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Wayne Thiebaud’s Art Is More Than a Piece of Cake
A lot of the enjoyment of Thiebaud’s retrospective is spotting the Easter eggs of earlier art, whether overt, covert, or something more subtle.
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Young Joon Kwak’s Luminescent Bodies
The artist’s magnificent, rhinestone-encrusted cast sculptures tell multiple stories that look at contemporary queer and trans existence.
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Barbara T. Smith’s Experiments in Xerox
Years before her feminist performance art, she channeled her feelings through a copy machine.
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Chloë Bass Eschews the Clichés of Mixed-Race Art
The artist’s Twice Seen explores visibility and perception, challenging us to refuse to turn one another into novelties.
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A Massive Diane Arbus Exhibition Does So Little
Questionable curatorial choices seem intended to prevent critical discussion in a major survey at Manhattan’s Park Avenue Armory.
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Love Pulses Through Elle Pérez’s Photography
Pérez’s impulse as a photographer is to hold a feeling still — which is, really, a means of honoring the living, witnessing them.
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The All-Over Art of Hamid Zénati
A new retrospective of Hamid Zénati is also an important record of an interconnected North African modernism.
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The Intense Intimacy of Caravaggio
He seems to speak to us directly and clearly, given his love of striking light and shadow. We experience him personally.
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An LA Show Breathes New Life Into Fire-Damaged Art
Burn Me! at The Box examines how fire has shaped art and life west of the San Bernardino Mountains — in the last six months and far earlier.
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For Glenn Ligon, Language Is Material
An exhibition of Ligon’s well-known works at the Brant Foundation shows how language fails us and confronts us with silence.
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Marisol Was Nobody’s It Girl
A retrospective rescues aspects of her career from her long-running reputation as “glamorous girl artist,” including her politics, humor, and sense of self.
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Ali Banisadr Paints a World in Calamity
Banisadr makes images that are relentless in their toiling motion — he paints as if bedlam is foundational to the world.