“You left us with an invitation to love and live harder, to be one with nature and the cosmos, and to commit to the struggle holistically,” writes Shirine Saad in a letter to the late Lebanese-American painter and poet.
Essays
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The Art World’s Tainted Love for “Discovering” Artists: The Case of Etel Adnan
There isn’t enough discussion about the institutional structures that led to the exclusion of underrepresented artists from art history in the first place.
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Remembering the Legacy of a Larger-Than-Life Artist, Sam Tchakalian
The Bay Area artist believed in shaping artists rather than relaying rules.
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The Bite-Sized Art of Chewing Gum
Hannah Wilke is part of an elastic history of bubble gum-as-art that started before her and continues to this day.
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“We’re Taking Up Space”: Salvadoran Women Artists Shape a New Identity
“And we’re brown, and Central American, and this is what’s up,” artist Liliana Castro explains.
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Jasper Johns: Hiding in Plain Sight
Johns has repeatedly used one motif whose source has never been identified.
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What Should We Call the Great Women Artists?
Imagine if Berthe Morisot had been known as Berthe Manet.
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Avedon’s Father, My Mother, and Processing Death
People say you should talk to the dying to reassure them, but words felt too pedestrian for this profound space of transition.
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Artworks as Portent and Balm
Two exhibitions by Patricia Satterlee have bookended the plague year.
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Art Heals: After a Sexual Assault, an Artist Paints Women Who Can’t Be Knocked Down
It took me years to find the language to tell this story.
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Painting “the Eternity of Time”
Tu Hongtao’s paintings revisit the traditions of Chinese painting while evading the perils of oversimplification and stagnation.
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Good Fictions: Remembering Peter Wollen
In the years leading up to Peter’s death, I would find myself on occasion writing down our dialogues, both past and present.
