Sometimes the slowed-down processes of painting and drawing reveal far more than the click of a shutter.
Martin Wong
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Best of 2016: Our Top 20 NYC Art Shows
This list barely scratches the surface of the city’s artistic offerings this year, from overdue retrospectives to surprising sides of artists we know well.
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The Intimate Visions of Martin Wong, Loisaida’s “Chino-Latino” Painter
Human Instamatic, the first museum retrospective of Martin Wong’s work since his death in 1999, is an insightful celebration of one of New York’s most underappreciated painters.
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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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From Most Encouraging to Most Normcore, 18 Superlatives for Art Basel Miami Beach 2015
MIAMI BEACH — The 14th edition of Art Basel Miami Beach offers its expected share of conventional, cheesy, captivating, cool, and curious works, but it would be impossible to discuss everything worth a mention.
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Online Archive Commemorates Artists Affected by or Lost to AIDS
Artists whose lives were affected by AIDS now have a space dedicated entirely to showcasing and honoring their works.
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The Fantastic Observations of Martin Wong
Martin Wong’s retrospective Human Instamatic, currently on at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, begins in quaint Humboldt County, California.
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Marriage Equality for All! #LoveWins
Today is a wonderful day for equality, as LGBTQ couples are now able to marry anywhere in the United States just like their heterosexual peers.
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A Portrait of Martin Wong Between Text and Image
SAN FRANCISCO — Curated by students of the Curatorial Studies program at the California College of the Arts, this compact, well-considered gathering of work across many media by Martin Wong is a marvel of what the small-scale and seemingly ephemeral can communicate.
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Not for Sale: Outside the Convention Center in Miami
MIAMI BEACH — “There’s a lot of product going on here,” I heard a woman say into her cell phone at the mega-art fair Art Basel Miami Beach 2014. Indeed, $3 billion worth of art is being offered for sale this year, according to the event’s organizers.
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Graffiti Legend Daze Explains the Importance of Martin Wong’s Graffiti Collection
During my recent visit to Write of Passage, I encountered graffiti legend Chris “DAZE” Ellis, who allowed me to interview him about another graffiti legend, Martin Wong.
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Weekend Studio Visit: Rick Beerhorst in Grand Rapids, Michigan
GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan — I first met Rick Beerhorst in 1986, when he was a graduate student in the MFA program at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. One of his teachers was Peter Bodnar, whose small, quirky, symbolic abstractions with a spiritual undercurrent — they share something with Jain cosmology — have flown under the radar for many years. I know of two other artists who studied with him and hold him in high regard: Christopher Brown and Tom Lieber.
