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Max Kozloff, Intrepid Art Critic and Photographer, Dies at 91
The prolific writer penned a seminal essay on Abstract Expressionism in 1973, going on to teach at universities across the United States and cultivate his own photography practice.
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The Violent and Sensual Bodies of Galli
The artist’s ambiguous figures exist in a continual state of metamorphosis between formation and deformation.
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Weegee, the Pop Artist That Never Was
By embracing horror through the larger-than-life persona he constructed, the photographer occupies an odd middle ground between the news media and its parody.
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Japanese American National Museum Stands Up for DEI
The institution said it would continue to embrace diversity, equity, and inclusion in the face of widespread government funding cuts and pressures.
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Activist Convicted in Degas Sculpture Action Says He Did It “For My Two Children”
Timothy Martin could go to prison for smearing black paint on the protective case of Edgar Degas’s “Little Dancer,” which was unharmed, at the National Gallery of Art.
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Cindy Ji Hye Kim Retunes Us to the Land’s Rhythms
In paintings and sculptures portraying laboring bodies, the artist demonstrates that our collective unconsciousness has always been tied to natural cycles.
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RISD Student’s Visa Revoked Amid Trump Crackdown
President Crystal Williams described the news as “heartbreaking” in a letter to the campus community.
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Art Auction Sales Dropped by 25% in 2024 Amid Global Volatility
Private sales rose, as did sales of works priced under $5,000, among other findings in the latest Art Basel and UBS Art Market Report.
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The French Postal Worker Who Sat for Van Gogh
A portrait series of Joseph Roulin and his family, whom the painter befriended during his stay in Arles, is the focus of a show at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston.
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Indigenous Art History Has Been Waiting for You to Catch Up
The late Jaune Quick-to-See Smith’s final curatorial salvo — the largest show of Native American art to date — carries an elegiac weight, but also thrums with life.
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Anything Can Happen in Geoffrey Todd Smith’s Paintings
Fresh and challenging, Smith’s art sits on the cusp between eccentric abstraction and automated sci-fi figures, and contributes to Chicago’s dense art history.
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The Living Divinations of Ithell Colquhoun
The artist’s dreamy paintings and drawings transcend any specific culture, instead drawing on a perennial understanding of the sacred.