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Peeling Back the Layers of Religious Devotion
The artists in Devoted: Religion in Asian American Art offer complex perspectives on religion grounded in their lived experiences.
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New York Studio School MFAs Get Serious
The artists in this year’s MFA thesis exhibition have formulated some novel responses to meet the existential dread of this moment.
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Remembering the Rebellious Spirit of Joe Zucker
More than any other artist of his generation, Zucker rejected the conventions associated with Abstract Expressionism, particularly its subjectivity.
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Ming Smith Moving Through Shadows
From Smith’s art, we glean a picture of an artist transformed by risk, by a willingness to wander toward obscurity.
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The Adroit Formalism of Suzanne McClelland
Her paintings become even more visceral when set against her cerebral symbolism.
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A Cold, Hard Tour of Brutalist New York City
With stops at the Salt Shed and the Tribeca Synagogue, the tour was among the highlights of Jane’s Walks, an ongoing series of curated strolls across the city.
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Elias Rischmawi Preserves Memory Against Erasure
What happens when home traverses miles — when it’s caught in the sway between one’s homeland and the land one makes a home of?
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The Disrupted Realism of the New King Charles Portrait
The viral painting mirrors a contemporary movement that allows for improvisation and often fuses representation and abstraction in unexpected ways.
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Remedios Varo Thrives at the Edges of Perception
Varo’s drawings crack the cold flawlessness of her paintings, and it’s exciting to see the looser, simpler skeletons underneath the surface.
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A Japanese Painter’s Cosmic Love Letters to Hawaiʻi
After moving to Honolulu in his early 70s, the Gen'ichirō Inokuma drew inspiration from the rainbows, night sky, and other natural phenomena of his new home.
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Where the Construction Site Meets Brancusi’s Studio
Amid a rise in waste dumping, artist Ethan Primason gives discarded items new lives, working intuitively until he finds their new form.
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Why Are Hiroshige’s Woodblock Prints Still So Moving?
The artist subverts the status system of 19th-century Japan, foreshadowing the impact of modernization and industrialization.