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Joseph Nechvatal

Joseph Nechvatal is an artist whose computer-robotic assisted paintings and computer software animations are shown regularly in galleries and museums throughout the world. In 2011 his book Immersion Into Noise was published by the University of Michigan Library's Scholarly Publishing Office in conjunction with the Open Humanities Press. He exhibited in Noise, a show based on his book, as part of the Venice Biennale 55, and is artistic director of the Minóy Punctum Book/CD.

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A Creative Colony of Modernists in Coastal France

by Joseph Nechvatal May 27, 2019May 29, 2019

The Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen’s display of artists living and working independently, but together, reinforces the modernist commitment to internationalist values.

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Isidore Isou’s Radical Quest to Reinvent Language

by Joseph Nechvatal May 14, 2019

A sweeping retrospective at the Centre Pompidou surveys the work of the Romanian-born artist who founded the avant-garde Letterism movement in 1940s France.

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A Tacky Tech Take on Vincent van Gogh

by Joseph Nechvatal May 2, 2019

Van Gogh, Starry Night degrades the work of the daring painter while underusing the awesome powers of immersive digital technology.

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The Unlikely Pairing of Caravaggio and Daniel Buren

by Joseph Nechvatal April 30, 2019April 30, 2019

Kamel Mennour Gallery highlights the enduring power of chiaroscuro by pairing a long-lost Caravaggio masterpiece with a shimmering site-specific installation by conceptual artist Daniel Buren.

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How Artists of the French Revolution Embraced Neoclassical Revivalism

by Joseph Nechvatal April 19, 2019April 19, 2019

Revolutionary Generation: French Drawings (1770-1815) from the Fabre Museum illustrates how, as the Rococo movement went out of fashion, France’s insurrectionist artists drew on ancient Greek and Roman art for inspiration.

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How Painting Survives in the Digital Era

by Joseph Nechvatal March 18, 2019

In her new book, The Love of Painting: Genealogy of a Success Medium, critic Isabelle Graw ruminates on how painting remains omnipresent within the contemporary capitalist system and digital economy.

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Bringing Back from Obscurity a Jamaican Photographer Who Worked with Duchamp

by Joseph Nechvatal February 26, 2019

Enacting a posthumous reassessment, the book Percy Rainford: Duchamp’s “Invisible” Photographer has poignantly rescued the neglected artist Percy Rainford from erasure.

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Gary Indiana’s Helter-Skelter Prose Experiments

by Joseph Nechvatal February 13, 2019February 12, 2019

In the 1980s I religiously read Indiana’s weekly, polemical Voice dispatches in which he described the ills of US society from the point of view of an energetic, radical, gay critic absent art bona fides.

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A New Book Probes Duchamp’s Last Hours of Life

by Joseph Nechvatal January 28, 2019February 24, 2020

Duchamp’s Last Day is a bravo performance capturing the ephemerality of life and the physicality of art.

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An 18th-Century Designer of Fantastical Bodies and Imaginary Buildings Is Posthumously Recognized

by Joseph Nechvatal January 17, 2019January 17, 2019

Once relegated to academic footnotes as a bemusing curio, Jean-Jacques Lequeu is finally being fully recognized for his cheeky and dazzling drawings.

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Growing Up in the Avant-Garde Circles of Wallace Berman

by Joseph Nechvatal January 10, 2019

Through his father, Wallace, Tosh Berman was in the middle of a vivid circle of artists, writers, and musicians who regarded art as the opposite of cultural business.

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How Alphonse Mucha’s Smoking Designs Made Art Nouveau

by Joseph Nechvatal January 9, 2019January 9, 2019

His images of towering women and mind-bending vegetal forms, found many audiences through theater posters for Sarah Bernhardt and rolling papers.

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