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A Showing of Art World Solidarity on Inauguration Day
Far from serving as an excuse for self-pity or left melancholy, the Occupy Museums event was an effective counter-inaugural: a ceremony marking a wider commitment to shared struggle.
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Occupy Museums Challenges Us to Face Fascism with the #J20 Art Strike
On the eve of the #J20 Art Strike and a solidarity event it's organizing at the Whitney Museum, the collective has released a statement outlining art's role in the fight against fascism in the US and around the world.
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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.
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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.
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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.