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30 Years On, Nan Goldin’s Unflinching ‘Ballad’ Is Just as Powerful
When the slideshow of Nan Goldin's The Ballad of Sexual Dependency flipped past pictures of her ex Brian, I finally understood why she had photographed him so much.
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The Pursuit of Art, 2015
2015 was the Year of the Whitney.
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A Seashell Temple, a Glowflower Tree, and More Art Adventures at Burning Man
The ephemeral circumstances of the festival and the disposition (natural, habituated, or chemically enhanced) of so many attendees creates an unusual environment for viewing and engaging with art.
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Inside David Lynch’s Dream Worlds
David Lynch has been a stranger to the director’s chair for almost a decade now — since 2006’s Inland Empire, to be exact.
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Takesada Matsutani’s Art of Expressive Textures and Ambiguous Blobs
NISHINOMIYA, Japan — Looking back at modernism’s multifaceted history — all those styles, manifesto-driven movements and “-isms,” which forever changed how artists, critics and viewers would look at and think about art — one is reminded that among its fundamental tenets was a call to search out the
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Sketches from a Carnivalesque Weekend of Brooklyn Performance Art
A different kind of paean to the carnivalesque transpires in New York City, outside RoseLee Goldberg’s curatorial reach.
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"Familiar, Unbidden": Finding Home with Elizabeth Bishop
Having grown up in seven different cities, there is no place I have ever felt particularly at home.
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An Endless Succession of Roles: Joan Brown's Self-Portraits
When Joan Brown began attending the California School of Fine Arts in 1955, she was immediately dissatisfied with her classes and the structure of art education in general.
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Gathering Gossip and Parsing Truth at the Istanbul Biennial
ISTANBUL — “Gossip,” according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is “trifling or groundless rumour.” I actually like to think of it as knowledge, but the kind that’s not considered true or rational — at least not yet anyway.
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In Kochi, India, a Biennial Makes Room for Reimagining the Region
NEW DELHI — The Kochi-Muziris Biennale (KMB) launched in 2012 and has distinguished itself by the scale of its ambition.
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Extreme Abstraction: A Brief Introduction to Martin Barré’s Cosmogony
Some abstract painters are harder to fathom than others. In fact a few of them seem quite hopelessly indecipherable. A case in point is French painter Martin Barré (1924-1996), who has been receiving increasing and well-deserved attention in New York these past ten years.
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A Poetics of Appropriation: On Sharon Core
Sharon Core does not simply make photographs of still lifes that exactly re-create paintings, she creates the still lifes — literally.