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Julia Fish's Architectural Abstractions Are Joyful Enigmas
Fish's artworks elude every attempt to enclose them in language, and they resist explanation. They become something only a painting can be.
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Why Joan Mitchell’s Paintings Can Never Die
Unlike the more celebrated painters around her, she didn’t resolve herself to working the same issues over and over; she kept asking herself other questions, pushing the paint to do what it had not quite done before.
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South Asian and Modern Queer Aesthetics Merge in Visually Sumptuous Art
Jaishri Abichandani's first museum survey challenges visitors to take in the full breadth of her artwork — as well as her activism and community engagement.
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The Art of a Haunted United States
Even for viewers who don’t believe in ghosts, spirits, or alien life, the works in Supernatural America possess their own power.
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Native-Inspired Haute Couture Fashion Prepares for a Big Year
Fashion designer Patricia Michaels prepares for SWAIA’s centennial.
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The Never-Ending Storytelling of Native American Jewelry and Its Makers
Two artists exemplify the power of storytelling at the center of Native American art.
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From Ancient Egypt to Teotihuacán, Centuries-Old Palettes Illuminate the Role of the Painter
Despite all of the ancient painted objects in our museums, it’s rare to see an actual paint set.
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How Artists Have Explored and Understood the Human Body Through Time
The Getty is exhibiting exquisite anatomical illustrations from the 16th century to the present.
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Art as an Exercise in Moving Through Grief
What’s clear in These Conditions is artist Adelita Husni Bey’s ambition to push art to be more than an exercise in spectatorship.
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Surrounded by Wealth, an Artist’s Comment on Education Loses Its Edge
Within the well-patrolled boundaries of Madison Square Park, it’s hard not to see Hugh Hayden's Brier Patch as just another amenity, offering a pleasant opportunity for virtue signaling.
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Losing Ourselves in Liz Larner's Shapeshifting Sculpture
By approaching sculpture as an open-ended experience of embodiment, Larner provokes us to repeatedly lose and locate ourselves in her work.
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Southwestern Association for Indian Arts Launches New Art Fair
Art Indigenous Santa Fe aims to increase representation for contemporary Native American and First Nations artists.