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Sanford Wurmfeld Investigates How We Perceive Color
Paintings that appear ever-changing make us conscious of how we see.
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The Pristine and Sensuous World of John McCracken
While most Minimalists sought to eliminate expressive potential, McCracken’s sculptures do quite the opposite.
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Hot Flux Fosters Afro-Asian Solidarity
An exhibition hints at synchronicities between the contemporary concerns of a small island nation and a vast and diverse continent.
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First Impressions From the 2024 Whitney Biennial
The exhibition that often acts as a barometer of trends and ideas percolating in global art communities has both hits and misses.
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When Shakespeare Lured Soldiers to Battle
Beloved by kings and generals, Shakespeare’s lines have always found their way into powerful hands — and been employed to violent ends.
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How Giuseppe Arcimboldo Made the Familiar Bizarre
The artist’s perplexing paintings should be viewed not as mere visual puzzles, but instantiations of an occult philosophy.
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The Agony and Ecstasy of Tanya Marcuse’s Labyrinths
The artist stitches together exposures to create disorienting, ecstatic murals inspired by an overgrown Garden of Eden.
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The Artists Making Work in Wartime Ukraine
Amid the evil of it, the war has ushered in a wave of visual creation in Kyiv, all the more powerful because of its urgency and vital intensity.
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A Displaced Artist Finds Freedom in Flight
Petrit Halilaj works from memories of his time in a refugee camp during the Kosovo War, when the sight of birds and thought of migration gave him hope.
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The Dark Clouds Closing In on Mark Rothko
A retrospective exhibition in Paris holds so much beauty that visitors may miss how the artist, exhausted, painted himself into a corner.
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A Transhistorical Approach to Five Centuries of Art
An exhibition drawn from the collection of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna examines how nationhood and identity have been constructed over time.
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A Slice of Americana Told Through Tapestries
Mary Tooley Parker takes a folk art form that emerged in the mid-19th century and transforms it into a way of recounting life in the 1960s.