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Was Freud a Feminist?
A new show at London’s Freud Museum throws feminist ideas at the wall to see what sticks.
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Egon Schiele’s Landscapes Tell a Winter’s Tale
An eternal fall permeates most of the artist’s landscapes, in which gloomy and Gothic towns are shot through with a sense of impending doom.
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The Visions of Parmigianino
The artist’s career in Rome was curtailed by the sacking of the city in 1527 by the armies of Charles V but they were so impressed by his visionary painting that they spared his life.
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Martha Diamond Found Joy in Paint
Diamond’s attention to the brush’s capacity to be simultaneously expressive and responsive is visible throughout her strongest paintings.
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Step Into a Mandala at The Met
One of the most beautiful aspects of Buddhist art is how intertwined an image is with its philosophical meaning, giving us a deeper understanding of the world around us.
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The Cosmic Energy of Peter Young’s Paintings
What you see in Young’s “stick” paintings is not a tightly executed, machine-like painting, but a humbler and more vulnerable approach.
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8 New York City Art Shows to Kick Off the New Year
From the visual pleasures of Mary Sully to the cultural critique of Gary Simmons, to a lesson in Haitian art history, there’s plenty of great art to see right now.
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Required Reading
This week: letterpress printing in the digital age, the origin of the snow globe, remembering Jimmy Carter, why Hollywood ditched color, and much more.
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Nadya Tolokonnikova Makes an Art of Rage
Why does radical feminist art pose such a danger to political power, and what can these artistic strategies achieve in increasingly unpredictable times?
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Four Artists Dismantle the Boundaries of “Immigrant”
Raul De Lara, Shanique Emelife, Sihan Guo, and Tahnee Lonsdale challenge conservatism through explorations of migration, spirituality, and interconnectedness.
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Four Artists Dismantle the Boundaries of “Immigrant”
Raul De Lara, Shanique Emelife, Sihan Guo, and Tahnee Lonsdale challenge conservatism through explorations of migration, spirituality, and interconnectedness.
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A “Both Sides” Approach to Orientalism
An exhibition hints that Jean-Léon Gérôme and his contemporaries deserve a second look for the virtuosity of their photorealism. I don’t take the bait.