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Tim Keane
Tim Keane's writing on art has appeared in Modern Painters, The London Magazine, Brooklyn Rail, and many other publications. He has written extensively on visual art and poetry, most recently in Joe Brainard's Art (University of Edinburgh Press, 2020) and Abstract Expressionist Women of the 9th Street Show (Katonah Museum of Art, 2019). His writing earned a fellowship from The National Endowment for the Arts and he holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from CUNY Graduate Center, where he focused on Modernism.
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Bill Brandt’s British Reality Show
Brandt’s photographs are dense with the enigmas and silences, riddles and obscurities hidden beneath ordinary British lives.
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Art of Clay and Steel in the City of New Orleans
Although George Dunbar and William Monaghan differ in visibility and style, they are both prodigal sons who have left this city and then returned to it.
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Making American Labor Visible Again
Though officially outlawed in 1865, the de facto continuation of slavery remains a repulsive American secret.
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Louise Nevelson’s Graphic Imagination
Nevelson used drawing as a creative bridge back and forth into the making of sculpture.
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Marcel Proust’s Dream of Art
Proust’s mid-career struggles with writing led him to art criticism, which provides clues to the qualities prized by readers of In Search of Lost Time.
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Van Gogh’s Japanese Idyll
Through willful imitation of Japanese art, van Gogh became the van Gogh we know, perhaps the world’s most famous painter.
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A Painter’s Extraterrestrial Journey Through the Light of Day
In recent decades, living and working in and around Cape Cod, Paul Resika’s imagery has veered between the naturalistic and the mythical.
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Photographing Northern Ireland’s Mean Streets
During the decades that Northern Ireland’s paramilitary violence garnered worldwide attention, most people were busy making ends meet.
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How August Sander and Otto Dix Recorded Fascism’s Rise
Questions posed in a two-artist exhibition at Tate Liverpool reflect back on our own politically desperate era, often with eerie resonance.
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Walter Benjamin on How to Stop Worrying and Love Late Capitalism
Benjamin’s gargantuan Arcades Project brims with philosophical propositions, poetic digressions, lyrical aphorisms, and experimental theses.