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Helen Donahue (
@helen
) on the aesthetics of apology, and why so many brands are getting it wrong.
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In his short life, Keith Haring created an iconic body of work in a variety of mediums with his signature use of vibrant colors, energetic linework, and distinctive characters.
Read more on this and other must-see shows on view this spring:
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The physical presence of Basquiat’s paintings can be overwhelming. Like the artist’s famous personal charisma, it tends to dominate the room.
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In a bracing essay from our June 1993 issue, the influential thinker bell hooks analyzes the work of Jean-Michel Basquiat as a form of sacrifice.
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For Yves Klein, who was born today in 1928, painting and sculpture were means to a greater end: first, to transform art, and then the world.
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Our Spring 2024 issue considers how rewriting the canon can influence future art production, curation, and appreciation in different ways.
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After his Surrealist phase, the later work of Salvador Dali, who was born today in 1904, once dismissed by scholars as banal kitsch, is now being celebrated for being so ahead of its time it looks as though it could have been made yesterday. (via
@artnews
)
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Damon Krukowski (
@dada_drummer
) writes about the music that influenced Jean-Michel Basquiat's paintings, while awaiting the opening of the exhibition “Writing the Future: Basquiat and the Hip-Hop Generation,” at
@mfaboston
.
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With a new musical about Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat opening today, playwright Anthony McCarten considers the importance of opposing ideologies and fighting for one’s beliefs, alongside his current obsessions.
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The NFT market for digital art has brought increased visibility to art made with code.
@briandroitcour
writes about generative works by
@zachlieberman
,
@pixlpa
,
@travess
, and others.
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'Surrealism Beyond Borders' at the
@metmuseum
and
@Tate
attempts to revise the historiographic picture of the Surrealist movement.
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Image of the Day: Diego Rivera's 1932-3 fresco "Detroit Industry," north wall (detail), included in this March 2015 feature.
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"We've seen countless images of violence against the oppressed, often in the name of raising awareness. Why are there so many fewer depictions of acts of vengeance and revenge and fighting back against the powerful?" asks
@ztsamudzi
|
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Keith Haring, who was born today in 1958, is a special case in the world of graffiti for his ability to keep a foothold in both street art and the conventional art world.
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Golden Lion winner Simone Leigh's Black female figures stake their claim—physically and morally—to the US Pavilion at the Venice Biennale.
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From the Archives: The unfinished aesthetic of Berthe Morisot, born today in 1841, brought Impressionism closer to abstraction by integrating large areas of raw, unprimed canvas into her compositions.
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Do Ho Suh's reinterpretation of the monument—abstract, inverted, empty—is humorous in the same way as his early sketches of runaway houses, writes Mira Dayal: "Here is the shell of a man, swallowed up by a disintegrating foundation."
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Yayoi Kusama's latest New York solo show at David Zwirner includes a brand-new “Infinity Room.” Expect lines—and selfies.
Read more on this and other art world happenings you'll want to experience this year.
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In her art as in her life, Rosa Bonheur exceeded categorizations, as demonstrated by her sixteen-foot masterpiece portraying a lively scene with some twenty horses.
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Manet’s "Olympia" is traveling to the US for the first time ever for “Manet/Degas” at the Met.
Read more on this and other art world happenings you'll want to experience this fall.
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“Keith Haring: Art Is for Everybody” at the Broad features more than 120 artworks and archival materials. Plus, we’re guessing there will be top-notch merch.
Read more on this and other art world happenings you'll want to experience this year.
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Lorraine O’Grady’s writings and artwork of the past four decades offer prescient commentary on race and power in the art world. Christina Sharpe (
@hystericalblkns
) assesses her critical legacy on the occasion of a retrospective at the
@brooklynmuseum
.
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“She Who Wrote” presents a series of clay tablets containing the first known recorded use of the word “I” in human history, written by history’s first known author, Enheduanna—a poet, priestess, and, yes, woman.
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The Rijksmuseum has never held a survey exhibition of works by Johannes Vermeer, until this show, billed to be one of the largest retrospectives of the Dutch Master's work.
