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Where Painting Can Live
Jason Stopa's desire to infuse his paintings with joy mixes sophistication and innocence without privileging either one.
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Alix Le Méléder’s Rules of the Game
The French artist’s decision to stop painting in 2011 grew out of her work’s internal logic.
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Terry Winters’s Allegiance to Science and Abstraction
Winters’s art is about decisions, choices, quality of attention, the shaping of one’s existence in time.
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A Painter of the Bloomsbury Group Comes Into View
You could say that Nina Hamnett fell victim to her own reckless self-mythologizing.
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Guy Goodwin’s Colorful Inelegance
With subjects and materials such as diner menus and discarded cardboard, Goodwin resists a view of history as progress in search of ultimate truths.
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Alia Ali's Yemeni Futurism
From her earliest works, Ali has confronted colonial histories, challenged racial and gendered biases, and put pressure on borders both physical and conceptual.
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Don Voisine’s Restless Shapes
Voisine's paintings ask us to consider what we pay attention to and why.
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Ancient Cave Paintings Are Deteriorating Due to Climate Change
Extreme patterns of increased seasonal moisture from monsoonal rains and worsening droughts are accelerating rock art deterioration, researchers say.
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Julie Mehretu Reminds Us That Borders Are Meant to Be Trespassed
Mehretu’s remarkable mid-career survey blazes through the Whitney Museum of Art, illuminating over two decades of her extensive practice.
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A Painter of Organized Chaos
Brazilian artist Caetano de Almeida lets colors call to colors, and shapes to shapes, as he works his way across the painting.
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Ancient Cave Painters May Have Limited Their Oxygen for Creative Inspiration
Cavernous conditions and fire may have contributed to an “altered states of consciousness."
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Gabriel Sanchez’s Cuban Portraits Grapple With Home and Belonging
Sanchez’s most arresting paintings allow the viewer to get lost in a vast expanse of skin.