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Anita Shapolsky Gallery Presents A Non-Objective Couple, with Works by Sonia Gechtoff and James Kelly
Gechtoff and Kelly were key members of the San Francisco School of Abstract Expressionism.
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How I Cope While Making Art
Nothing can replace the connection.
Art
The Outlandish and Beautiful Juxtapositions of Rei Kawakubo
The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute dedicates its second solo show of a living designer to Rei Kawakubo, who started her daring clothing label Comme des Garçons in 1973.
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Required Reading
This week, Pink Floyd calls Trump a pig, the problem with the Met Gala, working with Barkley L. Hendricks, an indigenous curator's view of the Venice Biennale, reviewing Vanessa Bell, and more.
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Weekend Words: Paris
"With an apple I will astonish Paris."
Art
Behind the Masquerade of Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier
If asked to choose an opera in the category of “most satisfying,” I would choose Richard Strauss’s brilliant Der Rosenkavalier (The Knight of the Rose, 1911).
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Blaise Cendrars: A Poet for the Twenty-First Century
Cendrars was, beyond all questions, the pioneer of poetic modernism.
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Anne Harvey’s Strange Painting of Tulips
Anne Harvey’s life — the first half of it, at least — reads like a fairy tale.
Art
Flora Crockett Should No Longer Be Written Out of History
The question is: who is Flora Crockett?
Art
Roy De Forest’s Search for Paradise Did Not Always Go Well
De Forest is part of a group of artists working in Northern California in the late 1950s who rejected New York and what they regarded as mainstream art and thinking. This group included Joan Brown, Jay De Feo, Bruce Conner, William T. Wiley, Jess, Wally Hedrick, and others.
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The Stones Are Burning
The waves were slow, but persistent, giving us ample time to prepare for extinction.
Interview
Serious Play: An Interview with Sam Cornish
In Britain, specifically, there has been a tendency to link artistic production to a festive attitude that marked the 1960s as a whole, melding it with a broader cultural image of “Swinging London.”