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Together in Peace and Protest
Not all of the scenes Dianna Settles paints are pleasant, but that seems to be the point: for better or worse, we are undeniably yoked in our collective experience of being human.
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In Henry Taylor’s Paintings, the Past Bleeds Into the Present
Taylor’s paintings emphasize that golf and horse racing, though once exclusively activities for privileged white men, depended on the support of men who were almost invariably Black.
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In Gem-like Hues, Arcmanoro Niles Renders the Mundane Electric
From depictions of his mother to his closest friends, Niles’s canvases illustrate a willful vulnerability to ruminate on the profound relationships in his life.
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Alice Neel's Haunting Portrait of Domestic Abuse
Alice Neel: People Come First yielded a work I had never seen and that I will never unsee.
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How Soutine Showed de Kooning a Way Out
It seems to me that Soutine’s complete lack of interest in the cubists’ desire for order was exactly what appealed to de Kooning.
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The Second Act of Andrew Forge
After finding success in England, Forge walked away from everything he knew how to do and started over.
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Painting and Time's Winged Chariot
Paint's materiality has a capacity to release meaning into the work, to underscore our vulnerable bodily presence in the world and time.
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New Views of the Everyday World
Emily Pettigrew and Aubrey Levinthal are two painters who have much in common, but their differences run deeper and are more telling.
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What to Do About the Artists in Your Studio
If Philip Guston wanted everyone, including himself, to leave his studio, Franklin Evans seems to be inviting everyone in.
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Basquiat's Painting on an Apartment Door Acquired by Dallas Museum of Art
Jean-Michel Basquiat painted the portrait in 1985, on the door of a Dallas apartment where he was staying.
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The Ethereal Everyday of Anthony Cudahy
Bathed in unnatural colors, Cudahy’s portraits carry an oneiric atmosphere.
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Painting Abstractly in the Midst of Unending Crises
Alyse Rosner is grappling with the question of how to make an abstract painting reflect both the personal and collective.