In the last 15 years, Agnès Varda has embraced the label of visual artist rather than the more specific filmmaker.
Blum & Poe
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Objects that Manifest the Contradictions of American History
Sam Durant’s exhibition Build Therefore Your Own World at Blum & Poe examines and creates points of connection between the transcendentalists and African Americans.
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Resisting Totality: The Paintings of Zhu Jinshi
A precocious youth forced to work in a factory during the Cultural Revolution, the painter Zhu Jinshi afterwards joined the seminal new art group the Stars (星星), producing works that dabbled in the imported medium of abstraction.
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Best of 2015: Our Top 20 NYC Art Shows
Occasionally, we are forced to venture beyond Brooklyn to see art.
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Korea’s Monochrome Painting Movement Is Having a New York Moment
The term Dansaekhwa, or “monochrome painting,” may elude readers unfamiliar with Korean, but it represents arguably Korea’s most important art movement of the late 20th century
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A Textile Artist’s Long Overdue US Survey Ropes You In
Human figures seem to lurk in almost all of Françoise Grossen’s folded, knotted, and coiled rope sculptures.