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Martha Wilson Tries on Prescribed Female Roles, from Housewife to First Lady
An early proponent of feminism, Wilson has been exploring female identity in patriarchal society since the early 1970s.
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Pixels and Politics in the Age of Fake News
A new work by South Korean artist, Sunwoo Hoon, shown at this year’s Gwangju Biennale, gets to the heart of contemporary democracy’s struggle for viability.
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How Channa Horwitz Pushed Beyond the Precincts of Minimalism
Though her art shares common ground with Sol LeWitt, with whom she had a warm correspondence and even traded work, Horwitz was not granted even a fraction of his renown.
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Required Reading
This week, Nigeria's golden age, social justice and culture wars, are we too pessimistic for the World’s Fair, combatting manspreading, and more.
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The Radical Possibility of Seeing What Is Front of You
All of Rackstraw Downes's work derives from the simple, everyday act of observing your surroundings.
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The Childhood Innocence of John Ashbery's Art
Ashbery’s primary subject matter concerns an alternate world where nothing goes permanently wrong, and where disasters are nothing more than pranks.
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Recognizing Ed Clark's Contribution to Abstraction
The work of Clark should remind us of all the interesting things going on in painting in the 1970s, even if few people were looking.
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When Little Doughy Men Play Victim
I am hopelessly optimistic, but it takes work.
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Abstraction with a Political Conscience
Olivier Mosset’s career could almost be seen as a grand Fluxus-style gesture of quiet provocation.
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Louise Nevelson's Graphic Imagination
Nevelson used drawing as a creative bridge back and forth into the making of sculpture.
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The Overdue Skyrocketing of Simone Leigh
Simone Leigh’s chief subject is, in her own terms, “black female subjectivity,” hardly a predominant theme in an art world that has skewed way white and male since its inception.
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$1.3M Banksy Artwork “Self-Destructs” at Auction
A canvas that sold for over a million dollars was shredded by its frame but no one is sure if it was destroyed or simply transformed.