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Sylvia Plimack Mangold’s Spring and All
I cannot think of another artist devoted to nature who chooses such unlikely, decidedly plain, almost unsightly views, but never makes that act the point of the painting.
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Don Voisine Makes Geometry Sexy
Every color in a Voisine painting has its own material identity. Even the narrow bands edging or running through the panel’s border colors convey a distinctive feel to their physicality.
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Before the Bath
All the time that we spent going about our business, slowly but surely a Trump presidency became inevitable.
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Inquiry Meets Imagination in Jen Durbin's "Jackie Series"
In a series of drawings derived from frames of the Zapruder film, Durbin tracks the shifting spatial orientation of Jackie Kennedy's pink pillbox hat — and by implication, Mrs. Kennedy's bodily response to the unfolding horror.
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Easy Does It: The Slow Surprises of Stanley Whitney
Best known for arranging blocks of thrumming color into large rectangular canvases, Whitney’s major achievement has been to spark a slow burn of surprises, within the least esoteric medium around, large-scale oil painting.
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Molly Nesbit Chases the Big Ideas
“I’m interested in how ideas function in the world, in questions of practice, not just theory,” Nesbit told me. “I’m not interested in theory per se, but rather in thinking.”
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The Feminist Avant-Garde, Now More than Ever
Their only solution was to make their revolution their own way, without help and without precedent.
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Botticelli's Venuses and Our Enduring Need for Beauty
The Botticelli exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, so filled with the hopes and ambitions of the Renaissance, seems especially timely in our deplorable political moment.
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When Wrong Goes Right: 30 Creative Museum 404 Error Pages
404 pages are the dead ends of the internet, but some museums are using them for a bit of playful audience engagement.
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A Steve McQueen Video Ponders the Vulnerability of a Young Man’s Life
The artist and filmmaker's two-channel video piece "Ashes," having its US debut at the ICA in Boston, forces the viewer to reconcile disparate scenes projected onto either side of a suspended screen.
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Artists and Activists Propose a "People’s Cultural Plan" for New York City
As the Department of Cultural Affairs works on the official NYC cultural plan, a group of activists has advanced its own ambitious vision.
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Artist Projects Image of Jeff Sessions as Klansman on Department of Justice
Robin Bell lit up the DOJ and FBI façades with phrases such as "#RefusaltoRecuse" and comically sinister portraits of members of the Trump administration.