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Have We Been Misreading Jasper Johns All Along? Part One
Perhaps we have all been reading his work too narrowly since his first show at Leo Castelli, more than a half-century ago.
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Fabricated Galaxies: On Stanley Boxer
Painter Stanley Boxer used the term “manufacture” to describe his process.
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And Then There Is Using Whatever Happens: Quentin Morris’s 'Untitled'
When Quentin Morris begins a painting the only thing he knows is that it will be black.
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Inclusive, Eclectic, Dazzling: The Paintings of Katherine Tzu-Lan Mann
Mann begins each work with splashes of ink and water across the surface of the paper, prompting a series of painterly moves that invariably lead to extreme, layered, engulfing complexity.
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Surreal Sculptures Come to Life in Yeasayer's Trippy New Video
“Where’s my head?” sing Chris Keating and Anand Wilder of psych-pop band Yeasayer in “Silly Me,” a track off their new album Amen & Goodbye.
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Sexual and Playful Inflatable Bodies
PHILADELPHIA — Nancy Davidson’s sculptures have a bombastic quality, like an overbearing, gaudily dressed aunt who has just arrived late to a family gathering.
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An Evening of Modern Dance in Need of an Authority Figure
I received an invitation to attend a show titled “Authority Figure,” subtitled: “An immersive choreography exploring our relationships to surveillance, big data, and policing as it mingles with our psychology.”
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Moyra Davey Channels the Ghost of Derek Jarman
7 Albums is elliptical; it is poetic. The show works as an additive — but one that’s both nuanced and gentle.
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A Half-Documentary, Half-Fantasy Telling of the Caribbean’s Colonial Past
MIAMI — There is a dizzying effect in Beatriz Santiago Muñoz’s short film “Otro usos (Other Uses).”
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A Sculptural Forest Made from 10,000 Species of Trees
Glasgow-born, Berlin-based artist Katie Paterson has spent the past three years collecting wood samples from around the world, trying to check off all the items on her tree species wish list.
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A Fleet of 2,000 Pigeons Takes Flight in Brooklyn, Ruffling Protesters’ Feathers
For over a decade, helicopter pilots practiced their landings on the deck of the US Navy's Baylander IX-514. Today, the now decommissioned and privately owned ship is serving as home base to flying creatures of another kind: pigeons.
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Revisiting the First American Folk Art Museum, Founded by a Modernist Sculptor
The rough finishes and loose poses of Elie Nadelman's sculptures of circus performers, pianists, and dancers were influenced by his incredible collection of folk art.