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Julian Schnabel’s Flowers
Do you ever feel like you are getting the hard sell or being bludgeoned into submission?
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Getting Lost in James Siena's Drawn Labyrinths
As a non-discursive kind of writing, Siena's drawing speaks to a level of consciousness deeper than thought, bypassing the nagging intellect and going straight for the nervous system.
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In the Darkness, Finding Rothko's Sense of Light
The confidence, for Rothko, is revealed through his insistence on the presence of the light, even though it may appear absent at the outset.
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“Neither Flesh nor Fleshless”
What’s great about Rothko’s paintings is their refutation of language, the way they push back against conclusions.
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The Eternal Returns of Richard Pousette-Dart
In a socially boisterous art world inspired by Existentialism, jazz, and booze, Richard Pousette-Dart preferred introversion, secular spiritualism, and depth psychology.
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What Abstraction Can Teach Us About Race and the Color Black
Blackness in Abstraction is one of the best opportunities in years to face the riddle of the color black and the phenomenon of blackening.
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Soylent, a Donkey, and Even Some Good Art: A Frieze New York Diary
1pm: The press preview for Frieze New York 2016 on Randall's Island begins! Or so they say. I am power walking out the door of my office in Williamsburg.
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Mechanized Art that Makes a Mop Talk and a Medicine Cabinet Tell Time
Even a plank of wood has kinetic possibilities in the art of Tim Hawkinson.
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Thomas Nozkowski’s Magical Mystery Tour
Simply titled Thomas Nozkowski, this is the artist’s fourth solo exhibition at Pace Gallery since 2008, when he first joined the gallery, and this time he has pulled out all the stops.
In Brief
As Pace Expands, New York Galleries Start Dwarfing Museums
On Friday Pace Gallery revealed plans to build an eight-story, 60,000-square-foot building where the largest of its spaces on West 25th Street in Chelsea currently sits.
In Brief
Artists from Five Galleries Dominate US Museum Shows
The Art Newspaper published the results of research that found that artists from five of the world's biggest galleries accounted for nearly a third of solo museum shows in the US between 2007 and 2013.
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The Swinging Sixties’ Grooviest Art Dealer: In London, Remembering Robert Fraser
LONDON — Looking back at history, one encounters certain individuals who reflect the changing attitudes, social values, or cultural trends of their times, while certain others seem to define and embody them; they’re the ones who become the symbols of the spirit of an age.