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This week, art market boom thoughts, women ignoring men in art, press freedoms in the US, emotions of fonts, displacement as translation, reconstructing Le Corbusier's Maison Dom-Ino in Venice, and more.
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Weekend Words: Tea
This week, the Tea Party reared its ugly head and Eric Cantor is singing the blues.
Books
Genet Redux: On Chris Tysh’s 'Our Lady of the Flowers, Echoic'
Chris Tysh’s Our Lady of the Flowers, Echoic is, as the title suggests, a revision, or better yet, a re-sounding, a twenty-first century echo of Jean Genet’s transgressive and groundbreaking debut novel Notre-Dame-des-Fleurs, which he drafted in prison in 1942 and framed as a kind of playful, metafi
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Joyce Robins’s Subtly Colored, Imageless Objects
In an interview that appeared last month in The Brooklyn Rail, Joyce Robins, while addressing the relationship between abstraction and representation, pointed out: “’Vly’ is a Dutch word for swamp.”
Art
The Violent History of Kent Monkman
In Kent Monkman's first New York solo show, which closes this weekend at Sargent's Daughters, art history commingles with cultural mythology in a passion play about masculinity and belonging.
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“From the Light to the Dark, and from the Dark to the Light”: Akira Shimizu Turns Memory Into Art
Sometimes an artist may find inspiration in that ineffable zone where, as the French existentialist writer Simone de Beauvoir once observed, “things of the spirit come first.” Sometimes, too, the most evocative art can emerge from the depths of another endlessly abundant, more fugitive source.
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Beyond Internationalism? Minimal Baroque, Post-Minimalism, and Contemporary Art
According to the international exhibition Minimal Baroque, contemporary art has locked Minimalism and maximalism in a lusty embrace. Moreover, the show claims this antithetical premise to be a productive condition of art making today.
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Tougher than the Rest: Joan Mitchell's Tree Paintings and Black Drawings
There are currently two exhibitions of Joan Mitchell’s paintings and drawings on the same Chelsea street. Taken together, they offer an extended examination of a painter’s process as her sensibilities shift from a dominant mode expression to something altogether different.
Books
Maira Kalman's Empathetic Portraits
The girl stands awkwardly, her arms crossed over her stomach. Below them she wears high-waisted shorts, wrinkled through with creases and rolled at the bottom; above them she wears a frilly top. And above that, her deeply furrowed brow, mirrored by the part in her neatly done hair.
Art
Archaeologist Discusses New Maya Ruins Uncovered in Guatemala
Television may lead us to believe archaeologists lead thrilling lives, crashing through ancient temples and uncovering dinosaur bones à la Indiana Jones and Jurassic Park. In reality, their work is much more quiet and meticulous. Nevertheless, each new discovery — such as the newly unearthed Maya ru
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Just in Time for Whitney Retrospective, H&M Becomes Jeff Koons's Dog Park
Oh look, another major retailer tie-in for a major museum show. Yes, the upcoming Jeff Koons retrospective at the Whitney Museum has a corporate fashion deal, with a balloon-dog emblazoned handbag available for $49.95 at select locations starting July 17 — corresponding with the opening of the world
Performance
Voguing Andy Warhol in Whiteface
In the early 1980s, Andy Warhol posed in drag for a series of Polaroid portraits. Wearing heavy white makeup in works like "Self-Portrait in Drag" (1981), he exudes a ghoulish glamour.