Art
How Ellsworth Kelly’s Language of Abstraction Grew on Him
Kelly's early sketches of the natural world would define his work across mediums and throughout his career.
Review
Art
Historical Memory Haunts Frank Bowling’s New Paintings
Now 84, the renowned abstract artist reflects on his Guyanese upbringing and the legacy of colonialism in a striking new series of paintings.
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A Brief History of the Color Pink in Fashion, from the 1700s to Today
A new exhibition at FIT chronicles the evolution of a “punk, pretty, powerful color” in the world of fashion.
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Challenging the Narrative of “Gentrification as Development” in Chicago
Peeling off the Grey, an exhibition at the National Museum of Mexican Art, offers visual understandings of the gentrification of one Chicago neighborhood.
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Kenny Scharf Switches Between Styles, Like Changing the Channel on a TV
"It’s like watching a show and switching the channel. You can go from cartoons, to soap operas, to the news, to science fictions."
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The Amazing Katherine Bradford
Bradford's new paintings represent a significant departure from her previous work, which gained many admirers, myself included. Simply put: she has gotten much better at getting at difficult subjects.
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Ian Hamilton Finlay's Philosophical Gardening
For Finlay, the garden was not simply a place of beauty, but rather a liminal space bordered by nature and culture, where visitors are invited to meditate on the different ways time passes.
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Kyle Staver's Historical Revisions
Without resorting to parody or cynicism, Staver undoes the tropes we associate with depictions of heroic and mythical.
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Drawing the Essay
Colter Jacobsen is an artist whose methods, thought processes, aesthetic, and values accord with many poets and their work.
Music
Four Takes on the Cover Album
Cover albums reveal something about the evolution of shared taste and cultural memory.
Art
The Importance of Being Delacroix
The last great artist who was not a modernist, Delacroix synthesized very complex visual and verbal traditions in stunning works that open the way to modernism.
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Healing History’s Scars in the Art of Kader Attia
Kader Attia's new solo exhibition in Barcelona reminds us of the permanence of scars as well as our ability to heal.