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Stop Putting Art on Miami Beach
The mere spectacle of Es Devlin’s revolving library on the sand betrays its aim of engaging us in the act of reading.
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Tongji Philip Qian Finds the Comedy in Conceptual Art
He differs from most conceptual artists and their self-imposed strategies: even when he follows the rules, he undermines himself.
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Jennifer Packer Confronts Grief Through Paintings That Cut Deep
The painter mines an iconographical language of grief through delicate, translucent paintings imbued with a sense of intimacy and intensity.
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Basking in the Light of Raúl de Nieves’s Stained Glass Tarot
With its spiritual and religious connotations, de Nieves's installation transforms Pioneer Works from a creative space to a contemplative one.
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KAWS Makes Art for the Tech Bro Era
His exhibition at SFMOMA could have examined the collapse of culture at the hands of commodity, but instead it nudges us toward the gift shop.
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Paying Homage to the Iconoclasts of Abstraction
An exhibition traces the radical advancements in painting by Al Held, Elizabeth Murray, Judy Pfaff, and Frank Stella.
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We Are History’s Ghosts
An exhibition on the Lower East Side turns to collective memory and reenactment to cut through today’s political numbness.
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R. Crumb Wonders What It All Means
With his new comic book and exhibition, the artist explores his neurosis and mortality, but continues to question authority.
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A Good, Bad, and Ugly History of Parenting Gadgets
Designing Motherhood illuminates how design shapes diverse experiences of parenthood, from navigating fertility and conception to pregnancy, birth, and postpartum life.
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Stan Douglas Conjures Histories That Might Have Been
Through his narrative art, Douglas reminds us that every story contains the potential for history to take another course.
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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.