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How Photography Helped Build the Atomic Bomb
A group of intergenerational artists, collectively known as Slow War Against the Nuclear State, investigates the afterlife of nuclear politics in a haunting, timely exhibition
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Frida-Mania Hits MoMA
A collaboration with the Metropolitan Opera’s costume designer, this exhibition is an irresistible marketing opportunity at best.
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Beacons in a Grim World
In concurrent exhibitions by Kevin McNamee-Tweed and Tajh Rust, we find two artists who keep looking and discovering, despite dark circumstances.
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Tracey Emin’s Cult of the Self
The YBA artist spearheaded contemporary art's trend of coupling extreme self-introspection with relentless self-promotion.
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Anki King’s Nordic Noir
A pervasive sense of self-containment, isolation, and miscommunication flows through the Norwegian artist’s work.
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The Angel of History Is Stuck in Jerusalem
The iconic Paul Klee work is missing from an exhibition about fascism at the Jewish Museum in New York due to "current conditions" in Israel.
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The Whitney Biennial Is for the Faint-Hearted
I got the sense that this biennial is hiding from the world today instead of reflecting on it.
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Zarina Brought the World to New York
Her visual idiom was fully embedded in South Asian histories, but she never fell into a too-close relationship with national identity.
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The Canonization of Frida Kahlo
An exhibition blasts apart any crystallized conception of the artist until no easily digestible singular figure emerges.
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Thomas Gainsborough’s Portraits of Pride and Prejudice
The English artist’s paintings work hard to make social hierarchy feel beautiful, even natural.
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Seurat and the Sea Is Postcard Perfect
Painted during summer trips to the Channel coast, Seurat intended his seascapes to “cleanse one’s eyes of the days spent in the studio.
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Lucian Freud Mastered the Art of Lostness
As a National Portrait Gallery exhibition proves, he was especially good at depicting people painfully adrift from themselves.