Architectural drawings were limited to mostly monochrome in Europe until color appeared in the 17th century.
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Mauricio Lasansky’s “Nazi Drawings” Confront the Unthinkable Evil
Lasansky’s series drew massive crowds when it toured major museums between 1967 and 1970.
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Athena LaTocha Digs Deep into Brooklyn’s Past
The artist’s wall-size drawing evokes a geologic mood within a neighborhood that has changed in recent decades.
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Drawing the Intricate Environment of an Indigenous Venezuelan Community
Despite his work’s apparent abstraction, Sheroanawe Hakihiiwe insists that “I don’t invent anything, everything I do is my jungle and what is there.”
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Facing Catastrophe With Calm
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.