What if Abstract Expressionism never happened?
John Sloan
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Artists of the Dark: “Night Visions: Nocturnes in American Art, 1860–1960”
Nighttime darkness compresses space and alters colors, making ordinary places both more terrifying and more freeing, changing the social dynamic of those who walk in them.
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Can You Solve These Early 20th-Century Newspaper Puzzles?
Better known for his realist paintings of New York City street life, Ashcan School artist John Sloan was also a master of visual mind-bending.
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Old and New Takes on the Female Nude
PORTLAND — Way back in 1989, the Guerrilla Girls called attention to the fact that less than 5% of the artists in Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Modern Art sections were female, but 85% of the nude works on display featured women. Twenty-five years later, it should be common practice not to create shows that are noninclusive, mostly white, and mostly male. But the patriarchy is still going strong, even in the liberal mecca that is Portlandia.
