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What It’s Like to Visit Virtual Galleries as an Art Critic

by Seph Rodney March 25, 2020November 3, 2020

Due to the pandemic, museums and galleries are now creating virtual experiences. Here’s what it’s like to visit them.

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Erasing the Binaries that Attempt to Contain Our Bodies

by Seph Rodney March 21, 2019March 27, 2019

The body glistens. It is naked. It is torqued so that the face faces one bearing and the belly and genitalia faces the opposite. The translucent surface that skins the figure gleams wet.

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The Extraordinary Marcia Hafif

by Gregory Volk October 27, 2018October 26, 2018

For Hafif, painting was a meditative act, a clarifying ritual.

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Grim Vistas of Present and Future Dystopias

by Seph Rodney December 11, 2017

In Anna Conway’s paintings, subtle evocations of the past highlight the tensions of our current moment.

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Placing Your Trust in the Black Male Body

by Seph Rodney July 28, 2017

In a performance at Fergus McCaffrey gallery, Clifford Owens used his body as an instrument to propel others not to fear, but to trust.

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Toshio Yoshida Emerges from Gutai’s Grasp

by Edward M. Gómez May 6, 2017May 5, 2017

Even for viewers familiar with the diversity of art forms cooked up by the Gutai artists and the attitudes that informed them, much of what is on display in this Yoshida show may come as a surprise.

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Ladies First at the ADAA Art Show

by Benjamin Sutton March 2, 2017March 3, 2017

Women artists are ubiquitous at the most august of the week’s art fairs, from canonical figures like Lee Krasner and Lee Bontecou to lesser-known figures like Zilia Sánchez and Evelyn Statsinger.

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In 1970s Japan, a New Art of Experiments, Edgy Photos, and Big Ideas

by Edward M. Gómez September 19, 2015October 2, 2015

There are certain exhibitions in which some or many of the works on display are so interesting, provocative or well-made that they somehow manage to surmount whatever restrictive or overwrought critical-theoretical trappings their organizers have erected around them, defying the analytical filters through which they are meant to be considered and understood.

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Through a Lens, Inquisitively: Modern Photo Visions, of and from Japan

by Edward M. Gómez September 12, 2015September 22, 2015

Most photographs of real-life events tend to be documentary by nature, but the kind of photographic image-making that makes a point of approaching its subjects with an “objective” viewpoint and a for-posterity sense of purpose — can such photos ever convey a truly neutral position vis-à-vis their subjects?

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