The reclusive Pop and hard-edge artist died at his home in Maine this past Saturday.
May 21, 2018
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The Decline of American Empire in One Photograph
Can a single photograph symbolize a momentous geopolitical power shift? Perhaps.
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Rhode Island School of Design’s 2018 Graduate Thesis Exhibition
Graduate student work across 16 disciplines to be featured in showcase of hundreds of RISD artists and designers.
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The New York Studio School’s MFA Thesis Show Builds on Modern Art History
In their paintings, sculptures, drawings, and installations, the students of the august art school demonstrate their fluency with formalism and, in a couple of instances, their interest in avian imagery.
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An Artist Considers the Absurdity of Ending the Iran Nuclear Deal
Nothing surprises the Iranian-American artist Sheida Soleimani anymore, whose latest body of work lampoons the leaders of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries.
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The Halsey Institute Debuts The Carrion Cheer, an Installation About Humans’ Relationship to Nature
The galleries become a transdimensional stopover camp for extinct animals.
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Intellectual Rigor and Emotional Intensity in NYU’s MFA Thesis Show
In their two-part thesis show, NYU’s studio art MFA students showcase works that are formally precise and affecting.
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A Harrowing Memoir Illustrates Modern-Day Slavery on Sea and Land
A testimony of human rights abuses occurring in Southeast Asia is charted in The Dead Eye and the Deep Blue Sea: A Graphic Memoir of Modern Slavery.
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Everything Is an Opportunity to Improve Your Art
A tiny spring visitor ends up assisting in an unlikely way.
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Abstracting Maps to Question Our Relationships to Territory
In her large-scale drawings on sheets of vellum, the late artist Wopo Holup rendered geographic features with little or no contextual information, forcing viewers to reimagine how they envision landscapes.
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A Cartoonist’s Playful and Pragmatic Mental Health Guide
In the follow-up to her 2012 graphic memoir about bipolar disorder, Marbles, Ellen Forney offers practical strategies for achieving mental stability.
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“Music Has Always Been with Me”: Wolfgang Tillmans on His Latest Single and Musical Career
In 1985, two years before he bought his first camera, Tillmans started experimenting with music, which he probably would’ve pursued if it weren’t for fate.