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Two Artists Document the Rise and Fall of Pittsburgh's Steel Industry
Sandra Gould Ford and LaToya Ruby Frazier reveal a side of the city that is rarely seen by outside observers or even many of its contemporary, white-collar locals.
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12 Revelatory Exhibitions from 2017
Each of these exhibitions showed me something I had not seen before.
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The Jester Who Thinks He’s King
We have a president who is a joker, a jester, a racist, a sexist, a sociopath and perhaps a psychopath.
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Skipping Across the Decades with Mark Dagley
Dagley's new exhibition at Spencer Brownstone is a case study in sustaining a varied, disciplined investigation of painting as structure and object-making.
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The Pursuit of Art, 2017
A year of truth-telling and electric painting.
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10 Countries Where Art Was Censored in 2017
From a show of queer art shut down in Brazil to a painting removed from an art fair in the United Arab Emirates, cultural censorship was rampant this year.
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Walid Raad's Playful and Dead-Serious Experiments with History
Raad's latest exhibition in Beirut explores history, archives, and reality with his signature inscrutability and dry humor.
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Circling Back to Kenneth Noland
Noland's current exhibition at Yares Art, brings together prime examples of one of the artist’s signature motifs: concentric rings of color centrally and symmetrically ordered in square canvases.
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Birding with Max Ernst
In the Museum of Modern Art's current Ernst retrospective, the artist's avian alter ego, Loplop, reveals a realer reality.
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Mark Bradford Reimagines “Pickett’s Charge” to Include New Voices
Within Bradford's "Pickett's Charge," there is a rawness, a free construction that flies in the face of popular culture's insistence on a simplified historical and visual record.
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The 20 Most Powerless People in the Art World: 2017 Edition
Some people think the art world is a series of champagne lunches, private jet trips, auctions, freeports, and VIP lounges, but that part of the scene doesn’t interest us. Welcome to the latest edition of our annual list compiling those who are rendered powerless in a system created for the affluent
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Four Los Angeles Shows to Look Forward to in the New Year
From an exhibition about the first superstar curator to Pacific Standard Time's performance festival, there's strong work aplenty on the horizon.