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The Church of Secular Art
Bill Viola's installation at a Naples church misses the spiritual mark.
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Looking Between the Lines of Max Cole’s Abstract Paintings
In the artist’s exhibition Endless Journey, each tiny, delicate mark reads as a meditative act, imbued with rigorous attention, care, and focus.
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Happy Public Domain Day! Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse Is Copyright Free
Frances Benjamin Johnston's photojournalism, Jamini Roy's stylized portraiture, and M. C. Escher's print works have also become accessible to all.
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Happy Public Domain Day! Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse Is Copyright Free
Frances Benjamin Johnston's photojournalism, Jamini Roy's stylized portraiture, and M. C. Escher's print works have also become accessible to all.
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Immersing Myself in Helen Escobedo's "Total Environments"
An exhibition at Monterrey’s Museum of Contemporary Art captures what made Escobedo's work so alluring — and the artist herself, as many remember and I imagine her, irresistible.
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Not Enough Pressure at the 2022 Kingston Biennial
Limiting the biennial to the first floor of the National Gallery was a lost opportunity to position artworks in response to the country’s social vibrations.
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The 20 Most Powerless People in the Art World: 2022 Edition
It’s the end of the year, so that means it’s time for our annual list that highlights those who are often rendered powerless in a system ruled by the oversized influence of the super-rich and their courtiers.
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The Private Passions of Henry Fuseli
Fuseli and the Modern Woman is immensely pleasurable for the technical facility of an artist pursuing his own personal interests in an incredibly idiosyncratic style.
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Cinthia Marcelle Celebrates Collaboration Through Chaos
Collaboration in Marcelle’s work pursues ambiguity and disorder in order to destabilize hierarchies of race and class.
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The Top 50 Exhibitions of 2022
This year, we’re going big with a list of memorable art shows from around the world, seen and loved by our editors and contributors.
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The Horror and Banality of American Racism
Christy Chan’s Who’s Coming to Save You? makes clear the perpetual nature of American bigotry.
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Two SWANA Artists’ Vision for a City of the Future
Dahlia Elsayed and Andrew Haik Demirjian imagine “Mustaqbaaaahpolis” as a city free from “extraction, time scarcity, and exploitation.”