Art
Claire Sherman's Leafy Canvases
Sherman's paintings offer a captivating tension between movement and stasis.
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Art
Nina Katchadourian Makes a World on an Airplane Seat Tray
Katchadourian excels at investing commonplace, inanimate objects with vitality and soulfulness.
Books
Dismantling the Narrative of Soviet Socialist Realism Versus American Abstract Expressionism
A new book injects nuance into reductive historical interpretations of how the Cold War affected global art in the second half of the 20th century.
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An Exhibition Spotlights Progressive Art Studios
The Creative Commons is remarkable, not just because the work is so good, but because what it represents is so new.
Books
An Uncompromising Look at Photography and Gender
In Photography after Photography Abigail Solomon-Godeau’s overarching goal is to offer a feminist critique of the art world.
Art
The Mesmerizing Mundanity of Pierre Bonnard's Late Paintings
On view at the Tate Modern, Pierre Bonnard: The Colour of Memory focuses on the French Post-Impressionist's mature work, from 1912, when color became his chief concern, until his death in 1947.
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An Exhibition in the Bahamas Crosses Boundaries and Borders
At the ninth national exhibition of the National Art Gallery of the Bahamas, artists play with the theme of fruits and seeds in staggeringly varied and complicated ways.
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Yu Hong's Fantastical Universe of Sorrow
In the Chinese artist's monumental paintings, babies sleep in hell and faceless crowds slump in despair, illustrating the Buddhist world of Saha, where all beings suffer.
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The Artistic Explosion in Turn-of-the-Century Soviet Russia
The art of Soviet Russia may not strike the viewer as free or autonomous, but the artistic developments that flourished in this period influenced many important movements of 20th century art.
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Pulled into Robert Mapplethorpe's Vortex of Voyeurism
"What's S&M?" I overhear a woman asking her husband in the exhibition. "The artist says here that it stands for sex and magic, but this set up doesn't look very magical."
Art
Allen Ruppersberg, a Conceptual Artist in Love with the Physical World
Ruppersberg, who has lived between Los Angeles and New York since the 1960s, pushes the ordinary toward the extraordinary in wildly divergent works.
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An Exhibition Comparing Hockney and van Gogh Searches for Common Ground
A new exhibition at Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum brings together depictions of the natural world by Vincent van Gogh and David Hockney.