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Post-Conceptualism to Neo-Surrealism, Postscript
Art is a hot mess: history, crisis, denial and lessons from recent public art stumbles
Feb 2, 2023
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Allison Hewitt Ward
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September 2022
Setting-Up the Set-Up: Nyeema Morgan at PATRON Gallery
Barbarita Polster asks: If irony traditionally requires expressing one thing to mean its opposite, what happens when opposites become oppositional no…
Sep 16, 2022
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Barbarita Polster
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Setting-Up the Set-Up: Nyeema Morgan at PATRON Gallery
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August 2022
Good and Bad #6: The Mezzanine, The Novelist
Adam Rothbarth asks: Is The Novelist a beautiful example of thesis-antithesis-synthesis, or is it a mournful reflection on an increasingly despairing…
Aug 26, 2022
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Reality al dente: Authenticity and The Bear
Since when has the goal of art been to recreate reality? Is reality so good that all artistic endeavors should seek to reproduce it?
Aug 16, 2022
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Allison Hewitt Ward
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Spencer Lewis at Harper's
What a great thing it is to be, just a painting: free, true and unencumbered, serving no aim but its own.
Aug 9, 2022
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Allison Hewitt Ward
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July 2022
Good and Bad #5: Baz Luhrmann's Elvis
Adam Rothbarth asks: Whose story are music biopics really trying to tell?
Jul 22, 2022
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Adam Rothbarth
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Good and Bad #5: Baz Luhrmann's Elvis
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June 2022
The Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation
For Juneteenth, a little-known engraving of a world historical moment
Jun 20, 2022
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Allison Hewitt Ward
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Richard Serra at David Zwirner
In the dumbest century, Serra continues to do the most ridiculous thing: he makes quality works of art
Jun 8, 2022
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Allison Hewitt Ward
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May 2022
Good and Bad #4: WeCrashed, Super Pumped, The Dropout
Adam Rothbarth asks: There’s been a rash of great tech shows recently. But who are they really about?
May 26, 2022
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Adam Rothbarth
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Jinn Bronwen Lee at Regards
A painting show in Chicago plays with the gallery space and shows that painting still has a few tricks left to wield
May 18, 2022
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Barbarita Polster
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The Whitney Biennial is Not Good
"Quiet as It's Kept" is the pungently curated 80th edition of a show that ostensibly marks the moment in art.
May 13, 2022
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Allison Hewitt Ward
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Music in the Shadow of Politics
Jessa Crispin on the Royal Opera's production of Wagner's Lohengrin
May 5, 2022
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Jessa Crispin
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