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Judith Bernstein Warns Us: Never Again!
That Bernstein’s political art is still so relevant is chilling, but like the first time around, it remains a source of comfort that we have her to lead us through.
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The Dark and Moody Humor of Judith Bernstein’s Paintings
Bernstein’s latest works are beset with a deathlike quality rarely seen in her earlier pieces, even ones that directly addressed death in war or genocide.
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A Philosopher-Painter for Troubled Times
Judith Bernstein is a great artist whose boldly original paintings forcefully respond to the troubled life of our present culture.
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Four Artists Recall a Year to Forget
Judith Bernstein, Carroll Dunham, Alia Ali, and Tomashi Jackson talk about what got them through 2020.
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The Pursuit of Art, 2018
The creation and interpretation of art remains an anchor and a refuge, a sanctuary for vanishing ideals.
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Judith Bernstein Shines a Blacklight on Trump's Crimes
We cannot ignore the fact that Americans voted for Trump.
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Judith Bernstein's Horror Show
There may be no artist in America better equipped to express the perversity of the Trump administration than Bernstein.
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The Feminist Avant-Garde, Now More than Ever
Their only solution was to make their revolution their own way, without help and without precedent.
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Franklin Furnace at 40: Still Radical After All These Years
For Martha Wilson and her collaborators at the Franklin Furnace Archive in New York, the avant-garde spirit is alive and well, and as relevant as ever.
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The Pursuit of Art, 2016
The first painting I saw in 2016 was “Cockman Always Rises Orange” (2015): we can’t say we weren’t warned.
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History Repeating Itself: Tragedy, Farce, and Judith Bernstein
With her remarkable new exhibition at Mary Boone — her second at the gallery in eight months — Judith Bernstein resurrects the imagery of her Vietnam-era works in a savage takedown of contemporary American politics and its testosterone-fueled will to power.
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The Pursuit of Art, 2015
2015 was the Year of the Whitney.