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Required Reading
This week, John Lurie isn't happy, galleries are leaving LA's Boyle Heights, threats to PoMo architecture, the corpse flower that doesn't want to open, cute brutalism, and more.
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Taking Stock of Painting Today
It is not every day that you can go to Chelsea and see more than 100 paintings by 46 artists within the space of a few blocks.
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“I Want to Paint Every Color in the World”
By rejecting monochrome and the grid’s guarantee of homogeneity, Stanley Whitney has transformed aspects of Minimalism and Color Field painting into something all his own.
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Falsehood and Justice
Truth is beaten to death.
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Urban Ecological Consciousness at Wave Hill
By providing more information than viewers might process, the show's dense, small-font text highlights an aesthetic challenge that confronts social practice art.
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Racism and Erasure in Fred Wilson's Unearthed Histories
Wilson’s explicit reference to Africa expands the global network through which both cultural influences and African bodies were transmitted.
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Nostalgia and Reality in Picasso, Schiele, and Klimt
The drawings of Klimt and Schiele, in contrast to those of Picasso, are graphic evidence of an artist grappling with what is directly in front of him.
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The Halcyon Days of Postcolonial Mali Through the Lens of Malick Sidibé
The artist's candid event photographs demand the spotlight in his current exhibition in New York.
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µTopian Dinners and Dining With the Enemy
Detroit-based experimental theater ensemble The Hinterlands hosts a series of uTopian Dinners, forging connections between artists around the world.
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Two Artists Are Alla-bout Bob Ross, and a Forthcoming Book on His Painting Techniques
Two artists went on a journey towards Bob Ross, what they discovered were happy little accidents.
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Project Indigene and Speaking the Hard Truths of Colonialism
A new initiative launches in an effort to market and promote Native Art.
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Mona Hatoum's Psychological Surgery
While artist’s career has consistently invited interpretation based in institutional critique and real-world tumult, it is equally constructive to consider her work from a psychological, rather than political, vantage.