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The Czech Painter Often Credited with Inventing Pure Abstract Art
Looking at František Kupka we see an intense channeling of occult vibrations and shimmering realities that asks viewers if they too have experienced their life this way.
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Looking Back on the Golden Age of Fashion Illustration with Jim Howard
A showcase of Howard's work from the 1960s through the '80s illustrates major shifts in consumer behavior and records an art career that no longer exists today.
Books
Real Love: A Cartoonist Draws on Her Teenage Obsession with the Beatles
Carol Tyler recently found her Beatles-centric diaries from the '60s and was inspired to create new illustrations of those days.
Music
Alternative Rock Gets a Reboot
Trading in activism, self-awareness, and intimacy, four alternative guitar-rock albums manage to revitalize familiar forms.
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Artists Update Bygone Myths
Even as Pollock was eliminating mythology in his work, younger artists born in the 1920s were finding ways to make it fresh.
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Upending Conventions with Figurative Painting
The works of painters Angela Dufresne and Louis Fratino are far more radical than anything some conceptual artists have recently received attention for.
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The Art of a Fired Cartoonist
What if we interpret Rob Rogers’s wild art cartoons as if they were conventional subjects for art writing?
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Harnessing the Revelatory Power of Masks
For almost 20 years, Gauri Gill has documented the lives of nomads, peasants, tribals, migrants, and other marginalized communities of rural India.
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Brooklyn's Soldier Angel Inspires a Monument to Resistance
“Persistent Resistance” consists of a central speckled, decorative column that looks like a Rorschach ink blot that’s been stretched into a pillar.
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A Towering Figure of Venezuelan Modernism Gets His First Solo North American Exhibition
During his lifetime, Oswaldo Vigas was famous in Latin American art circles, but less well known internationally. Now, the late artist's foundation is trying to rectify that situation.
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Imagining a Reconciliatory Relationship with the Earth
In Otobong Nkanga’s art, figures appear dismembered and limbless, indicating that they have been industrialized as tools of production and exploitation.
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Memorializing the Accelerating Loss of Planetary Life
The crashes of an automatic gong become a dire melody and meditation on the horrors and loss defining the Anthropocene.