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Icons of Female Power: Early Works of Miriam Schapiro
Miriam Schapiro: A Visionary at the National Academy Museum and Miriam Schapiro: The California Years, 1967-1975 at Eric Firestone Loft National Academy: February 4 to May 8, 2016 1083 Fifth Avenue at...
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Walks on the Wild Side: Female Empowerment and a Right Royal Faux Pas
The author, a Sophomore at Bronx High School of Science, offers a personal take on the Met’s show of Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun and her revolutionary portrait of Marie Antoinette. I was only four and yet...
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The Case For Understatement
Met Breuer opens its brutalist walkway to the public March 18 with two exhibitions, “Unfinished: Thoughts Left Visible” (to September 4) and “Nasreen Mohamedi” (to June 5). Titian, The Flaying of...
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Towards a more fluid definition of Blackness
The changes have taught me how to best exploit that singular gift of study, to question what I see, then to question what I see after that, because the questions matter as much, perhaps more than the...
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In an important, personal essay on what it means to be Black in the American art world today – as an artist, a curator, an educator, a viewer of art – Lisa Corinne Davis challenges recent...
View ArticleThe Obligation to Explain
One of the striking aspects of the controversy around Kelley Walker’s exhibition at the Saint Louis Contemporary Art Museum (CAM) is how many important issues it raises, including, obviously, the...
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“Administrating Eternity”: Contemplating Pipilotti Rist in the Wake of Trump
Pipilotti Rist : “Pixel Forest” at the New Museum October 26, 2016 to January 15, 2017 235 Bowery, New York City, newmuseum.org Pipilotti Rist, The Pixel Forest, 2016 installed at the New Museum in her...
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The Beholder’s Share
Drawing on personal and family experience, painter ANNE SHERWOOD PUNDYK dives into the neuroscience of figuration and abstraction Books considered in this essay: My Stroke of Insight by Jill Bolte...
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“Pure Sculptural Energy”: Seeing Rodin, Reading Steinberg
Rodin at the Met September 16, 2017 to January 15, 2018 1000 Fifth Avenue New York City, metmuseum.org Rodin at the Met, viewed from the east entrance to the display. Photo: David Cohen for artcritical...
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“Sizzling at the Points of Transition”: Lilly Wei on Stephen Antonakos
These transcribed remarks, edited slightly for publication, were delivered in the course of a panel discussion at the New York Studio School on March 20 2018. The other speakers that evening were Phong...
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