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Start off 2016 by enjoying one or some of the many performance festivals happening this month, or visit the Reanimation Library in its new home, or catch a historical survey of art brut in America before it's gone.
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A Rare Encounter with an Aaron Douglas Painting that References Slavery’s Past
Lavender and gold silhouettes of soldiers on horseback, waves, and a kneeling figure overlap on the flat plane of Aaron Douglas's "Let My People Go" (1935–39).
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Mastery and Missteps in Matisse’s Books
The Morgan Library & Museum’s current exhibition Graphic Passion: Matisse and the Book Arts demonstrates the artist’s well-deserved reputation of having produced some of the most prominent livres d’artistes.
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Soundscapes Composed from the Colors of Famous Paintings
What might a Raphael sound like, based on the particular colors of its paint?
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Clyfford Still's Radical Repetitions
DENVER — The Clyfford Still Museum's current exhibition, Repeat/Recreate, has been on the institution’s wish list for nearly 10 years, since well before it even opened.
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The Prince of New York City
It is easy to forget just how really good a painter Alex Katz can be. This is because he makes everything look so easy and natural.
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Liubov Popova, an Homage
Sometime in the late 1970s, Miriam Schapiro and Elaine Lustig Cohen gathered a group of feminist artists and writers around my dining room table with a proposal: “Let’s form a consortium to buy the work of the Russian Constructivist women.”
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Everything Is Permitted: Artist-Run Spaces of Mexico City in the 1990s
PHILADELPHIA — In the early 1990s, Mexican artists Daniel Guzmán and Luis Felipe Ortega recreated and recorded on video a selection of works by Bruce Nauman, Vito Acconci, and Paul McCarthy. They relied only on written transcriptions.
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Broken Utopia: Abstract Painting in Italy
Nobody believes in the simple narrative arc of Modern Art anymore; even so, Painting in Italy 1910s–1950s: Futurism, Abstraction, Concrete Art at Sperone Westwater is an instructive glimpse into the fullness and complexity lying beneath thumbnail histories of the avant-garde.
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New Year, New Freedoms! Here Is the Art Entering the Public Domain in 2016
The first day of a new year means new entries into the public domain! As we do each year for Public Domain Day, here's a look at the artists whose work is now out of copyright.
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New Year, New Freedoms! Here Is the Art Entering the Public Domain in 2016
The first day of a new year means new entries into the public domain! As we do each year for Public Domain Day, here's a look at the artists whose work is now out of copyright.
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An Exhibition Ponders (and Perpetuates) the Hierarchy Between "Art" and "Craft"
LONDON — Losing the Compass, at White Cube in London’s Mason’s Yard, aspires to critique geographical, aesthetic, and other sorts of hierarchies.