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Mark Bradford Appropriates Comic Books and Delves Into the Sublime
Bradford's new paintings tell us how much we don’t know.
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Required Reading
This week, horizontal skyscrapers, Facebook's Cambridge Analytica meltdown, living in a masterpiece, death tribute cartoons, the politics of Google Maps, and more.
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The Unwanted Guest at Modernism’s Table
Martin Barré’s work refutes the American view that painting is something that could be used up — as if it came in a pail rather than a well.
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Cy Twombly’s Extravagant Synesthesia
Rosalind Krauss misreads Twombly in more ways than I can enumerate.
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The Places Rex Tillerson Didn’t Go
Trump's Secretary of State, ex-CEO of ExxonMobil, takes the exit ramp.
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Artists in Seven South American Cities Reflect on Past Dictatorships
The Goethe Institut has invited artists to reflect upon memory and its loss, generating a variety of projects in seven cities across the continent.
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Visiting the NRA's National Firearms Museum in the Wake of the Parkland Shooting
While most US art and history museums have shied away from addressing gun violence and gun control, one institution has remained assertively pro-firearms.
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A New Center in the Mile-High City Elevates Women's Contributions to Colorado History
The Center for Colorado Women’s History, which opened on March 21, is a helpful response to visitor demand for untold stories of local women.
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How Pre-Columbian Art Influenced Josef Albers
The Josef Albers in Mexico exhibition is a necessary corrective to Albers’s reputation as more pedagogue than painter and the misconception that abstraction can ever be free of outside influence.
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A Young Designer’s Pulpy and Surprisingly Personal Furniture
Thomas Barger, whose material of choice is colorful paper pulp, is part of a generation of adventurous furniture designers reshaping their field in the US.
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How German Artists Rebuilt an Art Scene After World War II
This exhibition includes the work of nearly 50 artists all living and working under varying circumstances during World War II, and who all reemerged to begin reshaping German art after it ended.
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160 Years Before the Frida Kahlo Barbie, a Rosa Bonheur Doll Celebrated a Queer Woman Painter
Victorian-era American girls loved the porcelain-faced version of Bonheur, which by the 1860s was a hit.