Joshua Marsh has fashioned a world where a sweet, wise humor in the face of mortality and inescapable change prevails.
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Innovative Curatorial Projects in Prints and Drawings
From Betye Saar’s travel journals to early paper silhouettes, projects and exhibitions promise to be fascinating.
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Devendra Banhart Exchanges Breath and Rhythm for Pencil and Ink
Banhart’s first solo show in Los Angeles is at turns intimate and grandiose.
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Translating Deaf Culture, Christine Sun Kim Underlines the Difficulty of Interpretation
The artist, who gave an iconic ASL performance at the Super Bowl last year, draws our attention to the struggle of power, ideology, and systems in the juncture of languages.
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Andy Warhol’s Defiant Hopes for Queer Art
In an essay in “Andy Warhol: Love, Sex, and Desire,” out from TASCHEN, Gopnik argues that Warhol had good reason to believe that daring gay imagery was where art ought to have been heading.
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The Profound and Alluring Mystique of Luchita Hurtado
With its emphasis on never-before-seen painting and drawings, Luchita Hurtado. Together Forever. reveals the artist’s progressively sensual and abstract representations of the body, pushing the viewer to look much closer.
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This Courtroom Artist Has Sketched Some of the Most High-profile Cases of the Century
With cameras forbidden in federal trials, Jane Rosenberg’s drawings of high-profile trials, including Steven Bannon, Jeffrey Epstein, and Harvey Weinstein, offer unique insights.
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Shellyne Rodriguez’s Drawings Expand the Definition of “Essential Workers”
“I didn’t want to be pigeonholed into that idea, the ‘COVID drawings.’ To me this was just part of a moment,’” she told Hyperallergic of her drawings depicting her fellow organizers and Bronx community.
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The Unapologetically Gay, Erotic Drawings of Soufiane Ababri
Alternately funny, melancholic, erotic, and political, the Moroccan artist’s Bedworks series offers compassionate images of men blissfully enjoying themselves.
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When Philosophy and Art Intersect
Maria Bussmann’s elusive drawings acknowledge the impossibility of fixing philosophical terms in imagery, like bugs in amber.
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What Do Artists Need to Make Their Work?
For artists and writers, self-isolation means doing what they have always done — which is work at home.
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Let Us Now Praise Humble Artists
In this time of self-isolation and social distancing, shouldn’t the art world consider celebrating artists who don’t require expensive materials or run up high production costs?