose of painting is to bequeath some record of history and time to the future.
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Xylor Jane’s Cosmic Grids
The rules that structure Jane's paintings take her to some place strange and fascinating, beautiful and perplexing, mind-boggling and riveting.
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Pat Steir Accepts Time's Passage With Grace
Steir’s work of the ’90s was the result of physically demanding processes. What happens when you cannot do what you once did?
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You Can’t Coat the Holocaust With Gold
Anselm Kiefer's philosophy has its roots in German Romanticism, particularly the belief that the artist can mediate between the creative and the divine, between earth and heaven.
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Anne Harvey in a Club of One
There is the singular artist and then there is the more exclusive club that has only one member. Harvey belongs to the latter.
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Whose Stripe Is It, Anyway?
Astrid Dick was told that she could not paint stripes because Sean Scully and Frank Stella have done so before her, a patently foolish statement.
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James Siena's Radical Abstraction
The pleasure of Siena’s art arises from the tension between the overall image or the changing visual field and the individual units.