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Cyclops, Bananas, and the Art World’s Race Problem
How do persons of color get into the history of painting after it has excluded them?
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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Relearning to Draw with Strips of Colored Tape
You could say that Sangram Majumdar is learning a way of drawing in which mastery is beside the point.
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Arpita Singh Makes Her Mark
When Singh came to a crossroads in her art, she went back to basics: the line and dot.
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The Spiraling Logic of Paul Mogensen's Paintings
Mogensen's primary interest is not in reiterating the picture plane, but in activating it.
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The Graphite Hallucinations of Gray Foy
Through his subtle, intermittent anthropomorphizing of natural forms everything in Foy's meticulous drawings begins to border on the apparitional.
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Eddie Owens Martin's Transformation into an Outsider Saint
Appreciating Martin’s sense of identity as constantly shifting is central to understanding his art.
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The Radical Possibility of Seeing What Is Front of You
All of Rackstraw Downes's work derives from the simple, everyday act of observing your surroundings.
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The Childhood Innocence of John Ashbery's Art
Ashbery’s primary subject matter concerns an alternate world where nothing goes permanently wrong, and where disasters are nothing more than pranks.
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Recognizing Ed Clark's Contribution to Abstraction
The work of Clark should remind us of all the interesting things going on in painting in the 1970s, even if few people were looking.
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The Amazing Katherine Bradford
Bradford's new paintings represent a significant departure from her previous work, which gained many admirers, myself included. Simply put: she has gotten much better at getting at difficult subjects.
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Ian Hamilton Finlay's Philosophical Gardening
For Finlay, the garden was not simply a place of beauty, but rather a liminal space bordered by nature and culture, where visitors are invited to meditate on the different ways time passes.
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Kyle Staver's Historical Revisions
Without resorting to parody or cynicism, Staver undoes the tropes we associate with depictions of heroic and mythical.