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Henry Ossawa Tanner: Modern Spirit, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
August 29, 2021This exhibition of the works of Henry Ossawa Tanner is the first major reappraisal of the...
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Into the Void: The Bicoastal Legacy of Weldon Kees
August 28, 2021This is very different stuff than the angst of later confessional poets such as Lowell and...
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Art Review: The Renaissance Portrait from Donatello to Bellini, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
August 23, 2021In his Portrait of a Young Man, painted in 1478, Antonello fused the psychological intensity of...
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Denver’s Clyfford Still Museum
August 23, 2021In 1959, he referred to esteemed critic Clement Greenberg and others as “wandering mongrels” only able...
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West of Center: Art and the Countercultural Experiment in America, 1965 -1977, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver
August 22, 2021Earnest rather than ironic, unashamedly idealistic, unafraid of appearing amateurish and haphazard, many of the contents...
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Art Review: Two Chinese Exhibitions at the Denver Art Museum
August 22, 2021This was a world in which the color of the glass finial on one’s hat indicated...
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Book Review: Van Gogh: The Life by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith
August 17, 2021For an artist who vied with Rembrandt in painting self-portraits, van Gogh seldom allowed himself to...
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Art Review: Transition to Christianity, Onassis Cultural Center, New York City
August 16, 2021After Christianity was recognized as the official state religion of the Roman Empire in 380, a...
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The Weekly Listicle Is Rated NC-17
August 13, 2021Censors save the NC-17 rating for extra special cases, and in practice it feels like much...
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Madness and Mesmerism: Charles Deas Revisited
August 7, 2021Put as simply as possible, Matthews thought he was being tortured and his thoughts disrupted by...