Read more on this and other must-see shows on view this month:
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Christo, who was born today in 1935, created epic projects that provoked debates about power and agency in public space, alongside his wife and partner, Jeanne-Claude.
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Many children in Dorothea Lange's photographs would grow up to see better days in the wake of the New Deal and under more broadly distributed prosperity. Gazing at their faces, we are made to wonder if the same will hold true for the children of today.
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.
@muratpak
’s collection “The Title” comprises nine works, some of them multiples, all visually identical. Each work has its own hash on the blockchain, so despite their fungible appearance they all are unique.
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In the Whitney Biennial and at MOCA LA, sculptor Eddie Rodolfo Aparicio captures the materiality of disappearance and resistance.
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Nearly 200 sculptures by Brancusi will figure in a major exhibition at the Centre Pompidou, which is sure to be the toast (or one of the toasts, at least) of Paris.
Read more on this and other must-see shows on view this spring:
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A dread surrounding modern life suffuses Edvard Munch’s work—and explains the resilience of its appeal. Our present little resembles his own, but the sense of isolation, regret, and decline in his work is timeless.
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From the archives: bell hooks on Jean-Michel Basquiat
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Deborah Roberts borrows from Romare Bearden’s vocabulary but distills it into her own powerful language, capturing her subjects in a fragile state of becoming.
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In an essay about critical re-evaluation of abstract art, including work by the likes of Hilma af Klint and Agnes Martin, Nancy Princenthal shows how visual abstraction has entered social, political, and spiritual arenas.
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As with many Surrealists, Remedios Varo’s images evade description. They seem merely whimsical when summarized, but her technical perfection edges them toward sublimity.
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On this day in 1853, Vincent van Gogh was born. What is it about his output and character that continues to attract people into the present day?
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Edvard Munch never shook his obsession with his own mortality. Until his death in 1944, he continued to chronicle the ugliness of his aging.
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Golden Lion winner Simone Yvette Leigh's Black female figures stake their claim—physically and morally—to the US Pavilion at the Venice Biennale.
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Crypto art can be either an investment tool, or a conceptual inquiry into structures of value and community, or even both, depending on how you approach it, writes
@briandroitcour
.
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"The stars look very different today." RIP artist and musician David Bowie (1947-2016)
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Our May/June New Talent issue is guest edited by Antwaun Sargent (
@Sirsargent
). Read his editor's letter to learn about his vision for the issue:
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Meret Oppenheim's 'Object,' comprising a teacup, saucer, and spoon, all clad in fur, was conceived one day while she was enjoying tea at a Parisian café, where she was joined by Pablo Picasso and Dora Maar.
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The aim of Piet Mondrian, born today in 1872, was to "come as close as possible to the truth and abstract everything from that."
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From the Archives: Louise Bourgeois, born today in 1911, has in fact never ceased operating from the position of outsider. Indeed her real concerns are basically subversive.
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The connection between the work of Claude Monet and Joan Mitchell is so strong that guessing which paintings in “Monet/Mitchell: Painting the French Landscape” were made by whom is not as easy as you’d think.
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Frida Kahlo, who died at age 47 on this day in 1954, treated clothing as an artistic palette and her way of dressing as continuous with the self-portraits she painted.
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Artwork of the Day: Pablo Picasso's "Aztec Vase with Four Faces (A.R. 402)" (1957), featured in this 2011 article.
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Alexandra Kehayoglou's hand-tufted wool carpets are often calls to action to protect endangered sites. "Shelter for a memory II" preserves a different kind of environment—the garden of her childhood home in Buenos Aires.
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Perhaps what
@janerichsen
has somehow managed to do is produce work that anybody’s handy, weirdo cousin could make but that nobody in their right mind would make. It’s an avant-garde populism, less salacious than “Jackass,” though still “Jackass”-adjacent.
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As Sam Gilliam’s work has gained ever greater recognition, his story has often been characterized as a comeback (though he never left) or a rediscovery (though he wasn’t lost).
