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A Singular Enterprise
I have been doing my best to follow Marilyn Lerner ever since I reviewed her exhibition at John Good for Artforum (May 1989).
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In New Paintings, Elisabeth Condon Pours on Color and Unexpected Forms
It isn’t easy to make a good abstract painting.
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A Struggle for Balance
The muscular abstractions of Ivo Ringe may appear to have little in common with the calibrated colored squares of Josef Albers or the mysticism of Joseph Beuys — or, for that matter, the science of classical proportions, the cellular patterns of plants, or the molecular growth of crystals — but such
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A New Online Trove Brings Historical Silhouettes to Light
The popularity of silhouettes in the 18th and 19th centuries wasn't only due to them being an affordable form of portraiture before the era of photography, the art also fit with popular pseudosciences like phrenology.
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An Incredible Map Collection Gets Its First Physical Home
Since the 1990s, collector David Rumsey has digitized and made freely available his thousands of historical maps; his site has long been one of the best resources for cartography.
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Another Pro Football Team Adds an Art Collection to Its Playbook
MINNEAPOLIS — The history of arts patronage is a patriarchal affair, beginning with the word’s etymology.
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Seeing the Deterioration of Technology in Thomas Struth’s Photographs
BERLIN — Thomas Struth’s current exhibit at the Martin-Gropius-Bau is compact yet compelling.
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How Art Criticism Emerged from the Catalogues of the Paris Salons
Washington, DC — “Words could not express what an agreeable spectacle this was for me to see all at one time such a prodigious quantity of every kind of work,” wrote Jean Rou in his Mémoires inédits et opuscules.
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Surviving and Memorializing the AIDS Crisis
A public health crisis is one of these human occurrences that brings several contravening responses and feelings to the surface: fear, recrimination, massive research efforts, emotional appeals for safety and help, charitable sacrifice, anger, religious discrimination, political advocacy, and on.
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Using Official Forms and Documents to Unpack the Migration Experience
When you walk into Spencer Brownstone gallery from off the street there’s no chance to mentally transition, unlike some galleries where there’s an elevator ride, or a long hallway, or the exhibition space is far from the front desk.
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Tate Uses AI to Match Old British Art to New Photojournalism
Art history repeats itself in contemporary photojournalism.
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Six Decades of Images Trace the Spectacle of American Politics
SOUTHAMPTON, NY — It’s an unusual election year, one in which the two front-running presidential candidates have both been in the public eye for more than three decades.