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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.
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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.
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New York City Commission Opts to Keep Columbus Statue, But Under New Conditions
Officials have decided that only one statue will be moved: that of Dr. J. Marion Sims, a 19th-century gynecologist who experimented on female slaves without their consent.
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The Common Threads Between Female Quilters and Abstract Expressionists
At one time or other these women's craft was either considered lowbrow or was measured against the work of male contemporaries.
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Pop Goes the Ugly American Stereotypes
An exhibition at Musée Maillol demonstrates that Pop Art did not then, and does not now, matter — because it has never been a site of cultural resistance, but rather a scene of authoritarianism rooted in an affirmation of top-down corporate affluence.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: NYPD's Special Victims Squad is investigating photographer Terry Richardson, Charles Dutoit was ousted as the conductor of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, The Morgan Library & Museum received a $5 million grant from the Sherman Fairchild Foundation, and more.
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Scientists Claim They Discovered World's Earliest Representation of a Supernova
Indian scientists discovered a 5,000-year-old stone carvings they claim depicts an ancient supernova.