Art
When Was the Last Time You Thought About a Hookah-Smoking Caterpillar?
Elisa D’Arrigo is best known for her wall works in which the merging of sewing and repetition is a central feature.
John Yau
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So Much Depends…
In 1952, Lois Dodd, along with four other artists, started the Tanager Gallery on East Fourth Street, near the Bowery, one of the first artist-run cooperative galleries in New York.
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Mark Greenwold’s Passion for Details
In Mark Greenwold's pencil drawing “Josie” (2015), at least three people and an oversized cat are gathered in a room under what looks like a skylight. A bespectacled man on the drawing’s right-hand side is wearing boxer shorts and a t-shirt, his erect penis poking through his shorts.
Art
More than Meets the Eye
If you see lots of work by different artists, you are going to make your own connections.
Art
What Will You Do About Chris Killip’s Challenge?
Chris Killip is a photographer who is deeply concerned with family and community.
Art
Starting in 1963, a Photographer Spends His Life Exploring Worlds We Have Yet to Recognize
This is Barboza in a nutshell: headstrong and determined. He did move New York and go to the school he found in the telephone book, but not for long because it wasn’t serious enough.
Opinion
Follow-Up to My Review: Does the Museum of Modern Art Even Know About This Great Photographer?
Very soon after my review of Louis Draper was published in Hyperallergic Weekend (February 7, 2016), I got an email from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and from the Museum of Modern Art.
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Does the Museum of Modern Art Even Know About This Great Photographer?
In November 1955, four days after Robert Frank was arrested, questioned, and released in Arkansas under the suspicion of being a Communist spy, he took a photograph, ‘‘Trolley — New Orleans’’ (1955), that was included with eighty-two others in his justly famous book, The Americans, which – we should
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A Many-Splendored Ode to the Dodo
Absurdity and loneliness embrace each other in David Beck’s diminutive, meticulously detailed dioramas.
Art
The Center Does Not Have To Hold: Allison Miller’s Recent Paintings
As Robert Creeley once said: “You can’t derail a train by standing directly in front of it, or, not quite. But, a tiny piece of steel, properly placed. . .” The piece of steel in this case is the work of Allison Miller, an abstract painter who began showing her paintings in Los Angeles in 2006, a de
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Katherine Bradford Dives In
I certainly wasn’t the only person to be dazzled by Katherine Bradford’s breakthrough show, Desire for Transport, at Edward Thorp, nearly a decade ago.
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Joaquín Torres-García: A Global Modernist Before His Time
Progress is one of the key myths to the reception, assessment, assimilation, and display of modernist art.