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Thomas Micchelli

Thomas Micchelli is an artist, writer, and co-editor of Hyperallergic Weekend.

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The Alternate Modernism of a Modernist Pioneer

by Thomas Micchelli March 16, 2019March 18, 2019

Lincoln Kirstein’s Modern takes a close look at a period when patriotism was distinct from nationalism, populism did not equal demagoguery, and left-wing radicalism was the coin of the aesthetic realm.

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Painting Paradoxes of Family, Race, and Prison

by Thomas Micchelli March 9, 2019March 8, 2019

Through his father’s profession as a corrections officer, Pat Phillips has found a pictorial strategy for probing the racial chasms of the justice system, and by inference, everyday life.

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Egon Schiele’s Impudent Offspring

by Thomas Micchelli February 2, 2019February 3, 2019

Tracing Egon Schiele’s lineage, forward and backward in time.

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What Freedom Costs

by Thomas Micchelli January 26, 2019January 25, 2019

Two exhibitions in Vienna take on the fragility of democratic structures.

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Louise Lawler’s Quiet Melancholy

by Thomas Micchelli January 26, 2019December 23, 2019

If Lawler’s works were originally read as art about art, they now feel like art for art’s sake.

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The Pursuit of Art, 2018

by Thomas Micchelli December 29, 2018January 1, 2019

The creation and interpretation of art remains an anchor and a refuge, a sanctuary for vanishing ideals.

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Kara Walker Invites You to a Public Hanging

by Thomas Micchelli December 22, 2018December 22, 2018

Walker’s installation “Virginia’s Lynch Mob” evokes a latter-day Saturnalia, turning the world upside-down.

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Hoarding and Spending at Art Basel Miami Beach

by Thomas Micchelli December 15, 2018December 15, 2018

After Safariland, if you need to convince yourself that the art world isn’t entirely in money’s thrall, you’d want to be anywhere but here.

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The Anti-Caravaggio

by Thomas Micchelli December 8, 2018December 7, 2018

Pontormo’s figures, though illuminated in godliness, are invariably human in their proportions and hushed in their emotions.

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The Brutalist Invasion of Phyllida Barlow

by Thomas Micchelli November 24, 2018December 27, 2018

Barlow’s sculptures may be abstract, but they feel rife with heads, teeth, legs, and orifices of every stripe.

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Italian Painting, Before the Fall

by Thomas Micchelli November 17, 2018December 28, 2018

Metaphysical Painting offered a philosophical refuge for Italian artists shaking off their Futurist sugar high.

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The Ghost of Roy Cohn

by Thomas Micchelli November 10, 2018January 4, 2021

Subpoena powers can’t cure a diseased body politic.

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