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The Trailblazing Pueblo Potter Who Forged Her Own Path
Though Jody Folwell has always felt rooted in her culture, she pursued a ceramics practice in the early 1970s with a desire to find a distinctive voice.
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An Artist’s Unexpected Confrontation With Mortality
Even when she is dealing with loaded subjects, like her mother’s death, Asako Tabata never checks the usual boxes.
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A Cornstalk Grows in Soho
More than an artistic experiment in food production, Emily Janowick’s latest work is a droll and earnest meditation on family alienation.
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A Neo-Impressionism Show for the One Percent
An exhibition shows off the movement’s socialist politics via works a wealthy benefactor unironically chomped up.
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For Lygia Clark, Art Was a Means of Survival
The pioneering Brazilian artist and therapist used interactive works to show that art, therapy, and politics are more connected than we may think.
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Stephen Westfall’s Avian Abstractions
Like Charlie "Bird" Parker’s jazz improvisation, the artist's compositions are simultaneously cacophonous and rhythmic.
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The Night Harriet Tubman Made History
An exhibition of art and historical artifacts celebrates the freedom fighter’s story without over-mythologizing her.
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Geometric Abstraction in the Age of Disparity
Lisa Corinne Davis has stretched the possibilities of painting into a territory defined by digital systems, algorithms, flow charts, and diagrams.
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Man Ray Was So Much More Than a Photographer
From film to painting to sculpture to chess, the Surrealist was an artist-inventor, tinkering away at light and objects and having a good laugh all the while.
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The Past and Future of Boucher’s Four Seasons
Flora Yukhnovich translates the iconic series into a digital-age fantasia while pointing to the original abundance just outside the Frick Collection’s walls.
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France Flips the History of Photography Upside Down
Investigating the archive in all its malleable reinvention is at the core of this year’s Rencontres d’Arles festival, held in historic churches and sites across the city.
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Painting Was His First Love, But Poetry Got in the Way
An exhibition of Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s work is an ode to the great possibilities of the page by a 20th-century literary icon.