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Billboard Companies Reject “Inflammatory” Art for Pro-Voting Campaign

Avatar photo by Jasmine Liu October 31, 2022November 1, 2022

The designs by artists Deborah Kass and Cleon Peterson were critical of the Supreme Court as well as abortion and pro-gun legislation.

Posted inArt

Cecilia Vicuña’s Charismatic Vulnerability

Avatar photo by Louis Bury August 10, 2022August 10, 2022

Combining elements of Surrealism, Symbolism, and portraiture, Vicuña’s paintings are parables of personal and political awakening.

Posted inArt

Art’s Conventional Signifiers Are No Longer Useful

Avatar photo by Julia Curl April 27, 2022April 28, 2022

Pratt’s MFA Thesis Exhibition features immersive presentations that transcend the parameters of traditional painting.

Posted inBooks

The Penalty Presidency

Avatar photo by Louis Bury December 1, 2021December 2, 2021

A conversation with Richard Kraft about his artist book in which he created penalty flags for nearly 10,000 of Trump’s misdeeds.

Posted inOpinion

Cuban Musicians and Artists Collaborate on Viral, Political Music Video

Avatar photo by Coco Fusco February 23, 2021February 23, 2021

The “Patria y Vida” video is spreading like wildfire in Cuba and Miami, a sign of widespread discontent on the island as well as unity among Cubans.

Posted inBooks

Victor Burgin’s Unclassifiable Take on the Passages of Art and Life

by Melissa Holbrook Pierson February 6, 2021February 4, 2021

The artist’s landmark experimental text, Between, now reissued, remains one of a kind more than three decades after its publication.

Posted inOpinion

Trump’s Last Act

Avatar photo by Thomas Micchelli January 16, 2021January 16, 2021

The most incandescent of invectives now feel like simple statements of fact.

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Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s Photostats Document Subjugation and Violence

Avatar photo by Elizabeth Zuba November 28, 2020December 1, 2020

The artist stretched constructs of authority and authorship to impel the viewer’s awareness and participation.

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Peter Saul, American Gadfly

by John Yau October 31, 2020November 5, 2020

Before he turned 30, it was clear that Saul had found his subject: an American society deeply rooted in consumerism, pervasive racism, and toxic masculinity.

Posted inArt

The Prophecies of Deborah Kass

by David Carrier June 13, 2020November 5, 2020

What can we say about an image that understood Trump’s root persona early on, and froze it in time?

Posted inArt

Dissident Visions With a Dose of Play

Avatar photo by Leticia Gutiérrez October 25, 2019

Minerva Cuevas exposes the contradictions of the socioeconomic systems that rule our daily life in her first solo show in New York.

Posted inArt

Mo Kong Maps a Post-Climate Change Future

Avatar photo by Louis Bury July 6, 2019December 10, 2020

Kong’s background as a recent Chinese immigrant and, especially, a former investigative reporter help account for the exhibition’s methods and mood.

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