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Weaving Together the Story of a Forgotten Pop Artist and Her Rugs
In the annals of overlooked artists, Dorothy Grebenak is an extreme case.
Essays
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The Trials of a Hot-Pink Sunbather
Ohad Meromi's public sculpture “Sunbather,” perhaps unintentionally, turns out to be a button pusher. And the pushback it has already received is a healthy sign.
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The Whitney Biennial Reminds Us America Is Not Post-Race
A slow reading of Ajay Kurian’s work is influenced by a desire to view, parse, and converse with more work by artists of color, and is one of many strategies needed to challenge a dominant, incomplete idea of “American” art.
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Chuck Berry and the Modernist Fable of “Johnny B. Goode”
The jackhammer chatter of the song's opening riff lets us know that the pastoral is past.
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Brutalism and Traditional Khmer Design Come Together in Phnom Penh's Hiroshima House
Osamu Ishiyama's structure exemplifies the surprising adaptability of humans in the face of dehumanizing events.
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Living in Raymond Pettibon’s America
We seem to finally be catching up to what the artist has been saying through his work all along — that things are bad, and they always have been.
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Remembering Martin Kippenberger’s Self-Performance
His drunken antics and grand gestures amounted to a life that New York Times art critic Roberta Smith once called “an extended, alcohol-fueled performance piece.”
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A James Baldwin Documentary Raises Questions About America that May Never Be Answered
Raoul Peck's I Am Not Your Negro delivers brutally honest polemics about white America from James Baldwin.
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A Western Cultural History of Pink, from Madame de Pompadour to Pussy Hats
It goes without saying that pink is unserious. But why?
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When Great Art Makes You LOL
Is funny art actually funny? The answer, as we see it, is a rousing chorus of “it depends.”
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Saying Goodbye to a Visionary Eye
The Susanne Hilberry Gallery was a gateway to the art world that lay beyond Detroit as well as a kind of training ground where artists, art students, and art critics could learn to view and interact with artworks critically.
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Rescuing Norman Rockwell's Progressive Legacy from a Right-Wing Cartoonist
The artist was no reactionary. He was a staunch liberal and a strong believer in an inclusive country.