Art
Dissections of Desire: Jonathan Lyndon Chase’s ‘Rosebud’
Chase, who is black and queer, shows the power of his subjects by exposing just how vulnerable they are.
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Filling Out the Story: On the Art of Norman Lewis
Norman Lewis (1909-1979), in the last two decades of his life, fused black struggle with abstract painting.
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Everything Is Permitted: Artist-Run Spaces of Mexico City in the 1990s
PHILADELPHIA — In the early 1990s, Mexican artists Daniel Guzmán and Luis Felipe Ortega recreated and recorded on video a selection of works by Bruce Nauman, Vito Acconci, and Paul McCarthy. They relied only on written transcriptions.
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What I Think I See in the Paintings of Jan Baltzell
PHILADELPHIA — Most of Jan Baltzell’s recent paintings, currently on view at the Schmidt Dean Gallery in Philadelphia, are on Mylar. DuPont, in the 1950s, was an early developer of Mylar, which is made of stretched polyester.
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Tic-Tac-Toe at the End of the World
PHILADELPHIA — As I walked through the Dufala Brothers new show, Waste Dreams, currently on view at the Fleisher/Ollman Gallery in Philadelphia, I had the feeling of a dream in which I seemed to recognize everything, but none of the dimensions were right and nothing could be used for its intended pu