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John Giorno’s Beautifully Disgruntled Poem-Paintings

by John Yau April 24, 2021April 23, 2021

Giorno sets up your expectations and then pulls the rug out.

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The Bizarre, Disjointed, Mixed-Media Paintings of David Lynch

by Roman Kalinovski December 2, 2019December 2, 2019

Could a current exhibition of paintings, watercolors, and furniture by Lynch hint at secrets hidden in his other works, or even provide some spark of insight into the artist himself?

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Malcolm Morley’s Paintings Render the Regalia of War

Avatar photo by Seph Rodney October 15, 2018October 12, 2018

Morley engaged the monster of warfare by making it unreal, posing knights like children’s toys.

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Painting by Touch, Not by Sight

by John Yau January 28, 2018January 26, 2018

Kim Dingle is an artist with a history of working under preconceived constraints.

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Michael Landy’s Art of Destruction and Renewal

Avatar photo by Thomas Micchelli December 9, 2017December 9, 2017

After destroying everything he owned in 2001, Landy seems to be rushing to fill the vacuum.

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The Nocturnal Worlds of Katherine Bradford

by John Yau January 22, 2017January 19, 2017

In this exhibition, it struck me that what Katherine Bradford keeps getting better at is incoherence: she can meld divergent details without coming across as contrived or arbitrary.

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Bruce Nauman Grows Up

by Peter Malone October 14, 2016

In a new work by the artist, what stands out is an inescapable contrast between the older and younger Nauman.

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When a Splotch Isn’t Just a Splotch

Avatar photo by Thomas Micchelli August 6, 2016August 8, 2016

This two-gallery extravaganza takes up the tricky gambit of featuring “artists whose work involves a methodical and controlled process of creating seemingly freeform or random daubs and spots.”

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William Wegman: More Than Weimaraners In Wigs

Avatar photo by Carey Dunne April 20, 2016April 21, 2016

Among a particular generation of Sesame Street and Saturday Night Live viewers, artist William Wegman is known almost exclusively for his goofy photos and videos of his pet Weimaraners dressed up in human clothing.

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Firestarter: Otto Piene’s Elemental Art

Avatar photo by Thomas Micchelli February 27, 2016March 5, 2016

The victors and the vanquished approached the development of avant-garde art in the aftermath of World War II in markedly different ways.

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Broken Utopia: Abstract Painting in Italy

Avatar photo by Thomas Micchelli January 2, 2016January 5, 2016

Nobody believes in the simple narrative arc of Modern Art anymore; even so, Painting in Italy 1910s–1950s: Futurism, Abstraction, Concrete Art at Sperone Westwater is an instructive glimpse into the fullness and complexity lying beneath thumbnail histories of the avant-garde.

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The Origins and Evolution of Group ZERO

Avatar photo by Robert C. Morgan November 20, 2014December 3, 2014

There are undoubtedly many stories attributed to the founding of ZERO in post-World War II Germany, as there were with the inception of Dada during the earlier Great War that raged outside the Swiss borders from 1914–18.

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