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Jordan Casteel at New Museum (Feb. 2020)
Harlem-based painter Jordan Casteel shared the marquee of a dual solo, two simultaneous one-artist painter shows that opened More …
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Abstract Expressionist Women at DAM in Review
The 2001 edition of The 20th-Century Art Book defines Abstract Expressionism as a post-World War II art movement in American painting, More …
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Currents New Media Festival in Review
Currents New Media Festival this year augmented what new media artist Julia Scher has called “appearances in screens” More …
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Dystopia Files, Five Years After, Makes Past Prologue
About five years ago I interviewed artist Mark Tribe on microphone. (Podcast archive here.) We talked about his More …
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SFMOMA Cruise Ship Makes Port With Trophies Aboard
Rich donors are to shiny new art museums what electricity is to Teslas. In San Francisco, companies like the More …
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New Topographics in Santa Fe
On Friday, January 29th, 2016, Caterpillar announced the closure of its Santa Fe factory. In a move to More …
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Susan York at the O’Keeffe Museum
Most of the time one doesn’t think of painting as volume, because a volume implies a third dimension. More …
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How to View the Mexican Revolution
In the photograph “Felicistas in the YMCA,” snipers crouch near a window in a rubble-strewn room and train More …
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Nick Cave on Practice, Performance and Violence
Twigs are unassuming, irregular, trodden-upon nuisances to be swept up with the leaves in the fall. However, in More …
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Postcommodity Threads Indigeneity into Border Narrative
The U.S. Border Patrol presence in and around Douglas, Arizona, is so ubiquitous that it’s banal. Even an More …
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John Connell: Works and John Connell: Earth-Touching Buddha, A Review
Coming face to face with John Connell’s art, both in person and in reproduction, imparts a sense of quizzicality. More …
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Intimacy and Experience at Currents New Media Festival
A museum docent put a “special” ring on my finger and touched me intimately at Currents: The More …
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