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Warren Isensee’s Breakthrough
Isensee has gone from being a dutiful geometric abstractionist to defining his own trajectory, and gaining a verifiable freedom for himself.
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Charles Yuen’s Time is Now
Yuen’s ambiguous works resist a simple or anecdotal reading while speaking to our apprehensions and paranoia.
Interview
Beer With a Painter: Roger Herman
“Struggle is okay, but how much struggle does one want?”
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Monumental Paintings Are Hung in the Site of the 1995 Srebrenica Genocide
Safet Zec is exhibiting his opus Exodus in the former UN Mission headquarters in Potočari, where 8,372 Bosnian Muslim men and boys lived their last moments.
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What’s So Hard About Painting Shakespeare?
Many paintings of Shakespearean scenes feel mawkish or literal-minded, flat-footed or lacking in emotional depth.
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Ying Li’s Ecstatic Landscapes
Li had to reinvent herself as a gestural painter in her 30s, after years of painting traditional ink-wash landscapes and Soviet-style propaganda.
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Elliott Green’s Voyage of Self-Discovery
Green has attained something that few artists accomplish in their lifetime: he reinvented himself.
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It’s Okay Not to Be a Member of a Club
For Julia Fish, the ordinary is not banal, as it was for Andy Warhol and his followers, who seek out the sensational rather than stop to examine the small sensation.
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One of New York's Purest Abstract Painters
Harriet Korman has never wanted to become part of someone else’s story.
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Paul Klee, When the World Went Dark
The Nazis had transformed Klee's beloved land of Goethe and Mozart into an alien and threatening environment.
Interview
Beer with a Painter: McArthur Binion
“I don’t come from art history, and even though I’m involved in the mainstream art world, I didn’t come from this.”
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What Do Artists Need to Make Their Work?
For artists and writers, self-isolation means doing what they have always done — which is work at home.