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Critics Roast Prince William and Kate Middleton's Official Portrait
The uncanny painting by artist Jamie Coreth has prompted speculations of a Dorian Gray-style bargain and drawn comparisons to Madame Tussauds's wax figures.
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Deconstructing the Masculinity of Hercules
Artist Kyle Staver’s portrayal of the mythic hero feels balanced, as if to say: sure, the 12 labors are absurd, but isn’t all human endeavor?
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Otherworldly Beings Hidden in Quotidian Scenes of LA
Aryo Toh Djojo’s paintings capture the jarring moment of looking at a familiar photograph, only to notice something slightly amiss.
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Abstract Art in the Southwest Is as Vast as the Region’s Terrain
The exhibition is a compelling, if at times dissonant, examination of the formal and material possibilities at the heart of abstraction.
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Hong Kong Painter Wesley Tongson and the Lineage of Chinese Landscape Art
At BAMPFA, Tongson’s paintings hang alongside works from the museum’s collection of traditional Chinese ink paintings.
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Abstractions Inspired by Light and Space Are an Exciting Perceptual Experience
These are works in the tradition of Light and Space, but instead of light, Brian Wills works with the earthy media of paint and colored thread.
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Transcendental Painting Lives on in New Mexico and Beyond
The group of self-identified idealists, active until 1942, created nonrepresentational paintings of and from the creative imagination.
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When The Art Connoisseur Is a Robot
A recent study has found that AI technology can identify an artist's brushstrokes with over 90% accuracy.
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Jonny Negron’s Darker Portraits of Party Life
Jonny Negron captures the disappointment and delights of Dionysian narcissism.
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Jennifer Coates Communes with the Gods of Nighttime Revelry
A thought experiment I sometimes engage in is to ask myself what kind of god would make the world that is being represented in the work I’m seeing.
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The Whirling, Spiritual Abstraction of June Edmonds
Full Spectrum spans 40 years of the artist’s career and provides an efficient crash course for anyone new to Edmonds’s work.
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Words and Fonts, and How They Shape Worldviews
At the Museum of Latin American Art, Gabriella Sanchez asks each viewer to become aware of how they make associations based on their preconceptions.