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Can an Artist Be Compulsive and Deliberate?
One of many captivating and delicious things about Harry Roseman's drawings is that he has dissolved the boundary between madness and rationality.
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Former Hamptons Gallerist Gave Anti-Indigenous Rant at Documentary Screening
At a screening for Conscience Point, about the local Shinnecock Nation, a seemingly intoxicated Ruth Vered allegedly called herself "the queen of white privilege." She was escorted out by police, and arrested after kicking an officer.
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Jake Berthot’s Nowhere Land
All that I saw were some small and medium-sized paintings, mostly very dark, almost indistinguishable. How could I review this show?
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Issei Nishimura’s Soulful, Expressionistic Art
Intense and deeply personal, the Japanese self-taught artist’s work, now in its first-ever New York solo survey, defies easy labels.
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The Defiance of the Great Korean Painter, Yun Hyong-keun
After surviving the Japanese occupation, the Korean War, and martial law, not to mention arrest, torture, and a narrow escape from a firing squad, Yun Hyong-keun developed a way of painting in which assertion and self-cancellation have become inextricable.
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Do the Old Masters Still Speak to Us?
Now and then, I suspect that an honest art writer might feel as if he or she is losing it.
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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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A Contemporary Master of the Brushstroke
David Reed has figured out how to bring illusionism back into an abstract painting while remaining committed to paint-as-paint.
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When the Exhibition Becomes a Work of Art
Who would have thought that still lifes would create such a strong reaction?
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Keeping it Odd — and Real — at the 2020 Outsider Art Fair
With a broader, more international scope, this year’s gathering will offer fresh discoveries at every turn.
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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Painter of Modern Anxiety
Kirchner was the anti-Matisse.
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Marino Marini’s Scarred Monumentality
Marini’s membership in the Fascist Party is something that will cling to him, despite his self-exile to Switzerland and the anti-imperialist tone of his postwar work.