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The Dense, Dark Tones of an Organ Mystic
Experimental musician Charlemagne Palestine performed last Thursday at Plymouth Church, presenting a vibrant evening of deep organ drones.
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Rashaad Newsome Is Having a Ball
Five passages on Rashaad Newsome's "FIVE (The Drawing Center)."
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At the Armory Show, Dealer's Delight
On the penultimate day of the Armory Show, galleries were reporting sold out booths, sales pushed from in-house inventory, new connections and clients discovered, and not one bit of weariness.
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Art After the Internet
LOS ANGELES — Much of contemporary life is spent behind a screen for work and leisure, with a great amount of time devoted to forming identities and communities through the internet.
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Janet Fish and the Primacy of Perception
Considering the art of the painter Janet Fish, who currently has works spanning fifteen years on display at DC Moore Gallery, I found myself pulling books off the shelf by the philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty.
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Archibald J. Motley, Jr.’s Paintings: Modern Art Shaped by Precision, Candor, and Soul
Against the backdrop of belated examples of race-related “progress,” it is illuminating to flip through the pages of American cultural history and discover that almost a century ago, a black, classically trained modern artist, Archibald J. Motley, Jr., was using paint on canvas to address such nuanc
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Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Painting by Gideon Bok
For Gideon Bok, painting, which has historically been defined as a container, a window, or a two-dimensional surface, is at least all three at once. Although I have no proof, I also felt that Bok may also think of painting as a screen.
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Lights On: Doug Wheeler's Luminous Landscape
The dream of a completely immersive visual experience haunts modern art. The most famous example in painting, Monet’s Waterlilies installation, dedicated in Paris’s Orangerie in 1927, has behind it a rich history of popular entertainment: the panorama, invented in the late eighteenth century and a m
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Unfettered Simplicity: Susan Rothenberg’s Horses
Susan Rothenberg’s painting, “Untitled” (1974), couldn’t be more basic — brushstrokes of dusty red ochre scrubbed across a canvas; the image of a galloping horse bisected by a vertical line — but you’d be hard pressed to find a more compact expression of what painting is and what it can be.
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Do It Yourself and Do It Well at Fountain Art Fair
Fountain Art Fair, now in its eighth year, continues to be the go-to Armory Week fair if you want see and buy art that's more alternative or DIY, less brand-name and thus less expensive than what you'd get at the Armory Show, or even Volta.
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Are We Having Fun Yet? Spring/Break 2014
In a small room on the top floor of the Old School building at the corner of Mott and Prince Streets, floor-to-ceiling shelves are lined with pictures of disembodied heads and torsos adhered to off-brand canned goods.
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See Artists Experiment with Compact Living in a Rotating Wheel
Two artists are engaging in a durational experiment in tandem compact living in Pierogi gallery's the Boiler in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, a neighborhood where plenty of viewers have probably experienced the complications of life in small unstable spaces.