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Shifting Styles and Moral Steadiness Made Philip Guston a Lodestar for Artists Today
Guston encourages artists to change their work, to examine their relationship to evil, and to revel in their own ambivalence about the meaning of art.
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How the Ecological Art Practices of Today Were Born in 1970s Feminism
Ecofeminism is less about breaking the glass ceiling than about reordering the systems that perpetuate inequity.
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Once Heretical, Marcia Tucker’s Ideas About the Role of Museums Now Appear Prescient
Four decades ago, Marcia Tucker founded a renegade institution—and foresaw the cultural future.
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Before Abstract Expressionism, Hyman Bloom Sought Transcendence in Bodily Forms
Why do some artists become canonical, while others, equally respected at the time, fade into obscurity? Once the answer was simple: Quality. But lately, that supposedly self-evident attribute has…
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Critical Eye: Art in the Age of Sexual Disruption
The clash between entrenched patriarchal attitudes and the newly awakened #MeToo consciousness found some striking counterparts in New York exhibitions such as "The Un-Heroic Act: Representations of…
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History Wars
Australian reformers often speak of the silence that has muffled so much of the country's history. Aboriginal artists are speaking up to break it.
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Engineered Content
Mel Chin creates deeply researched multilayered works, tracing the links between history, science, mythology, literature, high art, and pop culture.
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Wanting It Both Ways: The 21st Biennale of Sydney
There is a basic disconnect between the festival atmosphere that surrounds these international extravaganzas and the serious issues they attempt to illuminate.
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Exchange Program: The New Institute of Arab and Islamic Art
The works in the opening show at the new Institute of Arab and Islamic Art (IAIA), generically titled "Exhibition 1," and in most cases borrowed from the artists or their galleries, owe a debt to the…
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