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At Last, Melvin Edwards’s Steel Abstractions Come to City Hall Park

by Alexandra M. Thomas May 3, 2021May 3, 2021

Brighter Days is bound to transform what we imagine possible with monuments.

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In Baltimore, Generations Traces a Lineage of Abstraction Among Black Artists

by Seph Rodney January 17, 2020June 27, 2022

Most shows can’t or don’t hold these very separate aspects in synchronous rotation: sober assessment of an art historical lineage and a feeling of intimacy. This one does.

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The Pioneering Painted Sculptures of Melvin Edwards

by Laura Raicovich December 9, 2019

Edwards’s sculptures, on display at Alexander Grey Associates in New York, establish him as a master of his various crafts with with an acute sense of rhythm and movement.

John Sloan, "Helen at the Easel" (1947), casein tempera underpaint, and oil-varnish glaze on panel (some Shiva Ponsol colors used), gift of the John Sloan Trust
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The Open-Ended Narratives of a Small Museum

by Thomas Micchelli June 24, 2017June 26, 2017

What if Abstract Expressionism never happened?

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How Black Modern Artists Defied a Singular Narrative in 1971

by Jessica Bell Brown January 17, 2017January 23, 2017

1971: A Year in the Life of Color studies two exhibitions essential to the ongoing relationship between black American artists and modernism.

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At the Marrakech Biennale, a Conversation Between Postcolonial Identities

by Bansie Vasvani April 4, 2016April 8, 2016

MARRAKESH — Set outside the institutional white cube, in restored ancient sites and the ruins of a 16th-century palace, the sixth edition of the Marrakech Biennale, Not New Now, arrives like a breath of fresh air.

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Fresh Air and Artistic Forms Outside Art Basel Miami Beach

by Claire Voon December 4, 2015

MIAMI BEACH — Wandering for hours around the convention center housing Art Basel Miami Beach tends to make one long for fresh air.

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Will Some Bright Morning Ever Arrive?

by John Yau September 6, 2015September 22, 2015

NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ — In 1963, while living in Los Angeles, Melvin Edwards welded “Some Bright Morning” out of different pieces of steel scrap metal, including a heavy chain and a dagger-like fragment extending from a circular, collar-like form.

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Man of Steel: The Welded Transfigurations of Melvin Edwards

by Tim Keane November 22, 2014November 26, 2014

Melvin Edwards’ welded relief sculptures conjure up human anguish and human advancement often within the same work. His art delivers the mythmaking spirit of abstract sculpture into the domain of identifiable histories. He has built a long, wide-ranging career around that apparent incongruity.

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The Fantastic and Revelatory Story of Art and Black LA

by Jillian Steinhauer October 22, 2012October 26, 2012

On first glance, some may wonder why MoMA PS1, a New York contemporary art museum, has just opened a historical exhibition of art from Los Angeles. But as MoMA PS1 curator Peter Eleey explained at the press preview last week, the show in question, Now Dig This! Art and Black Los Angeles 1960–1980, actually has a connection to the New York institution.

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