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George Morrison Painted a Different Picture of Abstract Expressionism
The Ojibwe artist was active in New York's midcentury art scene and embraced by fellow Abstract Expressionists, yet he’s rarely in canonical histories today.
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Sister Corita Kent Found the Sacred in the Profane
An installation of the artist’s never-before-seen photographs accumulates meaning through association rather than argument.
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Life’s Hidden Dramas in the Art of Walter Sickert
Sickert didn’t go in for glamour or flattery and the subjects of many of his best works are things seen off to the side, a bit inconsequential.
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Lygia Pape Wants You to Participate
Pape’s work endures because it makes us feel collectivity as a physical condition rather than a concept.
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Ann Craven’s Moonlit Meditations
In Craven’s paintings of the moon, birds, and blossoms, as in nature, change is a constant, generative cycle.
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Tate Modern Loses the Plot With Theatre Picasso
The exhibition is all very meta — the audience are themselves the action and participants. Yet this device could be applied to any artist with the same result.
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The Seductive Repetition of Susan Rothenberg
An exhibition introduces her as a dynamically multi-faceted artist, even as she revisited the same subjects over and over.
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How Black Women Ceramicists Shaped Art History
Body Vessel Clay at the Ford Foundation Gallery spans three generations of artists who embody continuity, molding the past and present.
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Lorna Simpson’s Black American Sublime
An exhibition at The Met positions Black history in the Romantic tradition, but the large scale of these paintings can undercut their impact.
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The Black American Artist Who Found Himself in Finland
The first retrospective of Howard Smith’s works in his home country beguilingly blurs the distinctions between art, design, and décor.
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The Sacred Waterways of Black and Indigenous Communities
An exhibition at the Mystic Seaport Museum takes visitors on a journey through centuries of interrelated traditions of seafaring and artmaking, revealing oft-ignored histories.
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The São Paulo Biennial Is the Calm Before a Storm
Even as it privileges quiet reflection, the show’s 36th edition cannot fully contain the frictions and instabilities that surround and infuse it.