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Straying Off the Glitzy Path at Miami Art Week
Ceramic fried eggs, critiques of real estate, and a whole booth dedicated to female-identifying saints caught my eye at Untitled, NADA, and Art Miami.
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Required Reading
This week, missed signs of previous life on Mars, the appeal of forged art, and why are blue whales singing in lower octaves?
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Anne Harvey in a Club of One
There is the singular artist and then there is the more exclusive club that has only one member. Harvey belongs to the latter.
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Why Is There No Spanish at Art Basel Miami?
At this year’s show, I reflected on the lack of bilingual materials, the absurdity of art-fair gimmicks, and the workers who make it all possible.
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Whose Stripe Is It, Anyway?
Astrid Dick was told that she could not paint stripes because Sean Scully and Frank Stella have done so before her, a patently foolish statement.
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Art Problems: I Don't Make Art to Sell; Do I Still Belong in the Art World?
Paddy Johnson answers your questions about art fairs, visibility, and frustrating studio visits.
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A Matriarchal Legacy of Women Warriors
At the heart of What if the Matriarchy Was Here All Along? is the idea that matriarchy never really died but rather has transformed.
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Elon Musk's Bedside Table Tweet Opens the Meme Floodgates
Whether Musk's weird still life post was an act of trolling or an act of cringe is up to you, but the memes speak for themselves.
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Adrian Ghenie and the Soup of Fame
Ghenie's paintings of Marilyn Monroe are a relentless representation of a howling, turbulent tragedy, a face broken into crude sideways slewings and gougings and gorgings of paint.
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Hints of Memory in Layers of Paint
Suzanne Jackson’s paintings come to life, and find their way home, at the Arts Club of Chicago.
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The Art World’s Catholic Problem
What feels like the right way to write about Roman Catholicism, or Christian iconography, to most art critics is heavily influenced by museum discourse, which is far from neutral.
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The Tropical Is Political
A group exhibition at the Americas Society investigates ideas of paradise, approaching the Caribbean region as a product of the visitor economy regime.