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Can a Mother Devote Her Life to Art?

Avatar photo by Sophia Stewart August 23, 2023August 23, 2023

JoAnna Novak is five months pregnant when she decides to spend 18 days in the small town of Taos, New Mexico, to immerse herself in Agnes Martin’s life and work.

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Women Artists Are in the Spotlight in West Palm Beach

Avatar photo by Salomé Gómez-Upegui September 16, 2021September 17, 2021

Fifty works, all created by women, are brought together across time and media as the Norton Museum of Art reckons with the art world’s patriarchal past and present.

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Gauging the Potential of Abstraction at Art Basel Miami Beach

by Alpesh Kantilal Patel December 6, 2019December 10, 2019

Questions of privilege aside, the range of abstract works reminded me how artists are providing nuanced ways of thinking about identity that move beyond exclusion/inclusion binaries.

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Spiritualist Drawings that Open Portals to Other Dimensions

Avatar photo by Maria Cynkier April 11, 2019April 17, 2019

Often compared to the work of Hilma af Klint, dozens of rarely-seen drawings by the late Swiss healer and Spiritualist Emma Kunz are on view at the Serpentine Gallery.

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A New Book on Agnes Martin Reveals Her Previously Unknown Philanthropy

Avatar photo by Henry Martin October 19, 2018April 25, 2023

After making millions off her paintings, abstract expressionist Agnes Martin became a secret and substantial benefactor to a range of causes in New Mexico.

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Goodbye to All That: Why Do Artists Reject the Art World?

Avatar photo by Giovanni Garcia-Fenech March 7, 2017March 2, 2020

Martin Herbert’s latest book is a collection of essays about 10 artists who play with the system, struggle against it, or walk away altogether.

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Best of 2016: Our Top 10 Los Angeles Art Shows

Avatar photo by Hyperallergic December 28, 2016December 29, 2016

These top 10 shows in no way capture a full overview of the art seen in LA this year, but they provide highlights of the rapidly developing artistic landscape of the city.

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Agnes Martin’s Contemporary Sublime

by Anna Tome December 3, 2016December 2, 2016

This uninterrupted stroll through nearly six decades of work reminds one of how few other artists from her generation sustained such long, capable, trajectories in art-making.

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Opening Up to Agnes Martin’s Pure Abstraction

Avatar photo by Robert C. Morgan November 4, 2016November 3, 2016

A retrospective of the artist’s work at the Guggenheim Museum is worth seeing on more than one occasion, and it will probably appear differently each time.

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Blurred Boundaries and Other Connections

Avatar photo by Thomas Micchelli October 22, 2016October 21, 2016

A mix of blue-chip names and energetic younger artists on the Lower East Side is further evidence of the increasingly blurred boundaries among Manhattan’s art districts.

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Contemplating Perfection and Imperfection at Dia:Beacon

Avatar photo by Thomas Micchelli July 16, 2016August 3, 2016

A visit last weekend to Dia:Beacon, the vast repository of Minimalist art on the east bank of the Hudson River, brought home once more the complexities and contradictions of a movement whose goal was to be as plain as the nose on your face.

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Agnes Martin, Irreproducible

Avatar photo by Thomas Micchelli June 18, 2016June 19, 2016

When a cloud passes overhead, the paintings all but disappear.

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