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Folded and Fragmented Drawings of the Natural World
WASHINGTON, DC — The everyday organisms of our natural world become mysterious and illusory in the drawings of Beverly Ress.
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A Deconstructed Hunting Cabin Filled with Fabricated Memories
LOS ANGELES — April Street’s solo exhibition Lay Down Your Arms, currently on view at the West Hollywood gallery Various Small Fires, is both visually engaging and spatially distinct.
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The Larger-Than-Life Projections of a Modern-Day Artist Adventurer
MIAMI BEACH — Janet Biggs is a modern day adventurer, an explorer in the best sense.
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Infected Paintings as an Allegory of Migration
Trouble resounds in the work of Joseph Nechvatal.
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The Cool Conceptualism of Artworks at Absolute Zero
Freezing temperature, as it affects a subject’s kinetic energy, serves as a potent metaphor for this show.
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The Calmer, Contemplative Mood of Francis Bacon’s Late Paintings
Over the past several years the Gagosian Gallery in New York City has mounted shows described as “museum quality.”
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Coldness, Concept, & Convention: On Aaron Kunin’s 'Cold Genius'
One current, and especially heated, debate animating the contemporary poetry scene revolves around conceptual poetry’s polemic against Romantic expressivity.
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Martin Puryear Bears Witness
According to the wall text in the not-to-be-missed exhibition Martin Puryear: Multiple Dimensions at the Morgan Library & Museum, the artist was in “the Peace Corp in Sierra Leone, West Africa” from 1964 to '66.
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Slipping from Grasp: The Photographs of John Brill
Memories, in John Brill’s work, are things — photographs, often grainy and myopic, enshrined in everyday reliquaries: vintage frames, candy dishes, glass bowls, teacups and saucers.
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12 Years in, NADA Miami Beach Still Feels the Same: Different
MIAMI BEACH — Though its space has been downsized by roughly 20% this year, NADA Miami Beach 2015 still manages to cut through the swarms of largely uninspired and secondary market Miami Art Week fairs with its distinctive presentation of less polished, more experimental work — which sometimes seems
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Two Artists Give Shape to Our Outer and Inner Selves
In addition to Martha Friedman’s Pore, Locust Projects is featuring Beatriz Monteavaro’s Nochebuena, another exploration of the human form, albeit on a level far more personal and metaphorical.
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From the Virtual to the Satanic, a Former Pharmacy Hosts Alternatives to Miami's Mega-Fairs
MIAMI BEACH — Escape the overwhelming and crowded main art fairs this year — without forgoing the art experience — in an unexpected place: the derelict shell of a pharmacy in North Beach.