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Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Personal Art Collection Is Up for Auction

by Sarah Rose Sharp April 19, 2022April 19, 2022

A Josef Albers screenprint, ceramics by Picasso, and contemporary Indigenous artworks are all going under the hammer

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The Artists Who Wrote Poetry at Black Mountain, From Josef Albers to John Cage

by Victoria Nebolsin November 8, 2019

Including poems from well known writers and less expected artists, Black Mountain Poems produces a keener vision of the interdisciplinary culture of the famed college.

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The Colors of the Sixties

Avatar photo by Thomas Micchelli April 6, 2019December 27, 2019

Spilling Over: Painting in the 1960s at the Whitney Museum expands the common understanding of a pivot point in American art, while basking unapologetically in the pure pleasure of looking.

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How Pre-Columbian Art Influenced Josef Albers

by Dennis Zhou March 23, 2018March 28, 2018

The Josef Albers in Mexico exhibition is a necessary corrective to Albers’s reputation as more pedagogue than painter and the misconception that abstraction can ever be free of outside influence.

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A Mega-Gallery Marks a Quarter Century

Avatar photo by Gregory Volk February 3, 2018February 4, 2018

I remember David Zwirner Gallery back in the 1990s, before Chelsea, when the New York art world was much smaller and more manageable.

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The Unknowable Ray Johnson

Avatar photo by Edward M. Gómez September 30, 2017September 30, 2017

When Ray Johnson killed himself at the age of 67, the air of mystery surrounding his personality, life, and art only thickened.

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Homage to Josef Albers: Writers Pay Tribute to a Pioneer of Abstraction

by Michael Valinsky May 1, 2017May 4, 2017

In Josef Albers: Midnight and Noon, Nicholas Fox Weber, Elaine de Kooning, Colm Tóibín, and more discuss the artist’s seminal Homage to the Square series.

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The Lifespan of Bauhaus Utopianism

by Joseph Nechvatal February 9, 2017February 8, 2017

An exhibition at Paris’s decorative arts museum hones in on the myriad ways that students and teachers at the Bauhaus sought to integrate art, architecture, and design into total artworks.

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A Book and Exhibition Reveal Josef Albers’s Rarely Seen Photocollages

by Claire Voon January 18, 2017January 19, 2017

In his only lecture on photography, Albers warned students against approaching photography carelessly, and the collages he made of his own photos show how he put that mantra into practice.

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Art as a Learning Process: The Legacy of Black Mountain College

by Robert Moeller January 5, 2016January 4, 2016

BOSTON — Founded in 1933 by the classicist John Andrew Rice, Black Mountain College was a shoestring operation deep in the heart of the rural American South that opened as the Great Depression began and another World War loomed just over the horizon.

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A Universe of Drawing, Rolled into a Single Room

Avatar photo by Thomas Micchelli April 18, 2015January 19, 2016

Ten years ago, the Morgan Library & Museum decided it was time to bring its collection up to speed on the art of drawing in the 20th and 21st centuries — a daunting task in itself, and even more improbable in the face of a superheated, late-capitalist art market: at the feast of the trophy-eaters, would the museum be forced to content itself with scraps?

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Typewriter Art, Online

by Mostafa Heddaya April 24, 2014August 3, 2021

The archival project Monoskop.org has posted the entirety of Alan Riddell’s Typewriter Art (1975), an out-of-print volume collecting typographical artwork made between the 1890s and the 1970s.

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