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Is Making Art Supposed to Be This Hard?
Maybe the only person who understands is my dog.
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Required Reading
This week, the Disneyland of Detroit, the Dubai Frame opens, Sinclair Media's Trump connection, funerary photos and the politics of social media, and more.
Book Review
Artist Interviews and the Literature of Self-Endorsement
In three recent volumes, artists express nostalgia for the smaller, scrappier New York art world.
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A Show That Requires a Different Kind of Looking
ROYGBIV at the Kate Werble Gallery represents a diverse gathering of artists – veterans and newcomers, abstract and figurative, from Portland to Tehran.
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A New Year’s Wish
Hoping for sanity in 2018.
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Retooling Paint for the Digital Era
In his quietly dazzling New York solo debut, Ryan Crotty pushes post-painterly abstraction past the anxiety of influence.
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The 2018 Outsider Art Fair, a Preview
Celebrating art made by autodidacts situated, by choice or circumstance, on the margins of culture and society.
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The Cosmic Utopianism of Two Fin-de-Siècle Collectives
The exhibition is strongest conceptually when the curators focus on the artist collectives that sought a new social and cosmic order through art.
Books
The Many Spheres of Hell As Seen In Japanese Art
Depicts of hell in Japanese art are intricate fantasy that were used to inspire moral behavior and the only figures smiling are the demons.
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Artist Sells Off Ad Space on a Rauschenberg to Destroy It
Nikolas Bentel is selling off sections of a Rauschenberg artwork as advertising space in a critique of the art market.
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A Tlingit Artist’s Contemporary Take on Her Vanishing Culture
Alison Marks’s sculptures, paintings, and textiles often appear gently familiar, but then take a deeper, more troubling turn.
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Meow Wolf’s Exciting Model for Engaging with Art
As an artist and maker, as well as a writer and someone who understands the deeply rooted desire to touch the art, I was heartened to discover The House of Eternal Return.