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The Art World’s Tainted Love for “Discovering” Artists: The Case of Etel Adnan

Avatar photo by Naz Cuguoğlu March 6, 2022March 7, 2022

There isn’t enough discussion about the institutional structures that led to the exclusion of underrepresented artists from art history in the first place.

Posted inArt

Remembering the Legacy of a Larger-Than-Life Artist, Sam Tchakalian

Avatar photo by John Seed January 25, 2022January 25, 2022

The Bay Area artist believed in shaping artists rather than relaying rules.

Posted inArt

The Bite-Sized Art of Chewing Gum

Avatar photo by Karen Chernick August 3, 2021August 3, 2021

Hannah Wilke is part of an elastic history of bubble gum-as-art that started before her and continues to this day.

Posted inArt

“We’re Taking Up Space”: Salvadoran Women Artists Shape a New Identity

Avatar photo by Annette Lin May 30, 2021May 28, 2021

“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

by John Yau May 29, 2021May 31, 2021

Johns has repeatedly used one motif whose source has never been identified.

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What Should We Call the Great Women Artists?

Avatar photo by Bridget Quinn May 22, 2021May 21, 2021

Imagine if Berthe Morisot had been known as Berthe Manet.

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Avedon’s Father, My Mother, and Processing Death

Avatar photo by Debra Brehmer April 17, 2021April 16, 2021

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

Avatar photo by Thomas Micchelli March 26, 2021March 26, 2021

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

Avatar photo by Clarity Haynes February 4, 2021February 4, 2021

It took me years to find the language to tell this story.

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Painting “the Eternity of Time”

Avatar photo by Mengyun Han December 19, 2020December 18, 2020

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

Avatar photo by Chon Noriega December 17, 2020January 3, 2022

In the years leading up to Peter’s death, I would find myself on occasion writing down our dialogues, both past and present.

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Reynaldo Rivera’s Photographs of a Los Angeles That No Longer Exists

Avatar photo by Chris Kraus December 15, 2020October 15, 2022

In the 1980s and ’90s, Rivera photographed drag performers in Latinx gay bars, house parties in pre-gentrified Echo Park, and performers like Sade, Vaginal Davis, and Chaka Khan.

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