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One Painting Can Go a Long Way
William Tillyer's five-part painting “The Golden Striker” (2018), based on a landscape by John Constable, affirms that the possibilities of light cannot be exhausted.
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Yayoi Kusama’s Mesmerizing, Meditative Garden
Kusama’s installation connects with a broad reach of Rockaway's history, as well as the impact of climate change on the area.
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Michel Auder’s Images of Images
Jonas Mekas has called Auder a “voyeur par excellence.”
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The Divergence of Art and Fashion at the Metropolitan Museum
Presenting contemporary garments alongside Byzantine and Medieval artworks underlines the visual differences between the two genres of objects.
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Measured and Visually Musical, Two Artists Harmonize
In this two-person exhibition, Shiferaw and Melake meet one another in a space of genuine conversation.
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Courtauld Institute of Art Students Mount a Political Exhibition About Absence
The Courtauld Institute of Art's gallery has offered MA Curating students the chance to put together a show, which, overall, feels politically relevant.
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Wayne Thiebaud’s Confections, Sprinkled with Touches of Cézanne, Degas, and Others
An exhibit at the Morgan Library & Museum lends a few helpful insights into who and what have inspired this 97-year-old artist (beyond the sugary obvious).
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An Afro-Surrealist Project Deifies God-Like Bodies of Color
Damon Davis plumbs the depths of Black history, fantasy, and mythology to create a vision of power and resilience in his St. Louis exhibition.
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Reinstalling a Transcendent TV Artwork by Nam June Paik Decades Later
The master of media art created works that are constructed out of TV sets and recording devices that are no longer manufactured and, needless to say, generally irreplaceable.
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An Art School Started by Marc Chagall that Became a Modernist Wasteland
The Centre Pompidou examines the thrilling but lesser-known story of the People’s Art School, founded in 1918 by the painter Marc Chagall in his hometown of Vitebsk.
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Glimpses of Aleppo in an Exile’s Vision of an Elegant, Eerie Realm
The mysterious promise of the old gates of Aleppo’s old town and its patchwork of faiths are woven through Kevork Mourad’s pictures of "in-between spaces."
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Childbirth and Menstruation in Defiant Art by Latin American Women
It is interesting that so many works in the Brooklyn Museum show Radical Women refer to the one form of power that men cannot dominate.