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The Willful Jouissance of Hannah Wilke
Wilke’s joyful effusions were a reminder of the limitlessness of the body’s creative potential.
Hannah Wilke
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The Bite-Sized Art of Chewing Gum
Hannah Wilke is part of an elastic history of bubble gum-as-art that started before her and continues to this day.
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Hannah Wilke's and Eva Hesse’s Irreverent Experiments in Abstraction
Erotic Abstraction revels in the subversive absurdity shared by both artists.
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Visiting the 2020 Armory Show Amid Ominous Headlines
From art about environmental recklessness to Caribbean post-coloniality, Armory kicked off the spring art fair season in spite of growing coronavirus concerns.
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Gauging the Potential of Abstraction at Art Basel Miami Beach
Questions of privilege aside, the range of abstract works reminded me how artists are providing nuanced ways of thinking about identity that move beyond exclusion/inclusion binaries.
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Hoarding and Spending at Art Basel Miami Beach
After Safariland, if you need to convince yourself that the art world isn’t entirely in money’s thrall, you’d want to be anywhere but here.
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When Art Refuses to Let Go
Delirious at the Met Breuer is an exhibition filled with beautiful but comparatively polite works by habitually transgressive artists.
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Artists Show What It’s Like to Live in Your Own Skin
The exhibition at Invisible Exports, Cheap Suitcase, reflects on how the body is a record of a singular life, but also a random palimpsest of whatever genetic heritage one has.
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The Feminist Avant-Garde, Now More than Ever
Their only solution was to make their revolution their own way, without help and without precedent.
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Artists Share Their Personal, Tragic Experiences in Health and Care
In the small foyer of the 8th Floor gallery, a video shows artist Carmen Papalia with a bullhorn in place of a cane — Papalia, who is blind, beckons those who pass him as he strolls the sidewalk of a busy Vancouver street, making a public declaration of his need to cross.
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A Los Angeles Mega-Gallery Opens with Museum Ambitions
LOS ANGELES — Hauser Wirth & Schimmel, the local outpost of mega-gallery Hauser & Wirth, will open its massive hybrid art space to the public on Sunday.
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From Calder to Kruger, the New Whitney Museum's First Show
The inaugural exhibition at the new Whitney Museum is not perfect, but it is pretty damn good.