One key to understanding Diao’s art is that he has long worked with a reductive geometric vocabulary, while always pushing back against any of postmodernism’s reductive narratives.
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The Absurdist Echoes of Tudor Tyranny
Cate Giordano’s immersive tableaux hurl the viewer headfirst into a historical clusterfuck that eerily recalls the present day.
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What It’s Like to Visit Virtual Galleries as an Art Critic
Due to the pandemic, museums and galleries are now creating virtual experiences. Here’s what it’s like to visit them.
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Capital and Complicity in the Art World
William Powhida reorients our perspective away from the individuals who lead and fundraise for cultural institutions and redirects it toward international flows of capital.
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Deciphering Duchamp’s Clues
The Turkish-American artist Serkan Özkaya and the novelist Augustus Rose discuss their fascinations with Duchampian detective work at Postmasters Gallery on Wednesday.
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An Artist’s Fraught Portraits with Her Bodybuilder Father
In a series of photographs with her father, Polish artist Aneta Bartos pushes, teases, and challenges our notions of families, bodies, and sexuality.
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A Lecture for the End of the World at Postmasters Gallery
On February 12, artist Molly Crabapple will deliver a “lecture for the end of the world” by the pseudonymous philosopher Fuck Theory at Postmasters Gallery.
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Visions of Pulsing Milk and Toothy Corn
The centerpiece of Monica Cook’s new exhibition at Postmasters Gallery is the stop-motion video “Milk Tooth,” which brings to life a vivid and dystopian alternate world.
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Photos from 100 Days of Self-Imposed Confinement
Nidaa Badwan’s 100 Days of Solitude explores the refuge she found in her 100-square-foot room in Gaza during the course of 20 months.
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New Media Artists Mourn Tekserve, a Tech Oasis in New York
Many New Yorkers were sad to hear of Tekserve’s imminent closing, especially artists who work in new media, video, or otherwise incorporate the use of Apple products into their practices.
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The Shelf Life of Political Art
Tucked into a side wall at Postmasters Gallery in Tribeca, as part of a handsome group show called Grayscale, there are five new drawings by William Powhida, one of which is titled “Is Donald Trump an Existential Threat? Or Just A Major Asshole…”
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The Poetic Verse of Our Collective Google Queries
Type a search into Google and the most popular terms start auto-populating below, suggesting the collective desires, queries, and curiosities of internet users.