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Wrangling Snakes and Flies to Make Art
LOS ANGELES — Upon entering Emma Gray's 5 Car Garage, you must step delicately over writhing white masses to get a good look at the paintings.
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Funk, Medicine, and Questions of the Future
In performance, as in history, there’s a lot that gets lost: layers of meaning and nuance too complex to carry in a single story. Investigating Simone Leigh's and Xenobia Bailey’s projects for funkgodjazz&medicine: Black Radical Brooklyn, produced by Creative Time and the Weeksville Heritage Center,
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Roman Opalka’s Numerical Destiny
In 1965, the French-born, Polish painter Roman Opalka came to an important decision. While sitting at the Café Bristol in Warsaw waiting for his wife to arrive, the idea occurred that he should begin to paint numbers that would progress sequentially from one canvas to the next for the duration of hi
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Against Despotic Forms of Perfection: Jane Corrigan’s New Paintings
The focus of Jane Corrigan’s first solo show at Kerry Schuss is young female athletes who, by virtue of their age – they are adolescents – are likely to be undergoing biological changes as well.
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The Other World Within This One: On Jane Freilicher
Jane Freilicher's still-life paintings have a large-scale, panoramic quality associated with landscapes. Conversely, her landscapes focus on nature's compactness and textures so that they convey the intimate solidities of still-life.
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Four Artists, Breezing through Materials and Ideas
The Fitzroy Gallery on the Lower East Side has gathered together four like-minded artists for an exhibition that appears to stem from a Casualist approach, but a closer look quickly complicates the picture.
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A Group Show, for the Pleasure of Its Company
It’s a display of mostly gallery artists, perfunctorily titled Fall 2014 Group Show and hung without an apparent organizing principle. There isn’t even an official closing date.
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Unemployment as Artwork
WASHINGTON, DC — In a tiny storefront in DC’s Shaw neighborhood, Paul Shortt grimaces as his gray dress pants rip along the seams. They’re clearly inadequate for his large, bearlike figure, but he loops a belt through and leaves the pants unbuttoned.
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Consummating the Erotic Art of Two Souls
Invisible-Exports’ current show represents the agglutination of two transgressive, visionary, and carnal artists born 50 years apart in the 20th century.
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Pensive Portraits Behind the Office Doors of 50 Therapists
"In contrast to other medical specialists' offices with their practical equipment of examining tables and rolling tools, the therapist's work space has few obvious demands beyond seating for clinician and patient," psychiatrist and photographer Sebastian Zimmermann writes in an introduction to Fifty
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The Frontier of the Art World
GALVESTON, Texas — The idea of a boomtown is part of the myth of the United States of America. Like dreamers huddled around storytellers in an ethereal oasis, Americans like tales of prosperity that lead to legends of streets paved with gold.
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An Art Playground for the Senses
In Waves: Arp + RO/LU + Paul Clipson at New York’s Jack Hanley Gallery brings together an East Coast artist, Arp; a Midwestern artist, RO/LU; and a West Coast artist, Paul Clipson.