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Genieve Figgis Paints High Society as a Spectacle of Humor and Horror
Figgis's musings on bourgeois decadence feel particularly canny in a time of widespread inequality.
Almine Rech Gallery
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The Blithe Realism of Chloe Wise
Playful and satiric, Thank You For The Nice Fire never takes itself too seriously.
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Imagining the Future Amid Alejandro Cardenas’s Profound, Brooding Canvases
In ALEXANDRIA, bright stripes and zigzags pop against sprawling environments, telegraphing both impressive depth and intense seclusion.
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Painting's Patriarchal Spirit
Thirty-seven years after the original exhibition at London's Royal Academy of Arts, A New Spirit Then, A New Spirit Now proves painting is still a boys' club.
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The Spirit of Painting in an Altered World
Revisiting a painting show that “changed the art world, for better or worse.”
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Perpetuating the Idea that Modernism Triumphed by Appropriating “Tribal” Art
For all the scholarly expertise employed, an exhibition at Almine Rech Gallery comes off as an exasperating magical negro narrative.
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Look Before You Sit: At Frieze New York, the Seats Are All Sculptures
Frieze New York opens its doors to the public today, but already during yesterday's press and VIP preview the aisles were crowded, the common areas and restaurants filled with worn-out fairgoers, and it seemed as if the only empty seats were sculptures.