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Few artists have had such a decisive impact on modern art than Eugène Delacroix, who was born today in 1798. Read how his work inspired the likes of Picasso, van Gogh, and Matisse.
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How are artists who work with artificial intelligence approaching the crypto space?
@briandroitcour
writes on seven projects at the intersection of GANs and NFTs, by
@hollyherndon
,
@mtyka
,
@quasimondo
and others:
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“In my art I attempt to explain life and its meaning to myself,” Edvard Munch wrote of his creative mission. It’s a useful frame to interpret his artwork: not records of life as it was, but as it felt to live.
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Yes, you do need to mention Picasso to understand Françoise Gilot, and that was something she was never ashamed of. Just don’t call her his “muse.” She was so much more than that.
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Our Winter 2023 issue takes a look at different kinds of collaboration from throughout the art world, including work with fashion brands and bees.
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“Monet/Mitchell: Painting the French Landscape” highlights the rhymes between the work of Impressionist Claude Monet and Abstract Expressionist Joan Mitchell, focusing specifically on works they made in the gardens of Vétheuil, in northern France.
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The Venice Biennale has historically gone heavy on American and European artists. This year’s edition, titled “Foreigners Everywhere,” is likely to launch the fair into the future.
Read more on this and other must-see shows on view this spring:
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As the crypto art market grows, more artists are making ironic commentary on what NFTs are and how much they cost, writes
@briandroitcour
.
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Artwork of the Day: Francisco Goya y Lucientes's "Tu que no puedes (You who cannot)" (1797-98), featured in this 2012 article.
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The South is the theme of our November/December issue, and artist Jammie Holmes is on the cover.
Read an interview with Holmes:
And check out the issue's table of contents:
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From its earliest days, Dada — often seen as a quintessentially European avant-garde movement — had a richly creative outpost in New York.
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"Many artists used to feel all right about making a living with their art because they identified with the working class. Some still do. I mean, I do, and I think Richard Serra does." From an interview with Bruce Nauman
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“The characters have messy lives, feelings, aesthetics,” Gabrielle Hoggett says of her art for the game Small Talk. “Drawing them in 2D helps me convey the nervous and unsettling energy that is fitting for a game that takes place at the end of the world.”
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Our October Disability Culture issue explores how disabled artists have been crucial to progress in disability justice and the art world in general.
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A new platform for digital art called
@FeralFile
uses a blockchain to track provenance but not to process payments. Theadora Walsh (
@theadora_tm
) reviews “Social Codes,” its first exhibition:
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AiA's weekly Lookout: exh'ns at
@japansociety
,
@maryboonegllry
,
@PaceGallery
&
@petzelgallery
http://t.co/I7PyAjY28S
http://t.co/g2BvfoZFkS
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Andres Serrano's "Piss Christ" caused a scandal in 1989 when it was attacked by U.S. congressmen and religious leaders. The criticism missed the work's spiritual ambivalence.
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Carrie Mae Weems has been using photography for four decades to depict Black life present and past. A new show at the Barbican Centre is her first major show in the UK.
Read more on this and other art world happenings you'll want to experience this year.
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From the Venice Biennale to André Masson at the Centre Pompidou-Metz, Datebook surveys the exhibitions and events you will want to have on your radar this spring.
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In our March issue about research art, cover artist Jill Magid distinguishes her approach from traditional research. She explains “I don’t tell stories so much as I produce them.”
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Oren Pinhassi, whose sculptures are on view at
@Independent_hq
, walks us through his 2021 show “Lone and Level” at Helena Anrather.
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Albert Oehlen seeks to understand and transcend past art historical precedents at
@newmuseum
http://t.co/78FYnIbd8L
http://t.co/ykJPPNTInJ
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Artwork of the Day: Jessie Makinson's 2019 work "Magma rising," featured in this 2019 review.
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Our June/July issue has a cover by Marlene Dumas, with articles on Louise Lawler, Merce Cunningham, and more:
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The abstractions of Helen Frankenthaler, born on this day in 1928, often made by staining vibrant hues into unprimed canvas, have captured the minds of many, even if at one point, their aesthetic charm was once considered a demerit.
