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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.
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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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.
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A Few Thoughts About 2016
A look back at a critic's reviews, views, and articles.
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A Few Thoughts About 2016
A look back at a critic's reviews, views, and articles.
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Betsy Kaufman Takes the Grid to Task
Betsy Kaufman works out on paper what she is going to do in the painting — a series of distinct steps, each requiring complete control.