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How Black Modern Artists Defied a Singular Narrative in 1971
1971: A Year in the Life of Color studies two exhibitions essential to the ongoing relationship between black American artists and modernism.
Whitney Museum of American Art
In Brief
In Response to Trump's Election, Artist Asked the Whitney Museum to Turn Her Work Upside-Down
“Left Right Left Right (1995), a piece by Annette Lemieux at the Whitney Museum that consists of 30 images of raised fists, has been turned upside-down at the artist's request.
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Hurricane Frank: Rhetorical Abstraction in the Age of the Incidental Viewer
If Frank Stella’s ambition and insatiable visual voracity were exhilarating at first, the paintings’ often overbearing size and physicality also left the viewer, time and again, with the unsettling feeling of being wrestled to the ground.
Art
The Enabler
If measured as a flame to kindling, John D. Graham was arguably the most consequential figure in 20th-century American art.
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Danny Lyon's Prescient Visions
“We are frail flowers in the field,” wrote Danny Lyon, the politically active, compassionate photojournalist, after leaving New York for Bernalillo, New Mexico, in 1969.
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Jill Kroesen's Comeback: 'Collecting Injustices, Unnecessary Suffering' at the Whitney
Thirty years is a long time to step away. Jill Kroesen was deeply enmeshed in the downtown performance scene of the 1970s before she disappeared.
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Every Day Is Black Friday in Doha
In her memoir, The Girl Who Fell to Earth (2012), Sophia Al-Maria, who was raised as a bicultural Muslim, says she feels like a “deep-sea diver, adjusting constantly to the pressures of […] two very different environments.”
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Upbeat and Edgy
With the rise of artists desperate to align themselves with one compromised avant-garde tradition or another, it is useful to remember that Stuart Davis never fit in.
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Wind Turbines Sustain an Aquatic Garden on a Whitney Museum Terrace
Three circular pools are flourishing with aquatic plants on the fifth-floor terrace of the Whitney Museum of American Art, part of Virginia Overton's exhibition Sculpture Gardens.
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All The World’s Bigger than a Stage
There is the artist’s artist, and there is June Leaf.
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Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney's Restored Studio Opens for Public Tours
When Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney set up her sculpture studio in Greenwich Village's MacDougal Alley, one 1907 newspaper headline blared: "Daughter of Cornelius Vanderbilt Will Live in Dingy New York Alley."
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Never Mind the Bollocks, It’s the Met’s Breuer Now
I realize that I’m coming late to the party with Unfinished: Thoughts Left Visible, one of the three debut exhibitions of the Met Breuer, and I have little to add to the conversation about the fundamental problem with the show.