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What It’s Like to Visit Virtual Galleries as an Art Critic

by Seph Rodney March 25, 2020November 3, 2020

Due to the pandemic, museums and galleries are now creating virtual experiences. Here’s what it’s like to visit them.

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A Photographer Recreates Maritime Scenes from the World Wars

by Sarah Rose Sharp November 30, 2017

Thomas Bangsted shares how he reconstructs moments from the past with present-day photography.

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Disco Beads and Abstract Rawhides: Jeffrey Gibson’s Untraditional “Nativeness”

by Christopher Green November 23, 2015December 15, 2015

Half a century ago, many Native American artists trying to break into the fine art market were told that their oil paintings would never sell because they were not recognizably “Indian” enough.

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Entang Wiharso Mines the Discord in Indonesia’s Diversity

by Robert C. Morgan January 28, 2015January 30, 2015

In a recent interview, the Indonesian artist Entang Wiharso proclaimed: “I depict the condition of humans who are often divided by complex, multilayered political, ethnic, racial, and religious systems: they co-exist yet their communication is limited and indirect.”

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Modernist Camouflage, Reconstructed

by Allison Meier January 30, 2014January 30, 2014

The general goal of camouflage is to be invisible. Back during World War I, however, hundreds of Allied ships went to battle painted in bright geometric designs that were anything but subtle.

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Native American Iconography Meets Modernist Aesthetic and Material

by Joan Waltemath December 11, 2012December 14, 2012

My first impression coming into Jeffrey Gibson’s solo exhibition at Marc Straus in the Lower East Side was one of a refined sensual pleasure with a complex edge. Vibrant color painted in geometric shapes on animal hide stretched over trapezoidal forms and ironing boards is the initial entree to an imminent encounter with the unanticipated.

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