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Alice's Technosurreal Wonderland
LOS ANGELES — "You would have to be half-mad to dream me up,” the Mad Hatter said to Alice during her romp through Wonderland, that place where her body and state-of-mind regularly changed shaped.
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Six Decades in Wolf Kahn's Landscape
The earliest painting on view in Wolf Kahn: Six Decades is a large landscape-derived abstraction from 1960 titled “Into a Clearing.” It features a loose, pulsing welter of brushstrokes that coalesce into lush zones of breathing, blooming color.
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Beer with a Painter: Josephine Halvorson
Josephine Halvorson and I met on a late winter day when the chill was starting to melt, and talked over omelettes at the window of the Red Cat in Chelsea. It was early on a weekday, the restaurant felt quietly elegant, the light outdoors mellowed by cloud cover. As Halvorson noted, even the potatoes
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Artists Pick Artists: Eftihis Patsourakis
The art of Eftihis Patsourakis is austere and humane, economic in means and layered in reflection. Cigarette ends, thrift shop paintings, Post-it notes (items only a curious nomad, or archeologist from the future, would find important) become the foundational elements of his work.
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Questions About Art Criticism for Three European Critics
On Sunday, April 27, an event jointly organized by AICA International and EUNIC New York will be probing the realities facing art critics in Europe.
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Painting and Poetry: In Conversation with Archie Rand
"As poets remain unpaid workers there is a perverse comfort in the façade of integrity, promised as resulting from that misfortune, which beckons me to trust their company. The idea of a strategy is still alien to poets."
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Hirst Forgery Juror Speaks
A Florida pastor's recent conviction for selling forged Damien Hirst spin paintings provided an absurdist twist to the tired art-scam narrative. Witness: a clergyman debunked by Science Ltd. (the name of Hirst's studio).
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Pixels Wants to Put Image Licensing Back in the Hands of Photographers
Pixels.com, a spinoff of the print-on-demand website Fine Art America — is aiming to put licensing back into the hands of photographers.
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Just in Time for Passover: 6 Questions for Met Museum Curators About Medieval Hebrew Manuscripts
Two medieval Hebrew manuscripts have gone on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art to coincide with the beginning of Passover (sundown today, Monday, April 14).
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In Conversation: Molly Zuckerman-Hartung
Molly Zuckerman-Hartung is a Chicago-based painter, teacher, and author of "The 95 Theses on Painting." Her work reflects a deep engagement with process, material, and with painting’s long history. Her abstract paintings often extend above the surface and outside the frame, via pooled enamel, collag
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An Androgynous Suffragette Portrait, Rediscovered
LOS ANGELES — Mind-altering conversations happen by chance, randomly, when we are least expecting them to occur.
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Did a Few Tweets Force Frieze to Unionize?
On April 9, Frieze New York and city labor unions announced that they had reached a settlement regarding using unionized workers for their fair in May.