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A Ribald World of One’s Own: The Watercolors of Gladys Nilsson
It is Gladys Nilsson’s attention to awkward and unconscious things that people do to themselves while out in public that makes her work fascinating to look at.
John Yau
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The Second Generation Abstract Expressionist Ed Clark
Ed Clark’s approach is simple and straightforward, and he has not altered it much over the years. I don’t think he needs to.
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Ming Smith’s Necessary Angels
The rich and varied evocation of passing moments, memories, and dreams that we encounter in Ming Smith’s photographs are things that the incoming President will continue to denigrate and do his best to erase.
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The Nocturnal Worlds of Katherine Bradford
In this exhibition, it struck me that what Katherine Bradford keeps getting better at is incoherence: she can meld divergent details without coming across as contrived or arbitrary.
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Progress Report: Marina Adams’s Recent Paintings and Gouaches
This is Marina Adams’ breakthrough show. There is nothing formulaic about her use of color, line or shape. The paintings are eccentric, but do not feel willfully so.
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The Desire for the Unattainable: Myron Stout’s Paintings and Drawings
Myron Stout, who was born in Denton, Texas, in 1908, made an early decision to be a painter but didn’t hit his stride until the late 1940s, after he had served in World War II.
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The Difficulty of Getting the News: Lois Dodd, Sally Hazelet Drummond, and the Narrative of Exclusion
What the exhibition of Drummond and Dodd proves is that the art world was more diverse in the 1960s than has been told.
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No Point of View Is the Best View of All: Artists Working Between 1952–65, Many of Whom Are Forgotten
If 1962 is the dividing line between one art world and what we seem to have inherited, Inventing Downtown will bring you back to the period before the “art Establishment crossed the street.”
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Where to Next?
For a poet who is notorious for writing opaque poems, a number of collages celebrate the youthful male body with an innocence that is touching, tender, and, frankly, poignant, and sweet.
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And you can send me dead flowers every morning…
It is the beginning of a new year and for some reason I have been thinking about flower paintings — perhaps prompted by the flower paintings that Edouard Manet made while he was dying.
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It is Important to Let Someone Know
Throughout his life, Bruce Conner believed that even if you could not beat them, that didn’t mean you had to join them.
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It is Important to Let Someone Know
Throughout his life, Bruce Conner believed that even if you could not beat them, that didn’t mean you had to join them.