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Refusing Painting’s Obsolescence
My admiration for Stanely Whitney’s resoluteness has increased over the years, as well as my sense of his growing authority as a masterful colorist.
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The Wild World of the Hairy Who
The Chicago version of Pop Art, embodied in the work of the Hairy Who, is sweaty, nervous, sometimes giggly or goofy.
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The Everyday Madness of Picasso’s “Acrobat on a Ball”
What a nimble feat of balance and strength it is to build a dream.
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Coming to Terms with Tragedy Through Art
For the past 10 years, painter, author, and illustrator Daniel Minter has raised awareness of the forced removal in 1911 of an interracial community on Maine's Malaga Island.
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Deconstructing Race in Western Painting
The most interesting part of this excellent exhibition is its presentation of black modernists, for here we enter relatively unfamiliar territory.
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Revisiting the Provocative AIDS Art of Robert Blanchon
The artist's aim was to “elevate the physiological aspects of HIV to a level of reality that represents the pain, loss, and massive suffering caused by this plague.”
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Techno-Gothic Sculptures of Violence
In his latest exhibition, Belfast-born sculptor Tim Shaw explores the troubles of Northern Ireland, global terrorism, abuses of power, and artificial intelligence.
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A View From the Easel
This week, artist studios in Germany, New York, North Carolina, and Sri Lanka.
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Decolonize This Place Demands Repatriation of "Imperial Plunder" at the Brooklyn Museum
Parallel to today's protest at the RISD Museum, organizers from Decolonize This Place gathered at the Brooklyn Museum to decry stolen objects in the Brooklyn Museum's collection.
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The Baroque Splendor of Christianity Meets East Village Bohemia
Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt's glittery assemblages point toward both his working-class Catholic upbringing in New Jersey and New York tenement life.
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Artist Installs Bells Throughout Oakland that Detect Air Pollution
Rosten Woo hopes the bells will help create political pressure about air quality in West Oakland, which is circled by freeways and diesel trucks.
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Protesters Request RISD Museum Return Bronze Sculpture to Nigeria
Students and faculty from the Rhode Island School of Design and Brown University held an action today to request a sculpture looted from the Kingdom of Benin be returned. The museum says they have begun conversations with the Nigerian government to return the bronze.