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Hannah Lee's Dreamlike Realism
Being bowled over by an unknown artist’s first one-person show does not happen often but when it does, it renews your faith that the art world is not just about buzz and hype.
John Yau
John Yau is an award winning poet, critic, curator, and publisher of Black Square Editions. He has published over 50 books of poetry, fiction, and art criticism.
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Robert Gober Looks Into Our Heart of Darkness
In his new works, Gober pulled me into another world, one that was both illuminated by natural light and full of cold shadows.
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Something Is Not Right With The World
Alexi Worth's paintings demand a double take that allows viewers to look closer and begin dissembling the painting in order to understand what is being looked at.
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Paintings that Honor the Privacy of Grief
Crys Yin's subject is grief, which, for all that takes place in public, is largely a private matter.
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Jiha Moon’s Artistic Breakthrough
It is precisely Moon's openness to using any source that makes her work flamboyant, captivating, odd, funny, smart, uncanny, comically monstrous, and unsettling. And, most of all, over the top.
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The Mind-Bending Portraits of Chie Fueki
For years, Fueki has been quietly creating a singular body of mind-bending work that has never fit into the New York art world.
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Paintings Rather Than Pictures
This desire to go beyond the ordinary without forgetting its existence seems to be one motivation that Jane Freilicher and Thomas Nozkowski shared.
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This Be the Verse: Our Favorite Poetry Books 2021 (Mostly)
John Yau and Albert Mobilio select a few choice titles from the past year.
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The Mysteries of the Universe in John Willenbecher’s Early Work
Between 1962 and ’75, Willenbecher made a substantial body of work reflecting his interest in games and the night sky, in the ancient human desire to make order out of the inexplicable.
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A Moving Meditation on Mortality in Brice Marden's Late Paintings
What I see as his late period reveals an artist who knows that change is inevitable, that mortality is hurrying closer, and that art is not a bulwark against time.
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The Unknown Work of Rakuko Naito
Naito's Op-inspired abstractions might have been an oblique way of dealing with feelings of displacement after moving to the United States.
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Pete Schulte’s Magical Abstract Drawings
Schulte seems at once focused and restless, determined and open.