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The photographs of Graciela Iturbide, especially when viewed through the lens of Octavio Paz’s Labyrinth of Solitude, convey the artist’s quasi-mystical identification with the physical environs and folk traditions of her native Mexico.
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In our December issue about religion, artist Shahpour Pouyan captures its central contradiction: “Belief is the most dangerous thing. And it’s also the most precious thing we have as humans.”
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Happy 100th Birthday to
@ClevelandArt
! Rauschenberg made our summer 1966 cover to celebrate the museum's 50 years.
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Dorothea Lange, who was born today in 1895, conveys her desire to photograph the underprivileged without taking their privacy and dignity from them.
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In the 1970s, Georgia O’Keeffe’s macular degeneration prompted her to pivot briefly from painting to sculpture: she began working with her hands, with clay, before eventually finding ways to work on paper again.
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"An abstract demon dominates the imagery of 'Untitled (At Dawn).' Its grossly elongated white phalanges either melt or outstretch like wings along both edges of the composition... The demon was presumably exorcised from Naotaka Hiro’s subconscious."
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One of the few women involved in the Abstract Expressionist movement, Helen Frankenthaler did not believe in the label “women artist” because she thought gender ought not play a role in determining whether someone has talent.
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Andrew Russeth investigates why Thomas Heatherwick, the architect behind New York’s infamous “Vessel,” is the most beloved architect to billionaires.
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Artworks of the Day: Caravaggio's "Boy with a Basket of Fruit" (ca. 1593-94) and a film still of Dexter Fletcher in Derek Jarman’s 1986 film "Caravaggio," featured in this 2010 article on "Caravaggiomania."
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A full account of the Impressionist movement must reckon with the role of disability and impairment in shaping both the art and its reception.
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Salvador Dalí emerged from the 1930s having succeeded in almost completely identifying American surrealism with his own symbology.
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“If I’m not intimidated by the Chinese government,” Ai Weiwei said, “do you think I give a fuck what people in the art world say about me?” It’s a question worth contemplating.
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Wary of computers’ military applications and attuned to the politics of technological development, theorist Max Bense and artist Gustav Metzger offered prescient views of digital aesthetics in the 1950s and ‘60s.
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Artists, galleries, and other stakeholders in the crypto space are exploring online exhibitions to create context and cultural value for NFTs.
@briandroitcour
writes on platforms like
@feralfile
and
@______jpg______
as well as other projects:
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Joshua Bennett (
@SirJoshBennett
) writes on the work of Deborah Roberts, who carries on the Black expressive tradition by depicting the defiance and outright rebellion of Black children.
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Do Ho Suh’s work with pedestals challenges the supposed neutrality of this longstanding method of public display.
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One of the most idealistic and elusive figures associated with the Arte Povera movement, Piero Gilardi, who died this week, was recognized for his experiments with unorthodox materials and forms that radically diverged from the avant-garde mainstream.
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"People often ask me if painting Michelle changed my work," says Amy Sherald. "I tell them, Michelle is an extraordinary American—as are many of the people in my paintings. The only difference is that she’s well-known."
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Do Ho Suh’s work with pedestals challenges the supposed neutrality of this longstanding method of public display.
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"Etel Adnan: Light’s New Measure" opens today at the
@Guggenheim
. Ready Lucy Ives's profile of the painter and poet from our Summer Reading issue:
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This year's Liverpool Biennial follows a formula best described as an investigation of place that puts emphasis on ancestral and indigenous forms of knowledge.
Read more on this and other art world happenings you'll want to experience this year.
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In the 1950s, Helen Frankenthaler had her breakthrough with paintings made by dripping oil on unprimed canvas, in a technique called "soak-stain." With semi-translucent forms and dynamic compositions, they coalesce in the mind's eye to form landscapes.
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"Yet certain contemporary art comes close to the original Surrealist goal of integrating waking life and dreams as they existed within consumer society."
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