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Queering Abstract Art with Wrapped, Grommeted, and "Roughed-Up" Paintings
Harmony Hammond has had a pioneering impact on art, in particular through her insistence on feminist and queer content in abstract work.
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An Oppositional Artist in Turkey on Censorship, Political Unrest, and “Terrorism”
ISTANBUL — Since winning the November 2015 elections, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his AKP party have taken extreme measures to silence anyone who raises their voice to criticize government policy.
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Glenn Adamson on New York and London’s Distinct Museum Cultures
Glenn Adamson recently stepped down from his directorship at the Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) in Manhattan's Columbus Circle, after serving that position for a little less than three years.
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A Painter on the Entangled Relationship Between Figure and Frame
"I’m trying to make explicit the questions I ask myself: Can the figure bossily occupy the restraining space of the canvas?"
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How Do Artists Feel About Art Fairs?
Art fairs are a bit like the shopping malls of the art world.
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Five Mujeres Critique the Guerrilla Girls and Mainstream Feminism
SAINT PAUL, Minn. —“What happens when five feminist artists lock themselves up in a gallery for 48 hours?” asked the mujeres behind the Twin Cities arts collective Electric Machete Studios, located in the first Latino neighborhood of Minnesota, West St. Paul.
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An Ecologically Minded Artist Navigating the Nature-Culture Continuum
In recent years, my interest has grown in how art can help tackle the environmental devastation of our planet. During that time, I've begun following the artist and educator Ellie Irons, both for her work and her thinking.
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Making Art from the Remnants of Everyday Activities
MEXICO CITY — Architect-turned-conceptual artist Gabriel de la Mora's work is cold and formal to the point of appearing scientific, yet it is layered with history.
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"Virtuosity Provides Freedom": Thoughts from an African American Composer
Lamar’s performances evoke a haunted, transcendent act of awakened consciousness and composed virtuosity that b(l)end the conventions of goth rock and European classical music, opera and the avant-garde, and spirituals and free jazz, yielding something that is singularly his own.
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The Artist Building a Bridge from Brooklyn to Governors Island
Nancy Nowacek has a dream: she wants to build a pedestrian bridge between Brooklyn and Governors Island.
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Beer with a Painter: June Leaf
Walking through the green door into June Leaf’s old-school New York studio — a street-level space downtown — is a bit like entering a Willy Wonka world.
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The Meandering Comics and Narrative Paintings of an Independent Chinese Cartoonist
SHANGHAI — When Yan Cong started self-publishing comics in the mid-2000s, his work ignored the conventions of the manga-influenced Chinese comics industry and looked instead like characters from children’s cartoons had wandered into an unexpectedly adult world.