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LONDON — The first thought that struck me about the Serpentine Gallery’s exhibition of Swedish artist Hilma af Klint, Painting the Unseen, was: Thank goodness — finally a solo show starring a female artist!
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MUSKEGON, Mich. — What’s especially significant about Manierre Dawson is that he made his breakthrough to non-objective imagery prior to any exposure to modernist art.
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LIMA, Peru — Geometric abstraction is one of those art movements that, depending on the viewer, either resonates deeply or bores one to tears.
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Clare Grill is a painter based in Queens. She has shown consistently, if not quietly, over the last few years.
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Moving Image would be Emily Dickinson's favorite art fair.
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A paper published in the most recent issue of Adaptive Behavior significantly updates the long-standing thesis that the global prevalence in prehistoric art of "certain types of geometric visual patterns" suggests hallucinogenic inspirations. The University of Tokyo authors — Tom Froese, Alexander W
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Nothing new under the sun? Does it really matter? “The past,” as William Faulkner wrote, “is never dead. It's not even past.” The past cannot be ignored, disdained, used up or discarded; it’s the ligand that strings us all together.
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Inventing Abstraction, 1910-1925, the new exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, should be the kind of show that MoMA was made for, and it is. Like last year’s de Kooning: A Retrospective (which could have been subtitled Deconstructing Abstraction), the new show draws on the museum’s finest traditi
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My first exposure to Eugène Leroy’s (1910–2000) work goes back to 1973: a small group in just as small a storefront in an eighteenth-century Flemish baroque-style building close to the historical center of Lille, a city on the French/Belgian border. I only went to see the show — mostly Flemish regio
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Clement Greenberg definitely wouldn’t approve of the new exhibition Crossing Cultures at Dartmouth College’s Hood Museum in Hanover, New Hampshire. The works highlighted in the show, all created by indigenous Australian artists, present elaborate, striking abstractions that are compulsively addictiv
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I think it's funny that Patricia Albers's recent and authoritative biography on Joan Mitchell was given the subtitle “Lady Painter.” It's my only guess that Mitchell's lifestyle and her painting were so out of character for the time that the term becomes ironic. The artist was known for her camarade
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The invention of abstraction was not the inspiration of a solitary protagonist, but a relay of ideas that moved through a network of artists and intellectuals working in different countries and different media and MoMA's new graph drawing shows it in all its beauty.