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The Prescient Politics of Nancy Buchanan’s Art
A survey of the LA artist’s work proves that the issues she began grappling with in the 1970s are not past threats, but hauntingly present ones.
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An Impressionist's Ode to Male Sensuality
A retrospective of the work of Gustave Caillebotte illuminates the painter’s radical focus on the male form and the lives of men.
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The Shocking Allure of Erotic Abstraction
A show on Louise Bourgeois, Eva Hesse, and Alice Adams gives a sense of how different, even alarming, these pieces would have been to viewers in the 1960s.
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Adrift in Betye Saar’s Crepuscular Dreamscape
The artist’s site-specific commission at the Huntington makes you feel like you’re floating in space, or suspended underwater.
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Seeing New Mexico Through the Looking Glass
The 12th SITE Santa Fe International takes reflection as its cue, offering mirror images, doubles, reversals, and echoes in which multiple perspectives and timelines unfold.
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Edward Burra’s Satirical Surrealism
The painter wanted to experience the shock of strangeness, to embrace the allure of the louche, the forbidden, the disapproved of.
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Is Jenny Saville the UK’s Greatest Living Painter?
Enormous in scale, Saville's uncomfortably close-cropped depictions of women’s faces and nude bodies abound in the joy of painterly modeling.
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Wafaa Bilal Asks What it Means to be Arab in America
The Iraqi artist's Chicago survey show uses technology and performance to address the experience of his identity in the post-9/11 era.
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The Black Feminist Subconscious of Ufuoma Essi’s Films
Two works on view at MoMA attest to the artist's great skill: articulating her focus on marginalized histories through aesthetic and sensory means.
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Sandra Poulson’s Haunted House
Sculptures based on household objects make history palpable, layering colonial legacies, trade networks, and Angolan national memory.
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The Life-or-Death Art of Hamad Butt
A survey centers the threat of disease and the complex, often contradictory emotions stirred up by the risk of contagion.
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The Mesmerizing Wonder of Wabanaki Weaving
Jeremy Frey’s first museum show presents the artist’s virtuosic craft as must-see contemporary work.