Ryman’s sculpture embodies DIY aesthetics raised to a high level of sophistication while remaining modest and self-effacing.
Freight + Volume
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Surfboards, Skateboards, and the Question of Art
What is the difference between a painting in a museum and a tattoo on an arm?
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Broken Collages Capture the Secret Lives of Things
Charles Platt’s exhibition encrypted messages at Freight+Volume gallery uses personal things to reconstruct a narrative, or at least parts of a story through which a life might be glimpsed.
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Modeling the Modern Witch in the Age of Trump
Americans love their mythos almost as much as they love their country. But with the appalling lack of civility during this year’s election, a few monsters of our past are returning to wreak havoc.
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Paintings that Set Letters and Language Free
The poet James Schuyler once described the tidal influence that the New York art world had on the poetry he and his friends were writing as “floods of paint in whose crashing surf we all scramble.”
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Art on Paper Joins the Armory Week Fold
Despite Art on Paper’s name, the work on view at the first-time Armory Week fair includes as many different materials as at any other fair, with art created on paper and art inspired by paper on view.