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The Nourishing Relationship of Jules Olitski and Anthony Caro
An exhibition at Paul Kasmin Gallery offers a capsule vision of the relationship of the two artists during these formative years.
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A Revived 1920s Ballet Will Be a Surreal Confection of Candy and Kitsch
When American Ballet Theatre decided to revive Richard Strauss’s surrealist, saccharine ‘Whipped Cream,’ Mark Ryden was the ideal candidate to create the set and costumes.
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Peter Hujar’s Photographs of the Downtown Legends of 1970s New York City
In the comparatively safe, sleek, and expensive New York City of today, nostalgia for the crime-ridden, scummy, and cheap New York City of the 1970s is as strong as ever.
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Four Decades of Photographing the Relationships Between People
Leaving New York City so your kids can have more green space doesn’t sound like a promising start to an artistic career, but Tina Barney isn’t typical.
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Look Before You Sit: At Frieze New York, the Seats Are All Sculptures
Frieze New York opens its doors to the public today, but already during yesterday’s press and VIP preview the aisles were crowded, the common areas and restaurants filled with worn-out fairgoers, and it seemed as if the only empty seats were sculptures.
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Absolutely Modern: Robert Motherwell on Paper
In 1950, when the painter Robert Motherwell invented the phrase “The School of New York,” he summed up its mission as “an activity of bodily gesture serving to sharpen consciousness.”
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Why Are There So Many Art Exhibition Revivals?
A big part of the art world is art history, and nowhere is that clearer than in the recent spate of exhibition revivals.
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Art Before Images
When you come across a mirror it’s nearly impossible not to look in it. But what happens when the reflective surface is an artwork — when looking at yourself precludes looking at it, and vice versa? Carrie Yamaoka’s exhibition at PK Shop, titled after the Jimi Hendrix song “Are You Experienced?,” is reminiscent of the cognitive illusions of the young girl and the old woman or the rabbit and the duck.
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As the Ottoman Empire Turns: Taner Ceylan on Occupy Gezi and Turkish Taboos
German-born, Istanbul-based Turkish artist Taner Ceylan, a prominent Turkish artist whose work deals with the hidden histories of the Ottoman Empire.
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We Tasted (and Reviewed) Kenny Scharf’s NEW Donuts
When we first heard that artist Kenny Scharf would be teaming up with Doughnut Plant to create a limited-edition line of donuts, we knew we had to have them … and then review them.
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Has Deborah Kass Saved Warhol Appropriation?
PITTSBURGH – In her mid-career retrospective Deborah Kass: Before and Happily Ever After at the Andy Warhol Museum, Deborah Kass accomplishes the seemingly impossible by breathing new life and critical ideas into the appropriation of Andy Warhol’s work.