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Renée Stout’s Bewitching Circuitry
The magic of Stout’s artworks does not feel contingent on a viewer’s comprehension — it feels auratic, as if emitting an electrical current of meaning.
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The Savage Beauty That Emerges From Loss
Malaysian artist Anne Samat’s grand installations resemble traditional woven, brightly colored altars but a closer look reveals toy soldiers, rake heads, and plastic keychains.
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Renée Stout is a Do-It-Yourself Conjurer
Her witchery is mischievous, aiming to trick the beholder into a quite fragile enchantment.
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Hunterdon Art Museum Exhibition Explores Decolonization With Indigenous Artist Marie Watt
Curated by Jason Vartikar in collaboration with the artist, Companion Species (At What Cost): The Works of Marie Watt highlights tapestries among a variety of textile works.
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A Minimalist Transformation of Minimalism
Otis Jones proves that painting’s parameters continue to be commodious — even reductive painting has not been used up.
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Enigmatic Sculptures of Dangerous Embraces
Entang Wiharso’s solo exhibition at Marc Straus Gallery is filled with nightmarish allegories and provocative entanglements.
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Seeing Spectral Visions in Fulsome Skirts
The artist Todd Murphy uses skirts as a means of projection, making them gateways to mythical realms.
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Best of 2015: Our Top 20 NYC Art Shows
Occasionally, we are forced to venture beyond Brooklyn to see art.
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Two Exhibitions Showcase the Bloody Relics of Hermann Nitsch’s Rituals
Viewers may have seen similar Nitsch installations before, but it is important to re-experience his work, much of which has been long misunderstood by an art world dominated by political theory and formalism.