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Marcel Duchamp Was the Messenger of History
“The art world changed,” scholar Thierry de Duve told us on the occasion of MoMA’s new show. “Duchamp’s ‘Fountain’ is the message that brings us the news.”
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Beer With a Painter: Tom Burckhardt
“My favorite phrase lately is ‘mouthfeel,’ which is used in relation to food and drink,” said the East Village artist. “I’m thinking about that textural quality as a parallel to the paintings.”
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Inside the Met Museum’s Historic Raphael Exhibition
“Asking for Raphael loans is like asking for the firstborn heir of the royal family,” Carmen C. Bambach, curator of the first comprehensive show of the master in the US, told Hyperallergic.
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Beer With a Painter: Hilary Harkness
If paint doesn't feel good coming off the brush, you pretty much have nothing,” said the artist, whose canvases depict humanity in all its rollicking riot and contradiction.
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Ali Eyal Gives Testimony
“I was nine years old, and I felt like I lost that childhood,” the Whitney Biennial artist told Hyperallergic, reflecting on the US’s war in Iraq, the disappearance of his father, and the art he makes to process.
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Making a Mess With CFGNY
We spoke to the fashion collective, who will be in the Whitney Biennial and shows at Pioneer Works and Amant, about collectivity and taking chances.
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Beer With a Painter: Mary Lovelace O'Neal
“At this marvelous hard-won age, the days of jumping and dancing with the paintings are over. But I don't feel limited,” says the artist, educator, and Civil Rights luminary.
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The Moment Caravaggio Became Caravaggio
What can an early painting tell us about an Old Master? We asked the Morgan Library’s curator to find out.
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This Is the Year We Redefine Art Institutions
I sat down with curator eunice bélidor and arts administrator Dejha Carrington to discuss what have become reductive ideas about the role of art museums, my own included.
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Beer With a Painter: Michael Berryhill
“You can’t think your way through a painting,” the artist said during our conversation at his home studio in the Catskills. “You can only act, mark, or feel your way through.”
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For Sylvia Snowden, Color Is Life
The 83-year-old artist has dubbed her painterly detonations of color, which physically undulate from their surfaces, as “structural abstract expressionism.”
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Beer With a Painter: Melissa Joseph
Our series on painters and their practices is back, this time for an interview with the New York-based artist who creates “paintings in felt” to explore her Irish and Indian family history.