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Art Review: Paris Through the Window: Marc Chagall and His Circle, Philadelphia Museum of Art
April 6, 2024Chagall was a major exception to the ready embrace of western modes of art and thought...
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The Denver Art Museum’s New Galleries of American Indian Art
April 5, 2024Navajo “eyedazzler” rugs of the nineteenth century, in which brilliantly colored wools form intricate diamonds, are...
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A New Take on “Primitivism”? Man Ray, African Art, and The Modernist Lens
April 5, 2024There are other questions to ask as well. Can this be anything other than two white...
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Art Review: Blink! Light, Sound, and the Moving Image at the Denver Art Museum
April 3, 2024A work such as Nam June Paik’s Electronic Fish of 1986, constructed from a 1948 wooden...
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Art Review: Gauguin: Maker of Myth, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
April 1, 2024“You know that I have Indian blood, Inca blood in me, and it’s reflected in everything...
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New Insights Into the Life of Caravaggio
March 27, 2024In his most serious brawl, about which the documents provide an entirely new account, Caravaggio killed...
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Badlands and Lost Edens: The Photography of Robert Adams
March 22, 2024Adams recorded the ever-expanding suburban sprawl of the 1960s and 1970s, and his haunting, classically composed...
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Tom Russell: American Primitive Man
March 15, 2024Every Tom Russell song has something to say about the human heart. In each voice he...
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Art Review: John Baldessari: Pure Beauty at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
March 13, 2024There is a big fuss about Pure Beauty, John Baldessari’s retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of...
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Art Review: Alessi: Ethical and Radical at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
March 12, 2024The Tea and Coffee Piazza sets, produced in limited editions of ninety-nine, with three artist’s proofs,...