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Anything Can Happen in Geoffrey Todd Smith’s Paintings
Fresh and challenging, Smith’s art sits on the cusp between eccentric abstraction and automated sci-fi figures, and contributes to Chicago’s dense art history.
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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Five New York City Shows to See Right Now
Our favorite shows of the week all center individual creators, from big names like Tatlin and Kafka to contemporary artists like Judy Linn.
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Irving Petlin’s Haunted Visions of History
In his paintings and pastels, the artist-activist turned to symbolism, metaphor, and memory to convey a world where savagery and distress are rampant.
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Rebecca Purdum’s Art Beyond Language
Purdum’s layered and scraped-away paintings may resemble aspects of the natural world but they allude to an experience beyond language.
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Judy Linn Casts a Solitary Eye on the World
Linn’s camera doesn’t register her absence, but rather registers her solitariness from the world in which she is immersed.
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Five New York City Shows to See Right Now
Catherine Murphy, Dorothy Hood, and David Kennedy Cutler are among the artists who are taking us off the path of the everyday and into the inexplicable this week.
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Catherine Murphy Makes the Ordinary Inexplicable
The artist found a way to expand the parameters of observational painting, causing us to look inward and reflect upon what we see.
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Five New York City Shows to See This Week
From Norman Bluhm’s reinvented abstraction to the history of Barbie at the Museum of Arts and Design, we’re looking at a diverse array of art this week.
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How Norman Bluhm Reinvented Gestural Abstraction
Long an admirer of Renaissance and Baroque paintings, Bluhm sought to recreate their sensual forms, unearthly light, and infinite space in abstraction.
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Five NYC Art Shows to See This Week
See socially and politically engaged art, Trenton Doyle Hancock paired with Philip Guston, plus geometric abstraction and some medieval treasures.
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Trenton Doyle Hancock and Philip Guston Seek Out the Enemy Within
With generous, sharp humor, Hancock and Guston show us through their art how venial and self-deceiving we have become.
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Two Painters’ Not-Quite-Abstract Art
The pairing of Amanda Church and Jenny Hankwitz, both longtime practitioners of geometric abstraction, is a stroke of genius for their similarities and differences.