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Brice Marden's Intuitive Formalism
Each work in Marden's series Cold Mountain Studies is the trace of a transient intention, and their variety is potentially infinite.
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Imagining the Western Other in 19th-Century Japanese Prints
Images of Americans in these prints tell us a great deal about the local culture as it met the West. They tell us, specifically, about what many Japanese feared, and desired, from the encounter of cultures.
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The Trouble with Renoir’s Nudes
Renoir: The Body, The Senses makes some attempts, vain in my opinion, to present Renoir as a politically progressive artist, even a closet feminist.
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The Disturbing Greatness of Hyman Bloom
Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock considered Hyman Bloom to be America’s first Abstract Expressionist, a label, it should be pointed out, that the artist himself rejected.
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In Praise of Painting's Ambiguity, Part 2
Despite all the changes that Jasper Johns’s art has undergone since the mid-1950s, he has repeatedly returned to the theme of brokenness.
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The Future of Conceptual, Immersive Art Hasn't Quite Arrived
The Gray Area Festival's attractions like Inferno and the ISM Hexadome drew upon images of hell and Thom Yorke to illustrate its vision of audience-participatory art, but the festival itself demonstrated that technology alone is not enough.
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The Repetitions and Surprising Connections Created by the Late Kevin Mullins
The retrospective at Wichita State University's Ulrich Museum of Art is full of the narrative clues the late artist left behind.
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Thrillers and Epic Crime Movies to Stream This Month
From one of the most meticulous heist movies ever made to the most important true crime film.
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What Does Radical Love Look Like?
When love is in full bloom, it goes everywhere and touches everything and in its nondiscrimination constitutes an attitude rarely seen or enacted in human story.
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The Women Photojournalists Who Blazed Trails in the 1940s and '50s
An exhibition at the New-York Historical Society presents the work of six female photographers who worked for LIFE magazine during its golden age.
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The Challenges of Displaying Manga in a Museum Context
Perhaps unsurprisingly, considering the exhibition’s generic name, in trying to be everything to everyone, it’s hard for Manga to satisfy anyone.
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An Artist's Homage to Family Histories and Feminism in Beirut
Mounira al-Solh resists homogenizing narratives about Arab women in her work's specificity and its rejection of expected characters or sensationalized accounts.