Stories By Alix McKenna
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Art
Art Review: 2010, Whitney Biennial
July 2, 2020It is undeniable that the reduction, which was largely brought on by budget constraints, has created...
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Art
Portraiture Now: Communities at the National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC
June 22, 2020The astonishing amount of detail, the tremendous amount of work that went into crafting the tiny...
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Art
Tim Burton at MoMA
June 18, 2020Predictably, Tim Burton is already a wildly popular show. As throngs of families, film buffs and...
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Art
Directions: John Gerrard at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
June 16, 2020So what are today’s landscape artists telling us? In his eponymous show at the Hirshhorn, John...
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Art
Brian Jungen: Strange Comfort at The National Museum of the American Indian
June 14, 2020The first piece you see upon entering is Shapeshifter (2000), an enormous, abstracted whale skeleton built...
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Africa
The Most Offensive Painting Ever Made
July 15, 2010Yiull Damaso has achieved a true artistic milestone. He has created what is quite possibly the...
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Larry Rivers, NYU, and Child Pornography
July 9, 2010How should we respond, however, when sexual abuse is the subject of a piece and a...
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Paul Emmanuel: Transitions: Identity Construction in South Africa
June 29, 2010As Emmanuel watched black and white soldiers go through the same seminal moment of transition, he...
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Arizona and the Politics of Mural Painting
June 7, 2010Murals are designed to unite communities, create beauty and celebrate common values. The horrific reaction to...
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Alice Leora Briggs: Art from Juárez
June 3, 2010While Briggs subject matter is unpleasant, her work has a dark beauty and an immediacy not...
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