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Larry Poons’s recent paintings at Danese/Corey not only show him producing significant work as he approaches his eighties, but, unlike others of his age, Poons has refused to step gracefully behind his younger colleagues. He continues to work vigorously, and he has instinctively kept pace with paint
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While touring a few of the many small exhibition spaces scattered throughout the city, I was pleasantly reminded that painting requires neither heroic-sized canvases nor the prestige of whitewashed airplane hangars to succeed as significant art.
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There's no indication that Front Room Gallery's Constructing Abstraction exhibition was meant to be an optical vortex of sorts but it certainly makes for a jostling viewing experience that feels like a temperature check for the power of pattern and color in contemporary abstraction.
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Sometimes it seems like troves of old photos of New York City turn up online every other day. But we still ogle them because ... well, what can we say? We heart old NYC porn.
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Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia was designed to look like the most foreboding of fortresses on the outside, and a cathedral-like place of reflection on the inside.
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CHICAGO — There will be hundreds of exhibitions between now and the end of March, when the weather starts to warm up around these Middle West parts. Here's 10.
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This week, we're covering a lot of ground — from a symposium on the transformation of museums in the age of social media to an exhibition of new ceramic works by Lynda Benglis.
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The art world, as those of us who participate in it know quite well, is exceedingly white. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is taking a stab at that problem with a new fellowship that seeks to diversify the curatorial field, specifically at major art institutions around the county.
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PARIS — Theatre of the World, currently on view at La Maison Rouge, raises the thorny issue of the individual and particular against the homogeneous collective.
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CHICAGO — The 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, will begin on February 7, but the selfie olympics have already gone viral.
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LOS ANGELES — Every day, a weirdo is born. Some people feel as if they have the word terminally painted across their foreheads and need no reminders of their weirdness. Others visit artist Kristin Calabrese's studio — as I did right after getting off a plane in Los Angeles, a city I’d never before b
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I am always dazzled by at least one work in a Dan Douke exhibition, and often more.