Art Review
Marian Spore Bush Was Nobody’s “Visionary Artist”
When “rediscovered” women artists are lumped together, we might ask: Who acts as the discoverer, who tells the story, and how do they tell it?
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The Drag Queen Artist Who Helped Make the East Village Interesting
From a large Wigstock banner to more intimate self-portraits, Tabboo!’s art sparkles anew in two contemporaneous exhibitions.
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A Mid-Century Painter Showed a World Out of Kilter
In the Luigi Zuccheri’s pastoral scenes, a menagerie of oversized creatures, plants, fruits, and vegetables dwarf the humans with whom they share the canvas.
Books
Five Enchanting Art Bookstores in NYC
Whether you’re looking to beef up your catalogue collection or discover small affordable zines, these bookstores have offerings for everyone.
Books
The Iranian Poet Who Became an American Action Painter
A new book introduces two Manoucher Yektais: the stateless, anti-historical Modernist painter and the poet writing narrative verse exclusively in Farsi.
Art
Mungo Thomson's Elegies to an Analogue World
Thomson's videos conjure up the weird sublimity of internet wormholes, the familiar, swaddling mindlessness of allowing oneself to be swept up in a deluge of content and carried — where?
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In Inky Blacks and Earthy Pastels, Reggie Burrows Hodges Crafts Collective Portraits
Dwelling somewhere between abstraction and figuration, Hodges’s impressionistic paintings enact a critique of rugged individualism.
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The Allusive, Improvisational Artworks of Thaddeus Mosley
The formal aspects of Mosley’s work have been thoroughly considered over the years, perhaps at the expense of exploring symbolism in his individual works.
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The Genius of Thaddeus Mosley
Mosley did not need the art world’s approval to keep going, but the art world certainly needs him for more reasons than I can count.
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Sculpture Does Not Need to Be Permanent to Be Great
Robert Grosvenor unmasks the anti-democratic, hierarchical forces that go into the making of an impeccable monumental sculpture.
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The Many Blues of Matthew Wong
A rising art-world star, Wong planned his exhibition Blue before his suicide in October. The show reveals a marked tension between beauty and melancholy, making it difficult at times to keep his biography and work separate.
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Matthew Wong: Kind of Blue
It seems that Wong was in touch with his deepest feelings and they came through in all of his art; this is what makes him special.