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James Siena Changes His Approach
Siena’s paintings and drawings have become a maze of marks that he seems in no hurry to escape. They are odes to anonymous labor.
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Dreams of Beauty in Japanese Ukiyo-e Paintings
The figures in The Floating World indicate the new direction Japanese art was about to take over the next two centuries, its growing emphasis on daily life.
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British Rock Meets Modernism
Clive Arrowsmith’s photographs of Peter Gabriel spotlight a short-lived era when rock aspired to the condition of art.
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What Freedom Costs
Two exhibitions in Vienna take on the fragility of democratic structures.
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Louise Lawler’s Quiet Melancholy
If Lawler’s works were originally read as art about art, they now feel like art for art’s sake.
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Photographs of Women That Capture Ancestral Trauma
In Yes, and the body has memory, a group of women photographers grapples with notions of trauma, family, ancestral connections, and the female body.
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Mesmerized and Saddened by the Illusion of Sunlight
This is the kind of work we will share when we have so laid waste to the planet that most of what the world will have access to is this kind of simulacra.
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Anne Brigman’s Radical Nude Self-Portraits from the Early 1900s
Brigman portrayed her nude body, significantly scarred from an accident, often lodging herself within a gnarled juniper tree deep in the Sierra mountains. Her photographs are remarkable.
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A 1960s Sustainable Community Outside San Francisco and Its Struggle to Survive
Designers wanted to create a community that was equitable, affordable, and open-minded. But over the years developers began courting wealthy weekenders, and today units sell at stratospheric prices.
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These Massive, Uncanny Artworks Will Give You the Chills
Tara Donovan's art is not a metaphor, it is not about identity, and it is not historical. So what is it?
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Imagined, Famous, and Sacred Places Trace the History of Japan in Art
Princeton's Picturing Place in Japan condenses almost half a millennium of Japan’s artistic practice into a few small rooms.
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The Threads of Anni Albers' Legacy
Featuring more than 350 objects spanning her career, the Anni Albers retrospective spotlights the pioneering artist’s lasting influence on modern art, design, and architecture.