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Lucas Cranach’s Gothic Carnality

by Michael Glover April 11, 2020April 10, 2020

Where did Cranach’s nudes come from?

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Pop Irony’s Enduring Influence in the Art Institute of Chicago’s New Contemporary Collection

by Philip A Hartigan January 28, 2016January 31, 2016

CHICAGO — The Modern Wing of the Art Institute of Chicago, which opened in 2009, has reinstated its contemporary collection after giving over most of the space in 2015 to a much-lauded retrospective of the American sculptor Charles Ray.

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John Currin’s Silly Porn-Inspired Portraits Somehow Work

by John Seed March 12, 2015March 16, 2015

LOS ANGELES — John Currin’s bizarre vignettes of feminine allure are bound to arouse some rather rich and complicated feelings in the viewer, and that is a good thing.

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Body Modifications of the Woman Born from the Young-Girl #NSFW

by Alicia Eler May 8, 2013May 11, 2013

CHICAGO — Move over, John Currin. Your paintings of disproportionate, not symmetrical picture-perfect bodies pale in comparison to the photographs of Philip Toledano, whose images portray women and men with extreme cosmetic surgery. As a matter of focus, I’ll only look at images of women in this post.

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