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A Painter’s Dreams Go Up in Smoke
Brandi Twilley's paintings of her childhood bedroom before it was destroyed by a fire are devoid of sentimentality, nostalgia, and even sympathy.
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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Philippe Vandenberg’s Urgent Testimony
At some point in his career, Vandenberg became disgusted with the attention he was getting, and walked away from the work that made him a success.
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The Legendary Betty Parsons Meets the Not-So-Legendary Betty Parsons
Her reputation as a dealer has conveniently overshadowed her identity as an artist.
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Robert Grosvenor Doesn’t Take Us for a Ride
Grosvenor’s radically altered vintage cars are not about fulfilling fantasies; they are boxes with openings and wheels that carry you from point A to point B.
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These Four Painters Won't Be Ignored Any Longer
A new exhibition tells us what we’ve been missing in the work of Marina Adams, Paul Feeley, Joanna Pousette-Dart, and Leon Polk Smith.
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The Homages and Inventions of a Self-Taught Painter
Peter Shear is working through every form of abstraction, figuring out what paint can do.
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The Case for Tom Burckhardt
He resists institutional notions of what an abstract painting can be.
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The Startling Abstractions of Arpita Singh
For those who know only Singh’s figurative paintings, this exhibition of 33 abstract works will come as a surprise in the very best sense.
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Caravaggio’s Fascination with Death
The artist's last two paintings are as impetuous, violent, and racked with guilt as Caravaggio was himself.
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Will Someone Please Give Ellen Berkenblit a Museum Show Already?
It is as if each of Berkenblit's distinctive works is an isolated, oversized panel from an unknown cartoon strip: we have no idea what happened before or what will happen next.
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Storms of Sea, Sky, and Paint
The driving force behind Peder Balke’s painting is his desire to harness paint’s capacious materiality, from impasto to liquidity, to evoke the changing, often tumultuous physicality of his subject matter.
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Anne Harvey’s Strange Painting of Tulips
Anne Harvey’s life — the first half of it, at least — reads like a fairy tale.