Abramović’s art embodies a dark, personal truth: one overcomes punishment through self-sacrifice, denial, turning the hurt into a weapon of liberation, at times literally bought in blood.
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Alec Soth Mines the Poetic Possibility of Photographs
Soth’s art is motivated less by the need for cohesion than by attentiveness to a moment that seems full of poetic possibility.
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The Voices Dawoud Bey Hears
Unless you were already familiar with Bey’s documentary work, the horror he refers to might not be recognizable to you.
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So Much Achieved by One Artist in So Little Time
The Belgian artist Ilse D’Hollander rejected abstraction and figuration as an either/or premise in favor of a path that embraced both.
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Artist Shahzia Sikander Is Ready for a New Post-Pandemic Reality
In this expansive conversation, artist Shahzia Sikander discusses her first solo exhibition in a decade and her hopes for a post-pandemic art world.
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Shahzia Sikander Urges a Rethinking of Art History
Sikander’s first New York solo show in nine years includes a captivating range of paintings, mosaics, animations, and the artist’s first-ever sculpture.
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What It’s Like to Visit Virtual Galleries as an Art Critic
Due to the pandemic, museums and galleries are now creating virtual experiences. Here’s what it’s like to visit them.
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Candida Höfer Takes Her Expansive Lens to Mexico
In Mexico foregrounds Höfer’s images as records of a site’s architectural and sociopolitical history.
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Three Decades Distilled into 180 Portraits
Liu Wei returns to New York to show an idiosyncratic body of work that marks a radical departure from the paintings that made him a star
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Kehinde Wiley’s Pantheon of Black Artists
In his new show at Sean Kelly Gallery, the artist has begun to create a register of contemporary black visual artists.
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The Loneliness of Luis Barragán’s Domestic Spaces
James Casebere’s latest photographs show the modernist homes of Luis Barragán alluringly yet threateningly devoid of people or any signs of human habitation.
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Crazed Hotelier Sets Art Dealer’s Dogs on Fire [UPDATED]
“They must die!” boutique hotel mogul Vikram Chatwal allegedly screamed at Molly and Finn, the Jack Russell terriers of gallerist Sean Kelly, before pulling out an aerosol can and lighter and attempting to torch the poor pups.