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The Prodigal Son of Spanish Baroque Art
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo's deftly painted canvases are filled with earthy, convincing characters that even the most secular viewer will appreciate, if not relate to.
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Marta Minujín Looks Ugliness Right in the Face
The Argentine artist’s early Informalist works, conjuring decay and degradation, are difficult to look at but deserving of our gaze.
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Six Decades of Contemporary Native Art at Santa Fe’s Institute of American Indian Arts
The IAIA remains the only educational institution in the world dedicated to the study of contemporary Native American and Alaska Native arts.
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Kevin Beasley Threads Wires That Connect Los Angeles With the South
While this exhibition exists in an austere white cube, far away from the heavy heat and kudzu of Virginia or Louisiana, the artist invokes the South through material and conceptual pull.
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Siobhan Liddell Presents a Poem of a Show
Her latest exhibition is spare, strange, intentional in its moves, and economical in its means.
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An Artist’s Opiate Addiction Recovery Through Photography
For New Mexico-based artist Frank Blazquez, portraiture was the way out of a crippling opiate addiction.
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Georgia O’Keeffe at 90 in Color
Photographer Malcolm Varon's 1977 portraits, on view at the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, are some of the only images of the artist late in her life.
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A Travelogue of Imaginary Lands in Stamps
Donald Evans concentrated all of his attention on the postage stamp, unlocking its potential to evoke distant, unseen lands.
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Deconstructing the Masculinity of Hercules
Artist Kyle Staver’s portrayal of the mythic hero feels balanced, as if to say: sure, the 12 labors are absurd, but isn’t all human endeavor?
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Commemorating the Life of Christina Yuna Lee
with her name, penetrate earth’s floor remembers the Korean-American creative producer who was murdered in Lower Manhattan at age 35.
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Mary Beth Edelson Celebrated the Goddess Within
Edelson followed the hunch that if women artists didn’t create this history for themselves, no one would.
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A Meditation on Biotech's Cycles of Healing and Harm
Sharona Franklin's artwork is a celebration and commemoration of what is gained and lost with scientific advances that result in biohazardous waste.