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Jacques-Louis David Knew That Style Is Political
Where art history is a subjective observer, he was on an active quest for the representational form for the “truth.”
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Drowning in the Light of Monet’s Venice
Venice turned out to be the ideal environment for the artist to explore the relationship between water and light that long preoccupied him.
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Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum Reminds Us of Our Humanity
It feels like an important time to be highlighting moments of intimacy amid strife, given that we live in a time of famine, war, and genocide.
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Karin Davie’s Oceans of Color
Davie lays everything bare in her brushstroke, while withholding how she controls sometimes two or more colors within a single mark.
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Duncan McGillivray-Smith’s Game of Shadows
His mysterious narratives, arising out of common human activities, are inventive and uncanny, caused a sense of disquiet.
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Monuments Collapses American History on Itself
An exhibition in Los Angeles pairing decommissioned public Confederate statues with contemporary art captures America’s shifting political terrain.
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The Canary in the Turbine Hall
Máret Ánne Sara contends that the destruction of Samí lands foreshadows similar threats to more temperate regions and calls for alternative frameworks of knowledge.
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We’re All Pink on the Inside
…Literally. An exhibition about bodily freedom features photos from the inside of a vagina, sculptures based on abortion stories, and more.
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Calder’s Circus Is for Everyone
The Whitney’s 100th anniversary exhibition of Alexander Calder’s sculpted circus shows an artist at play, and creates a fantastical world.
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The Anti-Caravaggio of the Baroque Era
Georges de La Tour incorporated chiaroscuro into austere genre compositions, lending them a uniquely intimate and spiritual quality.
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Who Was Marie Antoinette Beneath All That Silk and Spectacle?
History has never really known her as a person, and that isn’t about to change here.
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Made in L.A.’s Anti-Curation Doesn’t Work
The curators’ self described “no-methodology methodology” results in a scattered exhibition that feels bland and curatorially unimaginative.